I like "Product Degradation" way better than "enshittification".
canis_majoris
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Yep! Sure is!
They remastered Star Trek as well as The Next Generation, but claimed that the physical sales did not cover the costs which were purportedly around 10 million for each series.
They opted to not to continue to remaster any of the shows that came afterward, namely Voyager and Deep Space Nine. That's where the fan community picked up the slack and made the AI upscales.
AI upscaling is probably just much cheaper and easier to do. I mean I do AI upscaling myself. The older Star Trek series that will never get a full Blu-Ray remaster/re-release has copies that have been upscaled from SD to HD and they are pretty flawless, especially considering it's a fan project.
That being said I've also seen the other side of the spectrum, where they AI upscaled King of the Hill and there was a lot of really weird artifacting and stuff going on.
Really sad to see studios just cheap out on high resolution releases. It just makes them look bad in the long run and makes me less likely to buy physical media.
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Cutting spending on social services is how it traditionally works.
They're already suffering severely. It's all downhill from here folks.
I think it's prudent to be on an older node, using stock that's more abundant, even if it's older - especially if it still performs the duties well enough. You're 100% on the cost side of things, especially considering that Nintendo has never had any consoles that were crazy expensive. Everything was always supposed to be family friendly and therefore family attainable.
I still think battery life is a higher concern for them than sheer power when in handheld mode though, and that's a key differentiating factor between a Deck and a Switch, besides the Nintendo first-party library and chip architecture. It's really cool that the Deck is flexible enough to do both high performance and low performance tasks with toggles for the draw.
The performance was never the consideration for Nintendo. They want a handheld that can last a long time, so they will always clock their chips down. You can't compare 30 watts all the time to 30 watts plugged in, let alone 5 watts in handheld mode.
Steam Decks are great, but lets be real; when you play a big AAA title, even on moderate settings, you might get two hours out of the machine pushing it to the limit at full TDP.
This is kind of a nothingburger story. We always knew Nintendo were not going to scale their machines up to the level of PC gaming handhelds.
I think you guys actually need more open communities and not less.
Quark's is great as an off-topic zone. The theme makes sense because the bar is somewhere people go to unwind and not necessarily talk direct shop. Stuff like news that's Trek-adjacent fits perfectly in here, but the subsequent topics listed after other sci-fi television kind of deserve their own community. I think the scope of Quark's is too large.
Navigating the fediverse and server meta have traditionally been their own communities as a /c/meta sort of affair. Those are definitely things that only the @stw community would really want to discuss internally and perhaps should be kept instance-user-only, but something like news and other "adjacent" content is of value across the federation and the opportunity for everyone to post just makes more organic sense to me. I would also take the opportunity to have another themed name, like /c/battlebridge, /c/ops or even /c/conferenceroom for the meta community.
Man, I don't like Stamets but he was right lol.
When you guys just wanna do something even if people disagree you're gonna do it.
On either side though it kind of sucks. From the mods are right perspective, yeah, basically only users from the instance post here already. On the other side though, bringing activity in from across the federation is definitely a better move long-term unless the people coming in are toxic. Latest non @stw poster had a hilarious premise and I loved it. Would hate to see that go, but I guess it's going to /c/startrek anyways.
Everybody is kinda dug in here, it's pretty sad.
Deleted comment was praising GitHub Copilot.
It's literally just a glorified autocorrect and suggestion feature.
It also suggests complete stochastic garbage most of the time. When I type "list" sometimes it will try to infer that I am writing a cookbook and try to autofill to "of ingredients" or even further.
It's an atomic variant of Fedora that satisfies all necessities for gaming with Linux, like coming with built in drivers and the option to install stuff like Steam and Discord during initial startup.
Atomic varieties of Linux are really cool, they are much less prone to breakage because all updates happen at once or not at all. They are just generally more stable and you can rollback easily if necessary.
Personally I just like Fedora, so my preconfigured options are either Bazzite or Nobara. I also prefer the stability of atomic variants. It's just a solid base to work with, regardless of if you're using a desktop or a handheld.
Fearsome wizard powers.