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  • I see. So it's less about editing the pictures themself, and more about what they'll be used for.

    And yeah, Krita is main image editing and drawing tool as well, helped out by Inkscape for vector graphics and Aseprite for pixel art.

  • Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

    As someone who doesn't really do photo editing, one thing I never quite understood is what's missing for that to be viable right now.

    For reference, the one time I had to edit a photo a few years ago, I just used Krita to move/remove a few objects and do some basic color grading. It didn't feel like there was anything missing.

    Granted, I never used software like Photoshop either.

  • You can enable it, but it just won't work when more than a single monitor is connected to an Nvidia GPU.

    Right now the only workaround other than turning off secondary monitors while gaming is connecting all but one monitor to an iGPU, assuming you have one.

    As far as I know Nvidia has recently confirmed that they can reproduce the issue, so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

  • Surely they didn't mention multi-monitor VRR support because the work for that is already done and just about to arrive in the next beta driver any day now, right?

    I've worked around the issue with an AMD iGPU, but still.

  • Striking YT channels, expanding their Palworld lawsuit and now this? There's no denying that they wasn't always pretty litigious, but they're picking up speed at an absurd pace. Did recently they hire some of Oracles lawyers or what?

    Good thing there's now enough competition in the handheld market, so I'm no longer reliant on their under-powered devices.

  • However, that was also my experience playing games like this back in the day

    Exactly my experience as well. It's very reminiscent of that time when I was given a GBA emulator with a bunch of US and JP roms without any explanation. I didn't know what an emulator is, or that there were game consoles other than the GBC. I didn't knew my way around English either and Japanese looked like some sort of bug to me.

    There's just something stumbling through a big library and slowly making inroads in your favorite titles.

  • Under the constraint that I'm only picking from developers who already have multiple games under their belt, it'd be hard to choose between Zachtronics and Supergiant for me. Both of them have a perfect track record in my book. The only difference being that there most likely won't be any new releases from Zachtronics anymore, whereas Supergiant is only becoming stronger with each release.

  • Kind of.

    The big thing that actually defines FSR2 is that it has access to a bunch more data, particularly the depth buffer, motion vectors, and also, as you said, uses data from previous frames.

    The camera jiggle is mostly just to avoid shimmering when the camera is stationary.

  • That's always been their plan, but it's getting hit with Valve Time. My guess is that they won't do it until all issues the major with NVIDIA GPUs have been fixed, as a public build that doesn't run properly on a majority of machines wouldn't go well. The latest driver is pretty good, but the Big Picture mode is still pretty much unusable.

    At the very least they're currently trying to bring official support over to other handhelds, as they've already confirmed that they want to official support for the ROG Ally and pushed out a update to SteamOS for the controller support.

  • That, and monitor/TV size increased a lot at the time when flat panels became a thing, so you need a higher resolution just to achieve the same pixel density you already had on a smaller screen.

  • Ok, now I kind of want this. I only have my PC connected to the TV, so I only need the power button, volume controls, settings and the D-Pad. A specialized cover would make hitting the right buttons in the dark much easier and also remove the ads disguised as buttons.

  • And you can even go a step further and configure it so all the ISOs go into a subdirectory. Then you can still use the USB for other stuff without it becoming a mess. Right now I have the following structure:

     
        
    ├ apps // Lots of portable apps, using the PortableApps system
    ├ data // For copying files between devices
    ├ images // ISOs go here, separated into Linux, Windows and Utilities
    ├ installs // For apps that need to be installed
    ├ secure // Encrypted Veracrypt store
    â”” ventoy // Ventoy config
    
      

    All that on a tiny USB on my keychain and super useful when you're the IT person for the family.

  • Ok, I think I'm starting to see the issue now. One thing I've missed is that the "tiny" amount Germany is importing yearly is actually half of the consumption South Sweden. That sure puts a bit of stress on the system.

    I'll say that I'm still not fully convinced due to the lack of concrete numbers, but it's something I'll keep in mind in the future.

  • I can't find a way to dodge the paywall to that article, but the short blurb I was able to translate, makes it sound like my guess is at least part of the problem:

    As long as the sun shines the most, SkĂĄne benefits from cheap solar energy from our neighboring countries. As soon as solar energy declines, the price of electricity rises throughout Southern Sweden. The poor Swedish transmission capacity means that we cannot benefit from cheap northern hydropower.

    That said, I do agree that Germany should've long been split into two zones, at least until transmission capacity catches up. But alas, most people in Germany don't even recognize that the lack of transmission capacities as the source of the problem and rather blame it on us importing expensive electricity from France.

    It's actually those parallels why I'm so distrustful: I'm far from an expert on the topic, quite the opposite if anything, but given how many people, even politicians, put out even dumber claims much more confidently, I'm always wary about such statements.

  • Based on the article, it seems more like that's more of a problem of south Sweden just having a big energy deficit in general, not as a result of imports/exports or the actions of Germany particular.

    The way I understand it, it's more that a new connection just wouldn't make sense because Germany already has a problem from moving energy from its own offshore wind parks in the north to the south.

    I couldn't find a good article explaining the current energy situation in south Sweden, but looking at ElectrityMaps, I'd guess that part of the problem is that there's a huge amount of nuclear energy being produced in South Central Sweden, saturating the grid and making the transfer of cheap hydro and wind energy from the northern Zones difficult.

  • I'm not sure I follow? According to this chart the import from Sweden to Germany is almost negligible.

    Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Poland all seem to be bigger net importers.

  • That's assuming people actually use a parser and don't build their own "parser" to read values manually.

    And before anyone asks: Yes, I've known people who did exactly that and to this day I'm still traumatized by that discovery.

    But yes, comments would've been nice.

  • On one hand I agree, on the other hand I just know that some people would immediately abuse it and put relevant data into comments.

  • At the very least it failed in a way that's obvious by giving you contradictory statements. If it left you with only the wrong statements, that's when "AI" becomes really insidiuos.

  • It’s a little bit faster for encoding and decoding

    On the other hand, the time spent uploading/downloading much smaller files probably more than makes up for that, although even that difference might get pretty small with modern internet connections.