vrighter
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- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 days ago:
it’s the default solution in my house because of the cats
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
arch v debian?
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 week ago:
LESS CHOICE!
Choice is only exciting for us techheads. Too much of it actively harms adoption.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 week ago:
and they just dropped support for pascal :/
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
he literally said it was not one of the features cherry picked to be reimplemented. So he did say, paraphrased, “because we couldn’t be bothered”
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
the reason is literally “because we decided not to implement it”
Saved you a click.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 weeks ago:
raytracing and upscaling will always go hand in hand because the hardware is far, far, FAAAAAAR from being able to raytrace a whole frame in realtime. Like, really really far.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 weeks ago:
ue5 doesn’t force rt. But the number of games that do mandate rt (ex the latest indiana jones game) is increasing. I flat out can’t play those.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 weeks ago:
I have a gtx 1080. 2025 games are mostly written in unreal 5. Unreal 5 is designed such that not even the highest end gpus can actually run it without framegen. And now also with mandatory raytracing.
Older games still work, and they look and run better for me.
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 2 weeks ago:
doesn’t change anything if you can’t avoid having to write the unsafe parts
- Comment on My review on the AYN Odin 3 5 weeks ago:
a compatibility layer would involve dedicated hardware in the soc itself, like apple did with the m series chips
- Comment on idk 5 weeks ago:
it’s the litle button at the top
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
you seem to be confusing an operating system for the user interface. An os can (and regularly does) have more than one interface. In this case steamos ships with two of them. One they designed which is targeted for games. And they also ship plasma as a desktop environment for those who need it. The operating system lies under all that, and you can launch any piece of software from either of the interfaces. (or the terminal, that counts as a 3rd way to interact with the computer, I guess)
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
as amazing as snake was as a toy on phones, it still doesn’t make sense to put a copy of snake in outlook. Or notepad, or paint, or office, or as an always available widget in the task bar
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
because they haven’t? We don’t want any changes to our ability to install software. This would still kill f-droid, and the “flow” they talked about isn’t a system wide setting. You have to do it per app. And you, the owner of the divice who just wants to install something on your device, would have to register. So if too many people install the app, the dev would be forced to register as well.
How is any of that “listening to user feedback”?
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 month ago:
yes, but thanks for telling me anyway :)
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 month ago:
everything is fucking videos now. You get stuch at a very particular place? Prepare to sift through literally hours of video instead of, for example, just searching for the name of the place you’re in ingame
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 1 month ago:
they are widely known to be the smartest creatures on earth, followed by dolphins, and then us
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
speakers are analog devices by nature.
The other two are used for the distortions they introduce, so quite literally lower fidelity. Whether some people like those distortions is irrelevant.
You want high fidelity: lossless digital audio formats.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
what audio tech uses analog for better fidelity?
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
banks have the most obnoxious, yet the stupidest security measures.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
at least two, you can’t stuff a rocket full of just gpus, you need something to actually dock and deliver the payload in space. So you need to launch at least 2 rockets (in a non-reusable configuration, so you need to pay for the whole rocket and the launch) to ship a bunch of gpus that are, at best, only 10% as fast as usual.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
they did think of it. lots of people have. I just mentioned what was required. Rad hardened processors are usually 10 to 20 times slower than what we have on the surface
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
and the infrastructure and robotics to replace them, of course.
Assuming 200 nvidia H100 failures a day (conservativo, reality is worse) that’s an extra ~340kg of weight you’d need to launch per day. Which is an extra 120 tons yearly.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
and forget about running 4nm chips in space. shit has to be radiation hardened, which means bigger process nodes and higher energy cost, and lower speed
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
for starters, at the loads they’re running at, they have literally hundreds of gpu failures a day. How do you propose doing that in space?
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
well any actual engineer who isn’t trying to sell them will readily tell you that a datacenter in space is a very bad idea.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
literal kilometers of panels and radiators. No. It won’t happen
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
yes but they’re not trying to dissipate megawatts usually
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 months ago:
and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course.