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  • The McLaren was already up there/faster than the Red Bull in Imola this year and he won that race with a similar sim racing schedule that same weekend.

  • They should stop adding more and more services and instead focus on making existing services better or - in some cases - feature complete first.

  • Interesting. I'd guess that something probably went horribly wrong with your Windows installation because performance should be very similar in most scenarios, but if it works for you under Linux, great!

  • I'm not regretting the switch, no worries :). Overall the Radeon 7800 XT is still a great card, it's a decent step up in terms of efficiency compared to the RTX 3080 as well and the PowerColor Hellhound model I got is the first card I ever had (well, with active cooling at least) where I actually agree with the reviews that the card stays pretty quiet even under load.

    I also know how to work around each problem: KDE has a built-in workaround for the cursor stutters (as of version 6.something) and in GNOME you can disable hardware cursor which can decrease performance, but so far I haven't really noticed anything. The artifacting and eventual crashing after standby with enabled VRR can be worked around by reconfiguring any display: I usually change the refresh rate of my second display between 144 and 165 hertz. The frequency of random crashes decreased a lot with newer kernel versions, and I'm not even sure if the crashes I had in KDE 6/6.1 were caused by the AMD driver or by KDE - which seems quite a bit more moody to me than the more mature KDE 5. That's also why I'm trying GNOME now (which I actually enjoy using way more than I thought). A few days ago AV1 decoding on AMD was borked in Mesa 24.1.something, but was hotfixed a few days later. My self-compiled kernel 6.10 refused to boot with errors related to a network card, but I'll check it out again as soon as Fedora releases their official test build (potentially this weekend) and will report the bug should it still occur. As soon as 6.10 is working, that's one less workaround for me to worry about (unless that fix somehow doesn't work for me).

    My comment was more about the fact that I'm happy NVIDIA starts taking Linux serious (again). It's probably not quite there yet, but NVIDIA seems to be committed to delivering a good Linux driver now and their latest releases each brought big improvements. There still seem to be some bigger issues (like the one you described), but now I'd assume we'll get there sooner rather than later.

  • I tried Linux on my desktop end of last year (like I always did on about a yearly basis) and decided that if I was gonna make the switch, I needed an AMD card. NVIDIA + Wayland had a lot of flickering issues and whatnot, but I didn't want to use X11 because Wayland has way better support for multi-monitor with different refresh rates and also VRR.

    So, I sold my RTX 3080 and got a Radeon 7800 XT and switched to Linux on my main desktop full-time January 1st. A few months later and NVIDIA finally decides to stop fucking around and properly improve their Linux driver. Could've saved a few bucks there (sold the 3080 for like 350,-€ to a friend and got the 7800 XT for like 550,-€, and the 7800 XT is pretty much in the same performance ballpark, so I spent 200,-€ on better compatibility/less pain).

    Good to know that NVIDIA will be an option for me for a GPU upgrade in the future. It's always good to have more choice. While my experience with AMD Radeon under Linux was okay, it wasn't really perfect either. I had the odd crash here and there with kernel versions from earlier in the year (6.6), 6.7 had black screen issues with RDNA3 (maybe RDNA2 as well) after standby and hot restarts (fixed in 6.7.4 or 6.7.5 iirc), and ever since 6.7 I have stability issues with enabled VRR and multi-monitor as well, unless I force the memory clock to stay at a higher frequency. Then there's also this issue that just got fixed with 6.10 it seems.

    So if NVIDIA really ups their game now and consistently improves their Linux driver, I could see myself going NVIDIA again. I'm also excited to see what Intel has in store though.

  • I was gonna suggest the same.

  • And that's probably just what tipped him over today. Red Bull is on a crazy downward trajectory considering how far ahead they were even at the beginning of this season, and all the internal struggles at Red Bull wouldn't have left Max untouched.

    Verstappen's mood this race wasn't just about this race.

  • Milestone rather. He held the record long before that.

  • This race Verstappen seemingly got emotional about all that went wrong internally at Red Bull this season. We've seen him fuming on the radio before, but today it impacted his actual racecraft leading to mistakes we admittedly rarely see by Verstappen (some people mindlessly echo Crofty seemingly knowing exactly how much sleep Verstappen needs, lol).

    Also, while I like GPs passive-aggressive banter, it didn't really help to calm Verstappen down today. It likely made it worse.

    I don't think Hamilton could've done a lot more besides moving further to the outside, but I don't think he expected Verstappen to lock up so it would've been insanely hard to react to. Calling this a racing incident is honestly fine I think. The divebomb was optimistic at best, but I'll say that this was driver error instead of malicious intent or intentional rule-breaking.

    While it's still highly unlikely that Verstappen switches teams anytime soon, it might not be as far-fetched as we thought. I'd honestly love to see him in a different team like Mercedes.

    Will be interesting to see how good Red Bull will be at Spa.

  • Ok this is crazy awesome! Loved the game at LANs, played the derby mode so much. I hope people create a lot of maps and vehicles for the workshop :)

  • Oh okay, $21 for one controller isn't too bad I guess. I just read this:

    these controllers are now accessible to everyone at a price point of approximately $42 USD each

    ...and thought it was $42 per controller.

    Still not for me, but at that price I can understand why people would buy it.

  • Well if you don't have an actual use case for it, don't try to artificially find one.

    The only thing I use USB sticks for nowadays is for OS installs.

    For everything else their write speeds are slow (even the more expensive USB sticks slow down to a crawl after what feels like not even one complete overwrite) and they are unreliable.

    Sure, if you want to carry around random OS installers and live environments, go for it. I personally don't have a use case for it.

  • A controller with a d-pad, 2 plastic buttons and 2 tiny rubber buttons for $42?! They sure know how to milk their fans.

  • I was talking about the "Brute-Force Password to get the user data (CE) decrypted" column, which is probably the more interesting part.

  • Not really. A 6-digit PIN gives you ~20 bits of entropy so it'll be cracked in no time. The only protection you're relying on is the hardware and the OS, and according to the Cellebrite compatibility table it's mostly a question of when a vulnerability is found, not if.

    So it's a trade-off between security and usability.

  • So in short newer Pixel and iPhone models seem to be the most resilient to these attacks, with every iPhone able to run iOS 17.4 (XS/XR or newer) currently not attackable.

    But obviously an attacker in possession of the device can wait for an exploit to be found on whatever OS version the device is running.

    The by far best protection then is to set a strong passphrase so even if/when your device/OS have known vulnerabilities to allow brute force attacks, the passphrase is too complex to be brute forced in a realistic amount of time.

  • No, Fedora Workstation 40 does not have minimize and maximize buttons by default/ootb.

    Or course my view is somewhat biased, but so is yours. I just know people who are absolutely clueless when it comes to computers and yet they have to for example use Zoom for the odd meeting or Teams.

    Most apps using a tray icon don't necessarily require interacting with it for the app to function (and I never stated that was the case), but beginners coming from Windows (which will be where most users are coming from, if at all - at least that's my "biased view") will absolutely be used to tray icons being there and might have used them to access app functionality or at least just to see that the app is still running if it has no windows open.

    For more detail check my comments in reply to GravitySpoiled, not gonna repeat everything.