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Console releases were done by a different studio originally, 4J Studios. Bedrock spawned from the mobile ports, and eventually replaced the console editions and had different features.

I think their use of 3rd party libraries could prevent them from releasing it as open source without rewriting a bit. This even happened to the original DOOM 1 where they used a sound library so didn't release the original DOS source code. Rather they released the Linux port which used a different sound engine that had different features/bugs.

Looking at the start-up of Doom Dark Ages (with new expansion today), they list Havok, Oodle, Bink, and SpeedTree. According to Havoc's website, that already starts at 50k$ alone. Oodle/Bink don't list prices.

You might not have noticed, but that's also where anti-cheats started. All 3rd party anti-cheats started on community servers because well you aren't getting them into official servers easily. And then game developers saw that and integrated it for the users. Quake 3 even had Punkbuster added at some point for example.

Plenty of modern community servers still do the same. Face-it servers for Counter-Strike 2 will have additional anticheat, not less. Modded Grand Theft Auto V servers, FiveM, built their own anticheat they call adhesive before RockStar ever added anticheat to the full game, and this prevents it from running on Linux to this day.

Ten year old desktop users aren't exactly known for buying new games, especially at full price.

The average spending gaming hardware are the consoles. No one is going to start building a game targeting a Playstation 4 today, they'll target the 5 year old PS5.

That would have to include your own position on your own client. Adding a delay of the RTT of the worst latency in the server to your inputs

Some games still do this. RTS games notably, but hide it with mouse and sound effects. If anyone remembers the Starcraft 1 option of "extra high latency", it would work by increasing the delay.

Sure, but it's also running on a GPU that's almost 10 years old and wasn't even high end at release. So I think it's fine performance for the hardware.

Not disagreeing with you about lighting, but there is a differnce in older games that make RT optional. They use RT as a "ultra high quality" shadows/reflection graphical option. So there's no point of having a high performant, low quality RT option.

This isn't the case with games that require RT. Doom Dark Ages can even run the RT entirely in software, implemented in AMD's Linux drivers: https://youtu.be/R5G2bYiA1hk

So I think it's fine to ignore benchmarks that mention RT, meaning it's basically testing the game at "ultra quality" settings.

My reading habits are similar, and yeah I fell out of using my einks for similar reasons.

Even with a web browser, einkbro for Android eink devices, it just never felt as good as epubs or just my phone somehow.

Well ordered the X4 to try anyways.

They did take almost a year for Windows drivers for the Steam Deck OLED: https://steamdeckhq.com/news/windows-is-now-supported-on-ole...

That CPU comes with a cooler so you don't need that.

At 2TB SSD, you should compare to the $1350 steam machine instead.

The GPU isn't exactly equivalent. Gamers Nexus puts it closer to RX6600 performance. But that ignores the RDNA3 improvements so I don't really have a good comparison for that.

They did announce SteamOS for general computers, so I don't expect game support to be too different.

The DisplayPort 1.4 instead of 2.1 is also interesting. The RX7000 series came with DisplayPort 2.1.

DisplayPort 1.4 should be enough to do 4K@120hz. Not enough bandwidth for HDR at the same time though

Last I checked the idle power consumption of the BC-250 was on the higher side to make me not want to use it as a media center, though that could be my PSU. No hardware decode/encode (yet) either.

And lack of DRM makes a PC in general a mediocre experience for official streaming services if you want more than 720p streaming. If you care about that.

Jeff Geerling has done a review and follow-up on one: https://youtu.be/twoAW0eLiXY

I've considered just getting a bunch of 65W USB-C buck converters and DIY one.

Not a power issue but a feature issue. No ray tracing stops Indiana Jones and Doom Dark Ages (though you can do it in software on Linux): https://youtu.be/aU2qwlCLWm8 . Doom Dark Ages also added a check for Vulkan Variable Rate Shading, requiring a workaround to spoof it. Mesh shader requirement prevents Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth from running.

If you look at modern games that still do this, plenty of them add additional anticheats, not less.

FiveM, modded servers for GTAV, had anticheats before Rockstar added any which already prevented Linux players. Face IT for CS2 does the same.

Unless you're on the absolute newest stuff with DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1 has more bandwidth than DP1.4. That'll be Nvidias 2000 through 4000 series. No DisplayPort 2.1 until the RTX 5000s.

And then monitors released during this time generally do the same too.

Also if you want to use it through a capture card, HDMI ones are way more common and cheaper

Another feature locked behind the app is individual part cancelling which is nice for partial print failures.

SDL, who's main developer has been at Valve for years, already has added support for it back in November: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/joystick/hid...

It's a bit more complicated than that (on Windows) because Steam doesn't make a virtual gamepad to the OS. The way Steam handles the input is by hooking into the games individually. So to use Steam for other games, you need to add them to Steam as non-steam games.

Even open source controller remapping tools (not just Steam Controller) and similar used ViGEmBus which is no longer maintained. You can have it do mouse/keyboard though, those don't require custom drivers.

Seeing as the original Steam Controllers kernel drivers were community reverse engineered rather than Valve contributed, I don't know if I believe in them to make one for the new one either: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Controller-RE-Kernel

Community servers don't want server-side anti-cheat either. Hell they invented client-side anti-cheats back in the day. Even current day community servers like Face-IT have additional anti-cheats, not less. Same with modded GTAV FiveM (even before the main game added anti-cheats)

I'm using the smaller vision models (Qwen3.5-4B currently) with Frigate, a FOSS self-hosted "AI" NVR. It's good enough at analyzing images to figure out mostly what's happening, and doesn't require the big knowledge base that bigger models have.

Also use a bigger model for summarizing or translating text, which I don't consume in realtime, so doesn't need to be fast. Would be a thing I could use OpenAI's batch APIs for if I did need something higher quality.

v4 was built around the idea of multiple free standing networks linked by gateways.

I don't think this is what v4 was built around, but rather what v4 turned into.

CIDR wasn't introduced until 1993. NAT in 1994. Both to handle depleting IP addresses.

I've got this bookmarked for tracking: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...

Not on this list is the current GPU Vulkan drivers Collabora are working on too. Don't think that's really blame Rockchip since they're ARM Mali-G610 GPUs, but yeah those didn't get stable in Mesa until last year.

Similarly sad for their PC38X headset. Though I know they shut down their Epos brand it was under a while ago.

I don't disagree. Gotta backups for important data either way too!

Just talking about filesystems with checksumming (and multidevice). Any new filesystem to support these features is going to be newer.

I've had both btrfs and bcachefs multidevice filesystems lock up read-only on me. So no real data loss, just a pain to get the data into a new file system, the time it was an 8 drive array on btrfs.

Bcachefs also fulfills the requirement of checksums (and multi device support).

Also out of tree.

Another method for gyro aim is flick stick, using the right stick to control the direction of your aim (on the left/right axis) and gyro for fine tuning and also up/down axis.

https://youtu.be/CiSS5OsNCNU from the creator explains it (and older gyro controls).

At least part of it is probably Microsoft's 40 TOPS NPU requirement for their Copilot+ badge. Intel also have NPUs in their modern CPUs. Phones CPU manufacturers have been doing it even longer, though Google calls theirs TPU.

I use an older Google Coral TPU running in my home lab being used by Frigate NVR for object detection for security cameras. It's more efficient, but less flexible than running it on the GPU.

Don't know if I need an NPU for my daily driver computer, but I would want one for my next home server.

The number being discussed is not March alone, but the percent change. So March's number relative to February's number.