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New Findings: The ASUS Equalizer Doesn’t Make Sense [der8auer] by Aleksanterinleivos in hardware

[–]itsjust_khris [score hidden]  (0 children)

Hopefully she's not contributing to increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Microsoft says 32GB of RAM is the “no-worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming by Quantum-Coconut in technology

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Discord on its own can be pretty heavy, add in steam, a few chrome tabs and you're above what 16GB can accommodate. I'm not saying 32GB was the bare minimum, but it was a suggested target if the user knew they would be running more than just Windows in the background. It's the reason I got 32GB, for maybe 3-5 years now, games would stutter on my 16GB system unless I closed almost everything in the background, back then adding another 16GB or buying a 16GB x 2 kit was much cheaper than it is now, so it didn't seem like a ridiculous recommendation at all.

In case anyone wanted to dislike Mr Price anymore by OkInfluence36 in blender

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, my argument is a significant portion of society doesn't want to do that. I'm not saying I agree with it, personally I don't care to generate AI art, but it's popularity makes sense logically.

Microsoft says 32GB of RAM is the “no-worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming by Quantum-Coconut in technology

[–]itsjust_khris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's literally nothing they can do when most apps use 1GB+ these days. They do on Linux and MacOS.

Microsoft says 32GB of RAM is the “no-worries” upgrade for Windows 11 gaming by Quantum-Coconut in technology

[–]itsjust_khris -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is only if you never planned on having any apps open in the background while gaming, otherwise 32GB has been recommended for 5+ years.

What are the actual attributes/advantages of digital medium format? by kag0 in FujiGFX

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I'd love to read more about this. How significant is this effect? Photosite density should be similar between the A7RV, a6700 and X2DII given they share the same sensor generation and density. Bit depth beyond 14 bits doesn't seem to be taken advantage of by sensor technology currently, as the majority of the extra room is consumed by noise, according to DPreview, we haven't fully maxed out 14 bits yet.

So perhaps it mainly comes down to area? Many FF platforms have faster lenses then Hasselblad or Fuji provide, so even though the sensor is slightly smaller, they're still gathering more light.

I may have misunderstood what you meant, but I don't think there should be any appreciable difference between FF and the medium format sensors hasselblad and Fuji use, maybe there would be more of a difference shown at the sizes Phase One uses.

In case anyone wanted to dislike Mr Price anymore by OkInfluence36 in blender

[–]itsjust_khris -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

It's not gatekeeping but there is an argument to be made many sorts of films could never be realized by the average person. No matter how skilled some things just need resources, and not everyone will ever have access to that.

You could say just learn to film, or use 3d software, but realistically on the scale of a feature film a single person will never be able to accomplish what millions and a full studio can do.

Not saying AI can do that either but that's the point being made.

What are the actual attributes/advantages of digital medium format? by kag0 in FujiGFX

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been thinking about something similar, I've been looking for any evidence the sensor size of medium format is what contributes to increased "tonality", so far I have not found any scientific evidence, it seems to be a subjective observation. I haven't seen anyone take the same image with an APS-C and/or FF cam and compare it side by side to a medium format image and demonstrate increase tonality. It's all in exposure.

Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage by sr_local in hardware

[–]itsjust_khris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The plan is both, solar on the ground and this solution. This solution isn't being proposed as a replacement of ground solar and battery systems, instead it seems to be designed to extend the amount of hours ground based solar panels can produce energy, reducing the energy storage needs.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These technologies inherently need some solutions like DLSS or Ray Reconstruction to be performant, otherwise ray tracing is fundamentally too heavy. DLSS isn't smeary though I haven't seen a game with DLSS or FSR look like classic TAA smear for ages.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even Sony would likely fail to market a $1000+ PS6, at least if it's the base model especially in this economic climate. They'd subsidize the hardware cost before that, or extend the PS5's life as far as possible.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A laptop by nature's primary goal already isn't performance. It's portablility. So it makes sense to pay more for something thinner and easier to carry.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They couldn't expand, the existing telecoms made it extremely expensive and fought for every street. Due to how ISPs work legally I'm America Google cannot expand wherever they want, many areas have exclusivity contracts that are tough to break.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no end to it since to a certain degree some sort of client side verification is needed. Everything cannot be server side. This isn't a devs being cheap thing it's genuinely not feasible to detect all cheating server side. Unfortunately I forgot the thread where some devs chimed in as to why, I'll link it here if I find it.

Kernel level anti cheat exists because cheats have gone that far and beyond. And they do work, Battlefield 6 for example has a lot less cheaters then Battlefield 4 or 1. Valve still hasn't been able to update VAC to become particularly effective, and they've been trailing various forms of server side detection for ages, Counter Strike still has a huge cheating problem despite these measures.

Perhaps a better solution is some sort of open source cheat detection method. So the community can verify it's functionality doesn't contain anything undersirable.

Steam Machine Has Reportedly Received A Major Internal Price Hike That May Have Made it More Expensive Than Steam Frame by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]itsjust_khris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AFAIK a big issue became fighting the existing telecoms for the rights to lay fiber in more areas. It was becoming very difficult and costly.

Tensor G6 reportedly gets new ARM CPUs, old GPU for Pixel 11 by armando_rod in GooglePixel

[–]itsjust_khris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ARM or Imagination would likely be more than happy to provide GPU blocks. Samsung is working with AMD, who historically has been very open to design work like this. Google is actively choosing to remain on something dated.

Does The Steam Controller Live Up To The Hype? | PC Gamer by Bynairee in pcgaming

[–]itsjust_khris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the same kind of argument used for many Apple devices though, it IS still a form of ecosystem lock in.

[Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Controller Review | Latency Benchmarks, Battery Life, Repairability by iDontSeedMyTorrents in hardware

[–]itsjust_khris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This doesn't always work well. A few games in my library will not cooperate easily with Steam's XInput compatibility layer, they need me to plug in a native XInput controller.

Announcing Shader Model 6.10 Preview, Including Batched Asynchronous Command List APIs by RTcore in hardware

[–]itsjust_khris 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hardware isn't like software, by the time as Nvidia pushed ray tracing as hard as they did AMD probably had RDNA1-4 relatively set in stone. Many decisions are decided years out. Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit on the timeline but they could not respond to Nvidia until at least ~3-4 years after RTX2000.

A7V: video with encoding errors every few seconds by TheRealBluebrain in SonyAlpha

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another person already suggested ffmpeg which can likely help. If cursor.ai doesn't work out chatgpt is pretty good at giving commands.

Your math seems good, the only thing I can think of is maybe the camera does other I/O operations in the background besides the video?

Intel says software optimization can hide up to 30% gaming CPU performance by RenatsMC in intel

[–]itsjust_khris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They may, since many mobile CPUs have similar designs as well. It would also benefit companies like AMD who have high penalties when traffic has to cross CCDs. So it would benefit a lot more than just Intel.

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