The SteamLink experience within the Shield has only gotten worse over the years, and a LOT worse recently. Examples include:
The app often fails to launch big picture mode, or launches it, but without focus, requiring me to go walk to my desk in the other room to fix it.
Connecting to a PC with a game already-in-progress no longer puts the game in focus immediately, again requiring me to walk over to the desk and fix it.
The app is prone to having the video completely freeze within any of the Steam UI, requiring a disconnect and reconnect. Like VERY prone. Like, it'll take 5 tries at connecting and reconnecting to actually make it into a game.
Some games that used to be able to play well remotely now have an unplayable amount of input lag.
The app will occasionally get drop to si gle-digit framerates within a game, for which the only fix seems to be to completely reboot the Shield.
As a media player, I'm still overall happy with the Shield, and I know there's a rather large community of custom OS enthusiasts for it, but with the degradation of Steam's performance, and the slow addition of ad gabrage in the home UI over the years, the Shield is NOT sensible for a new purchase.
There's a variety of reasons a juror can be rejected, with one of them being "the juror is not willing to follow the law, as written". This seems to be what's happening here, the law says that if a person does X, the penalty is fine Y, and these jurors are saying "I would not issue fine Y even if you prove they did X."
To an extent, this is the system working they way it's supposed to, one of the checks on unreasonable laws is being unable to find people willing to enforce them in good conscience.
I think about the one team whose games I watch and realize the commentators are a huge part of what I enjoy about watching. I would enjoy it much less without them.
Then I think about watching other teams on occasion, or about the occasional broadcasts that are national or put on by a different network, where there's a different team of commentators, and I pretty much hate them all.
So, I'd have to say "depends on how interesting/entertaining they are."
It's understandable to be surprised, but tapes are not an obsolete technology. They are still, by-far, the best price value for long-term data storage. particularly for storing backups. Guaranteed you use websites or apps that use tapes in their infrastructure, possibly even this one. Give them a google if you're curious.
Ultimately, no, not really, these formats are built to be "render-agnostic", and there's really no way to pre-calculate aspects of what the render will be without actually running it through the rendering engine. Which is, in theory, doable, without having to send the render output to an actual screen or printer, but the followup problem is that all renderers are not created equal. I.E. an engine for rendering a docx that you grab from NuGet or somewhere else is not guaranteed to produce the same output as what Microsoft Word will, not exactly.
If you need accuracy in predicting the rendered-size of various things, you really need to be running the documents through the same renderer that will be used to actually print/draw the documents for the user. If this is Microsoft Office, you can look into Office Interop protocols, which will let you make programmatic calls into the actual Office programs installed on the system, from your program. There ought to be a way to kick off rendering from there.
The only thing I can think of not aging well by today's standards is the level grinding. I recall having to do quite a bit of it my first time playing it, just to keep up with the difficulty curve, and it's not like I was skipping all the sidequests. That was a fairly common aspect for RPGs of the era, I think.
It's also possible I wasn't very good at the game, I was like 11 or 12 at the time.
I meant "before" as "when we were on 0.19.0". Yeah, performance is still WAY worse than 0.18, but the changes that came with 0.19.1 are a noticabpe improvement over 0.19.0.
A notice would have been nice, cause there was a bit of downtime, and then a few hours more of instability after coming back up.
However, as of now, for me, all the serious issues are resolved by 0.19.1, and the server performance in general seems to be a lot better than before" although there are still occasional timeouts in Jerboa.
Whatever the admin(s) did, it was effective and welcome. If you see this, thanks for your time and effort!
The SteamLink experience within the Shield has only gotten worse over the years, and a LOT worse recently. Examples include:
As a media player, I'm still overall happy with the Shield, and I know there's a rather large community of custom OS enthusiasts for it, but with the degradation of Steam's performance, and the slow addition of ad gabrage in the home UI over the years, the Shield is NOT sensible for a new purchase.