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Posted on 22-02-04, 20:59 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Post: #181 of 204
Since: 11-24-18 Last post: 26 days Last view: 2 days |
Posted by Kawa Needed the jQuery for legacy IE6 support. As IE6 is dead and buried now, only AJAX is required. If you think a little bit, it is possible to make *really* lean and mean things with web... Sadly, noone cares enough to think it through. Noone wants to pay the money that would take, it's easier to just do a 300 MB RAM-eating React monstrosity. Posted by CaptainJistuce Yeah, except you're then trading one ugly pile of hacks for another, and frames simply do not degrade gracefully, and iFrames suck even more. They just break and ruin *everything*. An AJAX-like mechanism is necessary, but it is extremely easy to make a website that has a heavy render (loads everything) and a light render (loads only content) to work simultaneously. The last webapp I was involved in, I freakin' made a JavaScript driven web interface where you could actually middle-click and get a new tab and end up *exactly* where you left off in the other tab, even if it was buried five menu options deep. Would you click that link with JS turned off it would still render since everything was rendered through CSS classes. And it was the same render path and everything, and the exact same link just loaded the information requested if JS was on. And all you had to do to get it to work was type like... It was... Glorious. It brought out exactly the information requested and not a penny more. And all competitors wondered how T.F! we managed our loads with 3x less servers than they. :D Good times. Again though - the "web" is dead, and now I'm just waiting for QT to make a web edition. Or GTK. It's bound to happen. |
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Posted on 22-02-28, 15:51 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Post: #182 of 204
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Posted by desudesu Except it's not quite that easy, US prices are 9% VAT (a.k.a sales tax) exclusive, EU/UK prices are 25% VAT inclusive. While EU has 25% VAT the US has only 9% VAT though, so, an apples to apples comparison is $381.49 vs €349.99 vs £349.99 - or, in dollar terms, $381.49 vs $392.20 vs $468.99. UK is getting price gouged, true, but the EU really isn't. Alternatively, price without sales tax is $349.99 vs $313.49 vs $374.99 for US/EU/UK respectively. But whatever. |
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Posted on 22-03-15, 10:00 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Post: #183 of 204
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Posted by tomman This problem has been known for a long time, but here is the obligatory XKCD (Dependency): 
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Posted on 22-03-26, 16:45 in Why you won't run Linux as a Windows replacement
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Hi, this will be me mostly venting over Windows users that think Linux is a drop in replacement for Windows. If you got better things to do than listen what an old Linux veteran thinks about this, then stop reading now. I've heard this argument a few times the last month or so. It goes something like this; "I can switch off Windows any time, and I hate what is happening with Windows 11 so I'll probably go Linux next year!" The short answer is, no you won't, that is a lie, and if you are thinking that way then you need to stop lying to yourself. Some disclaimers here, I have nothing against Windows as a whole or that you specifically use it. At the same time I love Linux for what it is, I love the strides it is making in the gaming space and it makes an incredibly capable gaming machine today, with Wine having even better compatibilty than Windows 10/11 for some games. Lutris, Proton and Steam are all making great strides to bridge the gap. Linux gaming isn't the madman task it once was, and that is a good thing. At the same time there are still quite a few problems to resolve, it is a shitfest on the multiplayer arena, the most popular discrete GPU line (Nvidia) have such bad driver integration it is silly, Easy Anti Cheat and it's brethren are still a problem and compatibility is hit and miss. Streaming and RGB are also nowhere near where it should be, even though it is possible, I guess. It is simply easier to just run Windows, if gaming is your primary purpose for a PC. On the flip side, Linux is a great OS in other aspects. It is very unobtrusive; gets out of your way; regular tasks like printing are often more polished; it is infinitely more customizable when it comes to desktop customization and a heap of other advantages. This makes it a highly desirable operating system for power users and light users alike. A lot of the things on the Linux side are simply much better thought out than on the Windows side. So, you are running Windows 10, and you start feeling the pull? Worried about Windows 11? Windows 10 will go E.O.L on