Apparently nowadays they were able to extend the battery life quite a bit with the new generation of 61Wh batteries (instead of the previous 55Wh)
(she is from the former Sultanate of Muscat and Oman)
ahhhh I see now, that's smart
but you're only able to do that because it goes through a proxy, the flagwaver doesn't directly request an image from here
I've made https://lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz/ to help take off some of that load. New registrations are welcomed and it should be maintained for a very very long time 🎂
I agree that's very annoying sometimes but at the same time very beneficial for in-game performance as it greatly reduces the amount of computations the game has to do at runtime. If you have a powerful enough PC or the game isn't very demanding you can just disable shader pre-caching in steam settings and it shouldn't matter much but it's a real life saver for more demanding titles and imo worth all that wait.