Migrated over from Hazzard@lemm.ee
Well… duh. The guy runs a competing storefront who’s only claims to fame are:
… that’s it, that’s all the reasons to use Epic, unless you want to play Fortnite or participate in an Early Access period where they chose Epic to reduce the overwhelming amount of feedback like Hades.
Dang, that’s incredibly cool. Hadn’t heard of this!
Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I’ve seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.
Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn’t recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo’s database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it’s not exactly ironclad either.
Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!
Correct! This would be going out to family that doesn’t just live close enough to see her and take their own pictures, so being able to add more remotely is the whole point!
Good point, 4K text for programming is pretty fantastic, if you don’t mind small text and use a big monitor, I could see 8K bringing some worthwhile clarity improvements to some productivity workflows. It’s probably better for monitors than it is for TVs.
Yeah, legitimate 8K use cases are ridiculously niche, and I mean… really only have value if you’re talking about an utterly massive display, probably around 90 inches or larger, and even then in a pretty small room.
The best use cases I can think of are for games where you’re already using DLSS, and can just upscale from the same source resolution to 8K rather than 4K? Maybe something like an advanced CRT filter that can better emulate a real CRT with more resolution to work with, where a pixel art game leaves you with lots of headroom for that effect? Maybe there’s value in something like an emulated split screen game, to effectively give 4 players their own 4K TV in an N64 game or something?
But uh… yeah, all use cases that are far from the average consumer. Most people I talk to don’t even really appreciate 1080p->4K, and 4X-ing your resolution again is a massive processing power ask in a world where you can’t just… throw together multiple GPUs in SLI or something. Even if money is no object, 8K in mainline gaming will require some ugly tradeoffs for the next several years, and probably even forever if devs keep pushing visuals and targeting upscaled 4K 30/60 on the latest consoles.
Yeah, most people aren’t within 6 feet of their TV, and most people aren’t buying 100" TVs either. 8K is relevant for virtually nobody.
A lot of companies are successfully working on larger panels (I saw something about a 165" TV recently), so 8K may have a good place in a theatre room one day, but that still leaves you a lot of problems to solve first, and is far from mainstream until all of that becomes a lot cheaper.