I’m here to stay.
I’m skeptical, because of the huge fps differences they claim. I mean OBS dropping from 30 to 7, compared to stay at 30 for GSR sounds like either the hardware or drivers are not fully supported on OBS and its dependencies, or maybe a misconfiguration. Maybe OBS + Nvidia does not support Wayland fully yet (or at the time of writing the statement from him/her) and that caused issues? At this point, who knows, without more information we can only guess.
I have the same doubts as you and wondered the same when reading those paragraphs about performance claims. I will most likely do my own comparisons, but I have AMD hardware here. The claims talk about Nvidia, so maybe its not applicable to me. I’ll do my comparisons in the next few days, because currently working on something else.
From my research, I found an old gamingonlinux article, with a quote explaining this on a high level: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/a-developer-made-a-shadowplay-like-high-performance-recording-tool-for-linux/
OBS only uses the gpu for video encoding, but the window image that is encoded is sent from the GPU to the CPU and then back to the GPU. These operations are very slow and causes all of the fps drops when using OBS. OBS only uses the GPU efficiently on Windows 10 and Nvidia. This gpu-screen-recorder keeps the window image on the GPU and sends it directly to the video encoding unit on the GPU by using CUDA. This means that CPU usage remains at around 0% when using this screen recorder.
Have in mind, these claims maybe not true anymore, because OBS improved over the last 3 years too. Always take claims like these with grain of salt (that is healthy).
Consider buying used parts. And you don’t need the newest hardware. There is plenty of good last gen hardware, that is also much cheaper.
Inspired is a bit an understatementf :D I don’t see this as a bad thing, because people used to like it on Windows now get a similar GUI. However you should know that there are two different user interfaces. The Nvidia like one is in experimental phase and you have to opt into it. It looks very familiar:
The only little thing that bugs me in the moment is, that I don’t get a tray icon to show if its recording or not. The icon appears with the old GTK gui, but not when using the Nvidia like gui. Do you have any such issues? If that is an issue at all or is this a design choice?
Shows why Kernel level anti cheat is a bad idea. No Anti cheat software should have this much power over your system.
No problem. I’m just fast and furious. :p BTW if you play on Steam, you don’t need this, because Steam already has such a functionality builtin now. Just sayin here. For all other cases, this is an excellent tool. It seems like, I’m new to it too.
There is a setting for exactly this. It defaults to writing to RAM, but you can change it to drive, which they do not recommend. I did not try it out yet. Edit: BTW, it should be noted that this background recording only works in the new Nvidia like GUI. I could not find it in the classic GTK GUI.
There were special long lived BlueRay format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC . I was thinking of getting into, but they were expensive when I looked at it years ago. With 100 GB per disc, this might be a good solution for longtime archive (but you need the reader too…).
As for the CDs and DVDs, the longevity also highly depends on the burner, the blank disc and maybe the software and settings you used at that time. A pressed CD that you buy and its not burned can hold data for very long time, and is much more durable than your burned ones. At least compared to a mechanical hard drive you don’t need to reuse (rewrite) to not loose data. But a hard drive can hold so much data.
Some Steam games can be played without Steam. Some require more and others less or none work to achieve that. GOG is the better choice for this task, but if you already have Steam game that could work for this, maybe no need to rebuy it on GOG. I was thinking of doing something similar to archive what can be archived, but never got around doing it. Here some resources:
The last time I played a PC game on a physical disc? Can I cheat a little bit here? I found a self burned CD from old early 2008 or earlier days. There were a few RPG Maker 2000 games on it, which I downloaded from internet cafes, such as Vampires Dawn (back then, when only a German version was available for the first game in series). And I played a few of them last year with an open source RPG Maker player called EasyRPG, but with RetroArch.
So yes, I played PC games in 2024 from a physical disc. But I leave it to you, if you count that. :D
Unlaunch button pressed.
I wish it was a bit more aggressive. For that I have an additional plugin ClearURLs (as linked by someone else in the replies BTW), but don’t know if its actually better or not.
Hmm thinking about it, maybe it does not run the updated code. Ah, got it. Normally when you update Firefox, then try to open a webpage in the “old version” that is currently running in memory, then you can’t show the page; one MUST restart in order to use Firefox further. So this change maybe changes this “forced restart”. This is probably more inline with the other programs in your system, that you can still use and need to restart in order to use the new version. Which makes totally sense. It’s not what I thought, but it probably is.
Firefox 141.0 also no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager.
As an Archlinux based user, I appreciate this.
says AI wasn’t the main factor
That’s exactly what an Ai would say.
Would be so nice if Meta will be seen as hostile and blocked Europe wide. The problem is, this can be interpreted as blocking Free Speech. But is it really Free Speech to misuse peoples rights and steal their privacy, that is against the law?
In the 60s it was the atom bomb regulation they had to sign. A “few hours later” in 2025 it’s the Ai regulation. My prediction 60 years from now, there will be a regulation of who an what you can do on Mars. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I know its user produced content. But there are still rules that are enforced by Archteam and they host and link to it. And why not tell people about security issues? They could at least tell people in the news, so we can act accordingly. This is super disappointing. Is there any trustworthy RSS feed that covers this?
There were more nuances and surprised than anticipated. But it should be expected, because its on this website. :D But any language with duck typing and lot of magic and interpretation, and a long history of changes and additions, used in a huge variety of environments, is bound to be surprising. I am not surprised that JavaScript and Python are surprising.