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It's not called the 'Tiananmen Square' by the Chinese - that's just the name of the place. Either 六四屠殺 (June 4 massacre) or 六四鎮壓 (June 4 crackdown) would be more likely. And yes, expect loads of downvoting on Lemmy if you're ever critical of China.

You remember correctly. From the DXVK conf file:

    
# Report Nvidia GPUs as AMD GPUs by default. This is enabled by default
# to work around issues with NVAPI, but may cause issues in some games.
#
# Supported values: True, False

# dxgi.nvapiHack = True

  

Only good answer, really - can only answer in the terms of other senses, however, since colour is meaningless too: "It's like being able to hear the texture of things, even at a great distance."

Article is light on the details, except for Campfire Cabal closing. Features a long and obnoxious slideshow of things they've bought, which I've summarised below. tl:dr; some really eye-wateringly expensive acquisitions, a few really expensive disasters lately, a couple of big successes, and no overall pattern other than 'buy everything':

• Black Forest (Destroy All Humans! 2)
• Pieces Interactive (Titan Quest)
• Experiment 101 (BioMutant)
• Deep Silver (Homefront, Dead Island, Chronus, Saints Row, Dead Faction)
• Coffee Stain (Goat Simulator, Satisfactory)
• Bugbear (Wreckfest)
• Warhorse (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
• Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen)
• Milestone (Hot Wheels Unleashed)
• Gunfire (Darksiders, Remnant: From The Ashes)
• Tarsier (Little Nightmares)
• Saber (Evil Dead, Space Marine 2)
• 4A (Metro)
• New World (Insurgency)
• Vertigo (Arizona Sunshine)
• Zen (Pinball FX)
• Purple Lamp (Spongebob)
• Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior, Evil West)
• Gearbox (Borderlands)
• Aspyr (KotOR remake)
• Ghost Ship (Deep Rock Galactic)
• DigixArt (Road 96)
• Slipgate Ironworks (Ghostrunner)
• 3D Realms (Duke Nukem)
• Perfect World (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter)
• Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Montreal (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex)
• Middle Earth Enterprises (LotR)
• Tripwire (Killing Floor)
• Tuxedo (Teardown)

Just the IPs:

• Darksiders
• Red Faction
• Timesplitters,
• Kingdom of Amalur

Could also be that the Bluetooth kernel module is a loadable one, and if you've updated the kernel (which will usually take place pretty soon after a first install) then you won't have the matching folder of modules to load up until you restart. Arch is a bugger for this - I've an external mouse that works fine if you keep it plugged in during a kernel update, but it won't be recognised after an update until you restart again. Not a big deal - you can choose when to update.

Works great on VirtualBox - essentially, create a 'raw VMDK', and set up a virtual machine with that. Back when I thought that Windows was still worth dual-booting, I used to have it installed 'for real', but also installed so that I could boot it via VB. I always used to run Windows Updates when it was started in VB - that prevented the updates from making any BIOS changes and fucking up my GRUB configuration. It was also handy for file sharing and such like. Had far fewer problems with Windows in general that way, too.

Eventually, I realised that gaming on Linux is just fine, and the work-arounds were less effort than stopping Windows from shitting the bed in a dual-boot configuration. That was years ago; Linux gaming has come on a long way since then, too.

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda

https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/admin/adv-storage-config.html

Well; it's either going to be people who are sufficiently privacy-conscious to remove as much as possible from their user agent string, or more likely people who have written bots and scrapers that hit popular websites on an absurdly frequent basis. Team penguin, in any case ;)

I am shocked that Lennart Poettering, PulseAudio dev, but also Avahi and SystemD dev, whose name might frequently be brought up in conversations about interoperability, reliability, small ego, diplomacy, etc etc, might not be as good at coding an audio stack as legendary C64 demo coder and PipeWire dev Wim Taymans. Shocked, I tell you. Well, not that shocked.

Oops! Looks like it was me that was confused. Yes, don't do that.

Does help that the things you can genocide are less nasty than the things you cannot, and you don't want to be facing 100% the things you cannot genocide. Amuses me even more that the best use for scrolls of genocide is to read them while confused, which causes specific monsters to be summoned on demand

Am not the pirate that I used to be, but I've found that they pretty much work. Cracks seem fine, repacks make a couple of assumptions that tend not to be true on Wine:

• how folders are arranged
• leaving out all the additional installers for things like .net, because obviously everyone already has them

I'd usually make a new folder for 'what you're installing', create a new launcher for it in Lutris selecting that folder as the base directory, and then use the 'run different executable' option in Lutris to start the installer. Once that completes, you should be able to adjust the config to what you've installed, see if it works. Be prepared to try lots of additional installations with WineTricks, particularly .net and directx.

