Posts by RAMChYLD

Re: CEO contempt of users ends badly as predicted

Funny you should mention that.

https://kotaku.com/unity-developer-fee-installs-john-riccitiello-sold-stoc-1850834439?fbclid=IwAR3-0tAfvKTJDS2bBSFB0vYPwl__whGyHga6QMEp-9rAVKfzy9HL4Bb3ae8

Re: But surely

You're right. That's how I understand electricity to work too, and I grew up around electricians (mom was an engineer for Sharp. Dad worked for ITT, Grundig and Panasonic before deciding that he wanted to be his own boss and opening a electrical store). If a device drew 2.5A before, increasing the amp would not cause the device to overload and blow up. In fact, the device will continue to draw 2.5A as before and the power supply would actually run cooler due to the reduced load. I'm betting the knob still increases the voltage even when the screen is showing ampere.

Re: slow transformation

I think Pro stopped allowing local accounts with 22H2.

Re: AMD's lackluster GPGPUs

Found the Nvidia shill.

In all seriousness, the competition were pre-killed by NVidia. CUDA's dominance and proprietariness (only runs on NVidia hardware) meant using a competing chip manufacturer's cards has hurdles and is time consuming- to get code written for NVidia cards running on AMD cards, you need to HIPify it for ROCm which involves additional debugging, fine tuning and probably even rewriting blocks of code that can't be converted due to being reliant on some black magic numbers that makes it work on NVidia cards but not AMD cards.

And due to NVidia's marketing shills, no one natively writes code for ROCm. Or the open-source and cross-platform OpenCL.

TL;DR: NVidia created an unfair lock-in with CUDA. Everyone would be living in crystal spires and wearing togas if the world had embraced OpenCL instead.

Re: There are solar-powed USB chargers

Yeah, but those have the tendency to blow the fuse for the socket, and may be insufficient for some devices anyway: my laptop draws 350w and has a literal power brick to match. The best 230v inverter I can find can hardly pump out enough power for a 135w device.

Re: Catchup

I cannot for the life of me understand why the kernel dev team keeps changing the API around just to spite OpenZFS.

And it seems like they're trying to push BtrFS as the end-all OpenZFS challenger that will kill OpenZFS. Stop it. Setting up a SoftRAID array with NVMe cache using BTRFS is a f**king nightmare that requires me to remember the stupid long UUIDs of my disks!

Everytime a new kernel comes out, every single rolling distro I use buckles and I can't log in because my /home is on the ZFS volume.

That would be fun. It would be a sequel to the see bots chat meme that happened almost a decade ago now!

Re: A remarkable workaround?

EFI emulators have been around for ages.

They're one of the ingredients needed to get a working Hackintosh, given that Apple was the first onboard the UEFI train and PC only followed almost a decade later.

Pretty sure those can also be used to bring up a UEFI linux box.

Re: Completely different problem ...

I've seen that TV show. Think it's called Punch & Judy.

It doesn't end well for the copper.

Re: Darn they nerfed it

You and me both. I wanted to ask the AI how to make wasabi tea properly. TV makes it sound like if you drink this you prove to the world you are different!

(yes, local Malaysian TV station 8TV actually floated the idea of wasabi tea. Problem is I couldn't replicate it using just a Lipton teabag and some cheap wasabi I got with my sushi from a supermarket).

I guess I'm one of the last who grew up in the film era.

My dad owns an Olympus Pen EE-2 with a cheapo Soltron Flash. Got it for dirt cheap from a friend who was leaving the hobby. It served him extremely well.

We got onto digital photography very late. I got my first digital camera in 2003-ish. It was a cheap Chinese brand camera and the pictures it took were grainy and crap, but it made me happy.

Nowadays the whole family uses the camera on our phones now. No one carries around a camera anymore.

I'm really tempted to break out the museum piece and see the Olympus in action again, although I think camera shops most likely won't know how to make heads or tails of the picture it takes...

Re: He's toast

Nah, throwing at them is just as effective. They're called durians for a reason (for those unfamiliar with the Malay language or the fruit, durians are nature's maces. They can cause concussion and bleeding if you hit someone's head with one).

Re: Fuc.k Activision

The third one.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-the-biggest-tech-merger-of-all

Conflict of Interest ahoy.

