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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•In light of the latest Nintendo controversy...English
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    15 hours ago

    … I recently randomed across ‘Spawn Wave’ on youtube.

    … This guy has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, and I am angry I fell for his clickbait.

    ‘The Switch 2 is more powerful than we thought’ is the name of his video.

    Foolish, stupid, gullible me… assumed he had some kind of… actually new, concrete information.

    Fucking, nope. He manages to spend about 5 minutes reading a spec sheet that’s been all over the internet for over 48 hrs now, and he… he opens with ‘how can the Switch 2 even run these games?’

    … then proceeds to vaguely talk about how chips have gotten more powerful.

    … The Switch 2 uses the T239 Nvidia APU. This has been… fairly widely reported on and speculated on for almost 2 years now.

    This guy just reads off of these old articles and the official, more vague spec sheet… spending 30 seconds saying each feature is super cool and awesome, somehow without actually explaining… what that feature is, how it works, how its different than some other older tech, what kind of performance would be reasonable to expect…

    Nope, new thing is new and cool and neat and better than old thing, technobabble buzzword salad of terms and figures he barely understands.

    He describes real time ray tracing as hitting your framerate hard, but we don’t know what game is going to use it on the Switch 2.

    He then jumps to next next bullet point, DLSS… totally neglects to mention that DLSS is the frame upscaling solution that counteracts the frame rate loss from real time ray tracing… and then says ‘people have been questioning if hands on events with the Switch 2 actually show games with DLSS.’

    Ok, 5 minutes into this 15 minute vid, he has said… nothing.

    ‘Here’s the CPU and GPU frequencies, whatever’

    facepalm

    ‘Whoah hey look, GSYNC, that means developers will be able to use VRR and thats good because devs will just know that and be able to design with that feature in mind’

    gsync has existed for over a decade and basically every pc monitor has supported gsync, or fsync, or both, for almost that long… and console game devs knowing the features of the consoles they are developing for / porting to has… been the case since consoles existed

    ‘Maybe it’ll be 40 frame per second!’

    completely baseless speculation

    ‘This one website has been tracking the T239 that had updates and linux distros and stuff’

    step aside hannah montana linux and redstar, im switching over to the Nvidia T239 distro

    ‘these frequency specs are just estimates, and even if its off by a single megahertz, its wrong’

    facepalm, again

    … ok now we are 9 minutes in…

    ‘Is the Switch 2 more powerful than the PS4? Yes, its pretty straightforward I think.’

    he says, after giving the most vague and useless breakdown of tech specs i have ever heard

    … ok, now its time to spend the rest of the video showing trailer footage for Cyberpunk 2077 and talk about how it will be on the Switch 2.

    …

    This… fucking guy… spent the early half of his video… having no clue whether or not any games on the Switch 2 would make use of Real Time Raytracing… and DLSS.

    … CP77 was basically the most prominent flagship debut of these Nvidia capabilities.

    He compares the PS5 handling of cp77 to… his random guess of the Switch 2’s handling of cp77… and says maybe it’ll be cut down from 60fps to 30 or 40, but it’ll make use of variable refresh rate.

    … what? the… the ps5… renders … on your… your tv… the switch 2 vrr … refers only to the Switch 2’s built in display… ???

    I guess I hope you already have a tv you bought in the last 2 or 3 years in your living room, otherwise you’re looking at upwards of $1500 for a new living room sized TV, Switch 2 fans!

    But hey its fine, its not like anyone is fretting over the Switch 2’s price point or anything.

    … Oh also basically no TVs that support VRR … go below 48 or 40 hz. So… uh… that’s gonna be quite a lot of upscaling and lowered graphics settings to run at a minimum of 40 or 48 hz/fps … at 4k.

    … Anyway, I just tuned my graphics settings for CP77, after installing decky frame gen and cryoutils, and I’m getting an average of 60 fps on my Deck in the benchmark, settings mosty high and medium, a few on ultra, a few low or off, quality mode for FSR 3.1 and it’s framgen, at the Deck’s 1280 x 800.

