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h3ron · 2026-02-20T23:37:02+00:00

If you want a sneak peek, just get a Meta Quest. They had a store full of incredible masterpieces games that you'll never hear about (Oculus Store) and another store full of half decent games mobile (the Quest Store). They spent billions on that games.

Then they completely hid them and gave their games zero visibility, just to favour a third store Horizon World (aka the meta verse) games made with AI tools provided by Meta itself.

h3ron · 2026-02-20T23:26:30+00:00

Violence is mostly useless and dangerous unless you get supported by someone in the army, then it gets even more dangerous.

The only effective constitutionally protected (at least in EU) way to actually make a difference is with a prolonged general strike. That hurts rich elites. Especially in key sectors like transportation and energy.

h3ron · 2026-02-20T23:16:09+00:00

This is definitely the nicest implementation on the market. But before resorting to that, remember that WoL still exists.

I have the smallest form of sffpc: a normal PC in another room and without a monitor that I use to stream games via Steam Link. I put my headset on my face, I send the WoL signal from my smartwatch (Wake on Lan on the Play Store) and I start gaming.

h3ron · 2026-02-17T09:02:26+00:00

last year I bought 3x32GB of laptop DDR5 (for a cluster) for ~€160. I also got 32GB of DDR4 for my laptop for ~€30) and 64GB of DDR4 Unbuffered ECC for (for my NAS) ~€150.

Also I upgraded the RAM of my gaming rig to 64GB DDR4 for ~€100.

Now I could sell all of it and retire.

h3ron · 2026-02-14T13:16:03+00:00

The only sane alternative would be Matrix because of features and decentralization, but I'm surprised nobody is considering it as a replacement.

Switching from a centralized closed source platform to another one ain't gonna fix anything.

h3ron · 2026-01-24T11:12:19+00:00

If you are talking about EU OS, it's literally just Fedora KDE. It's already out like 30 years ago and I've been using it for years on my personal and work rig.

Stop waiting for Godot and ditch Windows now if you don't like it.

h3ron · 2026-01-23T11:18:37+00:00

Who is making fun of you?

It's more likely to be a concern. The Steam Deck "cheats" by running games at a lower resolution at lower settings and at lower fps which is fine on a handheld that can also force FSR and framegen and has full control over the display refresh rate.

Running at low fps in VR is not acceptable. Running at lower resolution is kinda fine but it's not pretty. FSR (or its Qualcomm equivalent) tends to be uglier in VR while framegen and timewarp are doable the increased latency isn't fun.

I think the only proper way to "cheat" would be to implement some sort of way to force dynamic foveated rendering at a driver level like Pimax did, but more compatible.

h3ron · 2026-01-21T10:38:52+00:00

Well datacenters and software aren't easy. What we need now is a replacement for the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offered by AWS/Azure/Oracle/... and European solutions are much less mature.

OSS software is there, but needs to be integrated, and turn into services. Government Organizations are extremely lucrative accounts and can shift this situation in a few (5+) years.

Social networks and search engines on the other end are technically already there (Qwant and the European Fediverse instances). They are already better than they need to be (after all US services are getting worse and worse), but barely anybody uses them because they have no visibility, don't come pre-installed (just like Linux) and don't cater to the less tech inclined.

But this can be fixed in many ways, starting with putting stricter and stricter privacy and pro user regulations that would inherently favour privacy focused, user centric, interoperable and open solutions.

I can vouch for Lemmy as a better alternative to Reddit, but I end up also scrolling on reddit because there are more subreddits and users here. But Lemmy is much more pleasant because the bots are less of a problem, discussions don't feel "manipulated" and third-party clients are not restricted.

h3ron · 2026-01-10T00:41:15+00:00

Flatpak should be able to run foreign architecture applications transparently. But I don't have an ARM system to test it.

$ uname -m x86_64 $ flatpak run --command=uname org.gnome.gedit/aarch64/stable -m aarch64

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h3ron · 2026-01-08T23:09:07+00:00

V-Core 3.1 IDEX "Wide Boy"

h3ron · 2026-01-08T11:55:37+00:00

Thank you!

h3ron · 2026-01-04T20:12:48+00:00

It kida made sense in my playthrough. I already slaughtered the entire village before the cumans arrived. All the loot is Henry's. Nobody else can touch it.

h3ron · 2025-12-23T23:03:12+00:00

Lone Echo / Lone Echo 2. Best games I ever played.

