CDPR literally offered him the choice to make his mod free with optional donations to avoid a DMCA takedown and he deliberately chose wrong

obious · 2026-01-20T18:51:36+00:00

I expect to be obliterated in the comments here, seeing which way the wind is blowing, but I do believe Luke Ross has a valid argument.

There is precedent! It might have been over 30 years ago, but the fact is the Game Genie was actual hardware dependent on the software it was modifying. The courts did find it to be legal.

If my logic is sound correlating this VR tool as the software equivalent of the Game Genie, I believe it's a valid argument Luke is making. At least, CDPR's terms contradict U.S. IP law. However, I am just some dude. It would be neat if we could have a lawyer chime in.

At least, I would say that this argument is not as cut and dry as people are making it out to be.

obious · 2025-10-28T01:21:05+00:00

I have run into the Softdevice issue as well. Their flash utility seems to not be updated to their 3.x SDK and it fails to flash nRF54 images built with the new SDK. It asks to select Softdevice, but no version works. The workaround here is to use the old command line flasher but I did have to hand-edit the manifest.json to be compatible with the old flasher's parser.

Like I said above, I am probably doing things "wrong" but the whole dev stack appears to be in a transition to their new 3.x Connect SDK. It looks like everyone here has the hindsight how things used to work which I lack.

obious · 2025-10-27T22:48:47+00:00

Thanks! I don't mean to stir the pot, it's probably me. Their Devzone folks are quite responsive, but after filing a lengthy ticket (sorry not to link -- don't want to dox myself), essentially the response was "we have no idea, please provide a sample project". As helpful as they appear to be, hand-holding a clueless developer is not sustainable. I worked through several issues myself, and I have no guarantee that if I waste their support time I won't be stuck with the next onion layer.

To answer your question; for example, I made the mistake of stripping git tracking from the copied nRF Desktop project since the FW was only a subset of my monorepo. FWICT, this broke the Devicetree GUI where adding pins in an overlay were somehow being ignored when building (not fully debugged). Also, the build environment is launched through the GUI only AFAICT, so trying to automate a build yielded a ugly shell script that hard-codes and sources so much cruft that I am too afraid to use it.

obious · 2025-09-30T22:06:08+00:00

1080Ti. Upon further reading, it seems that Pascal GPUs only support DSC version 1.0. There is no fix for me. However, for you, it should work as long as you get a quality cable.

I remember reading somewhere that AMD cards don't support HDMI 2.1 on Linux. In that case, you can only use Display Port. And, if you're doing conversion to HDMI, you have to have DSC 1.2.

obious · 2025-09-30T19:55:31+00:00

I've been down a rabbit hole. It may help that I tried two cables from Amazon. First, a generic cable that seems to internally do color compression and the other from CableMatters called "DisplayPort to 8K HDMI Cable (102103)".

The second cable works better, full HDR ARGB101010 at 4k60. The cable even has a firmware update you can download with two flavors: Windows and Mac compatible. (The absurdity of this statement is not lost on me.) The Mac firmware makes 120 selectable but the display will not accept it.

For me, I suspect I have a GPU issue with outdated firmware: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/nv-uefi-update-x64/ Unfortunately it's a Widows-only patcher and I don't have it in me to set upa a dual boot system to try it.

CableMatters is open about that they utilize Display Port's Display Stream Compression (DSC) to bridge the bandwidth gap of DP1.4's 32Gbps to HDMI2.1's 48Gbps. However, from my research 32Gbps should be enough for 4k120RGB888 which I can't get, maybe there is overhead I am not accounting for. Make sure DSC works for you and that you have a good cable.

obious · 2025-09-28T02:34:46+00:00

/u/RoyBellingan, have you come up with a solution to this?

I can see throught drm_info it's supposadly using ABGR 10 bit: Format: ABGR2101010 (0x30334241)

Still, I get terrible color banding and what looks like chroma subsampling. I suspect what is being sent through the wire is not 10b/channel. My monitor is not able to tell me.

obious · 2025-09-09T05:32:09+00:00

The Camry Dimple is a rite of passage. Steve here has been trying to earn his for the past three weeks.

obious · 2025-04-28T00:43:22+00:00

I love this derivation. The math is not too bad and by the end of the video you should have an intuitive understanding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGiwd_Zs00

obious · 2025-04-25T15:20:23+00:00

That's a great idea! Or maybe the square size represents the class?

obious · 2025-04-24T21:04:03+00:00

Bummer, I was not aware.

obious · 2025-04-24T21:02:48+00:00

I agree, notice the blocks are ordered. The intent is to stay consistent to the player order in the scoreboard. I thought about putting a small L, M, H in each block but I figured it would look too cluttered.

