xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't really think Stockholm syndrome applies here. I don't watch YouTube out of some irrational bond with the platform. I watch YouTube because it's literally the only place the creators I watch upload. I would absolutely follow the creators I watch to whatever platform the content is available on. Until then, I'm stuck with YouTube and ad blocking extensions.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you serious? I bought GTA5 for PS3 in 2013 and later the PC version in 2015. That ship has sailed.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've done the same math recently and decided it would be cheaper just to pay myself and keep a bit of savings around for anything extra. I could not find a plan that would pay out more than $2k in a year, and that's not even a month of rent some places.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 month ago

The dental insurance plans available in the US are basically a scam for adults because they have an annual maximum of $1-2k. You have to get a lot of cleanings before you even break even with the premium, and if something major happens you're basically not even covered.

IMO you may as well just have that $1-2k saved up yourself and pay for your own dental appointments.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Story mode is at best 50% of the content at this point. Where's my 50% refund?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You're basically arguing that a square isn't a very good representation of a rectangle because it's more than a rectangle. But the fact is, a square is a type of rectangle, just like a Steam Deck is a type of PC.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 21 points 1 month ago

Name a single viable alternative to YouTube at this point in time. Alternative frontends don't count, since they still rely on YouTube to work. None of the creators I watch upload anywhere else.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 month ago

This was definitely just Samsung's thing, but I had thought it made it out into the wild. Not 100% sure.

All the phone image post processing was literally what drove me to buy a Digital Full-frame Mirrorless camera. I know the raw photos coming off that are completely unedited, and I can choose to do any color correction or whatever myself. My previous Samsung phone always seemed to output smeary garbage when taking photos in the forest.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately with Google's antitrust lawsuits, it's quite likely Mozilla will lose the majority of their funding in the near future, since their biggest source of revenue is Google paying them to be default.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A Raspberry PI should be fine for direct play, but it doesn't really have the processing power to transcode. Check to see which mode you're in.

If you want the ability to live transcode, you'd probably have better luck with an old laptop or PC with a dedicated GPU (Even the lowest end ones have the same video encoding hardware in each generation, I use a GTX 1050).

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Surprising, since Lex Luthor was often portrayed as a wealthy billionaire.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 2 months ago

It's not "proper gaming" unless your 1000W water cooled gaming rig is heating up your entire room to 100°, just to show you the latest in ray traced puddles /s

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