    Ah but shucks, no ray tracing =(

    I wonder if Switch 2 CP77… will even have a settings menu rofl.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee•2 March 2005English
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    2 days ago

    I literally had this scenario play out when I was pre-school age, in a day care due to parents having nonsense work schedule, no bus service to pre-school.

    It was ‘nap time’ and I sat in my little floor mat spot… with a book, reading it.

    Had multiple staff come over and tell me that ‘You can’t read, you’re lying, you’re just flipping the pages to be bothersome.’

    … By the time I was in second grade, I read so well and so routinely finished my classwork rapidly, that the school would assign me to 4th and 5th graders who were behind on their reading skills, and we’d sit outside of the classroom in the hallway, and I’d help them read through short kids books, help them pronounce words, define them.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoBuy European@feddit.uk•European tourism to the USA in free fallEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A sales tax is 100% a regressive tax.

    What that means is a poor person loses way more of their own income to a sales tax then a rich person loses.

    Example:

    Poor person has 20k a year, spends 300 (before taxes) a month in groceries, thats 3600 a year.

    Say the sales tax is 10%. Ok, that is 360/20000.

    1.8% of a poor person’s income goes to just tax on groceries a year.

    Ok, now someone who makes 80k spends the same amount on groceries.

    360/80000 = 0.45% of their income goes toward grocery sales taxes.

    Thus the tax burden of a sales tax hits poorer people harder than richer people.

    A progressive tax, like most income taxes… well the taxed amount increases as your income increases, so this is basically reversed: a richer person is taxed more in absolute terms than a poor person.

    …

    A high sales tax does not stimulate rich people to buy more.

    All it does is mean poor people buy much less, and rich people buy slightly less, thus shifting the demographic of people buying things.

    Whoever told told you that a high sales tax… stimulates rich spending… is economically illiterate, as in, they’d flunk an AP Micro course or a first year of a 4 year degree… that is absolute nonsense.

    All it does is filter out the poors, who now have a dramtically tighter budget than the rich, and make it seem like only rich people are coming into your store… because poor people stopped coming in.

    Could a Sales Tax be Progressive?

    Theoretically, you could have a progressive sales tax… but that would realistically require all POS sales sytems to also pull your income when you swipe a debit or credit card.

    Its not totally impossible to do this, but it would be quite complicated to implement, you’d have privacy issues, data security issues, smaller business owners would have to foot a disproportionate cost as compared to large businesses to upgrade their systems… how do you handle cash transactions, id verification, etc.

    To my knowledge, no such system has ever been implemented in the US… or possibly anywhere, at a large scale.

    Bonus! Property Taxes:

    Property taxes vary much more locally and regionally, with many more possible complicating factors.

    Basically, some government system or process estimates the value of your home as if you tried to sell it on the market, that year.

    Then taxes are applied to that estimated value.

    But… lots of governments do the value estimation part in ways that are both absurdly complicated and often quite out of step with actual the actual market, and there are often complex rules determining what triggers a new valuation or when it occurs.

    Usually property taxes themselves, once your property value is assesed, are a flat rate based on the assesed value.

    So… that too is a regressive tax, that effectively punishes less wealthy property owners more than wealthier property owners…

    But there are so manh caveats and complications to any given city or county or state’s local property tax laws that it can vary quite significantly.

    …

    thank you for coming to my ted talk lol

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Rawr XDEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Fuck, that sounds awesome!

    I used to have a set up like that, though it was wired, not wireless. I’d just haul the rig out to the living room lol, had a fairly small and light pc, so it wasn’t too much work, did cable management to make the transitioning easier.

    Also somewhat related… I was just talking with another person who was unable to get that level of quality, resolution and frame rate via streaming their PC to their living room TV… also they mentioned input latency with very fast paced and fine tuned racing games.

    You mind if I ask how you’re actually doing the streaming?