The computer subsystem and the display subsystem are different, largely independent things. Regardless of what your computer is doing, the system that transports data between the video chip and the LCD will always be sending that data at 60 frames per second. It doesn’t care what your CPU is doing, it’s a bunch of separate independent pieces of hardware. Meanwhile, the rest of your computer is doing the game logic and rendering the frames and sending them to the video memory and that could be happening at any frame rate. Your screen will always be running at 60 hertz, but you could have anything from one frame per second to 3000 frames per second and that just refers to the number of times per second you are updating the frame buffer with new data.

Some video games have a setting called vsync, and what that does is it will limit updating the frame buffer to do so only once while the screen is showing one frame. The benefit of doing this is if you are updating your frame buffer in the middle of drawing a frame, you can have it where half the frame is the previous frame and half of the frame is the next frame, this is called tearing because it looks like the screen is being torn in half.

“no” followed by 28 null characters and a small code payload that’ll crash their server (ok won’t work but it’d be funny)

lol I made it half way through your comment and went “That doesn’t look like knob and tube! It looks like Romex!” and then literally the next sentence said the same thing.

Actionable pun detected.

Before I settled on Lemmy and lotide, I tried out aether:

https://getaether.net/

Like a Bittorrent client you need to expose porch to the outside world because you end up helping to host the network.

Ultimately I preferred a website I could host and visit from anywhere I could get internet to software I needed to run (and set up networking for) anywhere I wanted to use it, but it was a nice system otherwise.

Actually, I lied.

How much more black can this get? None. None more black.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there’s a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.

Because of the wide variety of instances, it’s truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can’t host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.

One peertube channel that is similar to what you’re talking about is minetest videos: minetestvideos@share.tube It’s consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).

I think your best bet is to see what’s out there, because there’s a lot of content but it’s sort of like old youtube.

If I were to become a youtuber today, I’d diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.

The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It’s libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.

Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it’s generally tough once you start getting popular.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

My kid really loves the 2000s Alvin and the chipmunks movies. Dave is always talking about how they need to be like normal kids and they need to plan for the future, but on a lark I looked up how long a chipmunk lives and by the third movie they’d be like 50 in chipmunk years.

I think we’ll just assume whatever Gene makes them talk makes them live really long. Let’s do that.

It’s all relative.

For lemmy it’s been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it’s a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn’t have a whole lot going on. Now there’s millions of active users on thousands of servers.

That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.

Oh cool! I didn’t realize lotide federates with the latest version of Lemmy again.

I know it was pretty frustrating for a while there, but it became clearer that everything was having federation problems.

Dude…wash your hands…

I run all the different services because I generally agree with you, but there’s value in being able to choose how to interact with everything. some people really want to have new videos show up in their lemmy feed or their mastodon feed. If that’s how they want to do it, they’re right. Same with interacting with lemmy from mastodon – If that’s what you want to do, then you’re right and it’s a win for you if you can do it that way.

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

Wanna know what I wear under me kilt?

Me shoes!

Gotta admit, young me got a lot wrong about what my future held. I’m glad he was wrong, because life wouldn’t be that great if he was right about everything. :P