Still doesn’t properly display HDR images for me, but I suppose this is a pain point for most photo software.

So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?

It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.

Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:

https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core

Not a fork, I don’t think.

My distro (CachyOS) has it packaged, so maybe you can request for yours to do it as well?

So the next consoles would be cloud/streaming consoles only.

They very well could be.

The hardware is near-identical though, or at least it was for PS Now. So the barrier to re-use game streaming hardware for a physical console is fairly low.

I think you’re being quite a bit disingenuous here. AMD hasn’t made a “highest end GPU variant” in a literal decade. They’ve never had a competitor to the Titan cards nor the *90 variants, and with the *80 variant slowly taking over the top-end consumer spec(because the *90 took over the TItan classification), all of this isn’t because of AI. It’s just AMD lagging behind the entire time. And I love AMD, but they’ve never been known for highest end. And Intel has NEVER made a highest end GPU variant. So not sure where that claim is coming from.

It’s about silicon size to me. Even if a bit behind Nvidia’s mega dies, AMD made “big die” cards consistently, like the 6970, 7970, 290, Fiji, Vega 64, the 6900, 7900 XTX. But the 9000 series is different. The top-end 9070 XT is “only” 356.5 mm2 and 256-bit; a mid-range size. The only recent precedent for that is the RX 480, but those were cheaper and sold alongside higher end GPUs.

And with Arc Battlemage, Intel allegedly had a bigger die in the works, but canceled it. Presumably because they didn’t think it was financially viable.

You make fair points. I’m probably panicking and being a little dramatic here… Custom SoCs would probably be questionable if regular graphics are.

But I still don’t like the trajectory. It feels like AMD/Intel are struggling to even stay alive in the space, while Nvidia seems to think it’s not so important, and I don’t like where that goes.

Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward.

It’s not like a side thing, either; full (not lite) UBlock Origin is the headline feature of Helium. It’s literally shipped with the browser.

It specifically supports (and ships with) full UBO, not the neutered ManifestV3 version.

Been using it for months, and I adore it. +1

Only thing I wish it had is JXL support hacked in like Thorium.

Sometimes I shop on Cromite (specifically for its uber hardcore anti fingerprinting), or switch to Firefox for a bit, but I’ve found myself mostly using Helium.

Yeah, we’re gonna need more details, like your DE, GPU, maybe the monitor?

But I would start by test booting images and just… see what OBS package works out of the box. Try Cachy or Nobara with KDE, plus whatever their respective wikis say about OBS usage.

And the same can’t be said for consoles?

Console chips are high volume, single SoC, ordered by one reliable customer (Sony), and can make the transition to cloud gaming if they have to. Sony’s already experimented with this, actually.

Discrete PCIe GPUs and “desktop” CPUs, on the other hand, are:

• Mostly consumed by gaming laptops, which OEMs could very well abandon.

• And partially go to workstations/gaming desktops.

But repurposed server chips can serve workstations, while tablets and thin clients can eat the desktop/gaming laptop market from the bottom up, too. The niche that assembles higher end gaming PCs isn’t enough to amortize the massive cost of such gaming GPUs by themself (hence AMD and Intel already abanonded their highest end GPU variants).

Yeah.

TBH there are too many PC games. It’s overcrowded. Sony has some great studios, but it’s not like the platform will wither because they leave.

But like someone said, I’m more worried Sony thinks PC hardware won’t be viable anymore, and is exiting a dying platform. I know that seems inconceivable now, but a few years AMD/Intel/Nvidia could easily decide higher end gaming hardware is just not worth developing.

It’s already started, seeing AMDs and Intel already cut some GPUs and Nvidia is allegedly pondering the same.

Yeah.

That’s my sad read. They think gaming PCs are going to die as a market; mind as well get out now and push PlayStation instead.

It’s not an accident.

It’s probably not a conspiracy.

If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as “engagement,” and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That’s all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically… though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.

You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.

Oh wow. That’s some weird shit piefed does.

On Reddit, Karma isn’t just more visible, but a certain amount is an explicit requirement for posting in many situations. High karma accounts are also less likely to get moderated/banned. You can see why spambots would want to amass it.

I have no idea what the incentive would be here.

I don’t intend to be abrasive, but this post feels like… bait?

I know it’s not.

But still. OP posted few specifics of what they actually do on their computer, nor what their hardware is, nor specific problems, and is not responding to any comments thus far. But “what distro should I use?” is Lemmy catnip. It’s absolutely guaranteed to get a lot of engagement.

It’s also been asked many, many times. If OP is curious, there are literally thousands of comments to sift through on Lemmy alone.

If this was Reddit, I’d say it’s a bot account farming karma for authenticity. But that doesn’t makes any sense, as there’s no engagement incentive like that here on Lemmy.

So yeah. Apologies for impoliteness, I meant nothing personally, but OP, there are many threads like this, and you’d get much more tailored suggestions with a little more specificity.

My conspiracy theory is they have so much dirt on the finance world that it gives them leverage.

What if there were to be a “data breach” of what they’ve been subscribe too…

OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.

With Instragram as the “creator front page.” Patreon too, on the digital art side.

It’s so weird how OF gets to pretend it isn’t a porn site, and somehow get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site.

It’s not! Use SonoBus; it’s dead simple, and superior to Discord. It’s far lower latency, with customizable filters, peer-to-peer; and totally free.

Now if you want emojis and video and rambling channels and stuff, you will have to go elsewhere.

DO NOT TRUST APPS.

iOS is more strict about “reining in” apps that burn battery tracking/spamming you in the background, but (last time I used it) Android is more unruly. Restrict permissions and backgrounding for everything unless it’s absolutely essential.