shmerl

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by shmerl 2mo ago
I'd say it's deserved, not FUD. Nvidia did improve in some ways, but it's still way too heavy into blob even in case you plan to use it in the future with nvk. Nouveau / nova developers explained that Nvidia pushed a lot
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by shmerl 2mo ago
> A lot of people still use X11 over Wayland because Wayland is said to have much worse input lag Wayland is fine. People should use AMD and KDE Plasma. I'd avoid Nvidia to begin with.
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by shmerl 2mo ago
Exactly. Let them sell games on GOG DRM-free. You buy it, it's yours as long as you back it up. No one stops you from storing it on any physical media you want. Just use an HDD. When things on the other are presented as rent only, it&#
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by shmerl 3mo ago
Why not on floppy disks.
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by shmerl 3mo ago
Apple will never care about what users want, they only do what Apple want. If you want to free anything, don't use Apple. It's an obvious lesson that should have been learned a long time ago.
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by shmerl 3mo ago
Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.
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by shmerl 3mo ago
Does it work with US networks?
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by shmerl 3mo ago
To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.
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by shmerl 3mo ago
Releasing source code for games (including server part) should help.
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by shmerl 3mo ago
I don't care much what it says as in "fix", "chore" etc, but for me the main benefit is breaking changes indicated with "<type>!", something like "feat!: ... ". This makes neovim plugin man
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by shmerl 4mo ago
+ Long live Linux Desktop!
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously. But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them t
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by shmerl 4mo ago
I wouldn't trust it to have good upstream support. It's Nvidia. So not really interested.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s
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by shmerl 4mo ago
There should be a stronger push to fight these trolls. AOM has enough resources to bust their garbage patents and make them pay damages for patent racketeering. At least until software patents are banned for good.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
No one can predict patent trolls - they can surface at any time randomly. But there should be a more organized fight against them. I assume AOM should be backing that.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Because they have nothing to do with AV1, they simply want to leech on it. It's fitting to call them a patent troll.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
I'd classify any patent racketeer as a troll. Dolby has nothing to do with AV1, they just want a parasitic rent on it. Whether the troll actually does anything else besides the trolling part isn't really relevant.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
AMD added AV1 encoding only in later SoCs though. Next Steam Deck will have both.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Even better, software patents should not be allowed in the first place.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Hopefully their patents will be busted and preferably Dolby will be also forced to pay damages for filing invalid lawsuits. That's the only way to teach patent trolls proper lessons.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Good to know, thanks. I should try it with vim.pack for local repos.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
That's fine and not anything new for codecs, they always take a long time before mass adoption. Take a look at AV1 itself, you can't even say it's really ubiquitous on all hardware. It's quite well along in adoption comp
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Congrats! How is the case of fighting off Dolby's patent racketeering going? They tried to attack Snapchat for using AV1.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Can it work with file://?
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by shmerl 4mo ago
It's been the year of the Linux desktop for a while. Someone has been sleeping under a rock.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
100%. And that psychosis translates into kafkian level of bureaucratic absurdity and stupidity, especially when real motives are masked under pretense of something rational which it is not.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
Dumb bureaucracy with dumb requirements will be met with corresponding response.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
ntsync was out already for a while. And it's not necessarily faster than previously available esync and fsync, but it's more correct and clean.
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by shmerl 4mo ago
> We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs What can go wrong.

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