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tomalley8342

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  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • I have seen enough devices get kneecapped by the manufacturer after release to know that the FSF's viewpoint is the correct one.

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • If you don't make a conscious decision to disallow free software it becomes too easy to normalize its inclusion.

    even prior to bookworm it wasn’t endorsed due to having the toggle in the first place, which I find super weird.

    They probably predicted (correctly) that this attitude would eventually lead to the decision that they ultimately made in 2022.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • You can use windows hello without biometrics.

  • Confession: I don't know what passwords in Linux are for

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  • I don't believe there is any particular advantage of linux insisting on password input for privilege escalation. Obviously there is no proof of this, but I suspect that the design of this privilege escalation flow in linux is at least partly caused by its popularity as a server OS, for example the UI flow for Windows UAC wouldn't work if you're trying to remotely administrate a server through the terminal.

  • LLMDeathCount.com

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  • I'll try to exercise my "assume good faith" muscle here because I think the above poster is at least genuine about what they are posting: I believe this poster wishes that the people who oppose the proliferation of AI at the cost of human connection would "put their money where their mouth is" by reaching out to the people that this poster feels are unfairly ignored.

  • Minimalist cheeseburger

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  • Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

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  • Yep. I thought $100 for 8TB was expensive when I checked earlier this year and now the cheapest one is $140. Fuck 😂

  • NVIDIA Releases Linux Driver 580.105 With HDMI and Game Crash Fixes

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  • You can generally pass through modern Nvidia GPUs as the entire device, provided that you let go of it in the host. It not supporting vGPUs just means you can't virtualize and split up the GPU workload across multiple VMs, which I believe is also the case for consumer AMD GPUs as well.

  • Authors Guild Asks Supreme Court to Hold Internet Providers Accountable for Copyright Theft

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  • The above post only applies for HTTPS traffic using a third party secure DNS - traditional P2P torrenting will leak what you are downloading to your peers. There are anonymous P2P networks like I2P that (allegedly) solve this issue, but it is not widely adopted.

  • NVIDIA Releases Linux Driver 580.105 With HDMI and Game Crash Fixes

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  • For virtualization users, the driver addresses a soft lockup issue involving the vfio-pci module, which could occur after powering off a virtual machine with a passed-through NVIDIA GPU. This fix improves reliability for users running GPU passthrough in environments such as KVM or QEMU.

    AMD friends watching from the sidelines

  • Good alternative for BlissOS?

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  • FydeOS is ChromeOS based, not android - in that area there's brunch as well, which is closer to what's officially distributed. I believe you are correct to assume that x86 android that you can just install on your own is not really a thing anymore.

  • Rockstar Games fires over 30 employees, all were part of pro-union Discord group, "one of the most blatant and ruthless acts of union busting in the history of the games industry"

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  • wrong country 😅

  • Android 16 makes app updates nearly instantaneous with this clever change

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  • cutting it from seconds to milliseconds.

    Who in the world is in that much of a hurry to continue using their phone 😅

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • so there's an optimization problem in there somewhere

    The optimization problem is actually the point of the study, encoded as PPD, which represents the density of a display's pixel per degree of your eye's field of vision. It says that any more than 53-94 PPD is imperceptible to most. You can see if your display makes the cutoff if you have the viewing distance and screen size here:

    https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/display_calc/

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  • I’m trying to understand, since it’s DRM-free, can I buy it and share with many people so they can play it on their PC?

    You are not supposed to

    Or there’s something that prevent me to do that?

    Nothing technically

    Does it mean that pirating GOG games is easy as transferring to other machine?

    Yes

    If so, I wonder why pirate sites like FitGirl still use cracked Steam version of games, why don’t just share GOG version?

    Repacks are sourced from the scene, and the scene cracks video games. The fact that you get free video games out of it is a side effect.

  • AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

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  • Idk his render pipeline breakdown videos seem fairly in-depth. Is it just mumbo-jumbo?

    Not especially, but it's deceivingly surface level and doesn't (and can't) get into why those decisions might have been made by the programmers. The big issue is that because of his lack of experience and insight into why certain decisions were made, he somehow comes to the bizarre conclusion that there is a set of rendering techniques that are either:

    • Being hidden from us by "them" to sell hardware
    • Have become lost arcane knowledge because modern renderer architectures are by and large incompetent

    Frankly though I think in practice the difference between graphics in 2015 and 2025 is negligible compared to the difference between TAA (or DLAA/FSR/XeSS/FXAA/SMAA) and x4 MSAA. The only that comes even close is Path Tracing in CP2077.

    "Modern rendering features are expensive and not worth it" is a reasonable take, but it's not what he's pushing.

    I agree he seems like a sketchy af grifter, but I’ve not seen a single good rebuttal of his actual points, and even if he was a grifter, that doesn’t invalidate what he’s saying.

    The examples he demonstrates in some of his videos are "not false", at least to the extent that he does click on some buttons on unreal engines and it does behave the way he says he does. So in this way it appears to a casual viewer that his "actual points" can not be refuted. But the grift isn't in what he shows, it's in the massive gap between what he shows and what he says afterwards.

  • AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

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  • That's the guy who's asking for a million dollars to "fix" unreal engine 5 despite having 0 programming experience and sends out dcma strikes for any videos that call him out on it, lol

  • EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

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  • EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion.

    But the whole media got you thinking so. Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

    This is what the EU democracy opinion was as of July 2024 BTW, before the "media got to you":

  • Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now

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  • Crypto is just taking it to yet another new level saying we don’t even need a government to back it anymore we’ll just do math and have the math say it has value. The scam is the same in all cases.

    Unless you lean towards anarchist persuasions, that's a very significant & fundamental difference.