shmerl

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781.
by shmerl 2y ago
Not sure why downvotes - very valid point for China.
782.
by shmerl 2y ago
Sure, it's still completely impure in another sense, as in for the benefit of the language and its users.
783.
by shmerl 2y ago
> Apple has the purest incentive of all: maximise profit for shareholders. I'd call it the impurest incentive of all.
784.
by shmerl 2y ago
Nice! It would be cool for Wine Wayland driver to also fix window resizing (regedit currently is blinking all over when being resized).
785.
by shmerl 2y ago
Not just telecom, they are just super aggressive in general as a bully with weapons pile. I remember they tried to threaten Opus codec with patents just becasue, when IETF proposed it for Internet standard. Luckily that failed, but it shows
786.
by shmerl 2y ago
It's ridiculous how slowly it goes.
787.
by shmerl 2y ago
I'm waiting for ffmpeg to implement pipewire screen grab so it could work on Wayland.
788.
by shmerl 2y ago
Given his completely horrible jerk personality, I'd expect the opposite.
789.
by shmerl 2y ago
They don't seem to care. I'm sure that will bite them in the long term, but for now they are very intent on complete NIH and lock-in anywhere they can push it.
790.
by shmerl 2y ago
Nothing stops them from providing their own API and Vulkan both. So your arguments only make sense for why they might want other API but they don't make sense on the part reasons for completely denying Vulkan support alongside it. Ther
791.
by shmerl 2y ago
That might be an excuse, but that's hardly a reason. They are simply extreme lock-in proponents and don't want to support cross platform graphics API. That's the real reason.
792.
by shmerl 2y ago
You don't need Apple for that.
793.
by shmerl 2y ago
LFS should have become mandatory.
794.
by shmerl 2y ago
I don't get the point of the dummy value. How does it help doing anything? I can add conditions with ease without it.
795.
by shmerl 2y ago
That's the problem on the other end. But micromanaging on this end is also very annoying.
796.
by shmerl 2y ago
> Daily check-ins, for professionals, for adults in general, heck even for children, are micromanagement Exactly this.
797.
by shmerl 2y ago
So it should be D3D → Vulkan → kernel / hardware. But Apple are too stuck up with their NIH to allow that.
798.
by shmerl 2y ago
Gamers don't need to worry about "how games are supported" as along as they work. You can run many old games in Wine even though original developers stopped supporting them decades ago. Putting hurdles in the way of that is t
799.
by shmerl 2y ago
I see nothing silly about it. Bringing other bad examples of lock-ins doesn't excuse Apple in the least. Personally I'd stay away from the above too. > There's also only a handful of Vulkan games There are a ton of games
800.
by shmerl 2y ago
Unlike Linux, Windows and etc. I don't think even GPU makers can provide their own implementation of Vulkan there - only Apple can do that. And they refuse. So it can be considered a deliberate blocking.
801.
by shmerl 2y ago
> What you mean is they’re not embracing gaming the way you want Yes. And I consider it disregarding when it comes to the needs of gamers (or users in general really). Apple's approach is always shoving in their users' faces
802.
by shmerl 2y ago
Point is that Apple is deliberately blocking Vulkan support. Which prevents things like Wine / Proton from offering decent performance for games there (MoltenVK is not really adequate for that). Being it's Apple, not some kind of
803.
by shmerl 2y ago
If Apple cared about gamers, they wouldn't have blocked proper Vulkan support. They simply don't care. A major reason to stay away from Apple if you are a gamer.
804.
by shmerl 2y ago
You can contribute to Servo?
805.
by shmerl 2y ago
That would be very bad. Qualcomm are very nasty about patents.
806.
by shmerl 2y ago
Over time the work was obviously done for Mantle → Gl Next → Vulkan. And that's becasue AMD were positive about this idea. Their initial presentation of Mantle was in that vein, i.e. to kickstart the progress of the common API. MS just
807.
by shmerl 2y ago
AMD indicated from the beginning they wanted it to become the universal API. Opening stuff up formally also takes time. So it all was going towards Vulkan in one form or another and no one was forcing MS to push DX12 NIH while this was happ
808.
by shmerl 2y ago
DX12 was pushed as NIH, since it was made from Mantle same way as Vulkan was. So to reduce NIH, it only makes sense to unify it all in Vulkan. They already made the first sensible step with SPIR-V here. The next step makes the same sense.
809.
by shmerl 2y ago
In this case Vulkan is the only option. DX12 is a non starter since it was never intended to be universally available.
810.
by shmerl 2y ago
It would be misleading if A doesn't know that the real target is C. Otherwise you can use jump functionality From A: ssh -J B C If B doesn't need to be part of the path, just connect to C directly if it's doable. If

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