conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, they could not. AMD cards don't have any of the hardware to execute the same or similar operations. Executing the same code without tensor cores to accelerate them would tank performance, which is the entire reason you get less performance gain for far worse image quality with FSR in the first place.

The literal only thing AMD's hardware is competitive at is raw traditional raster performance, because Nvidia has better designs that leverage hardware features to accelerate portions of the ray tracing and upscaling workloads much more efficiently.

AMD is trying to copy hardware features with software, and it's not comparable.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nvidia doesn't care.

They're just not wasting resources working on it because it's not remotely comparable to DLSS. The quality isn't comparable and the resource use isn't comparable (because the entire point of DLSS is that Nvidia added separate hardware to do a far better, far more efficient job at it). Why would they go back and add something that's just doing a worse job copying their tech?

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's worth it just for my PS4 library not punishing me with a ten minute wait every time I die. The loading entirely changes the experience and enables punishing gameplay to be far less frustrating, in the same way Celeste can have harder sequences and be less annoying than something like Mario at the same time.

But the controller features are insane as well.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's not like they're blocking their cards from running it.

They're not replacing DLSS with it because it's a huge downgrade.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

You could be banned by specific settings in your AMD graphics driver

You mean injecting code into their executable. That's all AMD.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
  • Playing and controlling audiobooks on Google Play Books with your voice. You can still cast audiobooks from your mobile device.

Downgrade.

  • Setting or using media alarms, music alarms, or radio alarms on Google Assistant enabled devices. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior or use a standard alarm.

Downgrade

  • Accessing or managing your cookbook, transfering recipes from device to device, playing an instructional recipe video, or showing step-by-step recipes. - You can use Google Assistant to search for recipes across the web and YouTube.

Absolute dogshit that doesn't vaguely resemble a substitute in any way.

  • Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.

Whatever

  • Using your voice to call a device or broadcast a message to your Google Family Group. You can still broadcast to devices in your home.

Downgrade

  • Using your voice to send an email, video or audio message. You can still make calls and send text messages.

Downgrade

  • Rescheduling an event in Google Calendar with your voice. You can still schedule a new event.

Downgrade

  • Using App Launcher in Google Assistant driving mode on Google Maps to read and send messages, make calls, and control media. You can still use voice control on Google Maps the same way.

No clue what the difference is.

  • Asking to schedule or hear previously scheduled Family Bell announcements. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior.

No clue what Family Bell is

  • Asking to meditate with Calm. You can still ask for meditation options with media providers such as YouTube.

YouTube sucks

  • Voice control for activities will no longer be available on Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 devices. You’ll need to use the buttons on your device to start, stop, pause, and resume activities. You can still voice control activities on Pixel Watches.

Downgrade

  • Viewing your sleep summaries will only be available on Google Smart Displays. You can still ask for sleep details by voice on third-party smart clocks.

Punishing third parties for no reason by taking away features they had

  • Calls made from speakers and Smart Displays will not show up with a caller ID unless you’re using Duo.
  • Viewing the ambient “Commute to Work” time estimates on Smart Displays. You can still ask for commute times and get directions by voice.

Laughable "replacement". Having it visible is the whole point.

-Checking personal travel itineraries by voice. You can still ask for flight status. - Asking for information about your contacts. You can still make calls to your contacts. - Asking to take certain actions by voice, such as send a payment, make a reservation, or post to social media. You can still ask Assistant to open your installed apps.

Eh I don't care about these.

I don't use Google smart shit because I don't trust them with a microphone. But several of those are features people very easily could have purchased a device for. The cookbook one, as an example, is almost the entire reason you'd buy a device for your kitchen, and the suggested alternative is fucking offensive in how much of a pile of shit it is.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

A bunch of stuff that's both convenient and mostly not a huge amount of complexity on the development side. Nice.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure "nobara is fine, but I want to change for change to explore the space more" was the point.

But nobara doesn't belong in the title for that.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

"Every right", sure. But people have just as much right to decide that they're not OK with the pattern of behavior from Unity, to talk about it, and to avoid doing business with them as a result of it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For your batshit stated goal of "zero emissions no matter what", they absolutely are the same thing. A fire is emissions.

But again. Even theoretically going back to fire would only be possible if you exterminated the overwhelming majority of humanity.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

No, we didn't. Humans discovered fire a hell of a long time ago.

And unless you're willing to exterminate thousands for every one that lives, "go back to fire" isn't theoretically possible either.

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