Live and drink.

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Quoting: LoftyDue to the mega inflated prices right now, it would be probably better to get a proper mobile experience with intel integrated graphics model and use a separate desktop for gaming

This is pretty much what I've done since early 2010s. Rocking just integrated graphics makes the whole experience so much simpler. My previous laptop was a sort of an experiment with an APU and an AMD dGPU but the experience there turned out to be somewhat poor too since the paired dGPU wasn't significantly faster specs-wise and due to whatever overhead it consistently performed worse than just using the APU, although at least it didn't come with a laundry list of Nvidia annoyances on top of it all.

The gaming performance on integrated graphics is naturally what you'd expect, but I whatever light gaming I intend to do when I'm actually laptop-bound works just fine on such a setup.

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Quoting: FredrikNo thx wlroots has no nvidia support at all.

Not even nouveau? that's odd...

It supports Nouveau. The situation is actually the other way around: Nvidia doesn't support wlroots (since they don't support GBM).

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If there is as clear a case as Kennedy's big claims would indicate, then perhaps Kennedy should be spending more time suing and less time writing open letters?

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To pre-empt certain kinds of comments I've already seen elsewhere, I will leave the link to the developers' account on why they considered these changes to be necessary: https://boa.realm667.com/index.php/8-news/252-is-blade-of-agony-v3-1-horribly-censored

Many opinions can be had about what kind of content could and should go into a WW2 game and to what extent a game should educate its players on the ugly parts of the topic, but I agree with the developers that the world of Wolfenstein with its fictional scifi and magical aspects isn't best suited to tell those stories.

I've yet to try out the third episode and I'm excited to try it out after I've seen all the changes that were made to the second episode. I'm also glad that I'll get to go through the second episode with the new performance improvements.

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Happy birthday, GOL!

There have been twists and turns, but we got here and we'll go further. To another 12 years!

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Just a little BTW: they've tried taking the channel over twice now and twice I've gone and reclaimed it. The new Freenode staff don't seem to have the technical expertise to figure out their own services, so they couldn't even set the +s mode to hide then channel without their own ChanServ preventing them.

I'd say I feel like a hacker for retaking #gamingonlinux twice now, but that wouldn't really be accurate because both times it's been enough to just ask ChanServ to invite me and then reset the modes.

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Quoting: ArtenEvery new chip design for new proces node is more expensive with every generation of process node and there is no silver bullet like machine learning - because machine learning slowly moving to specialized hardware and so they have they own chips. We need make more GPUs and ethereum do this job for us. Righ now, there is shortage, because eth price fluctuation, but that is only short term problem. But without is limiting development of GPUs for PC, so we can in the end be tied to professional segment and game consoles chips as high-end and integrated GPU as low-end and nothink in-between.

What kind of corporate welfare are we planning here? GPU manufacturers ought to make decent products that meet the demand. There is, and always has been, demand for mid-tier GPUs. They aren't even prohibitively expensive to make, it's an industry standard practice to make mid-tier and low-end products by scrounging together half-broken chips from higher tiers and disabling the broken bits. I don't see the logical connection from Ethereum miners to mid-tier GPU availability, and even if such a connection did exist, I don't think subsidizing chip manufacturers by having their products be bought in massive volumes for the purpose of crunching useless numbers and gathering dust in some warehouse next to a newly reopened coal power plant that will power said warehouse is the way to do it.

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Quoting: ArtenSo, actual rising cost of development for every process nodes will be on the shoulders of the players. End of desktop gaming and hardware diversity is coming.

Wat?

The cryptocurrency market hasn't been the driving factor behind process nodes ever, mining gains have been a byproduct of the increased compute that can be put to work for actually useful purposes. You may have heard of this little thing called machine learning, which seems to be selling a fair amount of GPUs and lately specialized hardware (so I guess hardware diversity will continue, who knew!). Apparently they can also accomplish stuff other than just burn watt-hours, so that's kinda cool.

Also, smaller nodes are running into a problem of diminishing returns anyway, crypto or no crypto. Laws of physics are tough to break, so future performance gains will come from architecture, both in terms of hardware and software. And both still have a fair amount to give for the purposes of desktop gaming. So I just don't find the doomer vision of desktop gaming dying because Ethereum won't be providing nonsense crypto-puzzles for people to solve very convincing. I'd say it's more likely that desktop gaming will thrive if some gamers can actually get their hands on some damn GPUs.

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Quoting: AnanaceYou're thinking of Proof-of-Storage, not Proof-of-Stake, both acronym down to PoS but are wildly different.

Proof-of-Storage, Proof-of-Stake, Piece-of-Shit... it all kinda blends together in the world of cryptocurrencies.

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