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by dagmx 2y ago
FWIW, It’s one of the patches linked in their linked issue. However the commits do have some caveats called out, as do the techniques they use to achieve the higher allocations.
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by dagmx 2y ago
I appreciate the link. The GTT and SDMA tricks mentioned there don’t really increase the shared ram use imho. They just increase the virtual memory the GPU can address, but with several tradeoffs in terms of allocation and copy operations.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Can they access the full RAM? Afaik they get capped to a portion of total available RAM. But to your other point, very little of the current popular ML stack does more than CUDA and MPS. Some will do rocm but I don’t know if the AMD iGPUs a
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by dagmx 2y ago
Part of it is because X11 has improved a lot between 1987 and now. It’s not just been static. So Wayland has to capture those 37 years worth of engineering. But also, X was designed in a way that facilitates rapid development and easy integ
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by dagmx 2y ago
It’s not a separate team for the EU App Store, it’s a separate team for other app stores in the EU. As in one team for the Apple first party store in all countries and a second team for third party stores, which just happens to be in the EU
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by dagmx 2y ago
Ah I’m glad it ended up being fruitful then. To your question, consider that console games ship precompiled shader libraries that target the known GPU of that console. This prevents shader compile hitches etc. So the PS5 is effectively a su
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by dagmx 2y ago
I don’t think the PS4 and PS5 are all that similar. They use very different generations of CPU, and GPU. So shader libraries will be different for the most part. Also custom hardware on top of that for decoding and direct storage access, as
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by dagmx 2y ago
Important to note that this is because Java AWT’s now support Wayland, partly in thanks to Jetbrains themselves who contributed support back up. So this has a fairly large benefit beyond just their products.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Lots of things are unique about the x86 consoles. They have custom graphics APIs (and semi custom GPUs) which makes graphics translation one of the hardest parts. The graphics systems also assume shared memory which is not a given elsewhere
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by dagmx 2y ago
DXVK doesn’t deal with pre compiled shaders afaik. It needs them in DXIL or HLSL to function.
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by dagmx 2y ago
No, you can’t ship precompiled shaders for desktop easily because there’s no single backend (GPU) to compile for. Everyone ships either shader code or intermediate languages instead.
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by dagmx 2y ago
I think the actual issue is that Google makes bad UX often, and not toasts in general. Toasts themselves can be done well, but like every UI and UX element, they need to have some thought. I know Google have some good UI (sometimes UX on An
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by dagmx 2y ago
Jetbrains have two forms of LLM integration. One is local and free, the other is cloud and paid for. Both are opt in.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Hmm maybe you’re only familiar with their azure SDKs ;) What makes Windows not modern? The whole point of my comments is that different business eases have different funding. Azure is a separate business for Microsoft than windows developme
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by dagmx 2y ago
In the politest way, that is exactly my point. Different companies fund things differently and put up different barriers. Again, for the umpteenth time, I am not making a VALUE judgement. I am just saying they all do things differently and
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by dagmx 2y ago
To your question, that’s exactly my point. Without access to a companies books, you don’t know how they fund things. Take this as my response to your other reply as well. You don’t know if Microsoft chose to fund certain parts of their deve
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by dagmx 2y ago
What I’m suggesting more than asking is, when you say that open source has lifted their development burden, it makes it sound like it’s a unidirectional taking. And sure, some might be freeloading. But they also do contribute quite a bit to
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by dagmx 2y ago
Microsoft have charged for non-individual use for longer than they’ve had the free version. I should have perhaps used commercial non-individual use rather than just commercial. https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/d/vi
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yeah, the existence of SteamOS, Steam Machines and eventually Proton were a hedge against Microsoft’s perceived shift into locked down distribution . I think a lot of folk have a hard time reconciling that there may have been non-altruistic
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by dagmx 2y ago
But they also contribute significantly to that same open source so how do you balance that out? Again, I’m not saying they’re above criticism but I am saying this feels like a very one sided presentation of facts.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Without an insight into how a company pays for its RnD internally, one cannot conclusively say that the consumers are the ones who pay for the HW/OS. I’ll also reiterate that the majority of devs pay 15% now on the App Store. Not 30%.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Literally the last section of my comment addressed that. It’s a single digit market share. How does that play into windows/mac sales then? And what about the decade+ of sales before the SteamDeck? And in that case, no, Valve didn’t pro
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by dagmx 2y ago
1. You assume they’re paid for by the owner of the phone. That’s not necessarily reflective of a companies income stream. Microsoft also charge for commercial access to their SDKs for example, and every company has different business models
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by dagmx 2y ago
You think Steam puts in more effort than providing graphics APIs, system frameworks for everything from networking to controller handling, UI libraries, educational sessions and security critical updates? Like, one may argue that the 30% is
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by dagmx 2y ago
With all due respect, this is a very “stick your head in the ground” attitude about user experience. User experience matters and it’s not just about adapting.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Opinions are subjective by definition. Do not confuse opinions and facts. And the idea that “all platforms meet your needs if you put in enough effort and time ” is flawed because that time and effort is part of the needs. Again, to take th
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by dagmx 2y ago
Are you sure it wasn’t from a panorama? That’s the only camera mode that does any kind of stitching that could cause that. None of the other camera modes are capable of doing extrapolation like that.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Unfortunately, I don’t think a lot of people mature past that stage in their lives.
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by dagmx 2y ago
What if the gains are not on the other platforms? You don’t know what gains they have that they care about that you don’t. To extend their grocery store analogy, the layout is a gain to them. You may not care, but it is tangible to some. Yo

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