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Cake day: August 28th, 2025
  • Hond@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•My tender eyes and earsEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’m a huge nerd so take everything with a grain of salt how my experience translates to a non-techie.

    Storing and playing music with Android is pretty straightforward. You just copy your music into the music folder. Then use either the media player your phone comes with or choose one of the 1 million other options on the playstore/f-droid. But i never liked Itunes to begin with. Not with the Ipod i had 20 years ago and not with the Ipad i had 10 years ago. It just gets in my(!) way of how i want to do things. If your whole music library and management revolves around itunes… uuh yeah, idk its going to be a new learning experience i guess.

    Good quality camera shouldnt be an issue. Especially coming from a SE. Look up Samsung/Google/Apple camera blindtests on Youtube. The differences are minuscule and mostly about how they handle whitebalance (yellowish/blueish tint) and how pronounced the contrast in the shadows is. The UI of the camera will be different. But if you just point and shoot without needing more advanced settings it will be just fine.

    If you want to use GrapheneOS or a custom ROM in general: Buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS. If your not a nerd other custom roms will be a huge pain to install. Graphene has a pretty straightforward web based installer which guides you through the process. The cheaper “A” models had pretty often issues with their batteries. But atleast Google just reimbursed everyone in those cases. I’m still on my Pixel 7 and i dont see any reason to upgrade until its support ends. Camera is still great, performance is still great, screen is great, battery life is okay. Choosing anything between 8-10 series Pixels should be just fine. Older ones have a shorter support period. Newer ones a slightly more expensive and a bit better. Pro models have a bit more ram and a telescopic camera for more zoom. Nice to have but i(!) wouldnt pay extra for that.

  • Hond@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console SecurityEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m not particularly deep into the emulation scene or even a dev with actual knowledge. But from what i’ve read over the years X86 doesnt have to be a beneficial because the instruction set is ridiculously big and complex. While the chips are based off of PC hardware there still is a lot of custom fuckery going on which isnt publicly documented.

    Prominent example is to look at the state of OG XBOX emulation vs PS2. Based on a Pentium 3 and some semi custom Nvidia GPU of that time and you would expect it to be perfectly emulateable. But even after almost 25 years xbox emulation is still in a rough spot. While PS2 emulation with its weird custom architecture thrives.

    Widespread interest in a plattform is probably a far more important factor.

    With that said PS4 emulation is already pretty mature considering how young the shad4 project is. Even though its also x86, but they’re using an approach more like WINE i think(!).

    PS5 has almost no exclusives though. Like GT7, Astrobot aaand uh? I dont see put effort into it too soon.

  • Hond@piefed.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2English
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    5 days ago

    “It is more efficient to compute the child index of the current node inside the parent node and write the bounds when available. The previous code could load up to 16 AABBs to compute the new ones. The new code also only needs 1/7 of the previously used scratch memory. The new code seems to be around 30% faster (0.5ms) in GOTG on a 6700XT.”

    Shitty missleading clickbait headline though. 0.5ms improvement probably wont translate to 30% more fps with raytracing on RDNA2 cards as the “30% faster on rdna2” in the headline suggest.

  • Hond@piefed.socialtoHardware@lemmy.world•Asus ROG and Xreal partner to deliver gaming-optimized AR glasses — 240 Hz Micro-LEDs with a 171-inch virtual viewing areaEnglish
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    6 days ago

    True, especially with the current state of display technology and 1080p screens in those glasses its a pretty valid compromise.

    I mostly just take issue with those dominant marketing claims of 170" screens. Its just bullshit.

    Eg Valve did the same thing in the trailer for the frame. Just not directly and only with a short sneaky visual cgi representation of how a virtual screen is projected in front of the consumer. Which is from my experience way to big. I own a standalone headset with a measured 104 degrees of fov on my face. But the useable screensize in headset pretty much aligns with my 48" monitor 3-4 feet in front of me. With 57 degrees its probably more like a 32" monitor which sounds way less impressive than a 170" screen which happens to be farther away. Its just in itself a misleading metric which is intentionally used in a misleading way.

  • Hond@piefed.socialtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Resurrecting an old desktop—is it worth upgrading?English
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    10 days ago

    Though call. Like i dont want to shame your hardware or anything. But there is a reason those Bulldozer era CPUs almost bankrupted AMD. They’re just not that great. Those Zen 2 cores in your Steamdeck APU are so much faster that the multithreaded performance is still better even though it has half the cores of that FX-8350 .

    I mean its a no brainer to just fire that old tower up with some distro and play around with it. That 970 is still plenty powerful for its age. But investing money in it? Idk. I wouldnt a lot. If at all.

    Like if you struggle with the nvidia drivers i would maybe look into a cheap RX480 or RX580 with 8GB of VRAM. But anything above that is IMHO(!) wasted money with that CPU.

  • Hond@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.world•Things I learned migrating from Win10 to MintEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, i agree overall. I’m also not an IT-professional. But i’d call myself maybe a pOweRuSer.

    In my experience there is no way around the terminal sooner or later. Even after 1 1/2 years of regular linux usage i’m still reluctant to use it because there is so much needed knowledge frontloaded to use it effectivly. But on the other hand the frequency where i NEED to use it is more or less the same compared to the windows equivalents like cmd and powershell. Atleast in my case the last few years on windows involved overall even more tinkering than on linux right now. Probably a different story for many people but it holds true for me.

    Outdated guides, wikis, and searchmachine answers certainly fucked me over in my past ventures with linux. Its not like on Windows where you could find that one thread from 2005 which actually has the answer to your hyperspecific windows 11 problem. So looking for a distro with good and current documentation is really important imho for a beginner. In that regard i’m really happy with cachyOS’ own wiki in combination with the arch wiki. On top of that their forums and discord server. I just started to disregard any info older than 1-2 years. Meanwhile searchengines got so much enshittified that i cant rely on them anymore either way.

    The file structure completly broke me tbh. It was always my most hated thing with windows. How windows itself and all the programs just leave behind a scattered mess of folders and files with no fucking coherency. In my mind linux had to be soooooo much better in that regard. Like obviously, right? But nah, its somehow even worse. I even used the pretty alright search function to find and purge some last remnants of an uninstalled program. Just to be greeted with another left behind cache file in a hidden folder a few months later.