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Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Plenty of other AAA games have made Proton and Deck-specific compatibility considerations

Lots of dev go out of their way to make sure their games play nice on Steam Deck.

The alternative is that they do not do this at all because it is too much work for too little payoff. Proton is driving real Linux adoption in PC gaming.

I think this is ultimately a benefit. I've had too many proprietary native Linux games that slowly broke overtime as libraries they depended on changed or became deprecated. Hosting unmaintained proprietary software like this has always been difficult with Linux.

With Proton we basically have a common stable runtime that handles all the platform specific needs of a video game. It just so happens that runtime is largely binary-compatible with Windows. It's easier for devs to support when all they have to do is stick to a Proton-compatible subset of the Win32 API. Users get way more games. And anecdotally my experience as a user is generally better than with true native ports. It's a big net win.

Valve/Steam is the reason gaming on Linux is even viable today

That certificate retrieved from the government has no personal information attached to it. It's essentially empty, only defining what information will be requested from the user.

The certificate is passed to the user's ID card where that information is populated, the document is cryptographically signed, and returned to the requesting party after the user reviews and approves the transaction.

The implication is that Elon is a massive hypocrite for complaining when these dishonest tactics are used against him because he uses them all the time.

Common misconception on the part of the writer, The Black Cauldron was their first animated feature to receive the rating. It was a notable distinction at the time, and the original cut before Katzenberg took a hatchet to the project would have pushed the rating fairly hard.

You can only EQ speakers and headphones as far as the transducer can still respond accurately to the signal you're sending it. No amount of EQ will give the Sennheiser HD-600's good sub-bass performance because the driver begins to distort the signal long before you've amplified it enough to match the Harman target at a normal listening level.

DSP is a very powerful tool that can make terrible speakers and headphones sound great, but it's not magic.

I would argue that this is because we are reaching the practical limits of this technology and AGI isn't nearly as close as people thought.

I think it would be easy for these services to audit their link database and cull any that have had dead endpoints for more than 12 months.

That would come off far less user hostile than this move while still achieving the goal of trimming truly unnecessary bloat from their database. It also doesn't require you to keep track of how often a link is followed, which incurs its own small cost.

I set up my home network with their USG (the small square one they don't even make any more) and a couple wireless access points all the way back in 2018 and all of it has been rock solid ever since. In 7 years I've never actually needed to "reboot my router" to fix any kind of weird network problems like is common with whatever consumer junk they sell at Best Buy. It all just sits there, working quietly, and I don't even think about any of it for months at a time.

The client GPU still needs all those assets in its own VRAM in order to render any scene that uses them. You would need to stream all of those assets in real time to the client, and last I checked consumer network interfaces are checks notes slower than 16 PCI Express lanes.

I'm still unsure what computational resources are being saved for the client here, the actual rasterization is where the bulk of the work is done.

I don't think the incentive structure is there for porn sites to start blocking VPNs the way Netflix does. And legislation requiring them to would be pretty toothless since the only mechanism they rely on to enforce the rules is making local ISPs block the offending sites.

What's the point in streaming a video game from one computer to another if the client machine still needs the expensive and power hungry dedicated graphics hardware to display it?

It could make in-home streaming actually usable for me. I've never been happy with the lag in Steam's streaming or moonlight, even when both the server and client are on the same switch. That's not a network latency problem, that's an everything else problem.

AMD and GloFlo split in 2009 but AMD wasn't able to start actually manufacturing their chips with other foundries until 2019 when GloFlo got downgraded to only providing the IO die for Zen 2. This is because AMD was contractually obligated to continue using GloFlo for that time as a condition of the split.

Zen 2 is also where Ryzen went from "exciting and competitive, but not top of the line" to actually giving Intel a run for their money in more than just highly multithreaded workloads.

Improved architecture put AMD within striking distance of Intel and the move to TSMC allowed them to pull ahead.

I know there are people who genuinely believe that, but it would be naive to think that is 100% organic and isn't something corporations and the super-wealthy are holding a megaphone up to because it just so happens to suit their interests.

A big part of AMD's turnaround was going fabless.

I think the big fear here is that if Intel does the same, there won't be much competition left in the fab space.

Is Samsung still competitive with TSMC?

They know exactly what they're doing.

The billionaire class are bilking the country for every cent its worth, and when everything finally crumbles they will move to the next country with a stable middle class and start the process all over again.

They do not care about these consequences because they have enough resources at their disposal to protect themselves while everyone else suffers.

Tons and tons of terminal apps are written assuming a monospace font. Alignment matters and you don't have much control over that.

In code, you can always choose a style that discourages spatial alignment.

I would argue it goes against the desires of the open source world.

ChromeOS is a product designed to suck people further in to the Google ecosystem. All its limitations, like basically being a web browser with access to the Android Play store, are built around that. The simplicity of not having to worry about anything else is how Google sells that as a benefit of their platform to the masses.

I don't know any of my fellow nerds who want a ChromeOS kind of experience, so why would any of us dedicate our free time to making one?

Billionaires obsession with transporting people in tiny little private pods and calling it the future continually perplexes me.

I've seen billionaire-backed projects that are literally just 6 passenger pods that use existing rail infrastructure. Sounded neat, until you realize that just a handful of 6 person pods would clog up a small rail system just as much as a handful of small trains capable of carrying 60 passengers each.

It's like they're completely detatched from the needs of everyday people. All they can think of when they see public transit is "gross, I have to sit next to poor people!" and they try to solve only that problem and nothing else.

Information absolutely has a cost, somebody had to create it.

Weight is just nonsense. Physical presence is not a hard requirement for value.

We all want free stuff, but somebody still has to pay for that stuff

Counter-point: Stop subsidizing AI companies by giving them free training data.

To put it another way, today's avant-garde is tomorrow's mainstream.

Comcast similarly removed their 1.2TB cap in my neighborhood within months of us getting fiber. It's almost like the only reason for the cap was because they could get away with it when there wasn't any competition.

Don't forget what happened in Utah last year.

In 2018, voters passed the Better Boundaries ballot initiative, requiring our legislature to adopt non-gerrymandered congressional maps. In 2020, the legislature passed a law that effectively ignored the results of the initiative, and they drew even more gerrymandered maps after the census.

We sued the state, and last summer our Supreme Court unanimously agreed that, per the state constitution, the legislature does not have the power to unilaterally gut laws passed by ballot initiative after the fact.

So the legislature haphazardly put together their own ballot initiative that would have amended our constitution to give them the authority to ignore the results of ballot initiatives. This was put on our ballots, but our Supreme Court came through unanimously again, saying that the text of the initiative was grossly misleading and that they did not meet the constitutional requirement to notify the electorate far enough in advance of election day. This initiative was on our ballots as they had already been printed, but the results were not counted per the Supreme Court's order.

My state government is still fighting tooth and nail to kill Better Boundaries before the 2026 election. None of these lawmakers give a single shit about the will of the people.

Everybody already uses AI, it's being shoved down our throats. You literally cannot use Google or Amazon without AI nonsense popping up. People don't seem too happy about it though. I can't say that these features have improved my Amazon or Google experiences. In fact, in the case of the latter, the experience has only gotten worse as they've injected more AI.

I don't think this is what was happening. It's weird that people are thanking her when she functionally did nothing of value while the company has been spiraling. Either she was complicit in the whole thing, or she really did nothing at all. In either case, what is there for the users to thank?