Cool. AFAIK FSR4 uses instructions RDNA3 doesn’t even have, so I’d be interested to see if they can squeeze decent performance out of it.

I mean, there aren’t a lot of Java games, and C# (especially with newer runtimes) isn’t that bad if that’s what you’re referencing.

The old Civ games were a lot of Python, which is perhaps the most atrocious of all, performance wise. But they worked okay.

Big instances might be doomed, but ones small enough for folks to “know” each other might do better.

…And that may come with stuff like restricting submission rights to server members? So bots don’t, say, have incentive to build up a “legit” account then post spam.

I think LLM systems will make great automods and mod assistants, too, to help them fight it. Obviously there’s a lot of hate for such things now, but I think that sentiment may settle.

There’s certainly no conflict of interest there…

Google gets a cut from the Google Ads click, which takes the user directly to the Play Store (or, if on desktop, the Chrome extension store).

If it’s some free shovelware app, they get a cut from the ads spammed onto the user’s screen. If it’s a sham subscription app, they get a cut of that. I see this a lot test clicking ads these days.

If its legit phishing, that’s a fair point; they don’t get a direct cut of the scam, other than the attention it drives towards their app stores and the data they collect for the user’s profile. But the point I’m trying to make is that it’s incredibly hypocritical to paint 3rd party apps (and indeed any competing app store) as a danger when they do such a poor job policing their own store. They may have a point, but it doesn’t really tackle scamware unless they change their moderation habits.

I mean, I think the point is that any bot asking for advice is a total lie.

So is a human being disingenuous.

The gratifying part of this kind of community is helping people with feedback. You don’t get that if you’re talking to a black hole.

Point I’m making is… if you wanted a simulated asklemmy, some specialized LLM agents could actually emulate that very well and give convincingly emotional conversation. But what’s the point? Its not about the text being AI generated or not, its about being earnest.

+1

‘Fuckwit’ or ‘spambot’ is not a synonym for LLM slop. There are plenty of human or sweatshop posts.

We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.

Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.

And if anything thinks I’m being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.

…Oh. I see, I misread the generation.

Yeah, that’s a huge caveat, one that would get me to reconsider the whole box, as FSR4 is way better than 3. I wonder if there’s a chance for AMD (or Valve) to backport it?

AMD must feel good about this, given their (apparent) alarmingly small desktop GPU marketshare.

…They really just need OEMs to ship the things, and now they got a great one.

I’d be neat if Steam offered an Intel Arc variant too. The B series is massively underrated.

Yeah.

I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that’s the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked good. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.

I mean, it will do 4K in old games just fine.

FSR(4) is less noticable at higher res, anyway.

Yeah, that’s tiny. That’s like 3.8L.

I travel with a 10L SFF PC, and that’s small for an SFF case.

…The picture says 'Start Now. Download."

I posted some similar ads above.

I mean, I’m using Firefox now? Cromite blocks them by default too. I tested with and without a VPN as well.

If you’re gonna get all pointy, what I was trying to politely imply is your original statement is incorrect.

I wouldn’t call fake download links on a download page ‘restrained’

Firefox blocks them by default. You have to turn off enhanced tracking protection.

Yep. For Windows and Mac, but not the source tar download, interestingly:

All my ads (on FF or Cromite) seem to be for addons:

It’s… interesting those ads one absolutely should never click on now exist in the Chrome/FF extension store.

That’s putting it a bit abrasively, but there’s a nugget of truth there.

An anecdote: I saw some (drug?) commercial where the wife orders pizza because the Dad’s a bumbling idiot for even attempting to use the kitchen. Everything about the way it was presented just screamed… ‘50s sexism,’ basically?