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by amlib 3y ago
I remember drooling over this card and half-life 2, while all I had was a voodoo 3. It took me so long to upgrade my computer that by the time I did this series of cards was already two or more generations too old, and in the end I opted fo
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by amlib 3y ago
One of my linux systems has a 20 year old sound card, a 15 year old analog video capture card, both PCI, running on a ~10 year old fully upgraded 4th gen hasweel platform with a 1 year old RDNA2 radeon 6700XT card. I can play all the latest
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by amlib 3y ago
> i do miss the Affinity products tho, they keep making them more Windows/MacOS-only, now relying on the windows store/msix installer, basically guaranteeing they'll never work with Wine/Proton :( I saw this yesterday
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by amlib 3y ago
I'm willing to bet its more about the "Fedora" than the "Cinnamon". I was an Arch user for about 15 years with a few attempts in between to try other distros (including Fedora), but recently I've been installin
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by amlib 3y ago
I wonder how much influence google had in lowering the content quality over the years? After all, most SEO spam was a direct response to all the ludicrous requirements they've forced the whole web into, which eventually only SEO spam
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by amlib 3y ago
> Carla requires Jack which defaults to non usable state at every installation and is a nightmare to set up in a reproducible way I've been using linux audio for the last 15 years and I've been trough it all. However, things ha
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by amlib 3y ago
Isn't Apple very restrictive about apps that allow running arbitrary code like emulators? I'm also a bit perplexed, unless they have changed their policy recently.
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by amlib 3y ago
Do they have one for smm2?
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by amlib 3y ago
I'm surprised the 3DS hasn't been hacked trough this functionality. It would be an awesome opportunity to create some kind of worm that quickly spreads around the world and you also get to name it with a trendy name like "Fai
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by amlib 3y ago
Well, a physical map certainly doesn't keep pestering me for my location...
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by amlib 3y ago
I used to religiously read the Wine release entries, looking for fixes and improvements. For me it was an indispensable tool in making Linux more usable. However nowadays (specially in the last 3 years or so) Linux has matured so much that
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by amlib 3y ago
Firefox has hardware video decoding enabled by default on linux for years now, only google chrome doesn't want to bother doing the work to enable it. That said, in some cases hardware video decoding may be unavailable due to IP issues
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by amlib 3y ago
I think you have missed the point, it's more about decentralization and increasing "locality" of the internet, get people close to each other or with shared interest to have their own communities. Webrings may not be all that
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by amlib 3y ago
kde3 with kdemod and the breathtaking choices of _actual_ themes (not just color schemes or "accent color" bs, but a plethora of widget themes that could make it look like anything you wanted plus rich guis to customize any and ev
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by amlib 3y ago
In terms of look & feel, sure Mac OS wins over all other options, but in terms of functionality... its very debatable.
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by amlib 3y ago
I think it's pretty clear that "PC-like" also means you need an open platform, with the possibility to install any software and operating system you wish, which the xbox nor any console from the major brands allows for.
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by amlib 3y ago
Unlike mp3s compared to other audio codecs, h264 has the luxury of pretty much ubiquitous support for hardware decoders and encoders against other video codecs, so I believe it will have an even longer life than mp3.
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by amlib 3y ago
Arguably having a more efficient video codec lowers the financial burden on those types of sites, tough probably not enough. Going a bit further, I'm also not just thinking of content aggregation "tube" sites but such advance
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by amlib 3y ago
There are many reasons why youtube reigns supreme but I wonder if newer, extremely efficient video codecs designed with AI inference (as shown in some demos for the last 2 years) would help in breaking up youtube's moat. It's ver
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by amlib 3y ago
This has Dwight Schrute energy written all over it
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by amlib 3y ago
Flutter is one step from becoming that... I guess that's why google pushes it so much
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by amlib 3y ago
AFAIK Unity is not made on C#, only the scripting is C#. The engine itself is coded in C++, just like most other game engines. It's kinda like complaining that ID software has been using LUA for scripting inside their engine since RAGE
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by amlib 3y ago
I'm glad my employer lets me install any system I want on my work machine. I really can't stand dealing with windows outside of a VM.
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by amlib 3y ago
Using bit torrent to do partial downloads is nice but it will not remove deleted or renamed files. Over the years, specially if you update each release, you will end up with lots of files that shouldn't be there. You can of course have
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by amlib 3y ago
Maybe the best option will be just waiting for h264 patents to expire, just like happened with mp3s a while ago. On that note, does anyone knows when h264 expires? Or it's earlier siblings like avc? It also has the benefit of having va
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by amlib 3y ago
As you said yourself, it was most likely a rendering issue. A bad low-pass filter would have attenuated the high-end when converting to 44khz. Also, this is afaik the reason why all modern audio uses 48khz, you get a little bit more head-ro
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by amlib 3y ago
The 24-96 is different master, some sound engineer just had a field day in the studio and produced a better mix. Repeat the test with a 16-44.1 version downsampled (use something like sox with the ultra high quality resmapler) from the 24-9
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by amlib 3y ago
Really? You can't spend 5 minutes to look up software that will generate many different types of noise, perhaps even tuned for the use case? And why the resentment for free software? You are gonna have an easier time finding that kind
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by amlib 3y ago
Unless you have antivirus software and god knows what analyzing the files, then IO is actually slower...
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by amlib 3y ago
I've used xmplay and modplug, but specially xmplay don't always produce the best sounding output. I've also seen a few modules just play corrupted on xmplay... I've also used stuff like audacious to play those files with

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