(To be fair, a lot of legit older games need the same in order to work, if you're installing from CD / DVD and things.)

I think it's also very interesting from a 'pure science' background. Superconductivity isn't 'perfect conductivity' - it isn't that we've found ways of making normal resistance less and less until eventually we made it to zero. Instead, there's certain materials that, as the temperature falls / pressure rises, that all of a sudden the resistance just disappears completely. The electrons pair up in a different way from usual, and we see different properties, like completely ejecting all magnetic fields.

They tend to have a 'breakdown current' above which they stop superconducting, so it's not like they're the instant answer to all of our power distribution woes. They could help in places, but they also tend to be amazingly expensive to manufacture, so they're no magic bullet. Their magnetic properties might enable us to make things like rotating hard disks with truly absurd storage capacities - you wouldn't need much superconducting material for each one.

We've had superconductors that operate at liquid-nitrogen temperatures for quite a while, which makes them easy enough to study in a laboratory. Having room-temperature ones makes it even easier, and might let us understand them even better. This one sounds a bit impractical for wide-scale use (it's a powder) but might let us develop more useful ones.

I'm reading that as somewhat unfavourably comparable with a mid-level mobile phone, as of 2023. Phone will certainly have more CPU cores, probably has as much RAM as the maxed-out SGI, and better graphics ability. SGI might win out on floating-point maths, persistent storage, and system cooling, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Don't know about missing, sorry. The problem is more that some games that use cutting-edge features might have really bad performance, since there's been no priority on optimising it yet. The last game I played that was that troublesome was Horizon Zero Dawn - was almost unplayable on Linux at launch; couple of updates later, equally as good as Windows.

Never tried raytracing, would imagine that would probably have some issues. But I hear that even at best, RT is a horrific performance hog.

Flightless Mango has some comparisons for 'newer' games, in case you were concerned about performance. Short answer is that you might expect to lose a percent or two on frames vs. Windows, which is not really worth fretting over. Some games are worse, usually until the underlying issue is fixed. Some games are substantially better - usually Vulkan-based ones. The additional Linux efficiency is real, when it doesn't have to translate all the DirectX calls.

https://flightlessmango.com/

It's not the compiling that kernel is hard - ironically, it's one of the easiest things in the whole ecosystem to compile, got great tooling. It's breaking down the mental barrier of something that you thought would be hard, but turns out to be completely within your grasp. Great work, keep it up, and never be afraid to keep pushing onwards.

RX6700XT, on a 1440p monitor.

Moved over from Mint to Arch for gaming, which has some additional benefits:

• more up-to-date kernel and more up-to-date Mesa, which brings very noticeable improvements in frame rates - in Elden Ring for example, 45 fps outside in Mint to 60 fps outside on Arch
• my desktop soundcard isn't recognised properly by PulseAudio but is by PipeWire. It's hard to be sure that PulseAudio is completely gone when you uninstall it then reinstall something else. Arch, I just installed what I wanted in the first place
• some utility programmes, like CoreCtrl for graphics card fan and power tweaking, and emulators like RPCS3, are the Arch repositories but not the Mint ones. Much easier to keep them up-to-date
• for a gaming machine, no more 'mystery services' that I don't know what they are. I quite like having everything quite stripped back for a gaming machine. On Arch, I know what everything does because I installed it. That's not the case on Mint.

Obviously, I installed the Cinnamon desktop as my GUI choice - there's certain things about Mint that are tremendous and worth sticking to.

I remember the days when laptops used to have infrared ports, so that you could connect to the infrared port on your mobile phone for tethered internet. And it was atrocious - always dropping out, even when you'd moved either item. Bluetooth tethering / USB cable tethering is just so much more robust.

I realise that our tech has moved on a lot in the last twenty-or-so years, but I'm struggling to see the use cases that this 'new tech' (as described by PC Gamer) would enable. Mobile data and wifi are both fast and reliable, and wired connections are very fast and much more reliable. A 224 GB/s link speed is absurdly faster than most consumer hardware can read or write to disk; if you were hoping to reduce 'gaming latency' by holding your phone or laptop at just the right angle, then the benefit would be overshadowed by other delays in the general internet. Providing a 'secure link' at this speed ('quicker and safer than wifi') would only make sense if you've two mainframes in the same room, but for some reason you don't want to make your data centre look untidy by running fibre optic connections between them.

Your sums are right, but a 'hard disk somewhere' is not a robust, always on-line database. Running a 3TB Postgres instance on Amazon RDS will set you back something more like $1k/mo. Still absolute pocket change for Ubi, though.

https://calculator.aws/#/addService/RDSPostgreSQL