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by vetinari 3y ago
Most games use SDL2, and it is possible to replace it with a version that supports Wayland, even if SDL2 itself is statically linked with the game. See SDL_DYNAMIC_API: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comme
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by vetinari 3y ago
NetworkManager is that api driven tool, with cli frontend available too (nmcli); I don't get the need for netplan either.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Trivially with NetworkManager, which is there anyway.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Thanks to sandboxing, the paid version would not be able to access data created by the free version, when trialing. To avoid this problem in the past, authors offered the free version, and then paid unlock as a separate app package. So you
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by vetinari 3y ago
Submarine power lines exist; Baltic and North Sea are full of them.
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by vetinari 3y ago
It's not like someone else is going to provide them something better; everyone else is subject to the same limitations. For example, I don't see any Apple users blaming anyone for not providing native browser engines by respective
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by vetinari 3y ago
> have to do your best on Apple devices. No, you have to do best within the limits that Apple imposes, whether technical, business, legal, whatever. If other platforms do not have these limits, there's no point in ignoring the addi
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by vetinari 3y ago
Apple is a bad example. See replies here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250351
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by vetinari 3y ago
All devices do not have to support AV1 decode. Send the AV1 stream to AV1-capable, fallback to AVC. Previously, there could be AV1 > HEVC > AVC priorities set up, after this only AV1 > AVC.
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by vetinari 3y ago
armv7 boxes won't be playing 4k hdr content anyway, they are going to use AVC as they did previously.
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by vetinari 3y ago
The point was that, quote: > "AV1 hardware decoding is still pretty rare" It is not. It comes with new devices. The issue is, that it will take some time for replacement to be widespread enough, so that Netflix could switch who
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by vetinari 3y ago
Apple is a specific case, again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38140486
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by vetinari 3y ago
> Nowadays = this + last generation on nVidia, Intel and AMD GPUs? Roughly; Intel since Tiger Lake (2020); not that it makes much difference. > It's still fairly uncommon on ARM, MIPS, etc GPUs being used in low-cost cores for TV
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by vetinari 3y ago
Nowadays its pretty common, but not everyone has relatively recent devices.
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by vetinari 3y ago
I'm curious, because I have machines with Intel GPUs from different vendors and of various generations (from Ivy Bridge, through Kaby Lake up to the Raptor Lake) and I've never seen such a bug.
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by vetinari 3y ago
It does work for programs that use pipewire portal. It doesn't work those, that call XGetImage on X11 root window and think, that they will get away with it.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Not even electron problem; maintainers of these apps problem. Chrome and Electron do support wayland nowadays. Just some app authors don't care.
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by vetinari 3y ago
It does fractionally scale chrome. It doesn't scale the rest, because those are electron apps that either ship with old electron version, or disable wayland. Special mention goes to vscode, which ignores *-flags.conf and provides no
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by vetinari 3y ago
Maybe if you told us, how to replicate this show stopping bug so we could it try ourselves, someone could fix it then. Wayland being the problem or not.
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by vetinari 3y ago
> Maybe invite someone who has extensive experience working with photoshop and watch how often he starts to curse or ask for help and whether he uses the gun to shoot himself in the head. The extensive experience working with photoshop
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by vetinari 3y ago
It is also pretty obvious that the lock was broken and it is impossible to break them en-masse, without anybody noticing. That's not true for the government-proposed regulation either.
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by vetinari 3y ago
> No it doesn't REMOVE the Linux's UEFI partition or files on the drive, but it sets itself to #1 in your UEFI boot list So it does what is expected from any boot loader. Installing grub does the same. > And since their ins
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by vetinari 3y ago
What does "any registered company/school/university address" mean? Some years ago, I activated some Office licenses using my company email; we never did any hosting with O365 or whatever was it's predecessor, and at
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by vetinari 3y ago
What does it overwrite, exactly? Each operating system has its files in their respective directories on ESP, and each operating system registers its own boot entries pointing to bootloader in these directories. With UEFI, there's nothi
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by vetinari 3y ago
With UEFI, it is easy; each operating system has it's own bootloader in its own directory in ESP, and the UEFI itself contains boot manager, so you can boot whatever you want. It just doesn't show menu by default like grub does, y
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by vetinari 3y ago
They require Microsoft account, not an outlook.com address; though that address is an easy way to get the account. It is used for activation/license management, one nice feature is that you can yank a license on a dead device and use i
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by vetinari 3y ago
Apple traditionally drags it's feet, when it comes to open codecs. If you want to help adoption of such format, you must be willing to go forward without Apple support, even at the price of eventually providing Apple users with a sligh
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by vetinari 3y ago
Note that when paying for YT premium, you have to be logged in. Google will still collect the data, build your profile, just not show you the resulting ads on youtube. But they will use that data to show you targeted ads elsewhere. Plus now
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by vetinari 3y ago
It did happen - on Windows RT machines. Linux was locked out, only Microsoft-blessed binaries would load; not just efi, os-ones as well. Fortunately, this one went nowhere. But the same concept could be repeated on x64.
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by vetinari 3y ago
Video codecs usually come with GPUs, not CPUs. It is only on SoCs where this distinction is a more fuzzy. On a GPU, you didn't have an option to interleave normal program stream with specialized partial-decoding instruction. You put en

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