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No they really haven’t. They’ve given no numbers to quantify the problem.
This reads like “we don’t know if they are cheating, it’s hard to tell, and it’s getting harder to tell, so we’re just done.”
This reeks of a decision based on a feeling about the direction of cheating vs a significant move to reduce cheating.
I’m sure they’ll be back at the high end eventually…
Plus even if they aren’t year over year improvements will eventually result in them having a card that’s much better than what you have now. The ultra low end blows the mid 2000s GPUs out of the water.
Well then you’re probably the perfect customer for these 🙂
AMD has already confirmed that it has abandoned competing for the highest end of the graphics card market, so we’re not expecting it to unveil a product to compete with the likes of the Nvidia RTX 5090. Instead, it’s expected that a Radeon RX 8700 XT, Radeon RX 8800 XT, or Radeon RX 8900 XT will instead compete with a possible Nvidia RTX 5070 for overall performance. AMD is expected to offer significantly improved ray tracing performance with these new GPUs, though, potentially making them far more competitive overall.
From the article, but mostly already known…
I just upgraded to a 7900 XTX because for me, I don’t expect RTX to be a big deal anytime soon and it sounds like they’re just trying to make 7900 XTX performance cards with better ray tracing at a cheaper price point (which if it boosts their market share that would be amazing).
Which is totally great, but I’m not particularly hyped about the 8000 series for me personally.
It’s really not that noticable. I played destiny PVP with mouse and keyboard on there. Maybe a pro player would be able to tell, but your average gamer would not.
Their technology was way better than what Nvidia has on GeForce now; it was truly insanely good.
The user experience on stadia was by far the best cloud gaming experience. They also had the most consumer friendly business model.
What stopped them was interest rate hikes. What their biggest issue before hand was though was bad PR from a questionable launch where a bunch of people were like “but does it work on shitty office Wi-Fi!? No, well this is trash.”
Followed by the GPU shortage and the PS5 launch which put their hardware (which was better than PS4 hardware) behind.
Yes, sure something like that cheat could work… Since it’s information the game is already giving to the player, it’s kind of hard to stop. It’s also not a major cheat just a little assist.
In any case, you’re talking specialized hardware that’s harder to get a hold of and may be detectable (these capture card companies likely don’t want to get sued so they’d likely cooperate pretty quickly with game developers and publishers).
Here’s another point I’ll make… there are new anticheat approaches that come into play with algorithmic reactions.
You can for instance, modifying the rendering slightly in a way that wouldn’t mess with the player much if it all if you’re suspect of a cheater, but would act as a “honeypot” for cheaters (similar to how some developers have come up with “AI poison pills” to embed in images).
I have pretty high confidence that cloud gaming maybe wouldn’t totally solve the problem. However, removing access to the game code solves a lot of the cheating problem overnight.
Basically the only thing you can do reliably is subtle aim bots, no wall hacks, no spin bots, no mapping hacks, no packet reordering, no ping abusing, no malicious packet injection (e.g., spawning a bullet in front of everyone’s heads), invulnerability hacks, teleporting/movement hacks, etc.
A lot of that stuff can be blocked with just well designed net code, but with cloud gaming the net code design becomes much much less relevant instantly. Cheating in general becomes less “fun” and less ridiculous.
I think you’re massively overplaying “a lot.”
Maybe the cutting edge R&D of cheats uses that technique; AFAIK it’s far from mainstream.
Not to mention entire classes of cheats that require manipulating the rendering engine (e.g., wall hacks) just don’t work.
Also with Widevine DRM you can leverage all the crypto crap that the MPAA has forced into our computers over the years and protect the video stream between the GPU and display. That would more than likely screw over 99% of those capture cards.
The big problem seems to be that with current interest rates, breaking into cloud gaming with a whole new platform is just not profitable.
It stopped Google and now it’s looking like it’s stopping Netflix.
Gamers just don’t want to spend money on new platforms or platforms where their friends aren’t.
It’s a shame to some degree because Stadia was a cheat free paradise. There will always be latency concerns but I think streamed competitive gaming has a future, particularly as kernel anticheat fails to deliver and high end hardware gets more and more expensive.
And for a damn good reason… Companies need money to operate. Proton may not be for profit like Google, but they are not a charity either.
Very little is free without strings, what’s been normalized (in a bad way) is the concept that you can have free things that don’t intrude asking for money. That only happens in the venture capital “get em hooked” stage (and we’ve seen a lot of it because the Internet is still relatively young). Even KDE is now asking for money (granted once a year … but your usage of their desktop doesn’t require them to run expensive servers).
My frustration is they said “it’s going to be a massive ripoff” in response to an article that says absolutely nothing about price with 0 context to where they got pricing information.
Cool, thanks for not citing it beforehand or linking to it.
So … You have no source, just a feeling that because the 4000 series was really expensive the 5000 series is also going to be really expensive.
They didn’t even mention pricing and the 5080 is faster and less power hungry then the 4090? How is that a “massive ripoff”?
If it was BitWarden where I can see the client side code … and there wasn’t a better option, quite possibly.
I give my ISP and many other places my BitWarden vault all the time and I just trust they’re not recording the traffic and trying to decrypt it.
I recommend against hosting a password manager yourself.
The main reason is self hosted systems require maintenance to patch vulnerabilities. While it’s true that you won’t be on the main list if e.g. bitwarden gets hacked, your data could still be obtained or ransomed by a scripted attack looking for e.g. vulnerable VaultWarden servers (or even just vulnerable servers in general).
Using professional hosting means just that, professional hosting with people who’s full time job is running those systems and keeping people that aren’t supposed to be there out.
Plus, you always have the encryption of the binary blob itself to fall back on (which if you’ve got a good password is a serious barrier to entry that buys you a lot of time). Additionally vaults are encrypted with symmetric crypto which is not vulnerable to quantum computing, so even in that case your data is reasonably safe… And mixed in with a lot of other data that’s likely higher priority to target.
You need to reach out to the PopOS devs not Lemmy and mention that you’re okay with the tiling being proportioned based on maximum Window size (i.e. most of the screen is tiled to any other applications).
Yes