Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Thank you for being rude.

    I’m not pretending it solves anything other than the job of increasing the perceived responsiveness of a game.

    There are a variety of potential ways to fill in the missing peripheral data, or even occluded data, other than simply stretching the edge of the image. Some of which very much overlap with what DLSS and frame generation are doing.

    My core argument is simply that it is superior to frame generation. If you’re gonna throw in fake frames, reprojection beats interpolation.

    Frame generation is completely unfit for purpose, because while it may spit out more frames, it makes games feel LESS responsive, not more.

    ASW does the opposite. Both are “hacky” and “fake” but one is clearly superior in terms of the perceived experience.

    One lets me feel like the game is running faster, the other makes the game look like it runs faster, while making it feel slower.

    This solution by intel is better, essentially because it works more like ASW than other implementations of frame generation.






  • Haven’t seen that.

    You can also push a door open with a foot as you take a step forward.

    It’s trickier than using an elbow, as it involves the balancing act of putting your weight on the door, which will give way, before allowing your foot to actually land. Do it wrong or with a door that’s much lighter than you thought, and you fall over as you deliberately shift your weight off the one foot you’re still standing on :D

    I initially started doing it to push open doors while holding stuff with my hands, but now I kinda just walk into doors and open them with a foot as I do.





  • Was definitely on by default on my device.

    Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn’t block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

    As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to “escape” the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

    The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

    It’s obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don’t want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn’t need something like that.

    It’s far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.




  • And they let you buy the music outright, too!

    Recently quit youtube premium due to the price hike finally hitting my country. I’ve been using yt music for my listening.

    Since that went away along with yt premium, I dusted off my old music file collection (mix of itunes and bandcamp purchases, cd rips, and soundcloud downloads).

    Discovered Qobus looking for places to buy my favorite music to update my collection.

    I used to keep my entire collection on my phone, but I opted to start using ytm since I had it and my collection got too big…

    But now, I have to say I am blown away with how nice Symfonium+Jellyfin (or another music server) is to use!

    Last time I looked into it, nothing handled dynamically keeping a portion of your music on-device for offline play this well!








  • I learned using python.

    I’ve yet to find anything that would have been a better place to start, and the concepts you pick up coding almost anything are extremely transferable.

    A small project is good because it doesn’t just teach you the basics, it makes you apply what you learn to actually do stuff.

    I write little python scripts to do various things all the time. Most recently I made one that automatically posts the next comic strip to [email protected].

    My recommendation would be to come up with something like that, then start figuring out how to do each step of accomplishing the task you want the code to do, then putting it all together. Look things up a lot, use print() often, and trial and error your way to the goal.

    You could also read guides or watch videos, but personally I learn WAY faster by just doing.

    Reading the code, making changes based on how I think something should work, then being proven right/wrong also seems to give me a better understanding than just following instructions.