October 14th, 2025. That is roughly 3.5 years from now. So you have a choice to make. And you are not going to like it. The choices you have are: 1. Stick to Windows 10 2. Upgrade to Windows 11 3. Jump to a Linux based OS like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch Since option 1 will be less and less feasible, with 3 years to go, it is time to start to consider the other two options. Sure, you can be on the fence - but, why? If you can upgrade, upgrade already. Sticking to 10 is only a stop gap measure and will be more and more painful as time moves on. Option 2, yeah, no... Not going to do that... Maybe... Well... Except you are. This is the default option. You will need to jump the ship either way. There are no real technical reasons to hold off now that most early bugs in Windows 11 have been resolved. Come this summer, Windows 11 will have very little reason to hold back, and holding off will hurt more and more. Option 3, get off the Windows train. This is what you'd like to do. Except you can't. Because App X does not work. Because your buddies want to play game Y. You will find a thousand reasons to not install Linux, even though you know in your heart it might be the correct move for you. And thus, you prove once and for all that you are hooked on Windows, and so knee deep you cannot cut ties, possibly ever. Now, don't get me wrong. Windows, Linux, Mac OS - doesn't really matter what you run as long as you are happy with it. There is no Linux heaven where 72 attractive, young virgins in penguin costumes are waiting for you to serve your every need if you just stay enough Linux-y. There is only the satisfaction of a well-oiled OS working as good as you can possibly get it. So what is my point here? If you are on Windows 10 and planning to go 100% Linux, now is as good a time as any, and it is unlikely Linux will be that much different in three years. If you don't want to, that is fine too, but then you should plan to install Windows 11 ASAP. Either way is fine. Just stop lying to yourself that Windows 11 is somehow going to be the last straw - it most probably isn't. |
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Posted on 22-03-27, 12:55 in Why you won't run Linux as a Windows replacement
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Post: #185 of 204
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Posted by creaothceann Yeah, no, you *can't* upgrade to Windows 11 with that. Need a motherboard with LGA1151, LGA1200, LGA1700, AM4 or AM5 sockets. By late 2025 no supported Windows will run on your system as it stands today. Period. |
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Posted on 22-03-27, 17:14 in Why you won't run Linux as a Windows replacement
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Post: #186 of 204
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Posted by creaothceann Yes, exactly. It will be possible to run it unsupported just like some people still run 7 and XP unsupported. Doesn't mean it won't work... Just that there will be no more security updates nor will there be third party devs that will support your junk. As long as that is satisfactory, then you do you. :) |
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Posted on 22-05-13, 22:10 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Post: #187 of 204
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Nice step in the right direction, even though Nvidia basically did this instead of the right thing;Oh well. Let's see how far that gets them! My own brief research indicates this move happened because AMD GPUs can finally run CUDA fast enough, that the minor performance hit now outweighs big iron's downtime with the closed source drivers. This is just idle speculation at this point, though. |
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Posted on 22-05-27, 22:13 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Post: #188 of 204
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I am now in a position where I'm doing embedded web development. E.g. doing text parsing in C on a machine with 1 MB of RAM and 256 kB of storage total, that is supposed to serve HTML5-compliant and ECMAScript 6 compliant webservers. On a machine that, in all likelyhood, will never ever directly connect to the Internet. But a smartphone is supposed to connect to the device and download a PWA from it over a local network. I'm convinced this is a pretty accurate simulation of programmer hell. :D |
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Posted on 22-06-12, 15:28 in Windows 11
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Post: #189 of 204
