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  • Lojcs@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzThe 1900s
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    17 days ago

    Isn't this an actual thing? Pretty sure I was told by some instructor not to use references older than a decade or two. Unless the subject is very elementary older sources are more likely to be obsolete










  • Lojcs@lemm.eetogamesmodern game sizes
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    1 month ago

    Games do use smaller textures for smaller objects. "4k texture" has little to no meaning.

    What would be nice is if high res textures were optional and it downloaded assets in order so you could start playing the tutorial without waiting for everything to be downloaded (like origin)


  • "Can't live without" is an overstatement, but here are mine:

    • Kvaesitso, search focused android launcher. I used to really like nova launcher's local search and navigated my phone mostly using that. But once gensture navigation became a thing I had to stop using nova and replicate the experience in Samsung launcher with various local search apps that were lacking in comparison. Tried to go back a couple times once gestures with 3rd party launchers got better but found my old setup still too ugly and sluggish to go back to. Recently I randomly came across Kvaesitso on fdroid and it was everything I ever wanted out of a launcher.

    • Amberol music player. Not the ideal music player I'd like but at least it's not Elisa.

    • Kid3, audio file tag editor. It has much better workflow/automation than mp3tag that I used in windows, and it seems if you spend some effort on it you could add more automation to make it even better.







  • Very much unrelated but I recently read samsung's smart monitor/tv privacy policy and it says they can record EVERYTHING you do on it and devices connected to it including programs or games you use and you can't opt out of this short of foregoing smart features (except screen casting) altogether. There's also an option (that doesn't look optional in their ui) that lets them automatically process that data.

    I'd heard those things were ridiculous but didn't imagine this much


  • Lojcs@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlI don't know what to pick.
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    3 months ago

    Gpu brand shouldn't be a factor, just buy whatever's better value.

    I've used nvidia on Wayland for a year and the issues are greatly exaggerated, and if you have a cpu with an igpu you can plug your monitor(s) into the motherboard to get around wayland-related ones (there's probably some latency impact for games but I can't tell).

    Currently the problems (that I know of) with nvidia drivers are that colors get muted if you enable hdr, steam's web interfaces appear corrupted or flicker unless you resize them, there is no memory spillover to ram, and the nvidia 'x server' settings app doesn't support wayland.

    And keep in mind that issues tend to get resolved over time. When I first built my PC the nvidia gpu would cause xwayland apps to flicker and didn't support nigth light or transparent panels in kde. The amd igpu would turn the screen pure white if I changed windowing related kde settings. These don't happen anymore.



  • I feel like I'm going crazy at moments like this.

    Wikipedia on Metric Time:

    The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds.

    Edit: Attention that this is the SI second, not a decimal second

    Wikipedia on Decimal Time:

    This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar time system used in France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds

    metric-time.com :

    With metric time the day is broken into 10 hours.
    A metric hour is broken into 100 minutes.
    A metric minute is broken into 100 seconds.

    So either Wikipedia is wrong or the website.