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by floatboth 4y ago
There's more to a computer than just the CPU ISA. While this particular thread is about the GPU, there is indeed "something different" about the M1 otherwise too. It is quite the non-standard SoC: unlike basically everything
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by floatboth 4y ago
> Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmm... + https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions/9nmz... > Linux https://git
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by floatboth 4y ago
h.265 also lives on in open source software other than browsers. VideoLAN has been ignoring the whole licensing disaster because "Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable" for ages :P
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by floatboth 4y ago
It would also be extremely confusing to support something with only hardware decoding. People running supported hardware would start saying things like "Firefox supports HEVC" which would sound plainly wrong to someone with unsu
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by floatboth 4y ago
Lots of phones support relocking to a user provided key (OnePlus does for sure) but it's a less trusted state than locked to the vendor key, I don't think it counts as good enough for full SafetyNet
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by floatboth 4y ago
Not that new – WiGig has been used for VR (i.e. displays but head-mounted): https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/wireless-adapter/
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by floatboth 4y ago
That's great if you only use these drives on your big computers. Sadly if you do want a "universally" portable drive – usable on an Android phone and an iPad and whatnot – you're stuck with horrible basic filesystems lik
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by floatboth 4y ago
More importantly ZFS by design ensures that if you unplug early and lose the last few writes, you'll end up in an earlier consistent state.
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by floatboth 4y ago
> One cable doesn't do everything Well, seems like because physics™ it's hard to do both 420W charging and 69Gbps data over the same cable. And also people want thinner and cheaper charging cables. It's still better to hav
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by floatboth 4y ago
Well, the argument is that versions not being speeds anymore is the problem and it would've been easier if they were. Like they are in Wi-Fi for example.
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by floatboth 4y ago
PCIe does this in hardware
42.
by floatboth 4y ago
I've heard it's more like a "complex proprietary MPLS style network layer that can carry PCIe and DP and whatnot". They wouldn't be able to do daisy chaining if it was bare PCIe, but it does sound horrible.
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by floatboth 4y ago
So it's basically like PCIe now.
44.
by floatboth 4y ago
Heck, even if one can afford paying that extra, not buying overpriced nonsense is a good principle.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Who's we? :) And what are the controllers called? Plenty of USB-C SSDs on the market are actually M.2 in a trenchcoat, e.g. the nice looking black and orange SanDisk: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments
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by floatboth 4y ago
IIUC, NTRU is only "quantum proof" because there is no (publicly known) quantum algorithm for breaking it, while there is Shor's for everything discrete logarithm based (both RSA and elliptic curve anything).
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by floatboth 4y ago
Snapdragon 845 and 855 mainlining is going pretty well. e.g.: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/mobile_kernel_snapdra...
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by floatboth 4y ago
An active connection but not an active system-wide network interface. The point of these tools is that the wireguard client is encapsulated together with the proxy in a simple user-mode process, with no integration into the host network sta
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by floatboth 4y ago
I'm not talking about embedded, I'm talking about e.g. intentionally minimalist systems that have to be self-building, or systems that have to be built with a formally verified compiler (which does not exist for C++), or anythin
50.
by floatboth 4y ago
I guess the ability to work in really restricted/minimal environments where you only have a simple C compiler like tcc, and nothing like LLVM. Or paranoid environments where you can only use CompCert. Something like that.
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by floatboth 4y ago
Kernel devs typically do use SMP to refer to multicore. Even Wikipedia says: "In the case of multi-core processors, the SMP architecture applies to the cores, treating them as separate processors."
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by floatboth 4y ago
Eventually 4k page size kernels will work too (but 16k has better performance)
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by floatboth 5y ago
The RAM packaging doesn't really matter much, Apple runs JEDEC spec memory timings anyway. But it is impressive that they get high GPU performance with LPDDR. Consoles also use one big SoC and unified memory – but with GDDR memory!
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by floatboth 5y ago
The cleanup being tied to the width increase was the first problem. The new width still being a fixed one was the second. SVE is SIMD actually done right – on the Arm side in the near future, everything from smartphones to massive HPC boxes
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by floatboth 5y ago
That's if working from documentation. With independent FOSS driver development, the big deal is the reverse engineering.
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by floatboth 5y ago
The screws are long gone, to unlock you prove ownership by sitting for a few minutes pressing the power button when told. Wiping the installation is very much expected. The security model includes protecting data, of course data has to be
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by floatboth 5y ago
The browser is provided for free. Selling search defaults/inclusions is by far the least intrusive way to make money to fund the development of the browser.
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by floatboth 5y ago
https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html
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by floatboth 5y ago
Three top single-player story action games: Prey (2017), Horizon Zero Dawn, and Control. Each of those three is a masterpiece of worldbuilding, a deep touching story, and has awesome feeling gameplay.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Gtk4 and QML sure do (QML still (?) uses SDFs, Gtk4 uses atlas textures like WebRender does). Older frameworks don't.

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