Ya the game mimics Horizon, don’t think that that shouldn’t be allowed though. It’s not even like a music remix. Making stuff from scratch

I put the base at 5 years being optimistic. I’m not expecting 5 years from final spec publishing. A stable spec is released end of the year so pretty much 2026. Take a couple years for hardware decoders to start releasing in niche to expensive gear. Pretty much demonstrative gear.

Then progressively decoders proliferate down to consumer gear with years to get down to cheap entry level gear. Keep in mind the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 this year was the first 7 series chip to get an AV1 hardware decoder. Don’t know about Snapdragon 6 and 4 series of chips. AV1 stable spec was like 2018

Maybe AV2 adoption will be quicker because VVC seems to have garnered minimal interest since 2020. However long it takes, you’ll be itching for a new computer by then. Lessons learned from what adoption took for AV1 for AV2 development. Regardless, content distribution will trail hardware decode adoption on mass media devices, phones - maybe even have to wait for people to replace their televisions with ones that have AV2 decoders in them

Don’t sweat it. By the time AV2 starts getting serious adoption rolled out, your hardware will be 5+ years old

I prefer smaller scale remakes rather than like FFVII. The art here works for me. It’s not standout. It doesn’t have the same amount of charm to it. Maybe all too clean. The one in Romancing Saga 2 looked pretty generic but at least it wasn’t a game that required a huge amount of sales to break even. Still charming

It’s a lot more streamlined and is backed by Gamesir so seems to get more frequent updates. So just out the box it seems to perform better and it supports steam cloud saves.

Eventually I’d bet on Winlator and ones that base around it to close the gap in performance and usability but for now, this one from Gamesir is better in my experience and a lot more streamlined

it’s been asked a lot and I’ve seen others respond about how the passcode and account username that were added in the last few years are steps in the process to make accounts not dependent on phone numbers. I’ve just given them the benefit of the doubt that someday we won’t be tied to a phone number anymore

It’s not a real replacement but if you want to support open source stuff, fossify apps including the launcher. Users and support will get it improving faster. On F-Droid and google Play store

Sweet. My most anticipated game of the year. Sometime the past few years I branched out of Pokemon and rekindled my childhood love for monster collector games. This for this year and Monster Hunter Stories 3 next year

Whatever the cost is for high speed internet service specifically for a car is, it will never be worth it. Like GeForce Now uses like 100mbps for their highest quality stream, data caps and cost for uncapped or like a terabyte a month or something specifically for my car, not worth. A Steam Deck is cheap mini-pc/laptop territory.

If gaming in a car actually mattered, there’d be an option to put a small 720p-1080p display in the middle of the car facing the backseats and it’d just have a Ryzen HX-370 or better tucked somewhere and then people can play pretty much everything a Steam Deck can but with better performance

I have comaps installed but overall I don’t think it matters a great deal which open street maps app you use, they’re all really similar. I try to contribute business info when I remember to do so but there doesn’t seem to be any yelp/google business equivalent. Need something that hosts user reviews and pictures and some way to moderate that in a decentralized enough community way. Can’t beat Google maps without the business pages and crowd sourced data

This is easier to set and forget. I’m cool with subscribing and occasionally doing a one time donation when I’m feeling spirited

The free is enough for me but I’m willing to pay that sub to support them

Fossify launcher is buggy but at least it’s always been open source to my knowledge. Actively developed. All the fossify application. I use them

One of the reasons I prefer Matrix even though anyone I know in real life uses Signal so I use Signal practically everyday but Matrix sparingly. Federated matrix servers. I worry how resilient Signal can be if enough countries ban it, not really confident in the US or EU countries or any countries long term for encrypted chat for the Signal Foundation, and also signing up with phone numbers. Phone number providers being another point of regulation

I think Proton mail is worth it just to diversify off Google but I don’t lend much faith in how effective privacy will be with email. The free service is enough for that. If I wanted more faith in encrypted communications, encrypted chat applications. I sub to proton for drive and VPN. ProtonPass has all the email aliases for throwaway websites

Like others, it was specs for me. I fully am ready to deal with minimal Linux applications designed for a small touchscreen display but for that compromised mobile experience, I want a good desktop experience when it’s docked. So I’d like near flagship phone specs. So today would be like Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or better. Canonical had the right idea with Unity 8 but didn’t execute

Now today there are mobile Linux frontends but no company pushing out hardware to leverage a Linux phones most unique ability, docked experience with full desktop applications. Things like the Ayn Odin 2/3 or Ayaneo Pocket S. They’re putting out niche Android gaming handheld with high end mobile SoCs that I doubt sell a ton while in the Linux phone land, it’s lackluster

I don’t remember the last Furyu game to get really good reviews but they know their fans and I hope they can get bigger and improve

The US just pulls headline. I remember a long time ago seeing the CCTV setup in the UK and being pretty WTF is going on here. Then I remember Czech Republic talking about internment camps citing US Japanese internment camps as a good example of justification. Then I remember Italian court cases over seismologist not warning people enough/not being predictive enough to prevent deaths in a major earthquake. Or the groping of a girl and being let off because it didn’t last enough time for it to be considered bad by the judge. For all the headlines the US has. Then of course I feel like it’s been at least 15 years of trying to pass anti-encryption/anti-privacy laws. US makes headlines, but something about European conservatism/traditionalism/paternalism makes the whole continent feel like a powder keg to me. Also the neo-Nazis

Their only chance there was the late 90s to early 2000s. MS is one company compared to the totality of mega corporations using Linux and MS also uses a lot of Linux. More money at play in the server market than the general desktop OS market. Linux is the server OS

The US government increasingly uses Linux. Other countries pick up Linux at a faster rate than the US. A higher percentage of people use MacOS today than 20 years ago

The link in “onto the next challenge” is to an Intel page

Introduction to the Xe-HPG Architecture

I was hoping it’d link to FEX-emu. Would have loved if they went full time on that. Still, age 23 and done all that. At 23 I finished college and by age 30 still felt like a junior developer, mid at best