Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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I have an Aukey dock and an Anker dock and they both work both ways. When there's no power supply connected to it, power is drawn from the laptop. When there is a power supply, my laptop gets charged instead.

I am confused why you think it requires additional software. For example, I personally use DigitalOcean, and that allows you to spin up servers via their website. No extra software needed.

did you know Metal is older than Vulkan by 2 years?

Did you know that Vulkan started out as Mantle which predated Metal by half a year? Anyways, the time of release doesn't really matter. What matters is whether its a graphics standard. Instead of adopting standards and creating a better developer experience for everybody, Apple chooses to go their own way...again. That's the reinvention I am referring to and it causes a trickle down effect that affects everybody else. It's extra work on Apple developers and game devs alike.

Plus it allows them to give complete low level support of their own silicon and hardware that you're likely to not yet with other APIs.

No reason why they can't be done via Vulkan extensions IMHO. Also, I am okay with them having Metal for such purposes...as long as they also support Vulkan and other standards. The problem is that they don't.

A lot of developers also use MolktonVK to get around that support.

MoltenVK is just another example of the extra work that everybody else has to do to support Apple's platform.

Why not just go with a VPS? Then you can run whatever software you like.

I am totally out of the loop. Why is Texas's power grid that bad right now?

Doom Eternal is a pretty light RT workload though. It'd be interesting to see how it fares with something like Cyberpunk.

I don't think forcing already over-worked game developers into supporting yet another rendering API is going to win them any bonus points though. Apple's insistence on Metal is very strange and a total reinvention of the wheel on both sides.

I was concerned that tech like DirectStorage wouldn't make its way to Linux for a while, but I am super glad that's not the case.

Huzzah, I just love it when more Wayland latency bugs get squashed.

Why would you want to turn Freesync off though?

Is there a way to transition from MariaDB to Postgres? I used the mariadb / redis version of the docker-compose, but now I hear everyone says Postgres is better for performance?

LOL, I have a feeling you're not wrong. I introduced Lemmy to a friend of mine and his first question was, "okay, what about the nsfw content though?"

Lemmy seriously needs better federated search. The fact that you need a separate website to find all the communities is just silly, especially if you're on smaller instances, which everyone seems to encourage.

...isn't the point of OP's question to look for alternatives to that sort of experience? Personally I am also looking for a way to make my Linux PC usable for TV use because navigating with a keyboard and mouse is annoying when sitting on a couch tbh.

The Flash is an awful movie. I watched it this past weekend and I couldn't believe how generic it was. The whole movie is cameos and fan service with no payoff. It's as if the movie exists just so that the producers can say, "Hey remember these old characters you used to love? Here's a scene with them! Why are they here? I dunno, just pay us money!"

I usually hate people who criticize CGI just because it wasn't filmed for real, but the CGI in the Flash is objectively bad. Apparently the VFX team barely had time to get the shots out the door and it shows. At the beginning of the movie, there's a shot of Ezra Miller eating a candy bar in slow mo and his head looks like an enlarged bobblehead compared to the rest of his body.

I keep hoping that the guys running DCEU will turn things around, but the Flash broke me like Bane breaking Batman's back and then threw me down the pit, except I don't even want to climb back out at this point.

Yeah I also get the playback freezes. It does work better in X11, but then it almost begs the question why I even got an AMD device in the first place.

On my Radeon 680M, I am getting constant freezes whenever I use video acceleration in KDE Wayland and I am not the only one. This bug has existed for almost a year and it's been driving me insane. I really don't see the awesome AMD driver situation everyone talks about.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2220#note_2072337

Yeah the Proton VPN gui app for Linux does not include port forwarding. I believe only their Windows app does at the moment. However, if you use their Wireguard certs and then follow their port forwarding instructions, it works quite well. Make sure you either disable IPv6 on your system or set IPv6 to link-local and add ::/0 to AllowedIPs, otherwise your IPv6 will leak since ProtonVPN does not support IPv6 at the moment.

Yeah I swapped over to ProtonVPN after they dropped support for port forwarding. Shame really because I did really enjoy Mullvad's VPN service.

Doesn't that require the game to support it though? Won't do much for the existing vr library