Also the improvements in computer speed from Moore’s law were from Denard Scaling, which says with transistors 2x smaller, you can run things 2x faster but produce 2x as much heat.

Heat dissipation has been the bottleneck for a long time now.

Search Amazon for “Windows Mixed Reality Headset”. If you are searching around Black Friday you might be able to find one for $300 or so.

These are the cheapest VR headsets out there, typically made by companies you’ve heard of but don’t associate with VR (mine is made by HP!)

They plug into a computer (unlike Facebook’s and Apple’s headsets that are self-contained computers).

If you don’t want to be plugged in with wires, Valve makes a wireless kit for the Vive. That set up isn’t cheap though.

When looking for a headset, consider weight important. The heavier the headset, the more uncomfortable it will be. Mine is one of the lighter ones and my head starts to hurt after about 2 hours.

I enjoyed Overwatch. League of Legends always feels awful to play. Deadlock feels way more like League of Legends than Overwatch to me.

You can still make stupid mistakes in Rust. It may make it harder to make the most common mistakes, but pretending the guardrails are prevent any type of mistake is asking for a problem to happen.

It’s almost as if these “traditional conservative values” have something to do with women having less agency in their lives.

Which distro did you use?

I’ve been having a good but not perfect experience with Ubuntu as a desktop OS lately, but I’m open to trying other suggestions.

IMO edge coming pre-installed isn’t a big deal. But I’d like to be able to uninstall edge and not have Windows periodically try to trick me into setting edge as my default browser again.

Instead of a sword, the Aztecs invented the baseball bat with nails sticking out.

Any secret sauce Nvidia uses would be in taking shortcuts to capture the screen and send it directly to the encoding timeline. The time it takes to do this without any secret sauce is negligible compared to the two slowest processes in the pipeline: video encoding and sending the data over the internet.

Sunshine is actually often more performant than Nvidia due to improvements in the slower parts of the pipeline.

Here are some discussions on the topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudygamer/comments/11da4c1/why_is_sunshine_performance_so_much_better_than/

https://github.com/orgs/LizardByte/discussions/111

To me, story-driven games are a bit like reading a book, but with the ability to make decisions.

I also quite enjoy games like Celeste where the sheer challenge is the main appeal.

I enjoy the mechanics of games like Smash or League of Legends, but playing online is always so awful. It always feels like I’m either way better than the other team, or the other team is way better than me. And if there’s any sort of communication (e.g. chat in League) it gets so toxic. But I don’t want to turn chat off because occasionally people actually use it to productively share information.

But even in Smash Bros, where there is no chat and Nintendo turned off emotes in an attempt to reduce toxicity, people still find ways to be toxic.

I’d play against people IRL, but League requires 12 people and in Smash Bros I’m at the uncomfortable place where none of my friends want to play against me because I’m too good, but I’m not good enough to go play in tournaments.

While I still feel like I want to be good at these games, I’ve been trying to stop lately because they just make me feel awful.

I have a 4k120hz gaming monitor and I have some HDMI cables that don’t support that quality.

I also just use DisplayPort because it’s better anyway (e.g. lower latency).

I prefer co-op but the times I can play don’t always line up with the times my friends can play.

My favorite games are things like Destiny, Minecraft, Helldivers, and Terraria, when I have friends to play with.

When playing alone, live service games can be ok, and competitive PvP is about the worst experience out there.

Single player games are often a much better experience than either of those.

It needs a movement to get more signature. If you believe in it and are in Europe, go encourage your friends to vote. Gather some friends and make signs. Buy ads.

Destiny 2 logic.

Most bosses are just bigger versions of standard enemies. They do have some lore to explain it, but it’s still kinda just goofy.

It may have originally had DRM but it doesn’t now.

Also the internet is the primary attack vector for most devices. I don’t have to worry about someone hacking my devices that just do their job and don’t have internet connectivity.

That being said though, the internet-based devices in the article are simply becoming non-internet-based devices, so my suggestion is kinda a moot point.

Sounds like they should have more LGBT subreddits (communities? Is that the term?)

Sunshine is better than GFE at this point

This is generally the right idea of a solution, but it’s a difficult engineering problem.

It’s not “just an economics problem” despite the headline.

The “cost of power becoming negative” is phrased in an economic way but what it really means is the grid has too much power and that power needs to go somewhere or it will damage infrastructure.

Yes.

In summary, for the purposes of this analogy, a balloon has no center.