shmerl

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by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, and C can get unreadable fast. Obfuscated C contest is a great example: https://www.ioccc.org But that doesn't mean it's a good idea to use such style for PRs, lol.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Will WebReder switch to WGPU / Vulkan as well?
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by shmerl 1y ago
Ruby's syntax is much nicer. I just can't stand the idea of using whitespace for scope delimiting.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I remember poking at it in the binary editor and finding a byte that changed the color palette from red base to green and blue.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I'm not using Ubuntu, but any recent version of Firefox supports VAAPI by default for quite some time already. So may be check your version or check what Ubuntu is doing wrong / use something else. What I want to see is VAAPI enco
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by shmerl 1y ago
I mean more like it didn't progress beyond prototype designs. It never felt polished or even close to nice looking. More like desktop Plasma UI minimized to touchscreen scenario, rather than significantly designed for it (like Sailfish
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by shmerl 1y ago
> but I think it's fair to say the remote host is headless if it doesn't have a GPU nor a program to interface with the GPU at all You can use software rendering for Wayland cases too. There are even OpenGL / Vulkan soft
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by shmerl 1y ago
Interesting, hasn't heard of it. Is it the same in features? It doesn't seem to support Wayland though.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen it in action (nomachine/nx) It's not bad. But problem is that it's not open source, so it's sort of DOA, unlike all the open options. They should have opened it from the start for it to be relevant.
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by shmerl 1y ago
FreeRDP is pretty feature rich, so I wouldn't call it a kludge. For any kind decent remote desktop access you need good performance, specifically low latency. X11 just isn't there. Headless server is headless server - you can&#x27
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by shmerl 1y ago
For barebones window forwarding (no input) I use something like gpu-screen-recorder with SRT streaming output and play the result on the other end with mpv / ffplay. Haven't looked into it, but FreeRDP might support specific windo
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by shmerl 1y ago
Vulkan is the modern option, the difference is not being stuck with legacy paths and using something that allows explicit sync. Wayland is also the modern option, so I don't really worry about X11 use cases. For remote desktops, better
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by shmerl 1y ago
What I want to see: * Use Vulkan for rendering instead of OpenGL * Drop dependency on GTK (it's a source of many problems) and just implement their own full fledged Wayland handling like Wine is doing. * Back Servo again as the future
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by shmerl 1y ago
Plasma Mobile didn't get far, but nice to see Plasma Big Screen progressing.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Yeah, may be they already were replaced by AI?
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by shmerl 1y ago
Waiting for AI to reduce CEOs.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I have a backlog of games, so lately I buy only if I plan to play it. I don't use bundles - that's the source of most the unplayed games.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Lol, he also didn't like Gollum memes.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Well, let data centers pay for the amount used. Rates shouldn't go up.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Thinking of trying it, when Mozilla finally fixes the lack of XDG base directory support. There was some recent progress on that old bug.
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by shmerl 1y ago
GOG is DRM-free indeed. Others like MS Store and Epic? Lol, they aren't better than Steam in regards to DRM. I prefer GOG, but it's cool that Valve are advancing Linux gaming.
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by shmerl 1y ago
I don't think it's a big reason not to allow it, since they allow webm with AV1 video which shouldn't be any better than AVIF in practice for compatibility purposes.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Github supports SVG but doesn't support AVIF still.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Lately I use zstd + tar for making archives that preserve file metadata.
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by shmerl 1y ago
> ... NVENC are pretty much indispensable What's so special about NVENC that Vulkan video or VAAPI can't provide? > AMD also has accelerated video transcoding tech but for some reason nobody seems to be willing to impleme
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by shmerl 1y ago
In this case it's more about keeping things in check and not letting one person with an attitude to ignore kernel development rules derail the whole project. I'm not saying those concerns are wrong, but when it's causing a fa
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by shmerl 1y ago
May be bcachefs should have been governed by a group of people, not a single person.
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by shmerl 1y ago
Never heard of any of the tools mentioned there. I agree though that tools can cause some affinity. If I see people using neovim, I would be curious what plugins they use.
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by shmerl 1y ago
It's basically same AMD GPU and you can compile SPIR-V into its machine code optimally without any kind of made up "I'm closer than close to the hardware" secrets. Compiler optimizations are done all the time (see Valve&
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by shmerl 1y ago
Imagine asking to prove a relatively difficult theorem. That's a similar type of question and it's a waste of time during an interview. Once you know the proof (know the algorithm), the idea might seem trivial, but coming up with

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