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  • Skyline969@piefed.catoAsk@piefed.social•Why is IPv6 so important?English
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    1 day ago

    Ok, here’s the non-technical explanation.

    So let’s make sure we’re on the same page. IP addresses are like internet phone numbers. IPv4 (what we have been using for years) is fine, but we’re almost out of numbers.

    We’ve known we were gonna run out of numbers for a while now, and to slow this down we used NAT. Just think of it as using an extension in addition to the phone number. All phones in an office dialing out use the same phone number, but if you want to call someone you use the extension.

    IPv6 is a new phone number. We can have way more of them and we will not run out, probably ever. IPv4 has enough addresses for half of the world’s population. IPv6 has enough addresses for every single grain of sand on the planet.

  • Skyline969@piefed.catoGaming@lemmy.zip•"At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood bossEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Do you actually believe that DLSS 5’s graphics are good looking? Lighting is completely lost as every character has three point lighting applied to them. Same with surfaces, original lighting is just gone.

    Every character looks like they have a pound of makeup on their face. Details get muddled or lost entirely, replaced with what the model decides it should look like instead of the artist’s original intent.

    Not to mention hallucinations and other inaccuracies. DLSS 5 uses a 2D frame for its filters. Depth and context are lost entirely as it physically cannot keep track of those things. In images with small, repeated patterns (such as a net), the model completely eats shit and doesn’t know what to do. All on top of ridiculous hardware requirements to even pull it off in the first place.

    This is not the future. This is not giving people tools to make better games.

  • Skyline969@piefed.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the deal with people liking old devices?English
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    23 days ago

    By using an older piece of tech that does one thing, you make doing that thing an activity again. As in, it’s a conscious involvement to do that thing now, it’s not just an app or a side feature of some other device.

    For instance, I got an iPod Nano a little while ago and just loaded it with the few hundred songs I care to listen to. I use a fraction of the space of the thing if I care to add more music, but now when I want to listen to music I have to use a specific device to do so. It makes it more of a conscious decision to listen to music and, to me, makes me enjoy it more.