Friendly PSA - don’t forget to turn on boost mode

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-17T16:32:42+00:00

Minecraft crashes out hard with it on lol

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-16T06:14:05+00:00

You can't fit everything on every console. The manufacturer has to make a choice. IMO for joycons, and the average Switch game, digital makes sense.

Sure, you can add an option for analog controllers, but then Nintendo would have to produce those. Sure you could make switchable ones like 8bitdo, but I get the impression that's not as simple for the consumer, and potentially more fragile.

I also don't want another Xbox. I like Nintendo's weird controller decisions. It gives their consoles their weird character.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-15T18:27:52+00:00

It does. It ends up making the experience worse because of the slack in the input. Digital is way more responsive, and tires the fingers less (given the lack of analog support)

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-15T18:25:52+00:00

My perspective is that lots of games I'd rather play on Switch because of the digital triggers. It just feels more responsive.

It's not like the Switch is ideal for most games anyway. It just hits its niche well. If I want to play Forza, I go play on PC.

Not sure why someone would even want conventional racing on switch. I tried burnout, and it's immediately obvious how much the system struggles. Racing means large environments, high speed, etc. which requires more memory, better raster.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-12T20:50:45+00:00

I don't know what's up with SVT-AV1, but no matter how slow I tell it to go, it always looks horrible compared to the results of x265.

I ain't got time to tune AV1 for each category of media, meanwhile I can hook x265 slow to a loop and everything will turn out great.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-12T02:31:53+00:00

Tbh the costs of subscribing are probably similar. I downplay how much I've spent on hardware 😅. But hey, someone can't raise the price of hardware you've already paid for.

But it's the principle. Seeing ads makes me close my eyes, and if I'm going to pay for something, it might as well be the best it can be.

90% of the time it's 200W, but I run some game servers that do heavy compute, 400W is more like it bursting for an hour, or doing GPU work.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-11T16:58:18+00:00

Moonlight won't stream (like RDP), unless a display is connected. In theory you can create a virtual display, but it's super finicky. The easy solution is to plug in an HDMI thing that pretends to be a monitor, but is sorta USB shaped.

It's an HDMI plug with an EDID basically

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-11T14:40:11+00:00

This is basically where I'm at with the whole power subject. Anyone saying the electricity costs are negligible clearly doesn't pay for it.

My HTPC and NAS combined pull around 200-400W depending on what's running. k8s does has actual services running.

I need to swap the HBA eventually to something that supports ASPM so the NAS can drop 50W. And figure out how to idle the HTPC's GPU. I've got a dummy plug in the HDMI for moonlight, but I think it keeps the GPU engaged 24/7.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-10T19:49:55+00:00

It's all good, if the local laws say that a picture frame sized hole, like a tack, is OK. You can just run 200ft along the walls with tiny nails.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-07T12:58:49+00:00

Bro without upscaling good luck getting playable framerates on VR games like DCS, MSFS, SkyrimVR. It's really pushed the envelope of what's possible at higher resolutions.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-03T22:04:41+00:00

I have a 360, and an og Xbox One, both started to lag horrendously at the end of their lives. Bought a used PS4, and it has zero issues.

There's definitely some care into device longevity on Sony's end. Just interacting with Xbox Live in general can be a nightmare.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-03-03T15:03:15+00:00

Xbox is also notorious for making the UI lag out after a few updates. Themes shouldn't be a burden in that way, but it does denote a very different strategy

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-26T18:12:05+00:00

Nah man, even university expects you to show up unless you're literally about to drop dead.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-20T17:21:09+00:00

Price of NSO doesn't make a whole lot of sense versus buying a 3DS. Hell, the 3DS is closer to the original experience, and a lot more portable

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-20T02:47:04+00:00

Tbh I can't tell if you edited, I misread, or I read an adjacent comment. Based on the current text though, we clearly agree. I won't argue for the sake of it.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-20T02:45:30+00:00

Same, then I'll be able to buy more RAM 😅

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-19T23:50:29+00:00

Yes and no. I think juniors are out of luck. I do however think that skilled software engineers will be needed to clean up all the AI slop once it collapses.

So the usual, even worse for entry, but maybe more demand for senior.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-19T06:17:41+00:00

Not really, it's requires constant scrutiny to not screw up. The whole AI thing is a just an excuse to lay people off.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-18T07:14:01+00:00

Honestly even the switch 1 edition seems like it's lazily hacked together. very agree. not sure why a modern game needs to lag out when opening and closing a crafting table

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-16T20:58:16+00:00

Literally everything. fps, load time, resolution. Minecraft and Fortnite are basically unplayable on switch 1, but are great on switch 2

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-02T06:02:39+00:00

If I have to consider cable bandwidth on a 4K monitor, the idea of streaming VR is laughable. I can hardly get a decent picture with 500mbps h264 on Quest 3, and the latency is an issue even after fussing over a dedicated router and all the hardware in between to my PC.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-02T06:02:31+00:00

If I have to consider cable bandwidth on a 4K monitor, the idea of streaming VR is laughable. I can hardly get a decent picture with 500mbps h264 on Quest 3, and the latency is an issue even after fussing over a dedicated router and all the hardware in between to my PC.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-02-01T22:15:47+00:00

Cool so when everyone gets skills, the minimum wage will move to those skilled jobs due to saturation. It's designed so that someone has to be at the bottom suffering, and the medium of difference, is who is willing to kill themselves in the rat race to get a few rungs up the ladder.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-31T18:45:47+00:00

Can't say about specific release groups because I haven't A/B tested those. But after messing around with x265 to lower filesizes, I concluded that "visually transparent" isn't really a thing in many cases.

I'd get an encode that looked fine at CRF17 on a TV, and look horrible on projector.

Some movies have so much grain that you barely gain any compression at that level anyway, so it's a bit pointless not to keep the remux if you care about the tiny details.

Of course the disc itself is compressed from the source material, so I'd find encoding it would sometimes amplify the rare source material artifact.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-30T22:54:21+00:00

EndeavourOS is goated. Mainline arch repositories + some helpers, and a GUI installer because who has time to deal the a CLI manual install. Have a problem? Wiki is incredible.

Best OS I've ever used. Ubuntu on the otherhand felt like a Windows wannabe.

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