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Seriously, these are the SATA SSD prices in piggie America according to PC part picker (cheapest SATA SSD vs cheapest spinning rust of same capacity - e.g. a LOT of 5400 RPM drives here)For me, a 2 TB SSD is large enough. I don't need more storage on my system. Sure, for backup drives and so on, larger is better - but 2 TB SSDs cost less than $130 today! Once they drop below $99 it will be game over for the HDD, for real. Also, Windows 11 still allows spinning rust, it just won't install to one. Thus, a modern system has one of two viable paths: #1 - a 250 GB SSD + 2 TB HDD. Cost: $61,98 #2 - a 1 TB SSD. Cost: $64.99 The 1TB system will be better in every conceivable way except it doesn't have that 1.25 TB extra storage. Does that even matter though? Conclusion: If you are too cheap to spend $20 on a 128 GB NVMe boot drive, then Windows 11 is not for you. And yes, your system will support NVMe boot if you can run Windows 11 otherwise. |
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Posted on 22-07-09, 22:03 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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Post: #190 of 204
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Posted by tomman In it's current state, Proton is awesome with at *least* 50% coverage of the entire Steam catalog. It is so better I've pretty much started to run Steam exclusively for my needs - although still got Lutris installed for all the other goodies. Posted by tomman Yep, even though some DRM vendors have started to soften, especially since the release of the Steam Deck, it's still not where it needs to be. Posted by tomman Do try Proton on this. I can't promise 100% support but many games will in fact work out of the gate. It is amazing. Posted by tomman I think that ship has sailed, actually. Virtualisation and easy containerisation makes pre-packaged games that run in a QEmu instance is just too tempting to ignore, that way you can all but ensure binary compatibility regardless of platform. It wouldn't surprise me if there are Steam gamepaks in five years that run on any OS. |
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Posted on 22-08-12, 15:35 in Instant messaging (cr)apps
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Post: #191 of 204
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I wish someone would rebase Discord into a QT based app or something. That makes it at least suck less. Discord has great backend plumbing as far as services go, but the frontend is just a horrible memory hog. The problem with communication is... That people seems to love their islands. Anyone outside their island can just be connected by telephone... Which is a service slowly disappearing across the world. I know people that have ditched their phone completely in favor of an unholy WhatsApp/FB Messenger/Discord trinity. Oh, sure, they still have a Cell phone, they just ditch the account for SMS and Voice, doing instead unlimited data, or even WiFi only and go off the grid when they leave home. I am hoping that all carriers band together and switch over to a binary equivalent to XMPP or something, but I'm not holding my breath. Everyone could agree on TCP/IP and HTTP, why not a Voice and Video protocol, perhaps with exchangable codecs? I'm not asking for much, I want: * Support for Federation at the protocol level * Support P2P voice/video streams (actually, generic Voice/Video/Data streams would be even nicer) * Base protocol should be an Open Standard Sadly, all three will be fought over tooth and nail and if one crumble all three crumble. Why can't we have Nice Things(tm)? |
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Posted on 22-08-12, 15:42 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #192 of 204
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Posted by tomman Sounds like it is time to bring out the old user-scripts and user defined CSS again. |
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Posted on 23-03-18, 09:29 in Getting started on Debian
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You could also look for the torrent archive of SNES ROMs, NoIntro is pretty good about that sort of thing and it's only like, a gig or two in size. I do recommend getting the full archives for all cartridge consoles (GBA, N64 and lower), as the total amount is something around 10-15 GB - peanuts considering a 2TB NVMe disk costs less than $100 today. As for disc based consoles, well, that's a different story... I think the full PS1 collection is something around 100 GB, and Saturn is like 60 GB. Dreamcast is probably pretty small too, as is Gamecube. After that though, we're talking DVD games, so now we're talking dedicated NAS and SAN setups - not really worth it. You could probably fit all the ROM archives of commercial games in all regions for all home consoles released before the year 2000 on a 500 GB drive, perhaps a 1TB drive tops. |
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Posted on 23-04-03, 09:46 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Post: #194 of 204
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Posted by tomman I assume a Radeon 550 is off the table? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V2GYKPJ |
