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darcmage

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  • (Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them?

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  • Not sure I agree the premise of the article. Sales are going to be down when there are fewer AAA releases to drive hardware sales. It's taking longer and longer to develop those games and the budget required no longer justifies console exclusivity.

    I think 2025 will be the real measure of console strength when the big releases are scheduled to come out.

  • (Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them?

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  • First point is more true today than it was in the past. It is impossible to build a gaming pc for $400-500 that is capable of playing most modern games at high settings (without RT) and play at 60 fps. The gpu capable of doing that is around $300 by itself.

    I think the longevity of consoles also plays a large part in their appeal. Knowing you can use the system to play at consistent performance levels for 7-8 years is a comforting thought.

    For the PC side, I'm not sure about your point about drivers. Nvidia/AMD/Intel regularly release day 1 drivers to improve compatibility with new games.

  • Is Firefox still good ?

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  • That's great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn't have created webcompat.com and it wouldn't be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn't expect non-techies to do the same.

  • Is Firefox still good ?

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  • Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative's or friend's computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don't want to deal with the occasional breakage.

  • Is Firefox still good ?

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  • I think they're comparing chrome's user interface which, on a tablet, switches to a more desktop like interface with the tab bar instead of the tab counter. It is something I wish firefox would also implement but not a deal breaker.

  • Question about Active Noise Cancellation alternatives

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  • When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use.

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  • This was a major plot point in Doctorow's Bezzle that I just finished. It's depressing to see it happening in real life but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

  • what lemmy web app do you use and why?

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  • Voyager but keeping an eye on the development of Raccoon.

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    Does anyone have Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America as an audiobook

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  • What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?

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  • I'm sure people have but my guess is they're more likely to be bluesky people instead of lemmy people.

  • What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?

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  • You might also like:

    • Search Engine
    • Tech Won't Save Us
    • Moderated Content
    • Mystery AI Hype Theater

  • DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

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  • "The report detailed how the user managed to leak DNS queries when disabling and enabling VPN while having “Block connections without VPN” on."

    Not to diminish the severity of the issue but I can't imagine this being the factor that pushes the average person to ios over android.

  • Authelia + Bitwarden + other selfhosted stuff

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  • Wireguard in docker, no way of password authentication?

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  • If it's something you're really worried about, maybe something like https://github.com/NHAS/wag will help along with your secure totp app.

  • Are there any FreshRSS frontend/clients?

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  • After having tried what seems like every available desktop rss frontend, I just settled on the freshrss mapco theme with the landscape thumbnail and dark mode via dark reader instead of the built in option.

    For the article loading issues, I'd recommend full-text-rss.

  • What web services do you subscribe to?

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  • Nothing complicated. Nextcloud assistant with nextcloud office and generating emails in fairemail.

  • What web services do you subscribe to?

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  • My main use is chatgptbox with my instance of searxng. Also comes in handy when looking for a shell command or script with ai-shell.

    Then there's the various integrations in documents, notes, etc...

  • What web services do you subscribe to?

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    • Bitwarden
    • Racknerd VPS
    • Backblaze B2
    • PIA VPN
    • Purelymail
    • Usenet
    • ChatGPT API

    And the occasional donation to open source projects like pihole.

  • Optimize power consumption

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  • Troubleshooting can be difficult. I'll only say you'll save yourself alot of time and energy by establishing a baseline for power usage with just the essential components necessary for boot to see what you're working with. Then you can make better informed decisions.