It always surprised me but I never bothered asking why.

Thanks for doing it and thanks to people providing an explanation.

It surprised me to see this. The good news is that apparently it doesn’t affect the revenue of creators…

Still, I don’t really know what to think about it as I’d just want the creators to move willingly to another platform.

Agreed. When you download, you don’t really know what you’re getting. Also you don’t get consistency between all of your movies. That’s the difference when you rip your own stuff.

With the bluray drive, there isn’t much choice on the used market in Switzerland so I’m just trying to go with a good brand and check reviews if I find some.

In my country, used i7 or i5 are around the same price, but I can’t find an i5 with 16gb of ram to future proof it and make it useable for something else than a media center if I want to recycle it in the future.

Still I hope the i7 isn’t consuming too much or producing too much heat.

Can your project be downloaded and used or is it just something you’re working on for yourself for now?

To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.

Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.

I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS…

I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky…

Thanks for your answer! I only realized now that since it’s gonna be near my router, an Ethernet cable can do the job in case RPM Fusion and installling the Broadcom drivers isn’t enough.

Just put an offer on an auction site for a MacMini with 16Gb of Ram, an i7 and a 265gb SSD. We’ll see if I get it for less than 100.-🤞

Okay thanks!

What kind of technical hurdles do you mean? Apparently makeMKV makes it quite easy but I’d be happy to have feedback

I read your article and it was interesting.

I didn’t know the RAM on the 2014 MacMinis wasn’t upgradeable. Thanks for letting me know.

Also what did you mean by don’t bother with the hotter i7 version as I saw a lot of them for quite cheap? Are they bad or just too powerful for what I’d do?

As for the Broadcom module, I’ve done it on my 2012 upgraded MacBook Pro and it was easy in Fedora. Don’t know about other distros though…

The external Bluray poayer is a necessary for me as I really want to make copies of my own movies.

Some of them could also be difficult to find on torrent sites and a Blu ray player can also be useful to backup my videogames at one point.

In my country, it is legal to make copies of something you own. Even downloading movies is legal to make, but it ain’t what I want 😇

From what I’m seeing, you can’t really get these in Switzerland sadly. The second hand market consists mostly of MacMinis, HP EliteDesk 800 G3/5, Intel NUC stuff…

I have to admit that I don’t know if any of these are good except the MacMinis (because Apple) and HP EliteDesk (because we used them at work for years).

Could you give me an example of an n100 for Ryzen5 minipc? The power consumption wouldn’t be such a big problem as I’m never letting computer run when they are not in use, so it would only be on when we watch or listen to something.

Still the lower the power consumption, the better if it’s at an acceptable price and the thing can be upgraded/repaired if needed.

As long as it doesn’t use more energy than my current media center (a Playstation 5), I’m fine with it.

I don’t know about Cinamon as I’ve never used it, but I would never recommand KDE Plasma to a beginner.

It’s way too messy even if it’s really customizable.

Gnome is great, but I also think it’s too different from Windows for a beginner.

We need to keep old hardware alive and avoid e-waste when possible. What is your computer?

My wife’s upgraded 2012 MacBook Pro is nicknamed the beast as it’s so snappy running Fedora Workstation.

To be honest, I’m not really looking for a solution anymore as I gave up on Cosmic and just decided to use more extensions in Gnome instead.

The thing is, these problems show me that Linux can still be difficult to use if you don’t have hardware perfectly suited to it.

Even when you think that you now know enough about how to solve problems, all your previous solutions can be useless😅

Nah just to be clear, I tried to dual boot Fedora Cosmic Atomic and later Fedora Cosmic with Fedora Workstation.

Grub wasn’t seeing my Fedora Workstation install anymore, so I don’t think the Gnome network manager comes into account.

But I might be way out of my league as there is so much I don’t understand.

Interesting article. I think it would be really stupid to not reuse stuff if your game is set in a realistic universe (would be different for a cartoonish universe).

In fact, it would even be a way to avoid using AI (even if I think we’ll end up with devs reusing stuff and using AI).

Then you can use colors or lighting to create a different feel to the game, just like different movie directors can film the same place in a totally different way.

As you can see, I care about achievements: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56525516

As others have said, it’s a great incentive to go deeper in a game. It should just not become a grind and that’s why I don’t 100% a lot of games.

It can also make you remember what branch of a story you went for in a story driven game.

If it gives data to developer about how a game is played, it ain’t something I mind as the way I play isn’t a important privacy wise as other data.

What’s stupid is when people buy a game just because it has easy achievements though…

Oh yeah the Deck can be a quite powerful desktop computer if you enjoy KDE.

I use it like this from time to time after configuring to behave like Gnome, but I prefer the original flavour.