Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
Apple broke metadata compatibility with a recent update. The podcast producer I know with an explicit AAC feed decided to just redirect to the MP3 feed. Unrelated to that, they also increased the MP3 bitrate for better audio quality. The increased file size doesn't really matter that much compared to 15 years ago and people without unlimited data can just set their automated syncs to WiFi only.
Something, something, separation of church and state, would be my guess.
Yeah, especially for new AMD hardware a rolling release distribution is must have. My personal recommendation is openSUSE but the specific pick is secondary.
I have to wonder why this is happening?
Same reason all the other ports are happening: Microsoft massively overstretched itself with the ABK takeover and Xbox isn't making enough money. It's make more money or get axed, in case you somehow completely missed 2024 entirely.
What I'd like to see is for the "real" gamepad icon to broadly match the current one in color scheme and orientation.
Edit:
My attempt. It's a simple color swap of https://github.com/KDE/breeze-icons/blob/559782c5f5b455646d6c012fe5717057d5eb7764/icons/devices/64/input-gaming.svg
The license requires the SVG source to be shared but for whatever reason Lemmy lets me select the SVG file in the upload picker but doesn't then upload anything, so here it is:
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I feel like Windows tries with every change to push it’s users to Linux.
Even their core applications move to being web based.
But lowering all settings to low and Dynamic Resolution to max 100 min 66 gets me back to 30fps everywhere
That's one of the criticism the author mentions early on. It's really easy for developers to build in a check if their game is running on Steam Deck and then select the performance preset. It's literally a task of only "if steamdeck=1 set performance profile to low" (so 1 line of code in most cases, a bit more work should they make a dedicated performance profile for Deck).
According to a few more open indie developers, there is a laborious verification process at Valve. I distinctly remember the developers of Selaco detailing their frustrations that they made a native SteamOS version of their game and because that one was somehow stuck at Valve in verification, Steam Deck even defaulted to the worse Windows version on Proton.
Torvalds's history of verbal abuse is well documented in public mailing list archives.
I can't speak about whatever happened behind closed doors at LTT nor am I defending anything by LTT but Torvalds is not sunshine and rainbows either.
do have any info on instances blocking Truth Social? Are the instances that don’t block Truth Social?
Almost nobody blocks Truth Social. Everyone seems more preoccupied with blocking Threads over actual far right content.
More fully features but only available as an extension (no user script): https://github.com/cptpiepmatz/great-on-deck-search
Pulls from various sources, not just ProtonDB.
Lol that would be an absolute mess.
Mister "I'm gonna be a dictator for a day" and getting elected on that platform making a mess? No way!
Loops is even less federated that Blue Sky, meaning not at all. (It's on the roadmap, though.)
Trump may even welcome that, considering that Truth Social is just Mastodon.
Don't need to. The government can seize the brand and US infrastructure.
There's always the option of just not buying a game when it releases.
What do US domestic politics have to do with a small Swiss company? Is there an indication that Proton would be sanctioned otherwise?
I have a beefier version by that same brand. It's somehow on sale almost all the time on Amazon. It works fine, the glossy finish of that screen is super dumb because you basically have to consciously put the cable on the back side of the power bank or it'll scratch the screen like crazy.
There are other vision conditions where people cannot see letters in dark mode that well. Apps and websites should just follow whatever the OS setting is, no matter the motivation of the user. Even if it's just a matter of taste and not some form of eye sight condition, it's just as valid.
MP3 has some disadvantages over more modern formats, regardless the used bitrate. It's been a long while since I was very interested in audio formats, so I may not be up to date on some newer developments but unless anything major changed, MP3 can't do truly gapless playback between tracks (used in live albums), for example.