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by DCKing 2y ago
Nintendo optimizes for cost, not maximum performance and almost always selects older technology. AMD Z2 chips go into $600+ bulky low margin PC gaming handhelds whereas Nintendo likely will want to hit $300-350 while keeping a healthy margi
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by DCKing 2y ago
I wouldn't automatically prefer any random N100 mini PC over a nice second hand enterprise mini PC. In home server use cases, mini PCs stay idle the vast majority of their runtime. So it's idle power consumption that is the most u
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by DCKing 2y ago
The Shield TV has had an impressive support lifecycle for an Android device but it still falls well short of a 10 year support cycle. The Shield was released in May 2015 and its latest software update has an Android security patch level of
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by DCKing 2y ago
In 2014, the Debian project cited accessibility [1] as a main reason to offer Gnome as the default desktop. Since that was over 9 years ago, a lot could have changed. However, observing that Gnome is generally the most well funded Linux des
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by DCKing 2y ago
Other emulators want to solve the problem generically, and this solution doesn't quite . Static recompilation from one machine language to one other language is somewhere between extremely difficult to not being generally possible in
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by DCKing 2y ago
The iPad App Store is perhaps an even more dysfunctional place than the iPhone in how much it holds hardware and use cases hostage to the manufacturer's vision. Just imagine how much more versatile the iPad Pro would be if only you cou
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by DCKing 3y ago
> That statement was based on the old text, correct? Yes it has. The updated text was published on December 20th [1], and does a lot to address these concerns. See also Bert Hubert's analysis [2]. The amount of knee jerking in the c
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by DCKing 3y ago
Matrox and 3dfx never came close to making general purpose GPUs, they just got completely outcompeted in the regular PC graphics market of the late 90s. Matrox and 3dfx last tried to compete on architecture in 2002 [1] and 1999 respectively
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by DCKing 3y ago
It's not as dire as you think :) Gimp should get Wayland support automatically when they complete the move to Gtk3 (which supports Wayland, Gtk2 does not) and the betas already support Wayland [1]. Enlightenment has clear plans for a W
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by DCKing 3y ago
Worth noting that Firefox has run on Wayland by default on Fedora for many, many years at this point because the Fedora team patched it to do that. Firefox also uses Wayland on the default RHEL9 desktop and its derivatives, and it's be
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by DCKing 3y ago
What layers do you mean that would remain? I wouldn't expect the experience to be identical nor quite as accurate [1], but if audio and input latency could be made indistinguishable between a Raspberry Pi and a Mister FPGA that would a
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by DCKing 3y ago
One of the key advantages of FPGA retro game emulation is its low overhead processing input and audio. This is because the FPGA emulates hardware directly and doesn't have to go through OS abstraction layers built to accomodate multita
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by DCKing 3y ago
> What is mind-boggling to me is that it includes an actual, physical, hardware Gameboy Advance CPU in it for when it's playing Gameboy Advanced games. The reasoning why as pointed out by the article makes it even more mind-bogglin
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by DCKing 3y ago
I don't think this is that unfair at all? What people are invested in is Linux desktop popularity. The old Windows vs Linux (desktop) thing. The Linux desktop has somewhat of a muddier definition than other desktops, but it's what
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How long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hints(arstechnica.com)
18 points by DCKing 3y ago|23 comments
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by DCKing 3y ago
Oh great! Yeah as you can probably tell from the script I'm using it as a (locally built) container in my own setup. Feel free to pretend it's BSD licensed if that helps :)
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by DCKing 3y ago
Tube Archivist is quite heavyweight as it's meant to do heavy full archiving of YouTube channels and search through positively huge libraries. I'm getting the sense that it's a data hoarding tool, not a casual web video watch
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by DCKing 3y ago
Yeah absolutely - I think this is a relatively recent change for them. The only thing stopping me from doing that is that 1) setting up an OIDC server for personal use is a lot of work I don't necessarily want to do, especially if it&#
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by DCKing 3y ago
Good. I get they don't want to be responsible for keeping user credentials. But requiring permission from a big tech company to manage or access your own networks boggles my mind and made me not use it. Now if only they supported this
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by DCKing 3y ago
> Metal itself is the parallel stack, no? Ah perhaps I interpreted the quote in the wrong way then. At first it read to me as if Apple did their own bespoke compatibility work, but it's a comment about the mostly artificial Apple S
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by DCKing 3y ago
I don't care much for it being open source or not, it's just a shame Apple is making attempts to limit its use cases through licensing [1]. It's on brand for Apple and totally expected, but still sad. It's not going to s
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by DCKing 3y ago
> Apple built it's own little parallel gaming stack world that works really well on their hardware I think saying "its own parallel gaming stack" probably gives them too much credit [1]. Yes - they put in significant effor
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by DCKing 3y ago
No, I mean slightly patched. The list of patches is included in the Homebrew formula [1]. The D3DMetal framework and its DirectX 12 support are independent of that Wine work. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apple&#x2F
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by DCKing 3y ago
From what I gather, Game Porting Toolkit is two things - a fork of Wine, and their own adaptation/extension of open source projects for DirectX compatibility. Some observations: Windows compatibility: * Windows platform compatibility i
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by DCKing 3y ago
I wonder if the new Mac Pro's full PCI Express support resolves any limitations that prevents people from using GPUs over Thunderbolt on existing Apple Silicon hardware (this is apparently a hardware limitation). Although the Mac Pro&#
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by DCKing 3y ago
It's a thought provoking angle you have here for sure. However, am I right that the implication of this direction of thinking is that we should stay with our current ways of doing authentication simply because them being too hard to us
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by DCKing 3y ago
Sure, but it's worth noting that the Cortex X3 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is _almost_ at the level of the A14 in single core performance, just not quite there. Even if the performance bump is less than promised, they will still equal it
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by DCKing 3y ago
I did not expect ARM would take so long to catch up with even the Apple M1 or the same core designs in the Apple A14. The Cortex X3 in the current flagship chip Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 still _just_ fails to match the Apple A14 (let alone the A15
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by DCKing 3y ago
I know there are reasons why Android works like this, but you may not be aware you've been replying to a post where I listed what I missed about Android compared to a regular Linux distro. Android is highly opinionated to work as a pla
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by DCKing 3y ago
> How is Android not fulfilling your needs as a full Linux distro? I mean there's a lot of things that make life difficult with Android. * If you want most hardware to keep on working, no kernel updates are possible after the manufa

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