I’m hard pressed to blame Valve for that. They’ve made massive contributions to a VR ecosystem that almost everyone seems to have stagnated in developing for.

I love VR, but it is something strange to think I’m still mostly playing the same games I bought 10 years ago. Some big players got in on it, but only to port their titles (Bethesda, mostly). Some devs have made some really cool things and development has never ceased for them, but Alyx is an outlier, really. As much as I’d like to see a follow up from Valve, I’d as much like to see that kind of energy from anyone.

You could point to Meta VR exclusives, but they hurt themselves through exclusivity.

I’ve yet to encounter humans weighed in kg. My scale is lbs, and so is the one at my doctor’s office.

I miss my Yoga 730. Best laptop I’ve ever had. The 2-in-1 and pen support carried me through uni. All my lecture notes could be typed and diagramed as needed in the moment.

The perfect laptop for me is a Framework 13 with a 360 degree hinge and touchscreen. They released the 12" but I really think it’s too small.

Nvidia and AMD both have differing APIs for video decoding. The idea in using Vulkan is that not every GPU supports the vendor specific decoding method, but they do all support Vulkan (modern GPUs, anyways). So this way you still get hardware accelerated decoding through a more widely supported means.

Ventoy isn’t the same. That’s for booting live/installation media but doesn’t typically replace your bootloader in the conventional sense. Or at least, that’s not its intended purpose.

This is intended to replace something like GRUB, the default Linux bootloader for most distributions. It lets you configure the various options or version of a kernel you might like to load, as well as handling the boot options for other operating systems that might be installed.

They didn’t give up, they pushed it back 6 months to wait out the shitstorm.

FEX has become quite capable recently. Valve is using it as a focal point of their Steam Frame, putting their weight behind it the same way they did for Proton.

Fortnite went from Unreal 4 to 5. They’re quite similar systems but Unreal changed pretty fundamentally between 3 and 4, so this is a big leap. We’re talking about an engine that was built in 2006. I’m sure Psyonix has the internal support required to port it, but there’s a lot more than a visual upgrade involved.

Yeah, Psyonix actually did a reasonable job still supporting it for folks who bought it on Steam. If Sweeney didn’t have a stick so far up his ass about the value of other stores, it probably would continue too

Is RL still on Unreal 3? I know it was when it launched, but I hope this doesn’t completely break compatibility with the existing Steam Workshop content

There’s a balance to be struck here. Relying on automation tooling wholesale will always make you worse. There’s a reason that even though we have calculators, it’s important to know the fundamental maths that would let you perform those same calculations yourself. For the majority of people, it’s probably not critical, but if you need to validate that information, you cerainly want to be able to understand how the original conclusion was drawn.

The same goes for software engineering, where AI is seeing heavy use. People asking it to build who programs receive bug riddled and inefficient code, but software engineers who are using it for rapid prototyping or to reduce the work of rewriting common functions in different projects are going to be more effective because they understand what the resulting structure should look like.

AI is not a replacement for the human, and if there’s a future for it, it will be assistive to the fundamentals and knowledge human specialists already posess. But that requires the continued education and development of skills within the industries these tools are deployed in.

Unfortunately this doesn’t stop the game from requiring an update. Automatic or not, if an update gets pushed, you don’t get to choose to stay on the older version without putting yourself in offline mode.

Denuvo is an always-online DRM. It will expire its session and prevent play unless re-authenticated. It’s wild to me how the view around this has shifted. Back in 2013, this is how Microsoft wanted to design an entire gaming ecosystem. They got backlash, but it turned out they were just too up front about it. Instead we’ve had a decade of games that have slipped this requirement in through DRM and anti-cheat measures.

Well, you’re pushing 4K res at that point, which will always be a strain. Insurgency (Sandstorm?) is usually CPU heavy but at 4K, your CPU is rarely going to be the performance bottleneck. I’d just take a look at a resource monitor while you’re playing and see what’s capping out first.

I haven’t run into a real bottleneck yet with my 5600, but I’m also running 1440p. What are you playing that you’ve felt CPU constrained?

I hate playing this on a N64. I own it, I’ve tried, it’s a miserable experience. I largely chalk this up to it just being the N64 controller though.

With a proper controller, it controls very nicely imo. Inputs are precise and it takes some work to get good but it’s overall still one of my favorite Mario games, next to Odyssey.

I wouldn’t expect that to change. Their primary intention is in building out a suite of tools for use within their own government institutions, rather than a wider audience. If you’re interested in self hosting though, the Github documentation is pretty much all in English

“Visio” is their internally developed video conferencing platform. It’s part of their “La Suite Numerique” suite of software, most of which is open source in large capacity

They’re portable and don’t require that I install anything. If I’m looking for an odd tool, it’s usually the easiest way to download and test something out. It’s just nice to have a standalone executable.

Flatpaks are fine, I really have no problem with them in theory but I spend twice as long configuring them as I do with a native program, and I have to trust that the maintainer is affiliated with the project, which isn’t always the case.

I think they were getting at Flatpaks, Snaps or AppImages (my personal favourite)