Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

Posts

18

Comments

603

Joined

2 yr. ago

Public issue tracker can be found in the Lemmy GitHub repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet

Yeah I wonder what the reasoning behind that was. Personally I preferred the old way, where it was completedly filled in. Made it easier to notice the tag by color. It also aligned more with the rest of the Lemmy UI and it's filled-in green buttons.

There is no taking back what you post on the internet, but with activity pub it’s almost guaranteed to not have been processed.

This is a bug, not the intended design with federation.

Pretty sure your deletion issues was due to the federation issues that Lemmy was experiencing before the latest round of patches. I've had issues where federation didn't even publish my comment to other instances.

I am sure once all the bugs get ironed out, these deletion issues will go away.

I am not OP soooo...🤷‍♂️

I am assuming he's talking about the data deletion issues that happen with federation?

GDPR is an EU law and CCPA is a California law.

A lot of these issues can be solved by remote streaming. The full fat immersive experience becomes far more manageable if instead of trying to cram a beefy Snapdragon SoC into a complicated headset, you just make the headset be a dedicated streaming device and then focus on bringing the price down to $200. Think Quest 2 but all it needs have is enough logic to do tracking and video decoders to process video streams.

a big ask for one game

That's just a chicken and egg problem though. We don't have a good library of PCVR titles so people find it hard to justify buying a PCVR headset. Nobody makes PCVR titles because they think no one's buying the headset, etc. I feel like a lot of people think PCVR won't work because the overall setup is too expensive. However, I think there's enough PC players who already have a gaming PC who would gladly drop an extra $200 on another peripheral if the game library was there.

Those are packages that lot of other packages rely on and so as a result just needs more testing. Sometimes Arch is faster, sometimes other distros are faster. This is relatively normal.

I just deleted my Reddit account today. Don't plan on ever going back, especially given how well Lemmy's community has grown.

Maybe they just don't want to give up on a community in which they put so much time, effort, and passion to help shape.

Yeah, and then there wouldn't be as much of a requirement for high-spec PCs, making PCVR more accessible. I don't get it either tbh. Now that we have pretty decent VR streaming solutions, I really hope PCVR makes a comeback.

At this point, I just want a dumb AF headset whose sole job is to stream from a PC. Forget putting in a crazy custom Snapdragon SoC, just literally make it act as if it was normal peripheral like a monitor, mouse, and keyboard would be.

Yeah I really wish PCVR was still alive and well instead of the stagnant industry that it currently is. I bought both a Rift S and a Quest 2 thinking that full-length story driven games were going to become a thing, but then the hardware limitations of standalone kinda killed that. Now I don't really have any interest in buying a Quest 3 or a Vision Pro because I don't have any faith that there's going to be developers making those kinds of experiences anymore.

But...it doesn't have to be a whole-ass lifestyle, even right now with the current state of VR. Even with an Oculus Quest 2, you just put on the headset, play an hour or so, and then put the headset down like a normal person.

The marketing teams at Meta and Apple want to market it as a lifestyle because that's the only way they know how to promote it without going into the nerdy weeds of VR game design, etc., but from a consumer perspective, it's only a lifestyle if you choose to make it your lifestyle.

Games like HL: Alyx don’t really offer enough novelty to make people invest several thousand dollars.

I have to disagree with this statement. Having played through that game multiple times, it just provides a level of immersion that no other VR game has touched yet. Heck, from an immersion perspective, it pretty much beats every game I've ever played in my life.

The problem with the VR industry is that so few games approach HL: Alyx's level of immersion. Of course, it'd be hard to justify the $300-$400 asking price. VR devs are all content on making these simple arcade style games with simple graphics that can run on the Quest 2.

Oh man, I empathize with you. Sometimes your self-hosted services go down at really bad times and you just don't have time to fix it in the moment. Then the fact that its broken starts nagging at you throughout the rest of the day. Hope you get your stuff back up without too much fuss.

My current horror story is that my QNAP TS-453 Pro NAS that was hosting my Jellyfin and Nextcloud shut off on its own several weeks back and then refused to boot up. Turns out there's a known manufacturing defect in the Intel J1900 chip the NAS uses that causes clock drift and every TS-451 and TS-453 NAS that was ever sold is basically a ticking time bomb and it was my time to get bit. QNAP never issued a recall even though they knew about the issue and is refusing to help customers affected by it. Now I am hoping that I can use the resistor fix in that forum post to briefly revive my NAS so that I can then backup all the data into a DIY NAS that I am still ordering parts for. Picked up some good deals but man DIY is still expensive. Hopefully, it's worth it as I never want to use turnkey solutions again after this experience.

One additional point that also influenced my personal choice was the political stance of the Lemmy developers (tankies and holocaust deniers).

I think this post eases my concerns. As long as they aren't silencing or influencing conversations in the code, what does it matter? And you're right, the open source nature of it makes it even less of an issue.

Mastodon integration feels unpolished, but I‘d rather have it than not have it.

Fair preference, I am glad you find it useful. Personally, I just don't think "tweet" style posts mix really well with link aggregation. It's a very different use case for me and I'd rather use Mastodon when I need to use that kind of social media.

I think that voting on kbin is private now, by the way.

No, click on the "more" button under each post -> activity -> favorites tab.

I personally prefer Lemmy over Kbin for many reasons:

1. None of the Kbin names make sense. Why are communities called magazines? Threads are posts? It just doesn't map to existing mental concepts very well.
2. Kbin makes you go through settings just to access your subscribed magazines.
3. Kbin exposes votes front and center in the UI. You can see who voted for what post / comment and personally I think voting should be private. Obviously, anyone can host their own instance and see the votes due to federation, but there's a big difference between that and outright showing it in the interface.
4. Kbin's UI looks a bit outdated and early 2000s to me. It looks like a mix of the old Facebook style and Digg.
5. Lemmy's UI feels more performant, especially on mobile.
6. Microblogging feels like an afterthought. Makes the site feel like it's shoving two different sites together.

Content wise, both Kbin and Lemmy federate with each other, so ideally you should be seeing the same amount of content, but there's federation and load issues on both sides that's preventing that from working correctly. I have faith it will be solved eventually as these are just early growing pains.

I will say that, personally, I've found more of the communities I want to join on Lemmy, but I am sure another person with different interests might say otherwise. Try both and make your own decision!

Videos is such a broad category so I definitely understand the sentiment that political videos should be allowed as long as they're not peddling blatantly false agendas. Personally however, I find politics to be increasingly draining on the psyche and sometimes I just want a community where I can turn my brain off and enjoy some silly and quick laughs or some interesting factoids or mini docs, etc.

I guess it all depends on whether the community here wants c/videos to be lighthearted or a broader category.

Seriously! Talk about amazing optimization and debugging of the network service.

In addition to what @demonsword said !linux_gaming@lemmy.world also exists.

To add to this, a lot of times chips use more voltage than is actually necessary to ensure stability across the silicon lottery, but more often than not they can run with much lower voltages and still perform fine with certain workloads. This could be what's happening here as well.

Another thing is that the OS CPU governor could just be a bit overzealous by default and clocking it at frequency that's way higher than it needs to be to run a certain game. On my desktop Arch machine with a Ryzen 3900x, a lot of times I see a CPU core boosting to max frequency even though the CPU load for that core is only 50%. Reducing TDP helps to bring that frequency back down.