Recent content by Snyder

I know...My statement was admittedly kinda knee-jerk devil's advocate (occupational disease, I guess :) ), but yeah, forcing open-sourcing will remain a pipe dream. Releasing the blobs is absolutely the lesser evil - even if its just for practical archival purposes in the worst case. And with...

A completely unsupported bundle of closed-source binaries running an internet-facing service? I think liabilities regarding compatibility will be the least of anyone's worries in such a scenario...

Looking at the Steam Deck OLED board, space doesn't seem to be that critical of a constraint: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Steam+Deck+OLED+Chip+ID/167632 The question mark about power consumption implications remains, however.

Some more UE5 goodness - Talos Principle 2. A few of them might sadly be messed up regarding HDR tone mapping...

Yeah, it's a mess alright...I'd never have guessed that one of my most appreciated features of my Sony OLED would be its (really good) dynamic tone mapper.

Re: Horizon Forbidden West's water - a detailed presentation of what went into just the breaking waves effect: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2022/index.html#Water And from the Siggraph Live presentation, the water in general (but their whole presentation is cool): I really like...

Apologies in advance to interrupt the really interesting discussion with a cheap shot, but you are really unlucky with your example :) How? Well...they used Havok. No really. (This being BoTW, but according to people on Twitter datamining ToTK, it's the same for the latter, just a newer version)

It's quite astonishing that Microsoft doesn't seem to consider this a useful scenario. This is to the best of my knowledge something that's not possible - hacky workarounds like Splashtop & RDP shenanigans aside - with Windows 10. Yet almost anyone I know using a Surface (or similar)...

Even better would be a sane release schedule that doesn't introduce crippling bugs every other release. But sadly RERO+user testing is the hot thing right now, even in areas that *really* aren't a good fit. (Looking at you, Microsoft!)

What lack of standards and guidelines? They've been there for a long time.

Aren't impostors in general exactly that?

It seems they are starting to get somewhere. A friend of mine got a LG with WebOS 2 and - colour me surprised - the UX is actually rather good! It is somewhat reminiscent of controlling the Wii, and it works fast and intuitive: Compared to the abomination that's the interface of my 2011 LG...

What about the midrange Nokias? Worldwide cellphone pricing is rather wonky so I don't know if that's even a theoretical option for you, but apart from the super low end they have rather good cameras for their respective class (630, 730/735, 830 etc.). And WP is arguably the snappiest OS on the...

Whoa, what a quote: a) "sample multiple times from within a pixel" - That hasn't been true since...since when have wide tent & co. been around? 2007? b) It boggles the mind how a gaussian filter can be unconditionally seen as an improvement. But it seems "blur = good" is all the rage these...