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Posted on 23-04-04, 07:41 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Posted by tomman Ah. Then, unfortunately, it is soon time to start hunting for a more modern laptop. I assume it has a combined NvIntel and the Intel circuits are still working with 6.2+. I can recommend Lenovo AMD APU-based systems, those are more likely to have long Linux support though nothing is guaranteed. My wife has been running an AMD 4800U system for the past three years, we're pretty happy with that one. |
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Posted on 23-04-04, 19:50 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Posted by CaptainJistuce Ah, right. Let me check the options: 1. Steam Deck [1] + Dock [2] - $399 + $89 2. No-name 3rd gen AMD laptop [3] - $369 3. Modern PC parts [4] - $315 Doesn't seem too far-fetched to purchase; for 6 people that's just $50-$75 each. Then again I could just be a spoiled euro tech-junkie having built my ivor^H silicon tower waaaaaaay too high. Also, how to deliver this to a commie will be a problem in the US. :shrug: If it helps I am planning on going AM5 eventually and am currently running a B450 system with a 512 GB SSD; happy to donate that, but it will take at least a year. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck [2] https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeckdock [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVLV3X6G/ [4] https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KTtCd9 |
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Posted on 23-04-21, 19:56 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Man, you have way too much patience for that. Me, I have painstakingly learned the bitbake build system and have mounted a RPi4 to the TV. This means I can update my entire retro system for ARM, tweaked just the way I like it. This also means I can run install-less game "cartridges" (actually SD cards) on my RPi4. Cross compiling is just something I eat to lunch, dinner *and* breakfast now. Start a build and a couple of hours later I have the latest and greatest for most console emulators... As long as I have the source code to make it work of course. It is strangely satisfying to have a dedicated Linux system that loads a dedicated game every time you replace the SD card. Only problem is that it takes a bit of time to load the Linux system first. It does feel a bit wasteful to load a 200 MB image to play a NES ROM, and you *could* probably cut that down if you want to... But when 1GB SD cards costs around 50 cents, why bother? Yeah, I know I can simply reload the emulator instead, but what is the fun in that :) |
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Posted on 23-05-02, 21:00 in Windows 11 (revision 1)
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Posted by tomman Oh, it was sentenced to death years ago. It just had to give due process for appelation courts and whatnot to run it's course, so they don't accidentally sentence an innocent OS to death. Because MS would never do that! Right? |
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Posted on 23-05-05, 14:53 in Windows 11 (revision 1)
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Meanwhile cheap 4TB SSD bulk drives has dropped to $179 now... A system from 5 years ago usually got less storage than that, but of course there will be exceptions. Samsung 850 QVOs 8TB SSDs are $450 now, too. These things are starting to become affordable, but not at the dirt cheap level of HDDs yet. For gaming 8TB is more than you need right now, but I would say 32TB need to come down to affordable levels before we have enough storage overall. As always, you do what you feel is best, I can only tell you what I see. Feel free to disagree, it's your system, files, and money after all! :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DTR8RGR |
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Posted on 23-05-29, 11:15 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Posted by tomman Anyone tying themselves to the Xorg ship mast is doomed to go under sooner, rather than later. Xorg is based on heaps upon piles upon mounds of hacks to get it running on a modern architecture. As soon as Xorg is off the table, you can optimize new drivers to be like one third the size in the active codepath. Xorg support will still remain for a long while as a backwards compatibility option, but I think direct kernel support acceleration could go away as early as 2026 or so. Of course, that means the 2026 LTS kernel will no longer accelerate Xorg on hardware, not that it is completely unbootable. Xorg as it stands is already a rudderless ship on life support, and is rapidly moving towards legacy status, where it will linger until deemed obsolete. Now, one does not simply delete Xorg, far too many hooks for that. But the work to remove all hooks is more or less completed, so now we can start extracting big chunks of Xorg to Wayland. Are there some vital protocols left, yes, but those are edge cases for the most part. Things like HDR and stuff like that. Old tech, Wayland should handle pretty well now. |
