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Why? Full RayTracing with highest quality settings on some games is even for a 5090 too much. So it makes sense to play them at lower resolution (in example with upscaling, but its still lower res). Especially if you aim for very high FPS. Maybe for some games you aim to play at 240 fps, in which case 1440p or even 1080p is the only option, not 4k. Depending on the games.

And if you are not even considering to play at lower res, you might be interested in how it compares to other cards you already own and play at 1080p. Just to get an idea of how much it improves. Its not a wrong market, you just don't see his or her use case.

I'm more interested into single player games like the Batman and Half-Life games. Otherwise there is not a lot to me.

Microsoft said in the past (around launch of Xbox Series) that they are not interested into VR. And given that the VR2 headset didn't sell too much on the PS5, I don't think that Microsoft goes the extra mile to implement this feature to a game that is not even build around it. Not saying it won't happen, but its unlikely. Hope I am wrong though, for people who enjoy VR. Maybe this could be used as a "training vehicle" to port to VR, then port it to other VR platforms as well on PC.

I personally wait until Valve makes a VR headset for cheap price that can be used without cables, something like the Meta Quest but for the Steam eco system and by my trusted Valve.

I think this is a great move. For context, I have the Xbox consoles, but play mostly or almost exclusively on PC. I think more people can play the games, its better for the gamer and for the publisher too. Xbox has too many good franchises and games as to hold them hostage on their platform (besides PC). This is one of the best moves of Xbox in my opinion.

However, there is the other side of the coin. Because this means less incentive for gamers to buy a dedicated Xbox machine. Which first doesn't sound bad, because you are not forced into a hardware and eco system you may not want. The implication is, that the Xbox consoles will sell less and Playstation sell more. And its already a huge difference. Sony already show that they can do what they want, publish cheap remasters and sell expensive PS5 Pro and some other stuff I am not mentioning here. This will only get worse, the weaker its competition gets.

My hope is, that Valve will take its place of Xbox and Microsoft publishes for Valve consoles (based on PC technology and software of course). However this can take a decade maybe, we need to see if Valve is interested into a home console like system and what Xbox will do with their next generation. Nintendo is doing Nintendo stuff and Playstation, well we'll see too.

Finding good project names is one of the hardest things. It depends on the project, sometimes its just in front of you with play on words that has some meaning. It could be some historical reason why you name the project, or something out of blue with metaphorical meaning.

I usually think of a few words and then lookup in thesaurus for words with similar meaning, in example for the random word "management": https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/management.html Its often fruitless, sometimes not. So its worth trying if you get stuck.

Basically an distribution that is not a rolling release. Its hard to recommend a specific distribution. You could use one of the Ubuntus, a Fedora Atomic variant, Mint, they should be able to run for weeks without issues. Unless you update a system component that requires a restart to take into effect. Why not openSUSE Leap?

I'm personally on EndeavourOS, a rolling release and update often (even the Kernel). My PC is also on for 24h, usually for days, sometime even a week. One trick to avoid some of the restarts is to just logout and login the user. This should be no problem for you and at least some of the components start fresh due to login.

Then instead to complain the person can link it to other platforms too. I don't get whats the problem is here.

What's Linux specific here? Its about FFmpeg options, showing examples of how to use and explains them. If you understand the examples, then you can use it on any platform.

Good, but its too late. I don't care for those games anymore. At least I might check future games out. This should have been done day one.

You mean YouTube does not break self hosted Invidious? So they break the public most used ones then I guess. Right?

100% - first gen Deck

I am not a huge Deck user, meaning most of the PC time and games are played on my actual PC. The Deck is only a secondary device, for a few times here and there. I have over 130 hours on RetroArch, and a few hours on various other stuff. Therefore its expected that the battery is still in good condition.

Me similar. I do not use Invidious anymore (and it was not self hosted anyway), because YouTube often breaks it. But I use FreeTube a local account only (no Google) and it comes with SponsorBlock builtin. And I also mostly watch videos I am subscribed to. And I have my own CLI frontend in the terminal for yt-dlp: yt-dlp-lemon, which makes it a bit easier to use the features I care about. (Sorry for the shameless plug.)

Thanks for posting. I find the echo part and extra use of variable is a little bit flaky. Here is a modified version. But I am not 100% sure if its doing what your script is doing.

I skipped the extra variable and echo and grep, by comparing its content with ${*}, which is similar to ${@}, but won't separate each argument and create a single string instead. The =~ /$ is a regex comparison, which Bash supports native. Then I am using ${@} for the call, which separates each argument. Maybe this could be done with ${*} instead. I'm not sure which of them is the correct one for this case. At least it seems filenames with spaces work. Otherwise, not claiming it would be better. Just giving some food for thoughts.

    
#!/usr/bin/bash

if [[ "${*}" =~ /$ ]]; then
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}"{}
else
    xargs -rd '\n' -I {} "${@}" {}
fi

  

Alright, I didn't know you can mount "over" a directory. But my point was, you cannot mix them, you do not mount into the directly. It just replaces it. Which also would make this directory no longer accessible, but he wants both accessible at the same time.

You can only mount into an empty directory. (Edit: Ok that is not really correct. You can mount into directories with content, but then the content will no longer be accessible from that point.) You cannot mix two directories with mount.

Edit: You could have two points using one Mountpoint at a time maybe. With a script you unmount the fallback, and if you connect the new drive you mount it with the script. And if you are done, use your unmount script to reverse it. Just an idea.

Some more Edit: In short you create an empty directory that is the Mountpoint, lets say "/home/user/Apple". Now your real local files are at "/home/user/folderApple". You mount folderApple to Apple. This is your fallback. Then if you connect the other drive, with your script you unmount that and mount your "/mnt/drive/Banana" to "/home/user/Apple", which is empty again after the unmount. And reverse it if you want to unplug.

Read the rest of it.

This is probably not a huge improvement for Steam gamers with Proton. I would like to see benchmarks on SteamOS using Proton.

With the provided benchmark results, its notable that they are comparing the new ntsync to the Wine version that has no alternative. Results are impressive. But on SteamOS and Steam in general, we have Proton, not base Wine. And Proton has something else already implemented, that improves performance. Its not as good as ntsync, but my point is, comparing the new implementation in Proton won't be a huge difference like in the benchmark shown (as the benchmark is comparing Wine, not Proton).

new Thunderbird now has a notification system for real-time desktop alerts

Holy dirty moly! Finally. Now my personal project can be put to read only mode. :D (nobody other than me was using it anyway)

It was Stallman. There was just a very little detail that was not exactly as he said, but otherwise entire quote is from him: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

-- Richard Stallman