“So where are you going on vacation?”

“America.”

“Again?”

“Oh, no, not that America. I’m going to America.”

“Wait…the one next to America, or the one inside America?”

“The one just outside Super America.”

“Wow, nice. How are you getting there?”

“I have a flight out of America on Americaday and then I’m going through America by way of America to America, where I’m America-ing a rental America to America.”

“America America America America?”

“America America, America America. America America America America America America America America America America America America America America. America America America America America, America America…America America America America America America.”

“America. America America!”

“America!”

Teslas have depreciated far more than the category average. EVs in general are still slightly higher than the industry average, but unfortunately the CEN (Chief Executive Nazi) has tanked the value of the vehicle you bought.

No worries, I get it. I was pretty brusque too.

I think it’s fair to phrase the performance hit that way, since you can turn it on and off with the same hardware. With it off, you get (X) frames per second. With it on, you get (X * 0.6) frames per second, or even less. That’s a pretty clear performance hit, and one that tells a fairly meaningful story about what’s actually going on, whether or not your monitor will actually show the difference. Now, that’d be one thing if the results were good, but nothing I’ve seen from DLSS5 has looked good enough to make that kind of a hit feel reasonable; in most cases, I think it looks actively worse.

The argument that it’s an evolving technology seems somewhat reasonable. But DLSS is at least seven years old, and has had four releases that actually do work in that time. And really, all technology is evolving, it’s just that most other companies still release what feels like finished products.

Or at least products that don’t accomplish the opposite of what they were intended to do; DLSS was intended to improve framerates by allowing the GPU to render a lower-resolution frame and have it cheaply upscaled to a higher resolution. With DLSS5 making framerates worse, it seems like they’d have been better off calling it something different.

I’m a dad to an 11-year-old, a 9-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 4-year-old. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I have felt all the ways you’re feeling now and so I do have some thoughts.

First of all, yes, it does get easier. You’re at or near the absolute hardest part of having a young child. For my kids, I won’t sugarcoat it, the hardest part was when they were three (we called it “threenagers”), so you may have another year or two yet to go (though if you look at our age span, you’ll see that we always had another baby right around that time, too, right up until the last one who was the easiest, so take that as you will). But after that phase, I will honestly say that my kids have become four of my best friends. It’s a weird friendship, but it is a very rewarding one.

Second, there are different kinds of hard. You mentioned the rut, the exhaustion, the amplification of existing depression and anxiety, and the feeling like you aren’t strong enough to do a good job; that’s a great summary of the four different ways it gets hard. Not all of them get easier all at once, but they do all get easier. Kids grow up. That’s both a blessing and a curse.

Third, part of the way it gets easier is that you just learn better ways to deal with the stuff that’s hard. I needed a routine so that my days didn’t become a rut, and I needed to journal (my form of journaling is heavy on photography right now) so that I could see all the ways I was actually doing a good job. It sounds like you’re already medicated and in therapy (it took me four times as long in parenting to get to that point, good on you). I will be honest, I still haven’t really found a good way to get enough sleep. But I have it on pretty good authority that teenagers sleep a lot, so I’m hopeful that it’ll sort itself out soon.

Overall…well, I’ll put it like this: Last year, my oldest beat me at chess, 100% legit, for the first time. My 9-year-old is maybe the most thoughtful and empathetic person I’ve ever known. My 6-year-old just learned how to read (a bit late), I think mostly so he can play Pokemon for the first time. My 4-year-old is just so excited about everything and anything. They’re making friends and having a life outside of me, they’re helping out around the house, and they’re coming together as siblings.

Being able to write a paragraph like that is what makes it worth it, and what really makes it easier in the long run. Sometimes the greatest accomplishment is just keeping them alive for twenty-four hours (and I don’t just mean right at the beginning), but eventually you get new and different problems and they start helping with the solutions.

At the end of the day, you obviously care a lot, and that’s the #1 clearest characteristic of a successful parent. So it sounds to me like you’re on the right track.

Your rage is brainless, and proof that you know you don’t have a real argument. It’s hilarious to me the nonsense hills that people will die on.

The story says “50-60%”. You don’t like that math? Take it up with Nvidia. The length of this conversation is already way out of proportion to my interest in it. DLSS5 will tank your performance for questionable results. Easy as.

That’s a wide opening for a lawsuit, though. This is the kind of thing they’re probably telling the truth about, at least in as much as what they intend to do.

“…oh, no, maybe there’s a baby in the other window!”

Oh, I never realized before that I wanted a “The Scooby Gang Fights the Klan” story. Gene Luen Lang’s Superman story about the same thing was amazing, I bet a Scooby-Doo story in the same vein could be really interesting.

There are a lot of things that are unacceptable only if you’re poor. In fact, if a rich man hoarded a ton of old newspapers, he’d be called an “eccentric collector of vintage print media.” A rich woman with 150 cats would be a “dedicated feline rescue worker.”

A poor guy with a car up on blocks and a stockpile of rifles at his mobile home is “trailer trash,” but put that car in a big garage and the guns in a case at a nice mansion and he’s a “hunter and tinkerer.” A poor farmer trying to stop a highway from being built through her field is “impeding progress,” but if it’s a rich woman’s family estate, she’s “fighting government overreach.” Rich, blithering racist idiots with clear signs of dementia get elected to the Presidency, while Uncle Cletus gets escorted out of the town council meeting and his family is handed a flyer for a memory care facility when he says the same things.

Across the board, there’s stuff that’s normalized and accepted for the wealthy but dismissed and looked down on for the poor. It’s not just that hoarding the money is itself accepted, but also that someone who hoards money will find that all of their other antisocial and concerning behavior is also acceptable in the eyes of the public

Money makes a very effective blindfold.

Hmmm. Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. So maybe there’s a need for a bike horn that’s super loud and that you can trigger with a finger while you’re braking.

You can usually get some late-model Soundcores in that range, and I’ve always found the ones with 4.6 stars or higher to be solid. Their ANC isn’t fantastic, and for music they aren’t great, but they’re my go-tos because I’m a podcast guy and the battery life is pretty good for the price. The Soundcore Life earbuds are the ones I might avoid, but Soundcore Liberty and Soundcore P##i series have been “fine” across the board.

You could probably get a ton of mileage out of an aerosol air horn, if those are available in your area.

The theme park opened in 1964. If you’re over the age of 80 and have been living in the same house since age 20, and it just happens to be next to Universal Studios Hollywood, ok, I think you have a bit of an argument (though honestly, you probably should’ve brought this up sooner). But for everyone else, you knew what you were getting into when you bought a house in that neighborhood.

Big companies do terrible, awful, harmful stuff all the time. This isn’t one of those times. They even built the ride extra quiet to help make life better for you. They didn’t have to do that, because again, you’re the one who bought a house next door to a theme park.

The devs don’t really care, usually. It’s the publishers that hate this.

“Uh oh, is there a baby in the back seat? That’s super dangerous! We better get the baby some air!”

“…oh, there wasn’t? Oops. Well, my heart was in the right place.”

3. ???

What if you contact them and tell them you’re not using a smartphone anymore? Surely they have another option for old people who don’t have smartphones.

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That’s like 2/3 of the comments from instances I’m federated with lol

Agreed, but since it’s FOSS, I’m not worried. If it implodes, there will be forks available and the migration path will be fast. In the meantime, Bitwarden is (imo) the most polished option.