chrisdfrey

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by chrisdfrey 7mo ago
With a lot of games you can put DXVK DLLs in its folder and get better performance: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
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by chrisdfrey 3y ago
This writer (Digital Antiquarian) has a lot of interesting articles on early computers and computer games.
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by chrisdfrey 3y ago
A great video on the history of Monkey Island speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mso2jW6Jc&t
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by chrisdfrey 3y ago
There is a lot of FUD over what data TikTok collects, but even with data from just using the app they can do a lot of profiling.
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by chrisdfrey 4y ago
Right, and the clientele of SVB was largely businesses. Only 7% of SVB deposits were FDIC insured, making them extra vulnerable to bank runs.
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by chrisdfrey 4y ago
A lot of their game logic times based on "game cycles" instead of something proper like counting seconds. ScummVM runs a lot of old Sierra games; it applies some patches to game scripts to fix these issues and also throttles some
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by chrisdfrey 4y ago
I played God of War (2018), the Last of Us games, and some other stuff on PS Now (Sony's cloud gaming platform). There were some issues but overall it worked pretty well. There are some games where cloud gaming can't give you low
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by chrisdfrey 4y ago
Are you basing this on Mark Stern's tweets? I read pages 31-32 of the opinion and it mentions Obergefell v Hodges but the decision isn't explicitly criticized.
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by chrisdfrey 5y ago
Some articles on this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44951670 https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/business/second-hand-clothes-...
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by chrisdfrey 6y ago
It's worth noting that this benchmark uses the 13" MBP; the 16" MBP has a more powerful CPU.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
I'm pretty happy with the PlayStation Now experience for games that don't require fast response times; I would say it is "viable".
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Most Android OEMs stop updating their phones after 2 years, no? That's not a problem exclusive to Motorola.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Apparently some later releases of SM64 turned on optimizations and have less lag than the earlier ones.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Even just eating less beef would make a big difference; it has a much higher carboon footprint than other forms of meat: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
I'd argue AMD and Intel were pretty close in single-threaded performance until the Core 2 Duo (released in 2006).
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Current captive dolphins and whales are grandfathered in, so Marine Land will still keep running for a while.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
The web has had game walkthroughs since I started using it (about 1995). I remember the first walkthrough I looked up was for Space Quest 6.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, VMs that use it can be faster; I've found using docker in virtualbox is a lot slower than using docker for Windows (which uses Hyper-V).
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
You can boot from USB or other partitions on some chromebooks; see GalliumOS: https://galliumos.org/
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
You have to enable developer mode to run crouton; you don't have to do that to run Linux apps. Unfortunately I couldn't get crouton to work on a chromebook I bought recently; after switching into a chroot the screen would freeze.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
One advantaage to dual booting is you can get hardware acceleration, which you don't currently get with Linux apps in ChromeOS (though they are working on it). Another is that most chromebooks have 4gb of ram which isn't much for
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Debian runs in a VM and different apps run in separate containers.
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
I'm not sure if it will be Hyper-V? Currently to use Hyper-V you have to have a non-home license for Windows, though maybe they will change that for this. I hope you don't have to have a non-home license for Windows to run WSL 2,
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
Some of the existing WSL distros (like Ubuntu) already include package managers (like apt).
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
From https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-windows-termina... : "WSL 2 will also support running Linux Docker containers natively, so that VMs are no longer required." Great news!
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by chrisdfrey 7y ago
I imagine it's easier to sell higher resolution over higher framerates.