‘Teases prototypes’? Do they think it’s 2010? Nobody cares about your EV prototypes, launch something people can buy or just resign yourself to being killed off by the wave of Chinese EVs.

As a great philosopher once said, “Shit or get off the pot.”

Kids these days don’t know the pain of trying to get enough free conventional memory to run something.

Look at you. Sailing through the water majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.

Maybe making progress during year three of your three day special military operation isn’t really something to celebrate.

It’s even worse when you take a bunch of the small percentage of energy the heat engine successfully turns into motion and then use it to heat up the brake discs.

Being able to recapture kinetic energy into a battery and reuse it later helps overall efficiency a lot.

Okay, but that’s still partially on Nvidia for refusing to participate. They could have argued for explicit sync early in Wayland’s development but they weren’t at the table at all, so they got stuck with the technology that was decided on without them and had to argue for changes much later.

And they started off arguing for EGLStreams, but it didn’t work well either. Explicit sync came later.

Wayland has a bunch of features that are so new they aren’t in the stable distros yet.

Nvidia went from declaring they were never going to support Wayland to trying to force their own EGLStreams stuff on everybody to reluctantly accepting the standard that was developed without them and trying to make it work for their driver. They’re playing catchup and it’s entirely their own fault for refusing to cooperate with anybody.

They’re moving more towards open source drivers now, probably because the people buying billions of dollars worth of GPUs to use on Linux servers for AI training have had words with Nvidia on the subject.

Pointing a desk fan into a computer works fine and is a useful troubleshooting step if you suspect something is overheating, but if you need to do it that probably means heatsinks are clogged with dust, aren’t sized appropriately or aren’t making good contact. So you really should fix that problem.

The free trial isn’t a business model. It’s a demo.

You only have a F2P model after you add the aggressive monetisation.

Okay, but if they packed it full of microtransactions and premium currency, it’d be a worse game.

Unless you mean you just want the publisher to make less money, which isn’t an option they’re going to be interested in.

I for one definitely feel like big corporations are pissing on me.

IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.

Voting third party under the US system doesn’t improve society so, like you, the meme kind of misses the point.

Network namespaces and policy based routing are black magic, IMO.

I’ve got a VPN set up on my router and separate VLANs set up for ordinary traffic and VPN traffic. A device doesn’t need to support VPNs at all, I just connect it to the VPN VLAN and all its traffic goes over the VPN whether it likes it or not. I’ve got separate wifi SSIDs for each VLAN.

My desktop is connected to both VLANs with a network namespace set up for the VPN VLAN, so sudo vpn rtorrent runs rtorrent in the namespace that’s connected to the VPN VLAN.

My setup is nice, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who doesn’t want to learn quite a bit about networking.

It’s been 30 years and jokes about Windows expanding to fill available space still work.

Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it’s chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.

Whatever compromise anyone tries to come up with will be ignored and exploited as hard as advertisers possibly can.

A compromise that actually works would depend on advertisers actually complying. The advertisers that do will be vastly outnumbered by the advertisers that don’t.

So we’re getting the arms race either way.

I’m not interested in my computer striking a balance between my needs and the needs of people seeking to manipulate me into buying things.

I paid for my computer, it serves my needs. Yes I do run Linux, how did you guess?

Nobody went and flipped the breaker for the jacuzzi? People like that obviously need practice dealing with inconveniences.

The devs have been working hard to hammer out those troublesome edge cases. There’s a lot less of them than there was a year or two ago.