Nice to see Stadia had some long term benefit. It’s a shame they don’t make a self hosted version but if you did that it’s just piracy in today’s drm world.
This is unlike the model that PlayStation, Xbox and even Nvidia are following - I don’t know about Amazon Luna.
They recently added "Install to Play" where you can install games from Steam that aren't modified for the service. They charge for storage for this though.
Sadly, there's still tons of games unavaiable because publishers need to opt in and many don't.
Stadia required special version of games, so it wouldn't be that useful
Artemis is a bit better, but it still requires per-device setup of displays since it somehow doesn't disable the physical output next to the virtual one. Those drivers also add latency to the capture (the author of looking glass really dislikes them because they undo all the hard work of near-zero latency).
[1]: https://github.com/acuteaura/universe/blob/main/systems/_mod...
> virtual_display (charp)
> Set to enable virtual display feature. This feature provides a virtual display hardware on headless boards or in virtualized environments. It will be set like xxxx:xx:xx.x,x;xxxx:xx:xx.x,x. It’s the pci address of the device, plus the number of crtcs to expose. E.g., 0000:26:00.0,4 would enable 4 virtual crtcs on the pci device at 26:00.0. The default is NULL.
[1]https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/amdgpu/module-par...
edit: didn't realize you're the OP lol
> Built-in Virtual Display with HDR support that matches the resolution/framerate config of your client automatically
It includes a virtual screen driver, and it handles all the crap (it can disable your physical screen when streaming and re enable after, it can generate the virtual screen by client to match the client's needs, or do it by game, or ...)
I stream from my main pc to both my laptop and my steamdeck, and each get the screen that matches them without having to do anything more than connect to it with moonlight.
Steam has game streaming built in and works very well. Both Nvidia and AMD built this into their GPU drivers at one point or another (I think the AMD one was shut down?)
Those are just the solutions I accidentally have installed despite not using that functionality. You can even stream games from the steam deck!
Sony even has a system to let you stream your PS4 to your computer anywhere and play it. I think Microsoft built something similar for Xbox.
Speaking of which, who thought up the idea to use custom hardware for this that would _already be obsolete_ a year later? Who considered using Linux native instead of a compat layer? Why did the original Stadia website not even have a search bar??
...which is more important / needed than ever. I encourage every who asks to get my music from bit torrent instead of spotify.
I'm not above piracy if there's no DRM free option (or if the music is very old or the artist is long dead), but I still believe in supporting artists who actively support freedom.
Even better though, is a P2P service that is censorship resistant.
But yeah I like Bandcamp plenty.
> artists who actively support freedom.
The bluegrass world is quickly becoming this.
At its core is a corpus of traditional songs which have been handed down across generations, especially Irish fiddle tunes and West African banjo music.
The concepts of digital freedom trace multiple clear lineages to this tradition of music. For example, John Perry Barlow, who founded The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Freedom of The Press Foundation, and participated heavily in discussions on The WELL which laid the cryptological groundwork that eventually became blockchains, was a member of The Grateful Dead (who, while more of a rock or country band than a traditional string band, stewarded and celebrated this corpus of music across several decades) and was himself an aficionado of the history of IP-unencumbered music.
If you see the word "Traditional" on a bluegrass setlist (usually listed next to a song where an author normally goes), it effectively means "I assert that this song is not subject to intellectual property."
I need to revisit this in the next few weeks as I release my second record (which, if I may boast, has an incredible ensemble of most of my favorite bluegrass musicians on it; it was a really fun few days at the studio).
Currently I do pin all new content to IPFS and put the hashes in the content description, as with this video of Drowsy Maggie with David Grier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTI1HoFYbE0
Another note: our study of Drowsy Maggie was largely made possible by finding old-and-nearly-forgotten versions in the Great78 project, which of course the industry attempted to sue out of existence on an IP basis. This is another example of how IP is a conceptual threat to traditional music - we need to be able to hear the tradition in order to honor it.