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  • Melting 12VHPWR connector claims its first AMD RX 9070 XT victim

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  • When I bought my 9070 XT I specifically opted for one of the models without a 12VHPWR connector. It's a shame any of the AMD partner cards even opted to go with one. It's basically a crap shoot on if any given card is going to end up catching on fire because of these things and frankly I'm amazed the potential liability alone hasn't killed the connector.

  • US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision

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  • I think the important difference here is nobody in the US gives a single shit about whatever the hell this is. Someone may have decided to send this guy but I'd be amazed if even 1% of the US has even heard of Intervision and doubly so if even half of those that have heard of it care enough to even watch it.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • No but I think the point being made is that people that have been clinging to Win 10 as a refuge from the crapfest that Win 11 is are going to start running into significant problems soon. Increasingly you're not going to be able to get software for Windows 10. A lot of people are opting to migrate to Linux rather than going from Win 10 to Win 11, and as the holdouts on 10 are increasingly corned some amount of them will make the same decision.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Ah cool, thanks for looking all that up. I knew Proton pre-dated Steam Deck, I just wasn't sure exactly where in the timeline it fit between the original Steam Machine launch and the release of the Steam Deck.

    It's kind of a shame that Steam Machine failed, but in many ways it was a little too ahead of its time and its failure brought us to the Steam Deck which is a much more sensible approach.

    Ultimately none of this would have existed without Wine and ironically the Microsoft app store (or whatever they're calling it these days). The threat of MS getting a stranglehold on program distribution on Windows the way Apple does on OS X and iOS was enough to spur Valve into putting significant effort into making Linux a viable gaming platform, something we're all benefitting from greatly.

    People seem to be downplaying somewhat how significant an achievement this is for Linux. The thing is, for most programs you can find alternatives because the point isn't the program it's what you do with it. People don't use Photoshop because they enjoy Photoshop, they do it because they want to create something, which means if you can create that same thing using a different program then you don't need Photoshop. On the other hand games are an experience. The point is the game. Sure you can play a different game, but that's not an Apples to Apples thing as the experience however similar isn't the same. That means games are uniquely placed as a roadblock for migrating away from a platform, something consoles with their exclusive releases have known for a long time. Giving people the option to play the exact same game under Linux as they can under Windows is massive because there really isn't any other way to solve that problem.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Couple technical nitpicks.

    First it's debatable if Proton existed long before Steam Deck. I'm not sure the exact timeline but I think it was created as part of the Steam Box effort which wasn't all that long ago. On the other hand though Wine which Proton is built on top of most certainly has existed for a very long time before either the Steam Deck or even Proton (I have fond memories of LAN gaming with it back when Diablo 2 was new).

    Second Proton doesn't enable ARM (at least by itself) so that claim is a little misleading. There is a project to realtime translate x86 instructions into ARM but that project (Box86) although it fulfills a similar role and could be used in conjunction with Proton isn't actually Proton. Using Proton by itself will not enable you to play x86/Windows games on ARM.

    Lastly Proton is kind of irrelevant to the whole Linux vs BSD thing. Technically what enables that is that both implement POSIX standards plus use mostly the same libraries, frameworks (like Vulkan), and applications. Yes running Proton on BSD will let you game on BSD but that isn't really a result of Proton doing the work so much as it's a side effect of the fact you can run Proton on BSD in the first place. Additionally while there are technical and philosophical reasons why the distinction between Linux and BSD is important, practically speaking they're the same thing these days. OpenBSD isn't that much more different from a Linux distro as one Linux distro is from another.

  • Florida is now the 2nd most financially distressed state in the US — topped only by Texas, Google helps reveal

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  • While it's a nice sentiment it runs into the rather awkward problem that states don't actually pay any taxes. People and businesses pay taxes, not states. Exactly who is going to protect the citizens of a state when the IRS comes down on them for not paying their federal taxes?

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • Yes, but actually no. In the strictest sense that is true in that it isn't "officially" settled typically for a day or two. However, the reason why businesses are willing to accept credit card transactions is that there's a soft approval that happens pretty much instantly and weeds out nearly every non-fraud instance of non-payment. Once that soft approval comes back (which remember happens within a second or two) the retailer can be confident that the card is tied to a valid account, that has a large enough balance to cover the transaction, and barring fraud dispute it will go through and they'll get paid. If something were to go wrong in that process there's also banks and the CC processor that the business could go after in court to get their money.

    In contrast crypto takes several minutes to go through if not significantly longer, and if something goes wrong in that process there's no legal recourse of any kind. If a business were to allow product to leave their store prior to that minute+ approval process and it fails, they're screwed, they just have to eat that cost.

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • Look into the Privacy app (kind of a terrible name honestly). It's effectively a Paypal type system but one that issues CC numbers for each vendor or transaction and allows you to easily audit and manage them. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than Paypal.

  • Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

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  • The fundamental flaw with all current crypto is that it's far too volatile to use as a currency. The only reasonable use for it at the moment is as a high risk commodity which is the vast overwhelming majority of what we see. Any so called "currency" that regularly sees price swings of multiple percentage points in a day isn't actually a currency and is unsuitable to be used as one.

    Adding to this is the problem of transaction times. Actual payment systems typically have transaction times of less than a second, occasionally a second or two. Bitcoin in contrast can take multiple minutes, sometimes hours or even days to confirm a transaction. There's no way for Valve to accept and then immediately convert Crypto to USD. The process would inherently involve at least two transactions, one to transfer the crypto to Valves wallet, then a second to transfer from Valves wallet to the exchanges wallet, and only then could Valve attempt to sell that crypto. The financial uncertainty involved in all of that is entirely unacceptable for a business.

    At this moment there is only one potentially viable way of approaching this and it's government regulation of some kind. Either government needs to regulate that payment processors get no say in the contents of customers business, or else they need to regulate the adoption of a neutral digital payment system. One possible example of what that could look like would be the GNU Taler system which might eventually become a payment system in Switzerland but isn't yet.

  • Team Trump Is Actually Drawing Up Attack Plans for Mexico

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  • He's trying to imitate Putin. Probably go about as well as it has for Putin as well.

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  • Get the LibRedirect extension. It can send you to alternate mirrors of the same info not just for reddit but a bunch of other corporate data harvesting operations pretending to be websites.

  • EnteAuth (and a bunch of other FOSS) take Microsoft's "free" money

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  • In terms of the open source community Microsoft has been significantly less sketchy than usual for about a decade now. For those of us that are old enough to remember the halloween files it's hard to let go of that paranoia, particularly with the sketchy shit MS has been doing with their proprietary stuff lately, but near as I can tell they've been above board on their open source stuff.

    I wouldn't go so far as to say blindly trust them at this point, but I wouldn't just assume with no evidence at all that there has to be something nefarious going on either.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • Chicken is not beef. Pork is not beef. Fish is certainly not beef. I hate chicken. Pork isn't bad but can be hit or miss. The only meat I hate more than chicken is fish. So no, I can't just eat other meats. Even if that wasn't the case there are also people who are allergic to chicken. We had one of our friends over recently and we have to make sure nothing we serve has chicken in it because of their allergy.

    You're also missing the point entirely. I neither need nor want AI. Nobody needs AI. 90% of what AI is used for now could be done without AI using half the power and just as quickly. It's a solution in search of a problem and that's fundamentally the wrong way to do things. All this AI crap is purely being driven by marketing departments that are just frothing at the mouth to find some way to justify slapping "AI" into their ads.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • The problem is all those other things are useful, unlike AI. AI is a gimmick and a distraction. It wasn't so bad when it was a novelty being experimented with, but now that corporations have decided it's the hot new thing and are racing each other to find the most pointless places to cram it in it's out of hand. It's approached fundamentally wrong, instead of looking at a problem and asking "could AI help with this?" companies are starting with AI and then asking "now what problems can we invent to justify using this?". The result is a bunch of power gets wasted solving problems that aren't actually problems or could have been solved much more efficiently in traditional ways, and yes that's bad for the environment.

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    The Oval Office, then and now.

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  • Good taste vs. tasteless.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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  • Developing from scratch yes, but several decent open source renderers exist. I'd love to see someone grab Servo and polish it to a fully usable state (I think it's something like 75% of the way there).

    The issue also isn't Mozilla trying to make money, it's Mozilla trying to make money in the stupidest way possible, or even worse actively wasting money like with this AI slop. There's also the issue of what Mozilla is spending on. It came out a little while back how much their executives are making and it's completely ridiculous. They could afford multiple full time devs with just the money the CEO makes for making the worst decisions imaginable.

  • Trump demands homeless move out of Washington, DC 'immediately'

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  • They should respond with "you first".

  • Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs

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  • It's kind of both. Trump is a moron and some of what he does is failing and he doesn't understand why, but some of it is also working exactly like he planned. Trump is and always has been a conman. He is not a businessman, he is a conman. That's a very critical thing to understand. Everything he does is a grift of some kind, it's his default operating mode.

    Every action he takes he intends to either enrich himself or attack someone he doesn't like. He never does anything that will benefit someone else unless he sees some way in which he can also benefit. He will always opt for the scummiest solution to any problem because he likes to feel like he "tricked" someone or got one over on them, that it somehow proves he's a brilliant businessman. He genuinely believes that scammer and businessman are the same thing.

  • Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues

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  • Funneling public money directly into the hands of his cronies was the point all along, everything else is just a bonus to Trump. I guarantee somewhere in there there are also kickbacks going to Trump and his buddies as well. If we ever manage to dislodge this bloated parasite we'll need a whole army of forensic accountants to go over every action he's ever taken to document all the embezzlement and fraud and maybe claw some of that money back.