Natanael

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[–] Natanael 3 points 1 month ago

It's the same ordering system, but different queues for drive-through, tills, and kiosk. Usually there's some priority order, but tills and kiosk shouldn't be different

[–] Natanael 5 points 1 month ago

Doing that requires content addressing. It's what atproto is built around (bluesky's protocol) but nobody's made a proper forum variant of it yet

[–] Natanael 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fediverse = universe of federated instances.

Federation = many entities connected together and interoperating, etc

Instance: every individual Lemmy site with its own domain name runs an instance (a running copy of the software) on its server.

Those servers are talking to each other so users on one can talk to users on another server. That's federation.

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 month ago

I have good eyes, the zoom won't help me because it doesn't add pixels to the frame (maybe unless you're downsampling?). I want more physical pixels, and then higher resolution text to make use of it!

[–] Natanael 2 points 1 month ago

More stacking of layers (like 3D cache) and more efficient architectures and nodes will bring it closer.

However, nobody's ever going to beat TDP. Anything you can fit into a handheld can be multiplied several times over in a stationary console.

[–] Natanael 2 points 1 month ago

That's incredibly difficult in compact form factors. Modular frames and connectors would also add weight, etc. So far you can basically replace the SSD and spare parts like the joystick. But I'd certainly like to see them try. We're not going to see them make the CPU or GPU replaceable, but I've seen stuff like electrically activated glue for attaching components like screens while keeping it repairable because it's easy to release with electrical activation again. Would be cool to see Valve make use of stuff like that.

[–] Natanael 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At this stage, it's likely they'll move to RISC-V over ARM if they change architecture. Drastically freer licensing would give them more control and fewer headaches.

Proton isn't the same as an architecture emulator. It wraps the Windows APIs and translate them to Linux system calls. Translating CPU instructions is more complicated because it's much more latency and overhead sensitive, and slight architectural differences can drastically blow up performance hits to translation. You need hardware based emulation for some instructions.

[–] Natanael 2 points 1 month ago

IIRC the Switch 2 has weaker CPU in exchange for a more powerful GPU compared to the Steam Deck. Considering that console games specifically tend to be more GPU bottlenecked than by CPU, that makes the Switch 2 a bit more future proof since skilled devs will be able to deliver ports with a bit fewer compromises for a bit longer.

But it's going to take a while before anybody will see the difference in most games, because neither of them will be pushed to their limits in (officially supported) games for a while. Most games that run on the Steam Deck are just running with adjusted graphics settings, not hardware specific tuning.

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not that they don't have any plans. They have plans and are working on it, but they don't have launch plans. Companies like Valve always have ongoing R&D

[–] Natanael 3 points 1 month ago

You know there's a funny workaround here - stream the game from your PC to the Deck over Steam Remote Play while keeping that PC monitor on, and then use the Steam Deck only as a controller while looking at the big screen. It will add a bit of latency to controls, but it's surprisingly not bad

[–] Natanael 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I want a higher resolution screen, for readability. Games don't need to use a higher resolution in general and can keep targeting something like 720p, but I want text and more to be crisper, etc

https://infosec.pub/comment/17743689

[–] Natanael 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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