I agree, people make it out like we’re giving human rights to unconscious AI… I’m just saying thanks because I’m polite to anyone and anything easy as that

Lemmy won’t take off to that level, let’s be honest, the majority of people is turned off when they ask them to “choose an instance” and whatnot, most users just want to sign up and use the service, not learn about instances, which third party app to use and such…

It’s literally why this platform is mostly filled with IT people or at least Linux users lol.

I like Lemmy of course, but I’m being realistic, most people don’t care about FOSS alternatives, privacy and such

No worries! If you have any questions on the smart pro just let me know, it’s the only one of those devices that I have

If you look for stores with good reviews and good sales numbers you’re 90% sure you’ll get what you paid for. There are some other sellers for these types of devices like LITNXT, and you can even find them on Amazon (usually more expensive).

If you want anything like PS2 or gamecube prepare to pay $150+ for a device, and most likely it will be an android based device like the retroid pocket devices

Most of these ambernic/Miyoo/powkiddy/Trimui Linux devices are aimed to play up to PSP, and some PSP games will run poorly, they’re using older cheaper chips, so they’re honestly weak devices.

IMO, best case is buying one of these devices for psp and below, and a steam deck or other handheld PC for PSP onwards… And PC gaming obviously.

I have an ROG Ally, and PS2, gamecube and WiiU runs great, but it feels like overkill for GBA and PS1 for example, so, for older emulation I just use this $60 device

I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro, if you’re looking for horizontal devices, it’s also worth a look

Confort and battery life.

I love my ROG Ally, it’s amazing for a bunch of games, but I honestly don’t find it comfortable to play GBA or PS1 games for example, and the battery life is like 4 hours tops.

I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro and been playing GBA games on and off in between work meetings or when I go out. It fits on my pocket alongside my phone and the battery lasts like 6 hours depending on the system.

Different uses cases, and for $50 it’s honestly not a hard sell

You could even buy something like an ROG Ally for a similar price and still get a bit more performance

People only call fake frames to the interpolation crap they’re touting as performance… I don’t think a lot of people have issues with image upscaling at a decent level (aka quality settings)

I think the bases of all religions are similar enough… Don’t be an asshole, don’t be selfish and help others in need, accept everyone, etc…

Problem is the people that actually follow religions (specially when it’s a big part of their life) are mostly assholes that don’t follow the basic dogmas they themselves preach.

Yes you can, just play other stuff… Just this year I’ve played and completed 10 games, including new games like FF7 Rebirth, and guess what? You can have fun with non RT lighting.

Like I said, PT is amazing, but if you need a $2000 GPU to experience it (and still have to rely on upscaling and FG to have a playable experience), maybe it’s just isn’t ready, it’s still a tech demo.

Hell Indiana Jones non PT Ray Tracing still looks great and can be ran on reasonable hardware, a 3060 can do 60fps average on native 1080p at high settings, that’s reasonable. A 5090 can do 40fps at 4K using PT, no DLSS…

sure sure DLSS and all that… The native performance is still what dictates the end result… I’m not paying $2K to get 40fps… RT is great on paper for devs, but CLEARLY devs are still having issues with it and the hardware isn’t there yet.

But clearly you’re probably an Nvidia fanboy so there’s no changing your mind.

I understand both sides tbh…

Like, sure people some artists will feel like their actual talent is being infringed, and in cases of those idiots calling themselves “AI Artists”, I agree.

But also, I got an already existing picture of me and my fiancé in a different art style and we both looked cute, also did the picture of my cat. If I wanted a personalized quality cartoon of ourselves it would’ve cost me at least $150, so for a fun, already existing pic of ourselves I’m ok with it,specially if it’s to keep to myself or maybe posting in a “hey check this out lol” way, I’m not saying I’m an artist or claiming is original content.

If I wanted a REALLY special picture made to my specifications by an actual artist, of course it would be worth it since I’d ask them to do a “custom” scene and such (that’s the creativity part IMO), but just “translating” an already existing picture, I think is ok as long as you don’t claim you’re the artist or try and get credit for it either.

Sounds like someone who hasn’t used AMD in a while… VR works fine since a couple of years already , and RT sure, is a bit behind (specially on Nvidia showcases… Shocker those run better on Nvidia), but RDNA4 has been a significant upgrade… And even then RT is still a Gimmick showcase that only looks amazing using real PT that not even the $2000+ card can run properly.

Knowing then, they’d somehow force an ink subscription on the device.

Pricing on all GPUs is just ridiculous… Even the XX90 tiers… Sure it’s the best out there, but I wouldn’t buy any component for $2K just to play games… If I used it for productivity, sure, but for gaming? Nah

The question is not only what game is it, but also, is it any good?

The pump works without software obviously, but iCue let’s you change the speed of the pump.

Sound levels of the headset refers to the equalizer profiles.

FSR Frame gen ISN’T AFMF, which is great on older games capped at 60fps where you can easily get 120fps and it honestly feels fine.

and of course I know steamOS is just a distro, but they actually fine tuned stuff for gaming, and like I said, if you’re only gaming, sure SteamOS/Bazzite or whatever might just work. But if you use your computer for basically anything else, most people will still have issues.

All of what you described is just EXTRA work people need to know just to play games. The reality is that most “solutions” are always workarounds or alternatives. Most people prefer NATIVE first party support.

I would, except there’s always some software or some feature missing. And there’s always the FOSS app that “might” meet “some” aspects of what native software does but it’s almost always never “native” support.

Sure, I know I can play MOST games on Linux, but I know for a fact they’ll launch on windows.

Or things like, sure, I know that my corsair Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB, but what about controlling the pump in my AIO? Or the sound levels on ny headset? Or the DPI in my mouse?

Then you have things like drivers. I’m not using any Nvidia GPUs right now, but the nvidia support for Linux is atrocious and you lose access to things like RTX-HDR and RTX Voice, and hell, even in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2.

Then the software, not only does things like Adobe or Office just don’t exist, the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum, hell, even the Google office suite is being adopted faster… Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh

All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even. But I know I could deal with Linux, and I don’t want to troubleshoot a whole PC to play a game when I already spend the whole day dealing with solving issues or servers or services on my job.

I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.

Feeling glad I bought my lifetime license like two years ago

Hadn’t thought of it that way, but you’re completely right, same as Black Flag tbh

I honestly enjoyed the setting of Origins and the “new take” on combat, since it was before anything they could basically do whatever they wanted so it kinda worked , but that’s the only one I enjoyed after revelations