Re: Why? Really, why?

The only reason Windows ever took hold of the world: games.

The things I'd do just to have another round of The Movies. Some people managed to get it working in Wine but I've ever only gotten a black screen, regardless of if I use Wine or Wine-GE.

Doesn't help that fewer and fewer companies bother with Linux anymore ever since Valve made Proton mainstream either. Some idiot devs like Bungie even outright thumb their noses at Linux users.

Re: No LG Talkie Toaster subscription!

I thought those toasters come from SMEG.

Thankfully SMEG toasters don't need an internet connection just yet. Haven't tried to see if they can talk back tho, the last one I saw was unplugged.

Re: Windows supports 5 buttons

Yep, it still does. I think on modern Linux systems it works too.

I have a original Microsoft Intellimouse Web 1.0. It's a five button PS/2 mechanical mouse. And yeah, there are side buttons for forward and back, something carried forward to every other mouse that has more than three buttons that I've owned.

Re: 5G

Four words:

Low Latency Wireless Gigabit.

A 5G connection allegedly offers hyperfast Internet connection at very low latencies comparable to fiber-to-the-home.

In practice the hyperfast speeds are only possible on the mmWave bands, and that has it's own can of worms (ie can't penetrate walls and extremely short range). A typical 5G connection can't even hit 400mbps. The only thing it has going for it is the improved latency- better than 4G but still not comparable to FTTH.

Re: Incompetent surveillance

Except as El Reg noted a few words later, it's actually an Eufy.

Still, same ruling applies given that Eufy was recently caught lying about their encryption and leaking videos captured by their security devices online. Anyone with a working brain would have returned the device and asked for a refund.

Re: Just when we thought that Linux gave us the freedom to choose

Yeah, I would so dump Ubuntu in a heartbeat if OBS would officially support other distros. So far they only support Ubuntu, and the other versions are community maintained and crippled to some degree (most versions don't have Streaming Service Integration ie Chat and statistics and web-based signin, instead requiring you to enter the stream key and server name manually). Also, some distro like OpenSuSE patches their OBS (in OpenSuSE's case the patch is to revert it to use Qt5 when the official OBS has moved on to Qt6. This breaks any third party plugins that have rebased to Qt6 following the official OBS, and also older plugins because OBS has had a massive API change when they moved to Qt6. As a result the build is incompatible with both new and old plugins).

In all honesty I don't care what they go with, as long as they allow any compatible 5G phone instead of only a handful of "tested and verified" ones like DNB is doing.

I already have enough of DNB's shit - they won't let my ROG Phone 3 onto their 5G network because it's "untested" - code word that they want a free ROG Phone 3 from Asus before they'd allow my phone onto their 5G network. And because Asus no longer make ROG Phone 3s, that will never happen. Idiotically the ROG Phone 3 is internally similar to an Oppo Find X2 (same Qualcomm SoC), which they do allow.

Re: re: Much as I love Linux ..

Pipewire-pulse and wireplumber is installed, enabled and started, right?

Re: The older the OS...

Windows 2000 does have USB support. The only catch is that it's quite primitive and each USB device requires it's own set of drivers (understandable since Universal Audio Class and Universal Video Class didn't exist yet and USB HID and USB Mass Storage was relatively new- I could get a USB Logitech optical mouse to work but not a USB gamepad adapter).

It also does support SATA SSDs, but no TRIM unless you install programs the SSD ship with, and you need to run TRIM manually every month or so. NVMe SSDs are out tho.

You're correct about 64-bit support tho.

Re: Should, if anything, enhance their business

Ah yes, the preferred quip of quiche eaters.

I'm not using it because I do not support homophobic asshats.

Re: Green screens were great!

I've used a program called SignMaster for the PC that does the same thing. Editing is done on the mono display, but when the print or render option is selected the CGA monitor would spring to life and give users a preview of what they'll be getting.

Re: Wind and solar

they are. Except that it turns out that wind and solar is still relatively low production- you can cover every single square mile of Tokyo and it still wouldn't be enough for their major heating and air conditioning needs.

What I'm wondering tho, is why aren't they using Geothermal more, given the prevalence of volcanoes and hot springs in the country.