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  • Yes, I’m aware of that justification. I like the idea in principle, but it doesn’t hold water in this game, because the mechanics they used to simulate ultra-realism are not realistic at all. Picking up a weapon in real life doesn’t impose a state of bodily malfunction where you have about as much control of yourself as a blind drunk standing on one stilt. I’ve used swords and bows, and trained in a fair number of other physical skills. Even my very first time, there was never a point where I suddenly found my arms or legs failing to work. The most forgiving way I can describe this implementation would be to call it a ham-fisted attempt.

    Clearly, though, there’s an audience for it

    It seems so. If some people enjoy slogging through those mechanics, then I’m happy for them. I have better things to do with my time.


  • I loved the environments in RDR2, but holy hell, the missions’ persistent denial of player agency drove me up a tree. Railroading is annoying in the best of cases. I could tolerate it in The Last of Us, which limited the places I could go but offered a wonderfully engaging story in those places and never dropped a 10-ton FAIL anvil on my head for trying something creative. In an open world game (a genre that I like because I’m encouraged to find creative solutions) I find it unforgivable.

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance drove me away for similar reasons. I like games where the challenge comes from learning how to work with available tools and moves, developing my skill with them, and figuring out how to use them most effectively. Making progress that way is satisfying. KC:D chose the polar opposite of that, interfering with my ability to control my character until I slogged through seemingly endless time sinks thinly disguised as “training” sessions. This mechanic had nothing to do with developing my skill as a player, but instead just arbitrarily denied me agency. I hated it, and since the reports I’ve read suggest that the sequel does the same, I won’t be buying it or anything else from those game designers.

    I guess my point is just to let you know that you’re not alone. :)







  • Do any of your underperforming games have a screen that shows which GPU they are using?

    I haven’t found any that do but I can try launching a few and searching.

    Take a look in each game’s graphics settings. Not all of them show it, but some do. In Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s shown in Options: Video: General: Display Adapter. In Elite Dangerous, it’s in Options: Graphics: Display: Adapter. There are other ways of trying to determine which GPU is likely to be used by default, but seeing it directly in-game is the best way to be sure.

    Does an overlay appear in the top left of the screen if you put DXVK_HUD=devinfo %command% in an underperforming game’s Steam Launch Options?

    For the 3 I’ve checked so far no, I don’t see that.

    The fact that you see no DXVK overlay when using that launch option suggests that either none of the games you tried use DirectX 9/10/11, or there’s something missing/misconfigured/old in your Vulkan driver stack. I would expect System76 to be able to help with this more efficiently than we can, since they sold you the system for use with Linux and are known for being competent.

    EDIT: I just noticed your other comment that shows Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS as your Linux distro. That release predates your GPU model by about a year, I think. It seems likely that you just need to get a newer kernel, firmware, and graphics drivers installed. This stuff is available upstream of your distro, so it shouldn’t be too hard for someone who knows Pop!_OS well, like System76. :)


  • AMD GPUs are usually the best pick for Linux, and the RX 7900 XT is capable of a lot better performance than 0-10 FPS. (It will vary by game, settings, and resolution, of course. You didn’t mention the latter two.)

    It’s possible your games are using the CPU’s integrated GPU instead of your graphics card. (Your iGPU is made for desktop use; it’s not suitable for most gaming.) Do any of your underperforming games have a screen that shows which GPU they are using? Is your monitor plugged into the motherboard’s video port, or one of the graphics card’s ports? Does an overlay appear in the top left of the screen if you put DXVK_HUD=1 %command% in an underperforming game’s Steam Launch Options?

    It could also be that you don’t have a recent enough kernel, firmware, or mesa/vulkan drivers installed for that fairly new GPU model.

    Since you bought from System76, I would guess that they have support staff who can help make sure these things are set up properly. They even have their own Linux distro, which I think is pretty well regarded. Have you called them?

    Is this as good as it gets?

    No. Not even close.

    EDIT: Added note about DXVK_HUD in Steam Launch Options








  • [Mirroring that post from January 2021; Magnet link truncated due to lemmy comment size limit. :( ]

    FINAL UPDATE as of January 31st 5:35PM EST:

    Thank you to everyone who shared content. The content being submitted now from what I’m seeing is duplicates of older content. I will thus no longer be updating this archive. The MEGA will remain untouched, so use that as you please, but that will likely die one day as there is a bandwidth/transfer limit. I will be uploading the content to Internet Archive, as well as other sources, but until then the torrent magnet that I will be seeding for a little while is listed below - my bandwidth isn’t the best so please do seed if you can:

    Magnet Link

    Hash (for verification of authenticity etc):

    c8fc9979cc35f7062cd8715aaaff4da475d2fadc
    

    Size:

    1,013.12GiB
    

    Original post below

    Archiving videos before potential removal from various websites…

    Send or comment links of videos you need downloaded. Currently going through POV livestreams/replays.

