Frame Generation w/ Lossless Scaling is Game Changer - Lemmy.World

I’ve been using the Lossless Scaling app for a while, and been really impressed with how well in the Frame Generation works for certain scenarios. Lately I’ve used it with is Baldur’s Gate 3, specifically Act 3 which even with my fairly solid hardware wasn’t getting anywhere near the 144 hz monitor refresh rate. Mainly CPU bound too, so even lowering graphics settings didn’t make much of a difference. Ended up just setting in-game Framerate cap to 48 and then using X3 frame generation in Lossless Scaling. Now visuals are smooth as butter, very minor visual artifacts, and any additional input latency I don’t really notice (being turn based / slower game helps I’m sure).

What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100? - Lemmy.World

TIL: How to Wake up a Laptop without WoL - Lemmy.World

I’ve had a laptop that I’ve never been able to get WoL (Wireless or otherwise) to work, no matter what I tried. Recently realized that the Bluetooth keyboard i used was able to wake it with a key press though. I searched and found an ESP Home project that will make an ESP32 emulate a Bluetooth keyboard - https://github.com/dmamontov/esphome-blekeyboard/tree/main [https://github.com/dmamontov/esphome-blekeyboard/tree/main] Now for $6 of hardware, I can wake my Laptop up remotely via HA, whenever needed. Definitely recommended!

Did you hear what happened with the documentary on belt alternatives? - Lemmy.World

Filming is suspended, all their work is held up!

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights? - Lemmy.World

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not making the rest of the game less challenging as well.

Netdata Mobile App coming soon? - Lemmy.World

I was looking at the billing plan for Netdata to see what the difference was between “Early Bird” and regular free plan. Noticed there’s a row labeled “Mobile App” that is included for Early Bird / Paid, has anything about this been announced?

I was talking to my Australian buddy the other day... - Lemmy.World

We were discussing breakfast foods and I asked what his favorite was. He’s pretty obsessed with playing Chess and said he’d tell me after a quick game. I begrudgingly agreed… When we got to the end he told me, “That’s Checkmate and it’s Chex mate”

Anyone have good memories of (or still belong to) a gaming clan? - Lemmy.World

Was thinking about this today, pretty unique time way back in my gaming past. Belonged to a clan that would play things like War Rock (old F2P game), Battlefield 2, early CoD games, etc. It was really the only time I belonged to a gaming clan, and I remember (maybe through the lens of nostalgia?) having a great time with it. Someone was always on voice chat, I think we used TeamSpeak then switched to Vent, then finally Mumble? I remember it being fairly small group, so everyone knew each other. There was also a really wide range of ages as well, so it was almost more like a strange family than a group of friends. Just funny to think back, how frequently we all talked to each other, without ever having actually met in-person. Then it just kind of faded away slowly, I couldn’t even tell you why / when I stopped. Anyone else have similar experience / memories? Do you still belong to any gaming clans today (new or old)?

TIL: You can view long term statistics for sensors in Home Assistant - Lemmy.World

I had already tweaked my Recorder storage from the default of 10 days to 30, but was looking to view statistics for longer (e.g. a year). Maybe this is common knowledge, but I’ve use HA quite a while, and today I learned that many integrations have sensors that are already setup to store long term statistics [https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/sensor/#long-term-statistics] for an indefinite amount of time. Confusingly, these stats aren’t shown anywhere in the default UI (as far as I can tell). Whether you go to the Entity properties, or the History page, neither shows these long term stats (just the shorter, Recorder ones). The only out-of-the-box way to view them seems to be with the “statistics graph” card. To make it easier to view this useful info, stumbled on this awesome custom UI card. It let’s you swap out the default “history” graph on Entity properties, with one that will automatically pull from “long term statistics” when you zoom out - https://github.com/alexarch21/history-explorer-card#overriding-the-ha-more-info-history [https://github.com/alexarch21/history-explorer-card#overriding-the-ha-more-info-history] One thing to note is, setting this is all client-side, so you’ll need to select the override option in each browser / mobile-app you use. Works great! Hope this helps someone!

Starfield has some beautiful landscapes! - Lemmy.world