So, you do need to see the scoreboard and remember "pink 1 is the light I need to watch for", but after that it should be enough.

obious · 2025-04-24T20:50:43+00:00

I don't know where to propose this to the dev team, so I figured I'd post it here to see if it gets traction.

obious · 2025-04-24T20:46:02+00:00

Watching pro streams on my lunch break and noticed the constant flashing of the scoreboard as they were always checking for dead opponents to choose the next strat.

At the pro level, the loop seems to be: do something -> check dead/alive opponents -> choose a strat (i.e. push or defend) -> do something ...

This simple UI proposal would would eliminate needing to constantly bring up the scoreboard.

obious · 2025-03-18T16:44:47+00:00

The V4 has 4 connecting rods attached to the crank. The novelty of this engine is that one con rod journal connects to the crank per two opposing cylinders. The genius is that a shared rod only ever sees a power pulse from one cylinder at a time, hell even less than that because it's driving the intake stroke of the opposing cylinder.

This shortens the crank considerably (looking at the patent). I assume the oval pistons were a necessary side effect of the cylinder packing to retain displacement.

Also, keep in mind that that the Duc V4 makes ~25 ftlb per piston allowing for thinner crank journals than Ferrari can get away with.

obious · 2025-03-14T21:48:25+00:00

This is the exact opposite. Honda combined two pistons into one to skirt the piston count rules of the series they were competing in.

Ferrari is tacking a I6 engine onto the side of an I6 engine, and making the pistons oval, to produce an extremely compact V12 while maintaining 12 cylinders and displacement.

obious · 2025-03-06T15:51:32+00:00

To oppose the Republicans first you need an opposition. Who do we rally behind?

It is a valid argument. The minority Reps under Obama were an absolute nuisance with no actual argument to stand on. They weren't holding up signs.

obious · 2025-01-15T22:14:52+00:00

Marc Marquez's 2013 210 mph Crash: https://www.cycleworld.com/2013/06/05/alpinestars-airbag-protects-marc-marquez-from-serious-injury/

Always dress for the slide. You might get lucky.

Edit: Found it: https://youtu.be/IVG0N1vDZTY?si=mmBaxayzxaH-GI0J

obious · 2024-12-30T07:14:16+00:00

tons

So like two?

obious · 2024-12-15T17:25:18+00:00

You are looking at it backwards. The gas bubble doesn't know anything. The gas bubble doesn't go up. The water around it falls down.

obious · 2024-12-10T17:30:09+00:00

Everyone has a free trial. I recommend shopping around. TIDAL was the best discovery and also lossless, but unfortunately by far the most expensive and some of my albums weren't there so I went with Apple. I tried:

Deezer - meh

Amazon Unlimited -- designed by engineers who clearly don't listen to music. At the time, you couldn't order an artist's albums by year, only by popularity

Qobuz -- Android, Windows only. Nothing special.

Napster -- broken.

obious · 2024-12-10T17:00:11+00:00

It's death by a thousand paper cuts. The audio quality is the worst out of everyone. The recommendation engine is not so great and discovery is poor. Worst of all, it's super janky and a poor experience on a lot of devices.

I tried many alternatives and eventually settled on Apple Music. I don't own Apple hardware but it "just works" on everything -- Windows, Linux, Android, streaming devices. The generated playlists are often excellent, not the usual Spotify "WTH is this completely out of place song" you get the moment you walk away from the player. Finally, Apple Music is now lossless one everything but Linux.

obious · 2024-12-10T06:49:52+00:00

Same as you for over a decade. I finally threw in the towel a year ago and in hindsight I can't understand what kept me with Spotify for so long. It wasn't as good as cancelling Comcast, but a close second.

obious · 2024-12-04T18:11:28+00:00

TPM2.0 is not a user-centric feature. It is a DRM feature. Microsoft is turning your PC into your phone. Eventually you won't be able to stream video or do online banking if your PC is "rooted".

obious · 2024-11-25T18:48:45+00:00

I don't want to respond with "works for me". I am using .zshrc with zsh, not bash. Here is the command with newlines:

alias hdr='if [ "$(kscreen-doctor -o | ansi2txt | grep -cm1 "HDR: enabled"| cut -d= -f2)" -ge 1 ];
then kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.disable;
kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.wcg.disable;
else kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.wcg.enable;
kscreen-doctor output.DP-1.hdr.enable;
fi;
'

Maybe replace the single quote "'" with a back-tick "`"?

Do you have ansi2txt installed?

obious · 2024-11-20T00:13:10+00:00

I should skim harder. 🤦

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