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Posted on 20-09-06, 23:30 in Computer Hardware News
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Cool, Intel is trying to assert their relevancy again. Here I am, using a computer built a year ago, with a seven year old power supply, using an even older standard than that. I'll replace some/any of that when it dies, just like when I was forced to get this upgrade. |
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Posted on 20-09-07, 22:41 in Computer Hardware News
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Post: #82 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
Also, you do know that USB is CPU bound, right? And that SATA isn't? |
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Posted on 20-09-08, 01:04 in Computer Hardware News
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It doesn't notice when you're churning 200MB/s across it? Ok, shove a RAID on USB ports. That's perfectly fine. |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-09-08, 04:33 in Computer Hardware News (revision 1)
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Post: #84 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
Fine, you buy your new shit, I'll keep using something that still works for another decade. Also, what the fuck, are you going to route external cables for internal drives, or is everyone supposed to be moving to tiny ass micro PCs by 2022 too? |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-09-09, 05:48 in Computer Hardware News
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No, see, my next PC purchase will be an ARM Mac Mini. See? Solves those pesky size problems, heat problems, and I don't have to worry about upgrades either, because what it comes with will be more than sufficient for the next generation or two. |
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Posted on 20-09-09, 22:39 in Computer Hardware News
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Post: #86 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
See, I like that too. But the tiny appliance that you can't manipulate in any way, and may as well have the software limiting what you can install on it, is what people above are saying the future is. And I maintain several Mac apps anyway. I'll probably need to go that path some day if I want to continue producing Mac apps for people to use. |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-09-13, 02:15 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #87 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/09/04/pipewire-late-summer-update-2020/ Apparently, PipeWire is all set to replace PulseAudio. It's "mostly" feature complete, and only some minor bugs are present. If you don't mind that no distributions are packaging the multilib version of the libraries at all, except that I slapped together an AUR package for that purpose. Oh, and current bugs result in occasional crackling when using external sound devices, since they apparently don't track the nanoseconds elapsed on the external device's clock to determine when it really really needs new audio output NOW, or else it will underrun. And apparently, it doesn't support PulseAudio's network protocols yet, either, so the only thing you get is if you point your PulseAudio app at the compatibility libraries, which several hackers, including that article, direct you in the ways of doing it globally, so all your apps will route through PipeWire. Although, it does map perfectly to JACK as well, so you can use JACK capable audio routing software, like Carla, to manipulate your PipeWire graph. Again, assuming you either run it through the pw-jack script, or force it to take precedence for the entire system. Not sure whether to blame it for an issue I just had half an hour ago, which caused my entire machine to lock up. Then again, I was also running a KVM+Qemu user mode virtual machine at the same time, so it could have been that. How you like them apples? Another audio subsystem to replace Poettering's thing. Oh, and Fedora is looking to make it the system default in a release or two, after all the kinks are worked out. |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-09-15, 21:49 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Post: #88 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
Posted by wertigon They make RX 550 cards in AGP form factor? |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-09-19, 21:52 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Have fun with your Firefox for Android <v80 |
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Posted on 20-09-20, 01:39 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Glad you got that sorted. (I didn't read the article.) |
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Posted on 20-09-23, 02:31 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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According to people I know who actually looked at the source leaks, over 80% of the SM64 "source" was binary objects that were pre compiled. |
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Posted on 20-10-08, 04:06 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #92 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
Still playing Fall Guys daily, awaiting tomorrow's unveiling of Season 2. Considering getting Among Us. I hear it's going to get the Easy AntiCheat treatment too, so yet another anti-Linux title to my roster. |
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Posted on 20-10-10, 02:45 in U.S. 2020 Election
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Still haven't received our mail in ballots yet. |
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Posted on 20-10-10, 02:46 in Computer Hardware News
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Huh, I thought that was just a rumor. |
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Posted on 20-10-29, 04:08 in Misc. software
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Post: #95 of 105 Since: 11-13-19 Last post: 1249 days Last view: 1249 days |
Maybe you missed where someone PR'd their entire youtube-dl fork into the dmca takedown notice's repo, and then when the original fork got deleted in the sweep, it became impossible to delete the pull request. So now if you know any of the commit hashes, you can just sort of grab them from the github dmca repo. Lol. Oh, and since github doesn't consider that pull requests literally slam one repo's branch history entirely into the git repository of the target, a security flaw, they are like EWONTFIX works as intended etc. So someone also pull requested the entire commit history of the ryujinx Switch emulator into the yuzu, another Switch emulator, repository. So now the two coexist until the next github garbage collection notices the ryujinx tree is not tagged or attached to any branches and sweeps it away? |
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Posted on 20-10-29, 04:38 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 2)
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FYI most Doom ports, I *think* chocolate included, also support General MIDI synthesis using your choice of soundfont too? You just need to read up on configuring it, depending on whether they use TiMiDity++ (kind of eww, but has the advantage of the freepats being freely distributable) or FluidSynth (pick your favorite bank, including heaping donation only commercial banks like Princess Soft)... Or if you're feeling spry, maybe encasing an instance of Sound Canvas VA in a wine process and talking to it via pipes... I've documented how to use their fixed api dll, SCCore.dll, which emulates exactly a single SC 8820 per process it's loaded into, and how to send it commands and pull out samples. No DRM protecting it, either! Also available for macos, same api. The mac version also does dirty tricks to multi instance per host process: rather than load one instance into a tiny host and pipe to/from it, they load multiple instances into the host app's memory and use a shitty naïve walking one byte forward at a time memcmp search to replace the SONAME with a random name and write it to that name in your /tmp folder. Yes, it pollutes with these 47mb turds if the host crashes. E: oops, missed that there was a whole other page to the topic. Yes, FluidSynth is supposed to actually be better than Timidity, except that apps that use it are also supposed to provide at least an option to set the soundfont(s) you want to use with the app. Sucks that debian binaries and repos are lame and hardcode the fricking fluid r3 bank, lol. Of course, it *is* free to redistribute... As for games... I was playing Fall Guys daily, but this game is always grindy and a bit frustrating as you usually get your ass handed to you. We're taking a break from it for a while, though. |
| kode54 |
Posted on 20-10-29, 04:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman Not sure which is funnier, that I know the author of that meme and am in a chat where they occasionally speak, or that people think it's actually a feasible eventuality. |
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Posted on 20-10-30, 01:15 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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I like the Princess Soft Gold bank, and the author has it on his site for download, and the "protection" gating it to only paid up donors is ridiculously simple. It rolls in at about 741MB, but most General MIDI files will use way less of this, and current versions of FluidSynth support dynamically loading only the utilized samples at play time. |
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Posted on 20-11-04, 04:24 in U.S. 2020 Election
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https://twitter.com/awholelotofderg/status/1323818331120541699 |
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Posted on 20-11-07, 04:31 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Cool, the situation has changed for the outlook on switching from U-verse to Spectrum: now my dad is afraid he or my mom could catch the Rona from a service worker, so only Essential workers like plumbers or appliance installers allowed until there's a viable vaccine. Faster and cheaper Internet and TV service isn't "essential", especially when the only other person who uses the connection doesn't notice anything wrong with 45/6. Totally first world problems anyway, amirite? New symptom of U-verse's 6mbps upstream that Kevin tells me is actually a Forever since the Beginning symptom: iOS FaceTime Live Photo snapshots of the call, when invoked by his end, result in the whole call going to Pure Shit as my iPad struggles as it maxes out the upstream uploading the 4 seconds of higher quality than the actual call video to his iPad to complete my end of his snapshot. No such problem when I snap, as his upstream has always exceeded mine, especially now that it's like 450Mbps. |