    NOTE: livestreams/POV are of the utmost importance. AKA Twitch/dlive/Facebook Live, etc. If you find any of these POV angles, please tag me directly in your comment, or PM me. These generally get taken down VERY fast by the livestream website.

    UPDATE:

    Thank you to everyone who shared links (and continue to do so). I am noticing that a lot of the content is now duplicates, or variations (crops, lower quality, etc) of the same content. So I have put all the content I have on MEGA. If I have replied to your comment then the content for sure is in this torrent.

    MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/30MlkQib#RDOaGzmtFEHkxSYBaJSzVA (this is the prefered way of downloading)

    (This is sitting in at ~350GB as of Jan 10 3:00 PM EST. Still adding content)

    UPDATE 2: Link should be working - MEGA contacted me and reinstated the account (and gave premium so I could upload more). I will be uploading more content that I find to the mega account. Still going through the comments, and the 900+ messages I have. Keep posting comments and I will upload them to the MEGA folder.

    UPDATE 3: “Bellingcat” has created a really efficient way to submit media via a Google Spreadsheet. It’s not connected to my archive, but I hope to have a merged final copy in the end.

    UPDATE 4:

    IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD A FILE DIRECTLY TO ME: https://mega.nz/megadrop/fgve0WRa880 (no account registration needed)

    BACKUPS:

    Recommended backup:

    /u/tweedge : tweedge commits to making sure this mirror does not fall behind 12h behind, though he’ll do his best to keep it within 6h

    Other backups based on the original MEGA from Jan 06 6:30PM - some might’ve updated, but no idea if/when; check each link, it should say. Or you can message the user:

    MAGNET from /u/SneakyPieBrown as of Jan 08 2021 : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fc33c9146c81660ee087dbda756746a978c7c104&dn=Trump%20protest%20Jan-08-2021&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80

    /u/firstgrow : hosting direct downloads as well

    /u/nuzzles_u_uwu : Is hosting as well

    /u/tweedge : made a direct download link on s3

    /u/kenkoda : posted a torrent.

    /u/Deifer : Link

    /u/benediktkr : https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021 and https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021.zip

    See a familiar face in the archive? https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02




  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlOpinion on the Matrix protocol
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    Matrix literally syncs the entire data/metadata history to all other servers where someone pops in

    How else would you expect a decentralized and persistent chat room to work? If that stuff wasn’t synced among the servers that were invited to participate in a room, then it wouldn’t be decentralized; one server going down would kill the room (or at least lose data).

    The only way I can think of is not to use servers at all, but go fully peer-to-peer. Matrix has done some proof-of-concept work toward this, but I’m not aware of any service that does it successfully while being practical for most people, yet.

    chat is meant to have an ephemeral aspect to it.

    There are use cases where that makes sense, but for general use? No thanks. When I lose my account password or my phone breaks, I want to be able to sign in on another device and still have my message history.

    It sucks so much RAM, so much storage,

    Synapse is indeed a heavy server implementation. Several lighter ones are in development, some of which people are using already.


  • encryption regularly breaks in weird ways, usually you see a message that you can’t read

    This was once common, but it’s somewhat rare now in my experience, and the upcoming Matrix 2.0 apparently addresses most (all?) of the remaining causes.

    if you enable encryption in a chat room you cannot disable it

    I consider this a good thing, for the sake of the people who joined or wrote in the chat with the understanding that what they write is and will remain encrypted. If you want to abandon encryption, you can always create a new room.

    we now have two official clients for Android (Element and Element X) in the first one encryption breaks in weird ways, in the later there is no way to use Spaces properly

    No, there is one officially released client for android: Element. Element X is in beta. When it leaves beta, it will take over as the one officially released client.

    direct messages between people don’t work well - it is like they are a room with the two people

    It works well for me. How is it a problem for you? It looks just like the person-to-person chats on other platforms I use, including SMS.

    privacy wise matrix is weak,

    Privacy of message content is not weak at all.

    leaks metadata,

    It’s true that some metadata can be read by admins of the servers that have been invited into a chat. Given all the features that Matrix uniquely offers, that’s an acceptable tradeoff for many of us. Also, the developers have stated that moving most of that metadata to the encrypted channel is planned.

    attachments are not encrypted, etc.

    This is just plain false.

    https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#sending-encrypted-attachments




  • mox@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlOpinion on the Matrix protocol
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    Matrix is good for private general messaging. The fact that it’s decentralised means it can also withstand things like government-ordered shutdowns or back doors, since there is no central point that controls the whole network.

    Two things to be aware of:

    • Some non-message bits (e.g. room topic text and membership) have not yet been moved to the encrypted channel, so those could be read by the administrator of a homeserver that participates in your chat room. Since most people care primarily about keeping the message content private, this is an acceptable trade-off to get all the things that Matrix offers.
    • The upcoming Matrix 2.0 features and design choices simplify the UI and fix some occasional errors. It might be worth waiting until this stuff officially lands in the client apps before bringing your contacts to Matrix, for a better experience all around.