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The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by chii »

aldanor wrote: post #68
Satam wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

... and taking it one step further, humans spend millions of hours watching those shows and movies, just to be able to consume movements of some pixels and parse it into some storylines. What an inefficient way. How much time will be saved when we go straight to computers watching that content for us and summarising it in 140 characters.

The explosion is even more vivid in one's own imagination!

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Post by Rovoska »

Satam wrote: post #57
JCharante wrote: post #13

This is awesome. Video production just takes so many hours for each second and I don't think people know how much work it takes until you help out on a shoot.

It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

Only on hn would you have someone miss the point of art this hard. That's not art anymore, that's not creative.

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

Satam wrote: post #57
JCharante wrote: post #13

This is awesome. Video production just takes so many hours for each second and I don't think people know how much work it takes until you help out on a shoot.

It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

What a sad world that would be

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

fckthisguy wrote: post #29
charcircuit wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Also steam supporting linux single handedly advanced adoption of that os. Android using Linux is what single handily advanced the adoption of Linux among consumers.

Adoption on desktop is 100% more related to Steam support, at least in the gaming segment. Anecdotally, among friends and colleagues, people are only staying with Windows for gaming support. People generally dislike Windows but are forced to stay their for gaming. As support for Linux improves, they'll be less willing to put up with Windows' BS.

I'm one of the rare people on HN who likes using windows as a software development platform

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

gumballindie wrote: post #19

I am continuously amazed at how awesome valve is and what awesome products it makes. Also steam supporting linux single handedly advanced adoption of that os. Apparently the best types of companies are those founded by deeply technical people, still owned and run by them, no venture capital. In an ideal world we would favour such companies over toxic ones.

Personally I've been pretty disappointed with valve over the last 10-15 years because of the almost complete lack of output on their games and the way they abandon others (TF2). They'd rather squeeze more money out of steam than release new games

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by depr »

gumballindie wrote: post #38
depr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without taking away from the great things they are also doing, I'm mostly amazed at how bad and laggy the Steam app is, and has been for years, on all 3 platforms I've used it on. (I'm sure there are loads of people who have never had any issues but to me that's like people saying there are no problems with Linux on the desktop because they don't have any problems.)

It could be improved yes, but that’s an acceptable kind of issues. Steam’s important functionality works well and is reliable - package management for games. It doesnt spy on me, doesn't push crap, doesnt use dark patterns. We need more apps like steam tbh.

I wouldn't say it works well. On some machines it takes ages to start up and will always say it's updating even though it isn't. The ingame browser that is used to view the store breaks often and thenI can't open it inside Steam at all. On Macos, the system menu completely stops working most of the time and I can't exit the app normally, I have to kill it instead.

OK, the core functionality of downloading and running games works. But I think we can expect a little bit more from a billion dollar company.

Re: The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs

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Post by Krssst »

Krssst wrote: post #42
redundantly wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saying Android is Linux is like saying macOS is BSD.

Android uses the Linux kernel and keeps up with upstream to some extent. macOS uses the XNU kernel. Though as a user that likes having control over the software, I recognize that not having GNU/Linux being number one is a bit of a waste. (though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit. Somehow my DE does not load with the proprietary driver unless I also load nouveau for some strange reason)…

> though one weekend of fighting NVIDIA and wayland tamed that quite a bit

Looking back on that, this was mostly self-inflicted (used Debian testing rather than stable, and upgraded from Bullseye to Bookworm then to testing rather than clean install). I like twinkering a bit so I don't mind the pain that much but this is absolutely not representative of what new users would experience: my comment was clearly wrong (cannot edit/remove unfortunately).

This is not telling at all for regular stable distributions (Debian stable, Fedora). In general I had pretty good experiences with clean installations of those.

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Post by iAMkenough »

Satam wrote: post #57
JCharante wrote: post #13

This is awesome. Video production just takes so many hours for each second and I don't think people know how much work it takes until you help out on a shoot.

It's why AI-generated movie shots would make a lot of sense. Hollywood spends billions of dollars, builds and blows up elaborate sets, and hires 100,000s of thousands of people... just to be able to have pixels move in a pleasing way. How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to generating pixels? CGI goes in that general direction but it's still very labor intensive.

This is a surface-level argument that could be applied to literally every industry if you trivialize the product produced.

For example: NASA spends billions on research and development just to be able to push a rocket upwards into space? How much of that will be cut out when we just go straight to AI-generated plans and schematics?

It only makes “a lot of sense” if you’re willing to compromise your standards and eliminate labor no matter the consequences.

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