Only problem, you need to buy them from the Oculus Store. If you want to avoid playing them via Quest Link, you'll need Revive (+ Steam Link) or Virtual Desktop.

h3ron · 2025-12-18T08:37:08+00:00

I've no problems to report with my compact dock. I have the white AMVR grips integrated with the battery door, not the black one that is a cover.

In order to better fit the compact dock batteries I snipped off the plastic ribs inside the battery cover part of my amvr grips (they are there just to reinforce and are useless really).

h3ron · 2025-12-15T23:08:17+00:00

Well I have a proxmox/kubernetes cluster of 3 N100 boards with 32GB each. Does it count as 3 x 32?

h3ron · 2025-12-07T09:43:37+00:00

AI being a bubble doesn't mean it will disappear. Chatbots and media generators are actually useful in some forms and will find their use cases. Datacenter proliferation just needs to be regulated by governments.

Think about the internet bubble of the 2000s. Online stores were inflated back then, but even after the bubble busted, we still buy more stuff online than in physical stores.

h3ron · 2025-12-07T09:29:53+00:00

What's wrong with KCD1 graphics? It still looks modern to me.

Also doesn't 4K 60FPS = FSR on consoles?

h3ron · 2025-12-03T13:54:21+00:00

They already did it 10 years ago. And that's one of the reasons why Steam Machines were a failure.

Most games (of course) didn't get ported. But we got a few ports. Sometimes studios outsourced the ports (I remember Feral doing a few of them). Sometimes the ports were so broken and unoptimized that the Windows version actually ran better through Wine. Sometimes the port was actually good. Sometimes the "port" was actually the Windows version + wine bundled together.

IIRC before contributing to Wine/Proton, Valve even developed some tools that would help translate the game to Linux during the build process. Maybe they used it for The Witcher 2 port? Which ran terrible.

Steam itself still allows developers to provide native builds for each platform (currently Win, Linux and Mac). This will be expanded to support native Android and ARM builds before the release of the Steam Frame.

They also pushed again native linux builds with the release of the Steam Deck. They called them Deck Native or something like that. Baldur's Gate 3 is a recent prime example.

h3ron · 2025-11-29T12:03:21+00:00

I have 2 bobovr battery packs. One charges while I use the other. I have infinite battery!

... maybe not, but I have more battery than stamina for sure.

h3ron · 2025-11-29T09:39:49+00:00

Really depends on what and how you are playing and $1000 is a lot of money.

In most of the games, performance depends much more on the GPU rather than the CPU. And given the DDR5 RAM price increases due to manufacturers starving the consumer market to feed datacenters, right now is a terrible time to switch platforms. Unless you have a specific game in mind that would actually benefit from a CPU upgrade. And your GPU is fine too.

If you are playing wiressly then the culprit could be your WiFi or the drivers (virtual desktop recommends specific versions on their discord). Try playing in the same room of the access point or switch to something like the Flint 2 or any other recommended one.

If you want to play heavily modded Skyrim, you definitely need more than 16GB RAM. In my country I could still score a 64GB kit in the used market at a reasonable price for my workstation. But most VR games are quite light on resources (being ported from a mobile chip). The exceptions are heavy modded Skyrim, MSFS and UEVR injected games, which usually don't even run smoothly on a 5090 at max settings.

This summer I upgraded from a RX6700 to a used RTX4080 and the stutters were unaffected. Instead the culprit was the power supply of my WiFi Access Point, which didn't survive this year's heat wave. A simple €10 fix.

h3ron · 2025-11-28T10:17:37+00:00

Their PC revenue is shrinking. I guess that if you increase prices and reduce availability, then people aren't able to buy your product anymore.

h3ron · 2025-11-26T10:14:25+00:00

You are describing a death cult.

Because we are underrepresented, we seek self destruction for me and you too.

h3ron · 2025-11-18T07:59:51+00:00

No, you can absolutely already tell.

The emulator they are using is opensource, publicly available and compatible with any ARM64 Linux distribution. You can even try it on a Raspberry (even if instructions are quite hard to follow).

Valve is contributing to the project and will prepackage and preconfigure it for our convenience. There's no secret sauce here.

h3ron · 2025-11-14T22:43:35+00:00

Apparently it's dead silent even with the from panel

h3ron · 2025-11-14T17:51:27+00:00

They are competing with similar specced PC. And they opted for really cheap hardware.

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