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My electricity bill went up 50% due to the AC alone. It’s getting THAT bad
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My electricity bill went up 50% due to the AC alone. It’s getting THAT bad
I’m really glad that self-hosters are finally starting to “eat their own dog food” so to speak and finally start to self-host their own community discussions. And what better place to do so than on the Fediverse!
Considering that both Nvidia and AMD have been constantly pushing the prices of baseline GPUs well beyond the golden standard of the 1060, even long after the Big Crypto Spike of 2020? Yeah, barely anyone would bother spending a small fortune on a GPU
That, or a *decent* upscaling algorithm such as xBRZ. Old upscalers like Super 2x SAI made pixel art look like a cheap watercolor, and made later upscalers get a bad fame. Nowadays a good upscaler basically turns the game screen into a vectorized set of lines, and it looks much better, closer to what the pixel artists intended the end result to look like on a big screen.