dillekant @ dillekant @slrpnk.net

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He was fired

He owns the business. His ownership was liquidated by the other owner without paperwork, and most of the other owners dispute that the ownership was ever diluted. The decision over whether he should have been "fired" are really upto him and the other business owners.

It's also unclear why the other employees, who may or may not have been coerced, were not siding with Kurvitz. I agree it's a mess, but there's a big gap between "feelings" and "actually grossly illegal stuff".

There are other videos on the internet about this, but basically PMG have done a terrible job here. One person is accused of serious corporate misconduct, and the others have allegations of being hard to work with, and PMG effectively treats them as equal, not even realising that the reason maybe some people were hard to work with was because of forced labour from the guy also doing the corporate misconduct.

They've just not done a great job overall here.

You may not have considered the Intel Arc GPUs. Basically they were bad on Windows and are slowly improving, but unsure about their state on Linux. The cards were quite bad at some point, and well worse than an experience with NVIdia, despite the libre stack.

I would say the "best" depends on goals here. I generally encourage use of AMD over NVidia, but the difference is quite small. If you're already going with CachyOS, then you're well beyond the skill level to be able to navigate the tiny additional complexity of an NVidia card. Just buy the best bang for buck and your use case.

As for Mali, recent kernels and Mesa versions have made significant inroads. I do believe we'll get pretty good support for Mali by the time the Qualcomm ARM Laptops become available for Linux.

I don't know if Linux Gaming would exist if it wasn't for OpenGL and Carmack using it for Quake.

Unfortunately we are in the Glide era of VR. OpenXR exists, but someone needs to create a killer app which uses it.

I remember the frame time issue happening but it fixed itself and I can't remember the cause. Try changing the refresh rate of your monitor, it might kick something which fixes it.

Performance should definitely be mostly on par with Windows.

It's honestly silly. I have a minor interest in Olympics coverage but it's so often difficult to be able to watch a sport or see more context from a meme that I just stop caring. Like imagine if you saw that shooting meme and thought "yeah I'll watch the whole thing" but you can't. The wheeling and dealing makes the whole thing harder to get excited about.

This is the first I've heard of it. Fingers crossed he has a Linux video in the works.

It's important to recognise the mechanism is more important than the intent. If people cannot blow the whistle safely, then the "government" can freely keep secrets. "Government" is in air quotes here because often it's the spooks or the military who get to keep secrets, often from the elected officials. This means that MPs are often kept in the dark (and sometimes on purpose, in a Berejiklian-style "I don't need to know about that" sense) and this means that a bunch of people who we pay taxes for can do what they like with impunity.

If the secrets are kept, then the people keeping the secrets are not accountable to anyone. This is a serious problem if they start to violate the rights of people on Australian soil. You might feel like it's not going to be you, but it well could be. There is no safety on that gun. The only way around it is to make whistleblowing safe.

In that case Steam flatpak isn't really what you want. You probably want to use Bottles, which creates a flatpak-like sandbox. This is not a guarantee or anything, but does give you some protection (at least, better than running it on Windows I guess).

If you don't use steam because it's a shady source, I guess Bottles would be your go-to. I think parent is talking about if you bought a game off steam.

The prime minister has apparently been pushing to get him out, and has apparently been mentioning him at every meeting with the US. It is what it is.

Writers give publishers legitimacy. Publishers will regularly pull the writers out to trot out some "copyright is important" line.

Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.

I wonder how they deal with flash storage degradation.

EDIT: Apparently the Switch uses something called XtraROM. See This for more info.

Mpd.

English speaking it's a solid 5% now, so I'd say it's one in twenty.

Toll roads aren't bad, it's all in the details. The problem is that the government is often "captured" and therefore has no incentive to have a fair contract, so they'll add clauses like

• If the company loses money because the government does something, the government will pay them. This often prevents the government from reducing or removing the toll road / other privately owned resource.
• The government can't "compete" with the toll road, either with another road or (sometimes) through public transport.
• The government will often, as a form of pork-barrelling, offer people reimbursements for the toll road usage, thereby funneling tax payer money into the private company.
• Toll roads are tax deductible.

Ideally, toll roads encourage people to take the train.

There were a bunch of game company closures in Australia in the 2000s and now there are a bunch of Australian indie devs, as an example. The cycle takes a long time though.

One thing which is irritating is just how ingrained Bunnings has becomes into our culture. Many people just go to Bunnings just for browsing. Unfortunately, they will also suck the air out of the room and basically force you to go to them. I have had to go to bunnings on occasion and have spent well more than I wanted to there.

It's so bite sized yet moreish.