I'm *pretty sure* the proper name of a Canada goose is "murder honker", or "cobra chicken"

Except for my daughter when she was 3 who called them "mangoes"

the article talks specifically about file size & the need for a universal codec? your main argument was AV1 is slow, but it's provably not slow to decode. other properties like luminescence, colour range etc to handle how it looks is part of the spec already for anyone that knows what they're doing

With the right tunings, I can take a 4k video stream encoded in x.265 at ~80Mbps bitrate, and with almost no perceptible loss in quality drop it down to 7 or 8Mbps using AV1. the devices decoding the stream have significantly better performance on AV1 too since they have less data to process per sec

file size correlates to bitrate - an inefficient codec like x264 requires higher bitrates, which in turn consumes more of your internal compute resources (eg, L1/L2 cache). further, x264 and many other codecs are proprietary & can cost *a lot* to use. AV1 and HEVC (x265) are much more palatable

But it really depends a lot on how the encoder is configured - there's a big difference in encoding for video stream to low spec devices, vs lossless archive quality encodings meant for a high spec server

Afraid I don't own a SteamDeck, but AV1 is highly tunable & it's a supported part of the spec to configure for fast, low resource decode, including optimizing for single core or multicore performance

The main benefit of x264 is broad software compatibility, but it sucks for efficiency

Not really, if your PC can run games it can decode AV1; it's _encoding_ that's compute intensive. The efficiency though is staggering, and it's open source (I've been messing around with AV1 & ffmpeg a lot lately)

Uhh, what? It's a measurement system, and a pretty nonsensical one at that. It doesn't correlate to much of anything, natural or otherwise. Movies use it because of American defaultism, plus gives that "old timey" feel in fantasy settings...because it's, y'know, medieval and all

In what is a not great time for the industry it *absolutely rules* to see some mega successful indies using their platform to lift up other indies.

🤣

Interesting, but disappointing it's written in C++, that's just screaming memory management nightmare & setting itself up as a malicious hacker's playground

I'm 100% against Chromium & all for improved web engine diversity but I don't see this as a realistic alternative

So.... MicroGestapo now? Guess that's one way to get people to stop using MicroSlop

No problem, keep an eye out for game dev lists too - every now and then someone will post one & it's a good way to get into the game dev community on here ❤️

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Sorry, there's a better/more up to date link here... need to finish my coffee before I start posting stuff 😅

bsky.app/profile/trez...

By the way, if you want to get one of those fancy game dev labels for your account there are instructions here: bsky.app/profile/trez...

Programmer art can be fun to see too!

Plus, for me at least, it's nice scrolling back & having a visual history of how far the game has come - especially on the rough days where it feels like you're stuck in the mud spinning your tires

Y'all are still stuck using medieval measurement systems so I wouldn't say this stubborn attitude is toward progress is anything new 😆

Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware - www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Better-Gaming...

There is a picture of Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds standing together. Below, there is a very real thread where Bill says, "What does VIBE in "Vibe Coding" stand for? To which Linus Torvalds replies, "Very inefficient but entertaining."

Linus Torvalds, the legend 🔥

Since I work with bevy & an ECS design, pause is tracked as a Resource (kind of a special global variable) Paused(bool) for Heat Retreat, with "game time" systems only updating on condition Paused(false). Works super well, except for the pause menu itself & ensuring "background" UI is also stopped 😅

Game devs, plz tell me how "pausing the game" works in your game? Is it weird? Is it simple? Is it janky?

I'm curious how such a common feature--the ability to pause and check your settings, etc--actually works & what happens when players hit pause!

Reply / DM / email me at - Zzwiezen@kotaku.com

It's a Dell, so overheating is on brand. My first Dell (which was from the same era as yours, pictured) was so bad - on XP - that I'd have to keep it on an ice pack while doing anything remotely intense

It was actually the machine that pushed me to use Linux in the first place with all the BSOD's

Container | Jellyfin Install as a container using Docker, Podman and others.

Amazing work with the documentation @jellyfin.org team, really appreciate that podman and systemd are included with sane, *good* recommendations re running rootless! This is without a doubt the best I've come across through all the self hosting I do

jellyfin.org/docs/general...

Mark Hamill on LEGO SMART Play and 50 Years of STAR WARS Mark Hamill talks about his role as the LEGO Group's Junior Executive Director of Information, a.k.a. J.E.D.I. promoting their new Star Wars SMART Play sets.

Had the great privilege of chatting with the man/the myth/the legend @markhamillofficial.bsky.social on all things LEGO, & 50 years of #StarWars for @nerdist.bsky.social. I was even lucky enough to get a trademark Hamill “grumpy Harrison Ford” impression. Check it out! nerdist.com/article/mark...

Debian with LVM would do the job well enough with an eclectic hardware selection, especially older stuff. LVM does pose problems of its own but it'll do the job

Throw in Cockpit for a graphical management dashboard if needed and you've got a serviceable NAS

I use TrueNAS and absolutely do NOT recommend - it's a shit show of features that don't work & they silently drop support for but still advertise

Mismatched drives aren't really a huge deal and can be managed by any OS - it only limits filesystem options

This is so, so well-articulated.

Was worth a shot I guess, it doesn't work under The Cloud either 😝

Plus, if they get really frustrated, a gentle push in the right direction and they _can_ fire that crap into the sun 😄

Haha, my first Dell had to live on top of an ice pack for gaming, and my 2nd (and final) needed to be kept in a refrigerator while compiling any decent sized code back in university (I'd get some funny looks from faculty when I'd ask to use the staff fridge for UAV team stuff😂)