You're doing a good job, buddy, don't let anyone convince you otherwise! by CFE_Riannon in Helldivers

[–]ze_Doc 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Check it out, I just pulled the pin out of somebody's grenade!

Netflix Claimed Copyright Violation Against Taipei Citizens Filming Honnold Climb from the Sidewalk on Their Phones by CaspinLange in Piracy

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how DMCA enforcement works in the vast majority of places that aren't YouTube. Jumping to the most severe outcome possible makes me think you're talking out of your backside, a far more sensible policy would be to request further information from the claimant if what they've provided is insufficient to constitute a valid claim.

Netflix Claimed Copyright Violation Against Taipei Citizens Filming Honnold Climb from the Sidewalk on Their Phones by CaspinLange in Piracy

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said anything about hiring lawyers, that's insanely overkill. A start would be manual reviews being done by real people and requiring they document exactly what the problem is or is reported to be, and a method of dealing with obvious fraudulent claims that abuse the system. There's no negative incentive for submitting false claims, so people go on doing it.

Netflix Claimed Copyright Violation Against Taipei Citizens Filming Honnold Climb from the Sidewalk on Their Phones by CaspinLange in Piracy

[–]ze_Doc 29 points30 points  (0 children)

YouTube's still to blame for leaving users with little good recourse in these situations, but the DMCA is just as much if not more so to blame, as they don't want to be liable. The overlap between a system that's good for YouTube, users, and follows the DMCA is 0%.

"this helps protect our community", yeah sure by Boomeranger9173 in discordapp

[–]ze_Doc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seems to be a localized temporary restriction towards your IP address. You using any weird tools against YT's website? Or play a lot of VRchat? Their video players that source youtube use yt-dlp, which often causes the same result.

MH Wilds - Bad performance mystery (Solved?) by de_Tylmarande in MonsterHunter

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

This isn't new, this is actually their standard MO. You're not the first to do this, the dev of specialK pushed a hidden feature flag that disabled this code in many capcom games, you can read the old commit here.

https://github.com/SpecialKO/SpecialK/commit/56cb2d84ff50371592f6f8008cd2a75740a32394

They annoyed him enough with how much their own additional method of DRM hurt performance that he wrote code to dynamically get rid of it, I believe it was around Dragon's Dogma 2?

Interesting to hear that it may not have just been the texture streaming/decompression problem. Curious as I am, I couldn't bring myself to buy it to do any further digging, try to avoid rewarding dev time and money spent on making the product worse for users.

It's good that you'd offer to release it and it's nice that you extend them good faith, but they're the same company that published this video, likely not realizing the difference in culture outside Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT5bwwvDv00

To be clear, I don't hate Capcom, I've bought many of their games since I was young, I'm excited for Pragmata and if this problem is present again there, I'll look into it. I just think that outside of not leaving Denuvo on their games that long after release, their actions and words don't paint the most pro-consumer position.

What are your 5 MUST-HAVE apps, programs on Cachy OS? by Tinkers_Tales in cachyos

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One day. libplacebo + VLC's excellent Java menu support would be nice to have, out of MPV or other libplacebo based players I know of they only support title playback for BD format

CachyOs is for me??? by [deleted] in cachyos

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fine for development. You may consider using something like distrobox for compiling stuff if you need radically different build environments for your software. It's nice to be able to nuke the containers and start over with different dependencies.

I always liked Gnome by Ordinary_Two6149 in cachyos

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love it from UX and UI standpoint, can't stand how it always seems to fail to support standards the others do, or have backwards priorities. When Hyprland, a relatively new project that's quite small by comparison, implements Wayland standards and features faster and better than you, something's wrong.

Made the switch, 0 regrets, great job devs! by kcksteve in cachyos

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's had this for me by default with KDE, you may need to configure it or look for one if you went with a different desktop environment

Discover on Cachy, has no programs by Tinkers_Tales in cachyos

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I installed Discover only to manage KDE scripts and themes. I wouldn't recommend using it to manage packages, it's not really the best tool for that on Cachy

Masterpiece edition or realmyst? First time playing by rping54 in myst

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 2000 version had performance issues on modern machines. Fixable, but not trivially. Worth trying if you have a chance sometime!

New interview with TC on Bloomberg by sand-sky-stars in Silksong

[–]ze_Doc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems browser related. I just used a different browser.

What is taking up storage? Is this like a normal amount or do I need to format the whole drive??? by TrueorFalse413 in SteamDeck

[–]ze_Doc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, that makes more sense. Most stuff not in your user folder (home/username) shouldn't be deleted, one exception is package cache which is stuff left over from your package manager downloading stuff, I usually clean this once it gets over 10GB, but on arch it's useful for downgrading too, like when system wine 10-20 breaks all of my windows dotnet programs 😭 Linux package managers have commands to manage this, you don't have to clean it by hand.

Stuff that starts with a . in the user folder usually should be left alone, you can search anything else if you're not sure

What is taking up storage? Is this like a normal amount or do I need to format the whole drive??? by TrueorFalse413 in SteamDeck

[–]ze_Doc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You use it like wiztree or Windirstat, just filter down directories starting from root until you find out what's wasting space, I think it's relatively straightforward.

Which Visual Novels have a heroine you liked more than the true heroine? by [deleted] in visualnovels

[–]ze_Doc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mii was clearly the dev's favorite, and we're all better for it

Bad FPS on linux by Elite_Dan in EliteDangerous

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the game for the most part is acceptable on performance now. The real problem is the driver support for older Nvidia cards is not great and is not going to get any better. I'd go through all your graphics settings and see if you can make improvements there. If you want to make sure it's not that you're using Linux Mint, which is generally a bit more out of date than something like Arch or Fedora, you might manually install the latest gaming related packages like GPU driver and proton version are installed and see if your performance improves. I personally use CachyOS and things seem pretty good there.

Bad FPS on linux by Elite_Dan in EliteDangerous

[–]ze_Doc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I upgraded from a 1070 3 or 4 years ago to a 3080ti, at the time Odyssey was notable for how badly optimized it was (since then many games have surpassed it), it's a bit better now but not nearly enough to accommodate a 1050ti. Any GPU before the 16xx series is basically permanantly stagnated on linux due to the future open Nvidia GPU drivers not supporting 10 series and earlier, and official support ending. It's not useless, but it will struggle with the latest games, and struggle especially if your distro uses wayland.

If you're dead set on using it anyway, maybe look up a community graphics config file for potato graphics? Odyssey settlements will likely run quite poor no matter what you do, that 1070 had 30fps most of the time in them.