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Quoting: Guppy1. Greenscreen / camera effects (usually for fun)

But this isn't the same as the virtual background (it removes the background without the need of a greenscreen/green background) from Nvidia's Broadcast engine, or?

The quality is vastly different :)

It's a bit like being on the phone in a train station: OK, you can do some processing to remove the background as much as you can, but it doesn't beat a clean environment.

I don't yet have a green screen, but would like to use one to make my background transparent when I compose the webcam view on my slides :)

Also, the other day, someone tried to show a paper to their webcam, and zoom decided that was part of the background...

Quoting: GuppyAfter spending quite a bit of time on google the only thing that comes close to explaining the "why" of virtual camera seems to be that you select it as a webcamera in zoom/teams/etc..

but I'm not sure why that's preferable to simply using the build in 'share desktop/window/chrometab' in those ?

What am I missing about this feature?

In my case, sway (which is missing in the PC settings page on GOL) is my main "desktop environment". Most software you quoted do not have support for capturing the desktop under Wayland (no XDG-DESKTOP-PORTAL support, nor the wlroots protocol).

Using a wlroots plugin for OBS allows me to capture my monitor, and feed it back to these apps (teams only sees a black screen, not sure why?). I've had to do it a lot more lately...

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Quoting: HoriJust make sure it is secure and the achievements can't be (easily) cheated.

I don't know about this. It isn't really secure on other platforms either. (See that kind of tools [External Link].

What if you already unlocked achievements on another platform and would prefer not to start over?

What if you wanted to lock them again as you decide to start afresh?

I don't like playing with cheaters, but that's generally a trust issue, and a web of trust could do wonders. Achievements are for you only, it doesn't really matter to me.

I applaud this initiative!

It would be even better if this library could take care of abstracting achievements for other platforms, especially as GPL apps can't easily link to the Steam runtime.

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Well, I have a braveheart edition, and it's pretty good, but it has its quirks and is most likely not ready as a daily driver yet. It's improving quick, though, and should be mostly there by ~january.

For now, it's quite cool to plug on my USB-C docking station, switch ttys, ans start sway using my laptop/desktop config. Works pretty well, but hangs the phosh interface until a reboot. Maybe I should try Plasma Mobile again.

Quoting: BotonoskiI wonder how good the main camera is? The budget android phone I'm currently using is reportedly 12MP, but the pictures are so dreadful I'm convinced it actually uses some kinda horrid 3MP sensor and pushes the image data through a crappy upscaler. The images always look smeary, and in low light scenes (anything besides direct sunlight) additionally look blotchy and blurry. If the PinePhone is a honest good quality 5MP sensor, it might outclass my current device quite easily. Though that isn't hard to do, I swear the Sony Mavica I used in the mid-2000s pumped out better looking pictures more often than my current Android device.

See Martjin's (from postmarketos) series on the pinephone camera [External Link] to get a general idea.

It isn't top-notch, but it's passable. It also reflects the improvements that have come in multiple areas for this device: power consumption, audio quality, etc.

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Quoting: WorMzyAccording to Steam, I just need to wait another month and then I'll get the Go Outside achievement (Don't play The Stanley Parable for five years). \o/

I only have to wait until september 9. What's wrong with me deciding to run for that achievement less than an hour in? :D

I guess the experience was quite traumatizing... I got to play minecraft during that time.

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Well... A Guix/Nix-like architecture might be the most suitable to such a de-duplication effort. Seconded by an OSTree approach (à la flatpak). I think I'm going to mention this on the issue.

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Quoting: aufkrawallCan anybody tell whether it will be possible to completely avoid any additional shader compile stutter vs. native D3D12?

Yes, if the game isn't completely broken. A Vulkan extension to allow that came out recently, we're still waiting for proper driver support though.

How about Ray Tracing and DLSS? :grin:

Well, maybe Contrast adaptative Sharpening is a better fit than DLSS [External Link]?

DLSS requires spending a lot of GPU power to train a model that's dedicated for a specific title. I don't think this can be achieved, sorry :/

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Wow, I had missed the original piece of news. This was a saddening moment, but that person has my respects. Kudos on Valve for picking the baton up :)

Quoting: aufkrawallCan anybody tell whether it will be possible to completely avoid any additional shader compile stutter vs. native D3D12?

IIRC (I might be wrong on this one) Windows game ship with precompiled shaders for common GPUs, so we're quite far from this. Fossilize and Steam's distributed shader cache should help a whole lot (also on windows if/when it's there)

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Quoting: mylkafun fact: titanfall uses VALVES engine

Not sure about the second one? In any case, I think they changed the source engine a whole lot, like Crowbar Collective did for black mesa.

 
chmod -R 555 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1237970/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application\ Data/Origin

Ah, Liam, I don't think that's a good practice to make everything executable. `chmod -R -w $above_path` should do to just remove the write permission :)

Good call progressively removing BBCode in favour of Markdown, BTW :) Though it might be easier to just use an existing parser, no?

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currently I've had to ALT+drag games to a different screen to get around the ALT+TAB issue.

Heads up, alt will change to meta by default for this in the next plasma release (which sounds more sane to me, I like meta for window management/global stuff).

Back when I was using KDE, I found that opening the steam overlay would also help with difficult cases of no alt-tabbing/dragging.

Nowadays, I have very little issues with sway, as apps do not have the last word when it comes to positioning under wayland. The worst are those that disappear when i get away from them for a minute (some become very tiny things). Evochron mercenary might be doing this? Second worst is those that try to remain on top, I am not sure why sway allows that, it appears as an overlay on at least one virtual desktop (maybe more? I don't recall). And can't be focused...

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Pretty cool documentary. Came for Ravenholm, stayed for the rest :)

Heads up, French readers: interviews are partially in French ;)
And in my city as well ^_^

From YT comments:

hey Noclip, you need a 00:00 timestamp so youtube automatically creates sections on the timeline based on the timestamps! It's a new feature that is super useful. You also need to have the timestamps in the description

Pretty cool youtube feature, I didn't know about it!

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