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Latest Comments by Vortex_Acherontic
Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop
10 Apr 2024 at 7:38 am UTC Likes: 3

The thumbnail should have said: Loonix to add up to the meme :grin:

Forty-Niner is an upcoming open-world wild west survival game
9 Apr 2024 at 1:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: aidalgol
Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticIs it just me or does it look like Valheim but in Wild West? O.o
Glad I'm not the only one. Although I only thought that about the thumbnail image.

All the screenshots and footage on the Steam page look much more flat than Valheim.
Yes agreed after watching some video footage it looks a little less like Valheim though :D

Forty-Niner is an upcoming open-world wild west survival game
5 Apr 2024 at 5:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Is it just me or does it look like Valheim but in Wild West? O.o

Get a whole lot of Fallout games in this Fanatical bundle
2 Apr 2024 at 10:35 am UTC Likes: 6

Easter Break is over and Liam be like:



:grin:

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
30 Mar 2024 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Canonical in 2014: Ah Linux is too niche, we do not need any kind of review how bad can it be?

Canonical in 2024: Oh Snap!

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue
29 Mar 2024 at 9:47 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: SzkodnixAs I checked, openSUSE Tumbleweed already released an update which downgrades the package for now.

We're safe for now :smile:
Can confirm (Aeon) it's quite a funny version number they've chosen so zypper wouldn't mistakenly update to the latest version though :grin:

Information for package xz:
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Repository     : repo-oss
Name           : xz
Version        : 5.6.1.revertto5.4-3.1
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : openSUSE

The Mirror aims to be a Roblox & UEFN alternative and now it's open source
25 Mar 2024 at 10:24 am UTC

Quoting: benstor214
Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticProbably more like what has become popular with YouTube Shorts and Tik Tok
Probably, but I’m going with elmapul. Showing one word at a time makes it useless and borderline stupid. YouTube provides the possibility to just upload the subtitles with the video.

Sometimes, people are adamant to solve a problem, that has already been solved, in a bad way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe they just don't know how to do this. It's not like Kdenlive (and probably any other major Video editor) would allow for subtitles embedded in a video for multiple languages and I am pretty sure YouTube can process them. 🤔

But yeah reading single words even without sound is kinda hard. I am honest, I need the sound of the guy talking to properly read the single words and not skip some. 😅

The Last of Us Part I added AMD FSR 3 with Frame Generation
25 Mar 2024 at 10:20 am UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleStill hoping this gets hacked into Proton (and by extension SteamOS) in place of the current global FSR.
Liam is right here. To my knowledge FSR 3 is, just like DLSS, a temporal upscaler. This means they require data from previous frames for their up scaling to work. Plus some training data for their AI cores to "guess" what the current frame, depending on things on screen before, vs now and on the output resolution could look like.
You can in some games observe the guessing while standing still and seeing subtle details fading in.
But especially since they require training data of every specific game / application there is no generic way of applying these to anything on screen.

Whilst FSR 1 and NIS (nVidia Image Scaling) are static up-scalers and thus can work on single frames and basically just do regular up-scaling and sharpening the image to reduce blurry images.

Nintendo Switch emulator suyu continues on from yuzu - first release is up
20 Mar 2024 at 11:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: PenglingI am just chuckling away at the name, here. Very good. :grin:
That moment the realisation kicks in after thinking about the name for 5 minutes straight 😅
Well played suyu devs, well played

NVIDIA driver 550.67 released fixes for VKD3D (Proton), Wayland and more
20 Mar 2024 at 7:47 am UTC

Quoting: skinnyraf
Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticOr Valve could finally move to support Wayland natively instead of relying on XWayland. That would solve the infamous flicker as well. It's super annoying nevertheless.
Would it? Firefox and Chrome flicker, even though Ozone is set to Wayland. Or could it be that programs themselves still use XWayland, and just the web rendering engine uses native Wayland? I'm just a casual user without such knowledge.
I'm no expert either but Firefox does not flicker for me independent of running on Wayland or XWayland. Or it might just be a Wayland compositor issue dunno?

I do run Wayland on Nvidia over two years now and besides some driver regression in 545.x (absolute nightmare of a driver series) which was fixed with 550.x Wayland is pretty solid over there. What I found is if an application behaves weird eg. Flickering, it's XWayland and the lag of supporting Glamour by the closed source Nvidia driver.
This also causes games running via XWayland (so most tbh) to randomly show previous frames if they run with less or more fps than your display refresh rate.

Even though Nvidia finally seems to get things right they have still some way to go and sometimes it is not even entirely their fault. Whilst I personally deem Wayland on Nvidia a lot more pleasant than X11. But I am probably very alone with this. 😅

At least this is my perception of how things are.