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Last I checked the idle power consumption of the BC-250 was on the higher side to make me not want to use it as a media center, though that could be my PSU. No hardware decode/encode (yet) either.

And lack of DRM makes a PC in general a mediocre experience for official streaming services if you want more than 720p streaming. If you care about that.

Jeff Geerling has done a review and follow-up on one: https://youtu.be/twoAW0eLiXY

I've considered just getting a bunch of 65W USB-C buck converters and DIY one.

Not a power issue but a feature issue. No ray tracing stops Indiana Jones and Doom Dark Ages (though you can do it in software on Linux): https://youtu.be/aU2qwlCLWm8 . Doom Dark Ages also added a check for Vulkan Variable Rate Shading, requiring a workaround to spoof it. Mesh shader requirement prevents Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth from running.

If you look at modern games that still do this, plenty of them add additional anticheats, not less.

FiveM, modded servers for GTAV, had anticheats before Rockstar added any which already prevented Linux players. Face IT for CS2 does the same.

Unless you're on the absolute newest stuff with DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1 has more bandwidth than DP1.4. That'll be Nvidias 2000 through 4000 series. No DisplayPort 2.1 until the RTX 5000s.

And then monitors released during this time generally do the same too.

Also if you want to use it through a capture card, HDMI ones are way more common and cheaper

Another feature locked behind the app is individual part cancelling which is nice for partial print failures.

SDL, who's main developer has been at Valve for years, already has added support for it back in November: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/joystick/hid...

It's a bit more complicated than that (on Windows) because Steam doesn't make a virtual gamepad to the OS. The way Steam handles the input is by hooking into the games individually. So to use Steam for other games, you need to add them to Steam as non-steam games.

Even open source controller remapping tools (not just Steam Controller) and similar used ViGEmBus which is no longer maintained. You can have it do mouse/keyboard though, those don't require custom drivers.

Seeing as the original Steam Controllers kernel drivers were community reverse engineered rather than Valve contributed, I don't know if I believe in them to make one for the new one either: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Controller-RE-Kernel

Community servers don't want server-side anti-cheat either. Hell they invented client-side anti-cheats back in the day. Even current day community servers like Face-IT have additional anti-cheats, not less. Same with modded GTAV FiveM (even before the main game added anti-cheats)

I'm using the smaller vision models (Qwen3.5-4B currently) with Frigate, a FOSS self-hosted "AI" NVR. It's good enough at analyzing images to figure out mostly what's happening, and doesn't require the big knowledge base that bigger models have.

Also use a bigger model for summarizing or translating text, which I don't consume in realtime, so doesn't need to be fast. Would be a thing I could use OpenAI's batch APIs for if I did need something higher quality.

> v4 was built around the idea of multiple free standing networks linked by gateways.

I don't think this is what v4 was built around, but rather what v4 turned into.

CIDR wasn't introduced until 1993. NAT in 1994. Both to handle depleting IP addresses.

I've got this bookmarked for tracking: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...

Not on this list is the current GPU Vulkan drivers Collabora are working on too. Don't think that's really blame Rockchip since they're ARM Mali-G610 GPUs, but yeah those didn't get stable in Mesa until last year.

Similarly sad for their PC38X headset. Though I know they shut down their Epos brand it was under a while ago.

I don't disagree. Gotta backups for important data either way too!

Just talking about filesystems with checksumming (and multidevice). Any new filesystem to support these features is going to be newer.

I've had both btrfs and bcachefs multidevice filesystems lock up read-only on me. So no real data loss, just a pain to get the data into a new file system, the time it was an 8 drive array on btrfs.

Bcachefs also fulfills the requirement of checksums (and multi device support).

Also out of tree.

Another method for gyro aim is flick stick, using the right stick to control the direction of your aim (on the left/right axis) and gyro for fine tuning and also up/down axis.

https://youtu.be/CiSS5OsNCNU from the creator explains it (and older gyro controls).

At least part of it is probably Microsoft's 40 TOPS NPU requirement for their Copilot+ badge. Intel also have NPUs in their modern CPUs. Phones CPU manufacturers have been doing it even longer, though Google calls theirs TPU.

I use an older Google Coral TPU running in my home lab being used by Frigate NVR for object detection for security cameras. It's more efficient, but less flexible than running it on the GPU.

Don't know if I need an NPU for my daily driver computer, but I would want one for my next home server.

The number being discussed is not March alone, but the percent change. So March's number relative to February's number.

It's not the same as EasyAntiCheat and doesn't support the same features. It's like saying Excel works on iPad, but you can't even use VBA on that.

Or a game example: I have Minecraft (Bedrock) on my phone so therefore I should be able to do the same things as Minecraft (Java) on Windows. The problem is they're the same names for different software with similar, but not the same, functionality.

I believe most of those work with controller drivers in the application (Dolphin Emulator or Steam/SDL) rather than the OS level. That's why the Windows solution requires Zadig to replace the HID driver.

On Linux instead of replacing the driver, you have to add an udev rule that allows applications to communicate with the USB device directly: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/blob/master/6... And you can see in this list, it's not the only controller with that requirement.

SteamOS includes this by default.

The explanation I've heard is simply: Chinese New Years happened, which means a lot more Chinese gamers are online in February during the week long national holiday.

It happened in last year's March stats too: https://web.archive.org/web/20250404061527/https://store.ste... -25%

I've forgotten about ncdc. That was the one we used back in university.

> Which puts us exactly where we are

The difference here is it can be set by the parent on the OS and locked. Requiring sudo equivalent to change.

The way it is now, there's nothing stopping a (18-) user from logging out of a 'parental control enabled' account and making a new account without those controls on any service from Facebook to Steam. So the only effective option at that point is to entirely block that app or service.

This gives more power to parental control software. And yeah moves the responsibility from the service to the parents, which is what the services want cuz COPPA and other similar laws.

> How does the OS know that you moved from the "13-15" bracket to the "16-17" bracket without knowing your DoB?

No one says it has to be automatic. The OS could require the parent to manually update it.

> All the games that use kernel anti cheat have the simulation running on the server.

There's an exception with fighting games. Fighting games generally don't have server simulations (or servers at all), but every single client does their own full simulation. And 2XKO and Dragon Ball FighterZ have kernel anti cheat.

Well I'm just nitpicking and it's different because it's one of the few competitive genres where the clients do full game state simulations. Another being RTS games.

Not sure if they are considered anti-cheats, but there are some measures to detect usage of input devices like XIM that allow keyboard and mouse inputs which allow for superior aim over controllers.

Well it's definitely not game developer written kernel anti-cheat on consoles.

According to the open source drivers, it's closer to RDNA1+RT. Missing features of RDNA2 like mesh shaders.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11982

Until it happens in California too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7

The requested info is age range, not actual year born. So that's actually giving too much info, and could be breaking the law. Especially because 18+ is a completely valid range.