u/xthexder

Capacitive buttons can get pressed by drops of water, so I personally think the physical buttons are better for a safety system.

It probably depends on what the robot is, but it might not be something you need to hold down for very long, just at the same time as a joystick movement.

With the one-way latency being upwards of 20 minutes, I wonder what the software looks like... They've basically got to queue up an hour worth of actions before they'd even see the first response from the rover.

I'm guessing that's in the Tom Scott video, so I'll have to watch that later.

Edit: It looks like they're only using it for manual driving of the test rover on Earth. The autonomous driving is a whole separate system.

Both iPhones and Pixel phones have shipped with LRAs (Linear Resonant Actuator) instead of rotating mass for quite a while now. An iPhone's taptic engine is basically the same technology.

I'm not sure how many phones have multiple, but I think it's common on gaming phones. That being said, I don't remember the phone in Pantheon having to steer, so one haptic motor might be enough if they got lucky.

The motors are being used exactly as designed. There's no difference between this and playing a racing game that's constantly rumbling the controller.

The only wear and tear happening are the contact points with the table, which will slowly wear down the plastic and table surface.

The article says "50 Tonnes" tho, so now what...

How is this the first time I've heard of a feature like this... It's really cool. This basically seems like technology from VR research determining what makes people motion sick and how to work around it. It makes perfect sense it could apply to other screens as well.

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I wish there was more info on it... the implementation seems like it's proprietary and I can't find any research papers about it. MuteMotion also seems to be a name used by some sign language translation software.

Didn't The Crew shut down servers recently anyway? I thought that was the catalyst for Stop Killing Games

Those specs sound like HDMI 2 anyway. HDMI 2.1 can do 4K @ 144Hz with HDR. Or apparently even 10K @ 120Hz.

The adapters have circuity inside, they exist. It's small enough to still just look like a cable because they fit the chip in a plug end.

Haha, I didn't even realize but the resolution is actually identical.

My first laptop was a min-spec Macbook gen 1 (first Intel CPU model). It's the same 1280x800. The modern LCD (or OLED) on a Steam Deck looks way better obviously, and they're different DPI, but the performance hit is identical.

This is just nuts to me... My first laptop came with 512MB of RAM and only supported up to 2GB. They were still selling Macbook Pros with only 8GB of memory a year or two ago.

12GB SHOULD be enough to do everything, especially if it's running a linux OS. But I guess we can't have nice things because of memory hogs like Chrome.

I was confused about what it meant by "Lossless" since it's frame gen... there's no compression, or anything to lose, it's starting from nothing.

As far as I can tell it means nothing, it's just the branding for the "Lossless Scaling" tool on Steam. There's no new lossless algorithm involved here.

Is that even a thing on lemmy? Or are you thinking it's just force of habit?

And it makes the 64gb models on ebay actually a good deal since you can upgrade the SSD and it have a full performance 2TB Steam Deck

There's actually an official transparent case Steam Deck too. They had the limited edition OLED when it first came out.

Are you serious? I bought GTA5 for PS3 in 2013 and later the PC version in 2015. That ship has sailed.

Story mode is at best 50% of the content at this point. Where's my 50% refund?

You're basically arguing that a square isn't a very good representation of a rectangle because it's more than a rectangle. But the fact is, a square is a type of rectangle, just like a Steam Deck is a type of PC.

It's not "proper gaming" unless your 1000W water cooled gaming rig is heating up your entire room to 100°, just to show you the latest in ray traced puddles /s

That's the 512gb version even. You can get the 64gb version for $296 right now, which is a great deal. Upgrading the SSD later is pretty easy too.