To be fair, people need to set their priorities straight. Even though these are marketed as 'gaming' hardware, are they actually?

I have an RTX 4060 8GB VRAM that seems to have people hating all over it, but I don't see the point, currently, to buy another GPU. It runs smoothly enough every single game I've attempted to run it, including stuff like Alan Wake 2. There's also the fact that most AAA games that demand a strong hardware are barely worth playing.

But as long as 'gamers' keep fixating on the idea that gaming can only be enjoyable when they own the best hardware to run things on 4k, 120fps, almost zero input delay, and whatever the fuck else the market sell as essential for a 'true gaming experience', that's what you get: extremely overpriced hardware, that will never feel enough.

I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It's available through Flatpak.

If you want something more feature reach and don't care too much about UI, then Calibre.

The person that did it probably just wanted to upscale the image, but regenerated the whole thing instead.

If they used an upscale model on something like Upscayl or Comfy, they'd certainly would have achieved much better results. But they probably don't know it.

I've read it (from here: https://archive.ph/ci9vj#selection-591.0-859.53 because I don't want to give them the clicks). And? I agree with @chickenf622@sh.itjust.works , it smells like an advertisement. In fact, it doesn't just smells, it practically screams like corporate propaganda.

I particularly couldn't care less about Game Pass at this point. I'm just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that's good for those who still use Windows just for that.

At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn't technically suppose to.

Not sure if I understand the thread, but it seems to me it was trying to find out how many people actually reply to posts on Lemmy, rather than just reacting or seeing and ignoring them. And what it seems to find out, is that Lemmy is actually very active. According to it, the median community replies to 74% of all posts, which doesn't look bad at all imo.

It also seems to compare the numbers to Farcaster, and concludes that Lemmy's lack of rigged algorithms, focused on chronological feed, creates more active communities with higher visibility and replies. It also seems to conclude that the chosen server heavily impacts the response rate (Lemmy.world with 93% of active threads, compared to 56% on Lemmy.zip).

The biggest problem though, is that it compares Lemmy to Farcaster, which are completely different platforms. Farcaster is a microblog like X / Mastodon / Bluesky, that, by design, is a whole different beast, and also way too niche. Without comparing it directly to Reddit or other comparable social networks, I don't think it actually means anything that useful (at least not in a comparison).

Also, the data is too short (1 day, 50 posts each community) to draw conclusions, which makes it fundamentally flawed. If the data was extended for an entire week or a month, and done in different times of the day (considering that time zone matters), the conclusions could have been much more interesting.

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they're probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don't know what's gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there's a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that's still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

I'm not very familiar with RSS Feeds, but I'm pretty sure that anyone can follow, without approval, any user, using RSS, from Reddit, Lemmy, Piefed or Mastodon and they wouldn't be notified about it. What Piefed does is just facilitate it from within ActivityPub, almost like an built in and more transparent RSS Feed.

It basically comes down to how ActivityPub works. When someone follows you, what happens next depends entirely on how the recipient's software is programmed to handle that request. Mastodon has a way to handle it, and Lemmy/Piefed has a different way.

Mastodon is a microblogging software focused on 'personal' accounts and posts, and if a user enable the option to require a follow request, the backend will wait for the request to be accepted before approving it.

On the other hand, Lemmy/Piefed were designed as a public forum software, with a focus on public communities and discussions. Since all posts and comments are treated as public data, there's no reason for a follow request/approval system. So when someone follows a Lemmy/Piefed user, the backend approves it automatically.

If a Mastodon user follows a Lemmy/Piefed user, Mastodon sends a follow request to Lemmy/Piefed backend, which automatically accepts the request (because Lemmy/Piefed always accept follow requests automatically).

If a Lemmy/Piefed user follows a Mastodon user, it depends entirely on what the user settings are. If they have the approval request option disabled, then the backend will also accept the request automatically, but if they enabled the approval request option then they need to actually accept that request.

That being said, there's nothing shady about that. It's just how each software (Lemmy/Piefed/Mastodon or whatever) operates based on their own purpose. They share the same ActivityPub protocol which makes them able to communicate with each other, but they don't share the same philosophy design.

But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can't Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?