Apple doesn’t have a monopoly though, there’s still Android. And outside of the US Android is more popular than iOS.

Are there any other virtual stores on the console? There’s obviously physical store fronts, but I’m pretty sure there’s only the one digitally on console.

It’s not like the frame rate was bad though. Like the video was updating, it was just the scrolling that was jumping. It made 0 science to me how just the scrolling was lagging but not the frame rate. Grated 60fps on a 4090 is abysmal, and this was only a month or two ago.

Is scrolling still janky? I have a 5800x 3D and a 4090 and I’ll get about 60 fps in a fresh city, but scrolling was like 5 fps. The game was still updating, but the scrolling was broken. And the dragging to build streets was janky too.

I returned the game after that. It made me nauseous trying to do just about anything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar

Onstar has existed since 1996. Cars have been doing this for a long time and it’s not new.

Nothing has really changed unless you just didn’t run the latest software on your phone. The series 8 was the first watch in a long time that needed a newer phone. But they’ve always required the latest iOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118490

Good news! They’ve been spying on you for well over 20 years at this point.

Basically every phone made in the last 5 years will charge at over 5v for “quick charging”.

The USB is typically only up to 3 amps max at any voltage less than 20.

I feel like it’s just going to end up allowing lower quality games. And importantly for epic, more of a cut for them.

And completely loses the privacy goal.

I really hope that unticking “Vote Putin” instantly kills your character.

I can’t belive Intel even sells these CPUs with thermal paste instead of being soldered. My laptop destroyed it’s thermal paste within 6 months, I can’t imagine a 300+ watt CPU’s paste would survive much longer.

Public companies focus on short term profit to keep share holders happy. Private companies can actually focus on long term profit, especially if it’s at the expense of some short term profit.

30% is more or less the standard. Not just in the games industry, but everywhere.

That has no impact on both of them taking a 30% cut.

The 5090 costing an arm and a leg is fine since it’s the flagship. I just hope the 5080 isn’t actually just half the cores of the 90 just like 40 series has been.

I just hope anything less than the best of the best isn’t an awful value like 40 series has been. And the 5090 costing 2k isn’t gonna make 50% less cores on the $1k 5080 look like a better deal.

PC? All digital.

Consoles? All physical

I do t play games on console all that often so I’d rather the option to pick up a cheap used copy. Plus I could play that game any number of years down the road when the servers are long shut down. But on PC I just want to click the button and the game installs and opens.

I’ve had maybe 1 scam call in 5 year after turning on tmobiles blocking feature. Check with your carrier if they offer such a thing.

And there’s the outward insulting. Are you proud of yourself? Do you feel better now?

I still root my android phone because I use an iPhone as my main phone. That way I can do whatever the fuck I want to my android phone and not care.

I stopped tinkering with ROMs a long time ago and I’ve just stuck with Nexus and Pixel devices so I don’t feel the need for a ROM.

My favorite line from someone here: Yeah we have a hybrid work system. You work in the office until 5pm. Then you go home at work from home.

I’m waiting for a headline that’s “game dev asks workers to return to office 7 days a week”.

Lemmy moment.

Bleed and galoob were both explicitly comercial products.

My qualm is all of the visual artificing I see. Maybe it’s just the games I play, but there are some pretty bad graphical glitches that bother me, and the frame timing is off or something because it makes the game feel less smooth. Part of the smoothness is probably the relatively weak CPU in my laptop. But even on my desktop the frame pacing doesn’t feel the same as native.

That particular person appears to believe that upscalers, such as like DLSS and FSR, are “basic features”

Do people really like DLSS/FSR that much that they consider it a basic feature? I can’t stand the look of it and I’d rather just run actually at a lower resolution since it ends up looking better.

Just open up 50 chrome tabs, have discord, Spotify and all your other junk running in the background.

That’s why I went with a dual computer setup at home. My gaming PC just runs the game (and monitoring software because I’m a nerd) and my second PC does all the internet browsing/other stuff.

I’ve never had a controller with drift problems, and I know how I treat my controllers. I’ve seen people with controllers that drift all the time, and I’ve seen how they treat their controllers. There’s definitely a link.

That said high quality controllers (like first party ones) generally drift less, but not always (see switch joycons). If OP is killing his controller in months then something is going on.

Yeah they’re not even comparable. Multi monitor setups are great for sim rigs where your head will stay relatively static.

But VR is a completely different ball game.

Yeah that’s really bad. What are the specs of your machine? My i9 rtx 3080 laptop was dropping a few frames with the video at 4k, but the viewable picture closer to 1440p.

Supposedly it’s 60 fps. Right click and do the stats for nerds and see if you’re dropping frames.

That said it doesn’t really feel like consistent 60 fps. Some parts definitely look like it wasn’t recorded in 60 or something.

Crysis actually looked good for its time, and wasn’t horribly optimized. It just legitimately needed hardware that didn’t exist yet.

CS2 looks like ass and without bug fixes will probably never perform well on any future hardware.

They don’t mention it anywhere but is it USB 4 40gbit the thunderbolt one, or the USB 4 20gbps that shouldn’t exist.

At the very top of the full specs on the right hand side. The teeeeeeny tiny light grey button that says expand shows the supported network bands. They just break it out to US and “international” which I assume means they’re all the same outside of the US.

Which model do you have? You’d be missing out of mmWave 5g on international models according to GSM Arena. You still have low (basically 4g) and mid (~350Mbps) bands, but you’re missing out on the high bands which can do > 1gbps connections and are amazing at crowded events like concerts.

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s23-12082.php

And just because a laptop has a trackpad doesn’t mean people don’t use them with their laptops. Our office is 90% Macbook pro and of those users only 10% use a trackpad (the external bluetooth one at that, not even the built in one)

As of 2024, Apple sells just one computer with a mouse included

Apple sells 0 mice with 90% of their computers, the iMac is the only model that comes with any external peripherals besides a charger. The Mac mini has always been a “bring your own keyboard and mouse” type device, and the Mac Pro/Studio are for people who probably already have a keyboard and mouse.

Apps for Android auto are specifically designed to be used on a cars head unit. Apps for Android normally are just tablet apps which can have small UI elements which are awful to interact with when driving. Notifications are handled differently than they’d be on a phone. Mostly just prompting you to speak your response instead of expecting you to type it.

No, that’s normal when charging, especially fast charging.

First define hot, how hot is the battery? Are we talking battery temps of around 40c or much higher? It’s especially normal for the area around the CPU to get hot because the phone isn’t trying to save power and it’s trying to do backgrounds tasks.

New GPUs are supposed to perform better at the same price point as their last ones. If they didn’t then we’d be moving backwards.

Also the 4060’s MSRP is $30 less than the 3060, and yet it performs worse than the 3060 at times. So honestly we have been moving backwards.

It’s 144hz, not fps. For all we know he could be at like 30fps and it still counts.