TheRealKuni

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No American is standing up for their ally Denmark. This is disgusting and involves all Americans.

What? This very much does not involve all Americans.

Most Americans despise this asshole and have no interest in invading Greenland, and plenty see it as a horrific betrayal.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The key is to not only do this, but also compile this quick autohotkey script to an exe, hide it on their computer, and set it to run at startup:

#NoTrayIcon

m::n
n::m

That way it’ll fuck with touch typers. And when they look down to confirm that something’s wrong, it won’t look wrong. It’ll drive them nuts!

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t like raw onions. But if you sauté or grill those tear-jerkers, they’re amazing.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for letting me know I’m not crazy! 😅

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.

But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How? It's a well defined term. If you don't have a publisher and are independent, that's what indie means. It has nothing to do with budget. Even an indie game can be AAA, because the term AAA refers to how expensive it was. These are two different subjects.

That’s not how the term is used. Definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive. Wikipedia’s definition is far more useful.

Take the game “Animal Well.” Go look it up if you haven’t heard of it. Animal Well was programmed by a single person, Billy Basso, as developer “Shared Memory.” It was then published by Videogamedunkey’s company “Bigmode,” the very first title Bigmode published.

By your definition, Animal Well is not an indie game. But it’s exactly the kind of game meant by the term “indie game.” So your definition isn’t a useful one.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I haven’t noticed any, but maybe? Very fine details can get combined, so it’s possible. But I’ve been playing Diablo 4 that way recently and haven’t complained.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

I’m not saying that’s the interpretation I walked away with. Context is important. I knew my dad wasn’t being sarcastic, just read that way. It made me laugh, it made my wife laugh!

It’s like back when some people didn’t realize all caps meant yelling and they would go around with caps lock on until they had it explained to them.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In 4:2:2 subsampling (or lower), information is lost. It’s not much information, but if I’m streaming 1280x800 or 1280x720, each pixel is partial defined by the ones around it.

If I stream 2560x1440, when reduced to 1280x720 each pixel is the combination of those 4 subsampled pixels. Meaning each individual pixel is independent from its neighbors.

It doesn’t sound like it should mean much, and maybe I’m wrong entirely about the reason for the lower detail when streaming 1280x800, but the difference was apparent to me (at least when I tested it with Cyberpunk 2077). I could very well be wrong, I’m not an expert. There could be other causes. But either way streaming at 1440p looks better on the 1280x800 screen than streaming 1280x800. (Except with 1440p the aspect ratio means small black bars at top and bottom).

Now that I think about it, I might be able to turn off the subsampling in the stream. Might be a good way to test it if I can.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I use it with my Xbox to have 4K PC gaming on my TV downstairs. Ethernet means lower latency between the Xbox and PC than between the Xbox and its own controller. 🤣 It’s pretty remarkable.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Yep! And Steam Link is fine, but Moonlight/Apollo gives you more options and, in my experience, better quality.

So for example I can tell Moonlight to have Apollo send 1440p to the Steam Deck, so that after chroma subsampling I still end up with an entirely unique pixel for each on the Deck. That alone makes things look more crisp. I can also have Apollo set up such that my PC uses Moonlight as the only display when I’m using it.

(There are far more options I haven’t really dug into.)

 
 

Seems like Bambu Lab has a new trick for reducing waste. Rather than a toolchanger like the Prusa XL or the Snapmaker, they're swapping just the nozzle. As far as I can tell from the video, the printer still has a second nozzle which won't swap in and out, meaning a print can be run with 7 nozzles (six from the Vortek system, plus the second nozzle in the toolhead). So if you're using 7 or fewer filaments, no pooping is necessary.

The cool bit here is that they're using wireless chips in the nozzles to communicate the thermistor data to the printer, so no pin-based connections are needed.

Pretty cool solution, I think. I assume you'd still need a prime tower, but that's a small amount of waste if they're eliminating poop from purging the nozzles.

I'm curious to see how they'll handle calibration, surely the nozzles aren't all going to be perfectly aligned all the time.

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