I regularly tip around 30%, often above it, and I consider myself a pretty generous tipper. It’s absurd to act like 40% is standard.

Sometimes receipts will show suggested tip amounts and those are usually 18%, 20%, and 22% or something like that. Maybe 25%.

Hey man, I’m not saying Nintendo shouldn’t fix the issue. I’m just saying there are options.

For anyone who is stuck with stick drift and isn’t in the French government and thus can’t use this to get their JoyCons repaired, you can get TMR joysticks for Switch and Switch 2 JoyCons for like $20-$30. Like Hall effect but better!

Actually LSD is derived from lysergic acid. LDS is derived from Christianity though.

I had not heard of the YPJ before. Remarkable group!

Also please, let us pronounce it correctly. “Cinco de Drinko.”

Yeah but how else am I supposed to shut the thing up so I can ignore it when I’m at a restaurant? Should I just let it keep screaming? I mean, I do that, too. No one else is trying to have a nice night out, right?

-every shitty parent

Oh that’s great. The NSA has definitely shown it can be trusted with backdoors, after all.

(Massive /s in case it wasn’t obvious.)

It’s really pretty incredible. As I understand it (though I’m far from an expert and could be wrong) it’s using tensor cores that wouldn’t be engaged otherwise during gaming, so it’s essentially free performance at the cost of power consumption. Means I can run at half the framerate I want and use DLSS to fill in the gaps.

For example, with Forza Horizon 6 if I turn on Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing (DLAA) and frame generation I can easily keep a steady 144fps and it looks MUCH better than with the default settings hovering around 100fps. Not just smoother (not sure I can personally tell the difference between 100 and 144) but much better anti-aliasing, too.

Fuck nVidia for a bunch of reasons, but I have to admit I love my 4070 Ti super. And it’s not even a top end card.

Maybe. In my use case it’s bumping from 72fps to 144fps (I have a 40 series card so I can only do 2x frame generation). In that case, the delay to allow for interpolation is likely around 14 milliseconds, potentially slightly longer (although nVidia claims there is a predictive element to DLSS frame generation, so it might not require the next true frame to be generated yet, I’m not sure). I can’t react to anything in that time anyway. Human reaction time is much slower than 14 milliseconds (or, indeed, than the 33ms that 30fps to 120fps with 4x would cause).

I think the benefits to smoother framerate is about more than just latency. I suspect our brains process better when the visual input is smoother. Makes it easier to track movement and such. Even professional F1 drivers and esports players have reaction times at around 150ms minimum, so the latency is something we’re always compensating for (indeed, there is a processing delay in our brains from when visual input is received, latency is literally something our brains compensate for all the time in our daily lives).

But obviously if people are more worried about that latency they can disable frame generation and lower their graphical fidelity to achieve the same framerates. Stuff like frame generation and super resolution is very much about eking every bit of graphical performance out of the silicon as possible, and isn’t strictly necessary.

DLSS Frame Generation uses “AI” to interpolate frames in games that support it. It’s basically free framerate if your card supports it. They’re not really “fake,” they’re interpolated.

Edit: For what it’s worth, AMD also does this with FSR in games that support it.

That one took me a beat. Love it.

Liberty Media owns Formula One Management (FOM), the company responsible for the production of F1 as a piece of media, while the International Automobile Federation (FIA) is responsible for the rule formula itself, the stewards, marshalls, race director, etc.

So when the person said, “no one outside of the US has heard of either” they were wrong. Liberty Media certainly isn’t as well-known a name as Formula 1, but it owns Formula 1.

/groan

I wanted a cantilever setup so I could use it in bed or on a couch, so I didn’t bother with the Logitech offering. My typecase one is working fine but I haven’t had it for long. When it breaks, if I’m still liking it, I may go for the Apple version. Depends on how long I get out of it.

Oh this is about laptops not being able to enter hibernation and thus draining the battery during standby.

At my job for whatever reason our laptops refuse to sleep or hibernate, I always assumed it was a braindead choice by IT but maybe it’s a driver issue.

Man, what is even happening at Intel? Apple and AMD have made them look absolutely pathetic, not to mention their own processors grenading for fun.

Yeah but then look at how the knockoff Magic Keyboard cases, which provide nearly the same functionality (with the exception of pass through charging) cost less than a third of the price.

It’s absolutely insane what Apple charges for that thing.

Should the hobby continue to be about both the act of printing and tinkering with printers, or is there a reasonable place for people who want “3D printing” as a hobby but not “3D printers” as a hobby. As part of this, is it okay for a company to lock down its firmware and prevent people from using their printer over a network without going through their software first?

Bambu Lab has made remarkable progress in “mainstreaming” 3D printing but they’ve done so at the expense of a lot of the “soul” of the space. Unlike many of their consumer-facing predecessors and competitors, they are closed-source and proprietary. They make a good product, but you don’t get to have control over it the same way you do with other brands. And that just means other brands are likely to follow suit, now that Bambu Lab has shown it to be an effective strategy.

I mourn the loss of common purpose the hobby once had, but at the same time I do think it’s a natural progression for something new and complex to eventually become consumer-grade. Look at how computers have evolved into rectangles we keep in our pockets.

I’m trying to understand what you’re saying. Would you say that someone who identifies as nonbinary is not transgender? If so, does that mean that transgender only exists within the gender binary?