Its also way better for you.
Legit, I was so warned about eating disorders when I was young, I never learned to just eat light and how fasting is a thing.
Eat some nuts and enjoy some other stuff. Meat shoumd ve cuts, and it should only 2-3 times a week.
Immich, obsidian, ollama, Plex...
Barely scratching the surface but yea, I host everything.
ITT: Ill will towards corporate America.
Like I want someone to goto some of these CEO retreats and really drive home with them, plainly, how much we wish they all just fucking died. Don't care how, but the average citizen actually would rejoice.
And we have the receipts to prove it.
This is a hilariously bad take for anything not VR. async warping causes frame smearing on detail that is really noticable when the screens aren't so close your peripheral blind spots make up for it.
Its an excellent tool in the toolbox but to pretend that async reprojection "solved" this kind of means you don't understand the problem itself..
Edit: also the LTT video is very cool as a proof of concept, but absolutely demonstrates my point regarding smearing. There are also many, MANY cases where a clean frame with legible information would be preferable to a less latent smeared frame.
It was like wearing a technicolor badge with flashers that said "don't look at me" while playing the sound from Inception.
It made you more trackable because the entire ad industry ignored it. While there were a true, TRUE handful of sites that respected it, those are never the sites usually it was meant to deal with.
Google's shitty practices with Google Photos was my last straw. I self host now with a cloud backup for a small fee.
Fuck all this. No one should charge this much for these kinds of services.
And you are missing my point.
You don't trade one for the other. You add this in the options menu, in a smaller font.
Then when The Crew, X-Defiant, Lawbreakers, or any of the 30 other games that AAA publishers end server support for this year go down, the people who bought it aren't left unable to play at all. Theres a fallback. And it does not affect matchmaking because it's down the menu out of the way, and not the default matchmaking method. L
Sorry man, but the fundamental backend of IP based matchmaking is a prerequisite to skill based matchmaking. At a high level, the skill rankings make an ELO value or similar ranking and feed that alobg woth player status into the active player pool for the region. The active player pool then feeds the game client the ip sets for the current match.
Literally all these games are peer hosted, and require this. Once the match is setup they literally drop you into a lobby (this part is visible to you) and fill it with IPs (invisible). That is as old as DOOM.
So again, everything costs something as people aren't free, but this is a function must exist to power the skill based matchmaking, and needs only be exposed in the shell.
Also, its not just valve, its literally every PC game ever made before the mid 2000s. Jedi Knight II? Unreal Tournament? Quake 3? Hell emulated PS3 and Switch titles have shown this off as well. All of these are still playable today thanks to not exclusively using skill based matchmaking.
The "unrealized capital gains" distinction stopped matering the minute we could take out collateral against it.
Like, I have huge earning potential for the next 10 years, but I cannot capitalize that the way these bullshit artists can.
Literally would be better off if I incorporated myself as a LLC with 1 employee.
Great wall of text, defeated by the simple idea of adding a fucking optional LAN or Lobby based matchmaking based on IP can be for unranked and takes near 0 effort to add.
You want the main game mode with matchmaking? Official ranked server.
Wanna play 2 vs 30 AK-47 vs knives only? Private lobby.
Also, the latter was how the original devs accidentally invented Left 4 Dead by figuring out that was a ton of fun.
I could use more pink pubes.
TBH, on ancient insecure systems that might work.
Not very exciting though