A whole article about how terrible this is, then towards the end they got clarification from Google and, surprise surprise, it was all an overreaction and they were fear mongering.

“This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.

It’s just giving Gemini more local assistant abilities.

Movies: 7796

TV Series: 1443

Music (tracks): 37909

All up its pushing 45TB currently. All legal backups, obviously.

I’m trying to get all 1080p 10bit 5.1 x265 for tv and movies, but am not converting 264 -> 265 myself as it would take forever and is lossy. Sonarr and radarr will take care of it eventually anyway with the way I’ve set up my profiles.

Subtitles are usually SRTs grabbed by Bazarr, stored in a subtitles folder inside each movie folder.

Folder structure is just the standard folder per movie, and folder per tv series with sub folders per season.

Music is 320kbps mp3 where possible, and for the last year or 2 I’ve been trying to get FLAC and then convert to mp3 (automatically) and archive off the FLAC for safe keeping.

Whenever the 265 successor comes out I’ll look at upgrading to 4K if the space requirements are not crazy. With the price of storage and large bay NAS/DAS devices there’s just no way I could do 4K as it stands.

I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha

That’s not why they banned it though, as they could have simply turned off comments.

Well you’d be impressed then :)

Playing a lot of fps games doesn’t mean you can play at a high level. Having an ultrawide monitor and 144hz is completely irrelevant lol. There are people with 4K 200+hz monitors and 5090s who are trash at competitive play.

Raster isn’t capable of these things, that’s why it’s never been done until raytracing came along. Rasterization rasters what is on the screen, nothing outside of that.

People in government IT jobs who maintain Microsoft systems aren’t going to be contributing to FOSS codebases. They’re not developers.

No, that’s not the point. The point is that someone should be able to mod the flags in a single player game on their computer to be whatever they want, but Nexus Mods don’t think so. They want to tell you what you can and can’t do as a mod based on their ideology. Make a white character black? Go for it!!! Black character white? Banned!

Do you not see how this is an issue?

Ok cool, so you do think that having to pay for a GPU is “anti-consumer” and think that everything should be free.

We’re done here.

No, they removed the mod because they called it “bigotry”. Many others then re-uploaded the mod, which is what they’re saying is against the rules - uploading banned mods.

The uploader of the original mod didn’t break any rules, nexus mods owner/admins just didn’t like the mod ideologically.

Cool. Nexus mods gave a shit though, that’s the point. They banned the mod.

So it has limits? Oh no…… At 1000fps you can’t do much rendering effects at all. Luckily no one, and I do literally mean no one, plays games at 1000fps.

No we can’t.

I was running and gunning - it was doom 2016! Maybe you don’t pay much attention to your surroundings in games, but others do. Maybe you don’t play competitive online shooters at a high level like others do? That’s the sort of thing that separates the best from the rest.

How do you know it doesn’t count against daily active users?

No one I know uses threads. When I tried it and followed the same public people I do on Twitter, their posts on threads had like 1% of the likes/shares/comments they had on Twitter.

Meta would absolutely lie to make threads seem more active than it is to try and get people to use it.

Push back against what? All of these countries’ governments moving away from MS are doing it for digital sovereignty, nothing else. They want to be in control of their data.

I know what DLSS is, I want to know exactly what you think in there says what you think it does.

So are you going to actually substantiate your claims with evidence/proof or no?

I’m not sure if English isn’t your first language, or if you’re just being wilfully obtuse, but I didn’t call it emulation. I said it is essentially emulation, like WINE. I know WINE isn’t emulation, which is why I said it is “essentially” emulation because it’s doing the same thing - converting calls from one set of APIs to work on other hardware/architecture. It’s not emulation, but it’s essentially the same thing.

Why would Nvidia want competition? AMD don’t want competition either, but they made FSR work on everything because they were so far behind Nvidia (and because it was all done in software, requiring no special hardware) that they have to give it away to try and catch up.

Companies making proprietary tech is not anti-consumer - unless of course you think that everything other than making everything free and open source is “anti-consumer”, which I am thinking you might?

Yeah, so it doesn’t add latency. It takes like 1-2ms iirc in the pipeline, which like you said is less than/the same/negligibly more than it would take to render at the native resolution.

So surely someone playing on their pc with American flags instead of pride flags isn’t going to hurt even the most delicate snowflake?

Oh so they came to their senses because of the backlash over their pathetic banning of this mod? That’s something at least, but they won’t be getting any praise from me until they stop banning things like this in the first place.