• A controller designed for PCs
• Handheld PC-based portable console.

Also Wayland in Linux wasn't improving as fast as they'd like so they're creating their own development protocol for that too lol

The whole "don't reinvent the wheel" mantra in software development is strong, and for very good reason. When a company basically does so, repeatedly, and are repeatedly successful at it, that truly is notable.

I guess that's just your comment though, with more words and no examples lol

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Now, can we fix flashlights in games such that we don’t get a well defined circle of lit area surrounded by completely a black environment?

Sure, we can do that, but we won't because of the narrative and functional in-game purpose of the flashlight. It's not meant to be realistic, it's meant to make the game feel a specific way.

You just described ray tracing. The problem is, it's incredibly computationally expensive. That's why DLSS and FSR were created to try and make up for the slow framerates.

Shouldnt ray tracing fix that?

That's exactly the sort of thing his work improved. He figured out that graphics hardware assumed all lighting intensities were linear when in fact it scaled dramatically as the RGB value increased.

Example: Red value is 128 out of 255 should be 50% of the maximum brightness, that's what the graphics cards and likely the programmers assumed, but the actual output was 22% brightness.

So you would have areas that were extremely bright immediately cut off into areas that were extremely dark.

Made harder by brightness being perceived non - linearly. We can detect a change in brightness much easier in a dark area than a light- if the RGB value is 10%, and shifts to 15%, we'll notice it. But if it's 80% and shifts to 85%, we probably won't.

As a person who tends to come from the technical side, this doesn't surprise me. Without a deep understanding of the subject, how would you come up with an accurate formula or algorithm to meet your needs? And with lighting in a physical space, that would be an arts major, not a math or computing major.

Most of my best work (which I'll grant is limited) came from working with experts in their field and producing systems that matched their perspectives. I don't think this diminishes his accomplishments, bit rather emphasizes the importance of seeking out those experts and gaining an understanding of the subject matter you're working with to produce better results.

"Just code around it. This is the way it has always been done, and the way it always will be done."

I just max all the volume sliders and use voicemeeter to control the volume levels of the different audio sinks. Although I guess that doesn’t help if you’re trying to leave game sfx audio at max volume but lower in game music or something.

The most recent version of Steam on the Deck addresses this if you go to the "Non-Steam Game" page. It gives you the option to install Chrome and add it as a non-steam shortcut with one click. It also has a short note about how you can easily do it with any app in Desktop Mode, and that they're working on a way to do that within the Gaming Mode interface.

Not ideal, but they're working on it. Also, would prefer Firefox obv.

What store was broken?

Edit: I ask which store, because while I prefer CLI for updating and maintaining packages on my main device, the Discover store has always worked perfectly fine for me. And if you're using it on the Steam Deck level (SteamOS is immutable), then you don't really need to understand what a Flatpak is any more than you understand what an .exe is. Think if them as literally the same thing for your purposes.

And if anything, maintaining and updating programs is way easier than Windows as it does it all automatically.

On that web page, the left side is similar to the bottom, but on Lemmy, the left side looks purple like the top right. The bottom right appears grey to me. Is that supposed to happen?