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@amfipeal @geerlingguy Pmst need, mida hetkel turult saab. PCIe USB4 või Thunderbolt üleminek on aga suht kallis.

10G USB-C Ethernet adapters are now a thing... just ordered one ($87 shipped to US), probably will run out of first batch quickly: wisdpi.com/products/usb-c…

@msichal @mycoliza probably for it to clip in nicely in wider slots?

@mycoliza why not x1 to x1, same shit, better compatibility

why

@RaySong19184922 @lafaiel Not just Linux support, Windows support as well. I'm fairly sure Microsoft has UEFI updates for Qualcomm boards still disabled because QC ships broken garbage.

@lafaiel If Qualcomm really wants to excel in compute workloads (e.g., program compilation), I think they should improve their Linux support...

Unlike Macs, the X Elite has the potential to truly threaten AMD and Intel in gaming thanks to native DX/Vulkan support. Yet, they successfully wasted the die area on their priciest X2 chip by slapping in a base M5 tier GPU and cramming it with 18 CPU cores for Cinebench score

@1aubreygraham1 @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure SB doesn't do that, if it does it's your skill issue. mobos without any TPM support are more than a decade old and belong to ancient CPU generations, they probably can't play modern games properly anyways.

@Avamander @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure secure boot completely fucks over dualboot, for one things like tpm arent even supported on some older mobos too, so those people just cant play the game at all

if an anticheat ever asks me to reboot and change settings in my BIOS i am uninstalling it on the spot. who the fuck do you think you are

@1aubreygraham1 @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure they really don't. you can of course list the ones you have in mind that do that.

@Avamander @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure because sometimes these "security features" hinder the usage of our fucking computers we paid for

@schteppe Massive fumble by Firefox not continuing that route

The major web browsers should be rewritten in Rust.

@StarbornSearcad @1aubreygraham1 @possiblyazure Because protecting your PC is being a corporate slave 🤡

@1aubreygraham1 @Avamander @possiblyazure They really be calling "skill issue" on NOT being corporate slaves lmao

@1aubreygraham1 @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure skill issue in that case

@Avamander @StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure faceit requires secure boot which in 99% of cases fucks any sort of dualboot you may have on your pc

@Anon76546854773 @DanNeidle Because it usually only gets to that point when all other mechanisms have failed. Trivial things either tend not to happen or they get fixed way before anyone decides to sue.

@DanNeidle Why do legal decisions in general cost so much money to produce? I’m thinking also of ones like your recent case.

Four court hearings, probably £1m+ of fees, all to work out if large marshmallows are a "sweetened prepared food which is normally eaten with the fingers", and therefore subject to VAT. Spoiler: they are not. Because "A > B and C > D, (A + C) > (B + D)"

@sillyoumaximus @TimWalzSkinFact @possiblyazure You can use your own keys.

@Avamander @TimWalzSkinFact @possiblyazure Why tho. I hate microslop and I ain't letting it near my kernel

@sillyoumaximus @TimWalzSkinFact @possiblyazure Not a difficult thing to fix.

@TimWalzSkinFact @Avamander @possiblyazure I have an OS that breaks with sb on

@halvarflake I wanted it to generate a dashboard using LVGL and for the life of it, it couldn't get any of the rotations or monospace alignment right. When it doesn't see the direct result and can't iterate it degrades quick.

Example scenarios where Claude was extremely stupid in the last days: 1) Arguing that a change that moved work into multiple Python processes made GIL contention worse because the total number of CPU-seconds spent waiting for the GIL had gone up.

@SebAaltonen 4K+ makes quite a few things pointless, such as heavy AA. I would expect there are other things as well that we don't have to do with higher PPIs. Unfortunately these temporal AA methods now are the only way some games do proper transparency, so I can't disable them :/

There's an infliction point. 1080p->4K->8K is 4*4 = 16x more pixels for a relatively small visual improvement. 60Hz->120Hz->240Hz->480Hz is 2*2*2 = 8x. We need 128x faster GPU to render identical graphics at 8K@480Hz versus 1080p@60Hz. Or do we spend some of that 128x GPU improvement on visual improvements instead and some of that 128x improvement to implement clever upscaling on both spatial dimension and time dimension. It makes sense because A*B scales differently as A+B when both numbers grow. This whole debate started when PS4 Pro added 4K support (over PS4 1080p) with a big marketing push to ship 4K games for new 4K TVs. PS4 games were struggling to hit 30Hz, and PS4 Pro only had 2x faster GPU to render 4x more pixels. Devs invented techniques such as checkerboard rendering. Ubisoft's For Honor was the first game with the modern temporal upscaler algo (instead of checker/scanline upscalers). If you don't have enough budget to hit your target resolution, you have to either simplify graphics or upscale. People didn't want PS5 Pro games to look worse than PS5 base model, so they chose clever upscaling (IIRC the Ubisoft TAAU algo took 3% of frame time).

@nucknyan The single worst part is complaints about VT-d/virtualization support. HVCI is literally one of the very very few things actually considered a security boundary by Microsoft. It's such a massive leap in Windows security that having it disabled is really doing people a disservice.

I think it’s reasonable for an anticheat to call you out for going full retard mode on your BIOS and disabling shit like IOMMU

@xNotABug @possiblyazure If anything SB and HVCI keeps almost everyone out of the kernel, than vice versa.

@xNotABug @possiblyazure Literally none of those features do that. You should have them enabled without any anti-cheat.

@StarbornSearcad @possiblyazure You're spewing just bullshit. Ain't IOMMU or SB holding anyone hostage.

@Avamander @possiblyazure Thanks for letting us know that you'll let any company hold your pc hostage just so you can play a shitty game

@alt_Psymon @possiblyazure There's actually multiple reasons. It can finally provide some isolation between DMA regions, be it against misbehaving drivers or hardware. It also protects devices against DMA-based attacks, like an attacker reading out BitLocker keys.

@Avamander @possiblyazure Exactly why should IOMMU be enabled by default unless you're running virtual machines that require PCI pass-thru?

@Purrmissive @possiblyazure That's why they're demanding IOMMU and they've started to restrict DMA approaches as well. Though if a cheat costs hundreds of dollars that's already quite good and keeps things much cleaner.

@possiblyazure all this just for people to DMA anyway and ruin the game lol