This “China’s AI is taking your data and that’s bad” is shockingly similar to “TikTok is taking your data and that’s bad”. Lots of US counterparts do the same thing, but I don’t see (as much) media coverage about that.

Don Draper: “no no no, everyone else’s cigarettes are dangerous. Lucky Strikes are… toasted.”

You highly doubt my personal experience?

Proprietary by Sony, but they did open source it

The bitrate is manually enforceable on Linux, too

*specifically using PipeWire

As unfortunate as the naming misdirection is, I have to say: LDAC sounds significantly better (to me) than other Bluetooth codecs I have tried. It also works on Linux and android with no issues whatsoever. Open source is good.

I use it with a pair of Sony XM5’s, which can also be used in wired mode, so you kind of get the best of both worlds.

Strange to hear Civ described as a Grand Strategy title. Usually that is reserved for things like Victoria or Crusader Kings, which are not turn based.

And the other side of that coin is: personally I’ll happily accept shimmering and moire effects if it means I don’t lock myself into yet one more corporate ecosystem.

FSR also combats those things, but can run on any GPU.

The question isn’t whether or not it is safe. It’s whether or not it is less safe than US counterparts.

Given that US counterparts are doubling down on fascist insanity, I’d argue giving the Chinese your data is the lesser of evils at the moment.

But intrinsically: stop using corpo social media.

Replace every fine with executive jail time.

Watch the world change.

This may be a hot take downvoted to oblivion, but I think DLSS and all similar AI-dependent frame generation type stuff is a band-aid on a problem that won’t (or shouldn’t) exist for long, in the grand scheme of things.

If you have performance improvements, you ultimately don’t need such things once that performance reaches an acceptable level.

So two things may be happening:

1. Performance improvements are not possible anymore. That seems false, because we still see them. Costs are high, but they’re there.

2. Things like DLSS allow corps to give you less performance while still maintaining an illusion of a good experience. It ultimately reduces hardware costs, which the corpos ultimately just pocket.

I lean strongly towards 2 at the moment. Notice how nvidia also continues to push DLSS as an exclusive feature – notably different from FSR in that regard, while FSR is admitted to be a tech allowing for better framerate on lower-end hardware.

For nvidia, it’s a selling point, and it allows them to sell you less hardware with fewer actual improvements. It is the same snake that just wants you to (eventually) stream games instead of processing them locally, because it enhances corporate control.

Someone finally thinking of the shareholders.

Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.

PC is the way.

It would have saved an absolute mountain of bad press. And upset customers.

Have to disagree on the GPU part – I first played it with a 970, mostly on medium. It can be nearly maxxed out (no RT) on a 6600XT, which I used for my second playthrough (on Linux).

Because it’s a fantastic game.

It should never have come out for last gen consoles. That is a fact.

In Tokyo I’d hop on the subway regularly to shop. Not a big deal at all.

Taking a train to the grocery store only seems absurd to people who have never experienced a really efficient rail system.

You get what you pay for.

There are vim keybindings for Code. Discovered that yesterday.

Though, if you want vim bindings for Code, probably should just use vim…