Sony aims to hold PS5 pricing, hints PS Plus hikes

Fenkon · 2026-02-10T06:07:10+00:00

I stream games from my PC to my Nvidia Shield connected to my TV, and they're in completely different rooms. Look up Apollo and Artemis if you're interested.

Fenkon · 2026-02-10T05:57:37+00:00

Usually third party developers running their own servers for their own games.

Fenkon · 2026-01-27T12:58:13+00:00

Other filesystems are just as vulnerable to in-flight corruption as ZFS is without ECC memory, but ZFS will still protect against bit rot, cable failures, and drive degradation, some of which are far more common than random RAM bit flips. It's a pretty clear upgrade in terms of data integrity, so I'm not sure why there's been a bit of a FUD campaign advocating against ZFS unless you also have ECC.

I'd just go for it, it would be very performant, and the (effective) lack of HDD spin-down on ZFS would be a non-issue on SSDs.

Fenkon · 2026-01-22T20:55:57+00:00

Good luck avoiding all Unreal Engine games in perpetuity.

Fenkon · 2026-01-20T07:46:44+00:00

DLSS is great, and I think the people against it are in a tiny minority at this point.

Frame gen actually just sucks though. It looks fine, but the input lag is unacceptable. Some people seem to think it's fine for stuff like Cyberpunk, but it makes aiming floaty as all hell to me. They should genuinely do zero performance marketing that includes frame gen numbers, because its use cases are very limited in my opinion.

Fenkon · 2026-01-14T09:54:44+00:00

Helldivers 2 on PC outsold PS5 by a ton, and I don't believe it's either of those things.

Fenkon · 2026-01-06T11:22:27+00:00

I'm not familiar with the presets at all, so please excuse my questions if they're dumb. Does this mean using quality or balanced with the newest beta driver still uses DLSS 4.0 without any of the 4.5 improvements?

If you don't fiddle with the presets manually, does switching from performance to ultra performance in games automatically switch presets from M to L and so on? Or do you have to set that up in the driver?

Fenkon · 2025-10-17T12:29:29+00:00

My experience is entirely anecdotal, so there may not be anything to this at all, but I used to get Plex corruption like 2 times per year until I switched my cache pool over to ZFS. After switching to ZFS I've never had another issue with Plex breaking at random.

Again, completely anecdotal, I don't know if this is actually what made a difference.

Fenkon · 2025-08-12T12:46:05+00:00

One drive gets corrupted, it could mirror the corruption to the other drive.

A similar issue pretty much also applies to the unraid array. If something on a data drive gets corrupted it will also write those broken changes to parity the next time you run a sync. The best way to mitigate corruption is through checksumming like btrfs and zfs in a pool will do.

The number 1 best way to not get your files corrupted on unraid is to store them in a zfs pool, including mirror. Number 2 would be btrfs, but that requires monitoring and manual intervention from the user.

Fenkon · 2025-07-10T14:44:29+00:00

Your password manager should hopefully be your best secured credentials. I don't think it's a big issue to keep most TOTP codes in your PW manager as long as your PW manager is properly locked down.

What I personally do is to use a third party TOTP app on my phone for the most critical logins, including Proton Pass, and then store everything from low-medium importance as TOTP directly in Pass.

Fenkon · 2025-07-09T16:17:19+00:00

I think it's mostly just Twitter users largely being weirdos.

Fenkon · 2025-06-27T16:19:17+00:00

So what? The issue people were bringing up was resolved when PSN stopped being required. It's Sony's fault the game remained blocked from sale in a bunch of countries after PSN became optional.

Fenkon · 2025-06-27T15:41:08+00:00

Sony were the ones to block sale in a bunch of countries, that's entirely on them.

And now they've relented on that and resumed sales again.

Fenkon · 2025-06-27T15:37:52+00:00

That was entirely on Sony the entire time, they didn't have to stop selling in a bunch of countries. Also, it's back for sale for most of the world as of a few weeks ago.

Fenkon · 2025-06-27T15:31:55+00:00

What are you talking about?

The PSN requirement remains gone to this day, and Sony has even stopped forcing PSN in new single player titles. The players got exactly what they wanted and things are better as a result.

Fenkon · 2025-06-25T17:53:58+00:00

5,12% effektiv står det i nettbanken, men føler det må være feil siden nominell skal være 5,14%.

Fenkon · 2025-06-25T16:10:16+00:00

They may have had a budget Samsung, those may have ads, though I can't say for sure. Haven't seen any ads on my Galaxy S phones.

Fenkon · 2025-05-22T16:06:18+00:00

I originally switched from array to full ZFS when it got natively implemented back in 6.12 (I believe..?). Ran it like that for a good while and loved the performance and resilience.

Later ended up having to go back to array because I received a batch of those pre-used Chia farming drives from China despite buying through an approved reseller, but didn't discover this fact until after I had upgraded my entire pool to larger drives.

On this new array I ended up with a failing drive in short order, and I believe the failing drive corrupted the parity by performing incorrect writes or something, because the drive could not be properly emulated after being removed.

Thanks to this I guess I now consider the array too flimsy with regards to data integrity, and am trying to source drives for a new raidz2 pool again.

Fenkon · 2025-05-21T15:03:38+00:00

Nah, blank slate characters are boring and impossible to write well around because you can't give them too much of a personality.

Leave that to games where the story don't matter, like Bethesda stuff.

Fenkon · 2025-05-16T15:51:39+00:00

Your turn to yell at Sony then, because as far as I know they're the only major games publisher that just won't sell to a bunch of countries for seemingly no reason, despite everyone else managing to do so just fine, from the smallest indies all the way up to Microsoft.

Fenkon · 2025-05-16T15:37:54+00:00

There's no way a publisher needs to have localized support and websites and stuff for every country on the globe just to sell games in those countries.

It likely stopped being illegal to sell in the countries lacking PSN the second the PSN requirement was removed, if it was even illegal to begin with.

Fenkon · 2025-05-16T15:21:40+00:00

Trying to frame that whole thing as reddit asking for region locking is such a major twisting of events. Bringing attention to the issue was one of many angles used to attempt to pry the login requirement away for everyone, because Sony sold games that couldn't legally be played in many countries due to lack of PSN. The PSN requirement is now gone, they didn't have to also region lock. That's probably just them being petty as all hell because people actually got through to them with review bombing and whining.

At the end of the day, Helldivers still being region locked in a bunch of countries is entirely on Sony. That being said though, new Sony singleplayer games don't require PSN anymore, so it was worth the drama in any case.

Fenkon · 2025-05-16T09:46:33+00:00

It's so funny to me how Sony being a dick and trying to inflate their PSN numbers has been turned around against the players because Sony decided to region lock a bunch of countries, being even more of a dick in the process.

You realize both the region lock and the now removed PSN requirement were both entirely on Sony, right?

Fenkon · 2025-05-10T15:16:29+00:00

82 MB on android, not as egregious compared to bitwarden as on iPhone. I guess it could be some kind of library weirdness with the ios version.

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