teawrecks @ teawrecks @sopuli.xyz

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Sorry you got downvoted. It's not an unpopular sentiment, it's just a very tired one at this point. If everyone who made that argument instead just left, the problem wouldn't exist.

And yeah, the people you follow are there because it's where their audience is. If you want them to move, you gotta be the change you wanna see.

I mean, you're here, so I have to assume I'm preaching to the choir to some extent.

"Facebook says it's not forcing you to use Facebook"

Tesla and SpaceX CEO made two stiff-armed salutes that many interpreted as a fascist gesture.

🤦 the fear of retaliation is real with these sites.

You wanna know why they're there? Because you're there. The ol' catch-22 of social media walled gardens. Inconvenient for literally everyone except the guys running them.

Here's hoping people figure out that the Fediverse is specifically designed to solve that problem.

He had to defend TikTok to win over youth votes for the election.

Now that he's pres again, he knows that in one year it will become very apparent that he can't lower grocery/gas prices, and isn't willing to take action on home prices, the deficit, AI, or wage inequality.

So instead he has a list of things that will prop up his approval rating, because that is the only metric that actually matters to him. Right now that seems to mean keeping TikTok, and annexing new territory (even if that just means renaming the Gulf of Mexico).

After a decade of wondering why my friends still used Instagram, they're finally talking about uninstalling it this week. So I'm all for these new features, keep em coming zuck!

Because they're only insurrectionists if they fail...

Wow, I'm impressed you actually got that working. Sounds like quite a hack.

Ahh, I always wondered what "pressure-vessel" was. Thanks for the resources.

If you never consider more than one possible tactic, then by definition you're not solving a puzzle, you're just executing a fixed series of instructions.

You give Hades as an example of a game where you're doing the same thing every run, but on the contrary the game is specifically designed so that no two runs are alike. It's trying its best to force you to change tactics each run, that's the point.

Does it? What containerization does it use? I thought it was similar to wine, just a process pointed at a windows exe, and an environment to make the app think it's running in a windows filesystem.

The US leadership right now, maybe, but remember that Trump didn't win so much as the incumbent lost. Most Americans didn't vote for right-wing policies, they voted against inflation and housing costs. It'll only take a year or two before people start realizing that Trump can't fix the problems either (or won't, because that would mean eating the rich).

So yeah, probably no alliance in the short term, but the US isn't even its own ally right now, so we need to see how this all shakes out before we know how we'll align with the EU in the long term (i.e. beyond this term).

Trump knows this, and he's also been advised that the one thing that historically restores popularity for a leader is expanding a country's territory. So my guess is that, the worse Trump's approval rating is, the more likely it'll be that he tries to take Greenland or Panama. Which I think is still a huge gamble for his approval rating.

Ahh, that explains why Trump's face looks like that too.

Yeah, so the best beginner resource (especially for old hardware) is honestly this old blog series A Trip Through the Graphics Pipeline. But importantly, it was written before modern dx12/vulkan were around, so it will use dx9 terminogy. Also, it's possible that certain aspects of the vulkan api aren't possible to faithfully implement to spec with older hardware (while still maintaining reasonable performance, or possibly at all).

From there, it's probably best to try and implement a backend for your GPU into the radv mesa driver, so probably go take a look at how other GPUs are done.

You will need to become familiar with the AMD GPU programming docs, here.

I'm not going to be one of the naysayers here who says you shouldn't even try to do this, but as an ex-graphics driver dev, I think you will find pretty quickly that you have your work cut out for you. It would probably be easier to implement a Vulkan-on-OGL translation layer.

Both GPU hardware and drivers are developed by teams of professionals, each of which is hyper specialized in a few components, because none have the time or ability to be familiar with everything about all components (at least, not while also being effective). I'm not saying you can't do it, and I'm not saying you wouldn't learn a LOT doing it, but I am saying that by the time you finish, you could have worked a minimum wage job and purchased a dozen 5090s 😉.

Edit: and oh right, then there's reading through the Vulkan spec, which, if it's your first graphics API, will take months, if not years to digest.

Is it possible English isn't your first language, and you interpreted "whatever the fuck" as offensive or snarky? I can assure you that wasn't the intended tone.

Millenials and GenX started using the internet when we were basically the only ones online. Everyone was a handle, there was no gender, race, or age, just another person. Introducing a generational divide between users is a new concept introduced by deanonymization through social media. But it's not necessary here. I honestly never know if I'm talking to a 50yo boomer or a kid with an iPad, and I don't care. Just contribute to the discussion.

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I find it kinda concerning how the number of instances is shrinking and number of users per instance is going up. IMO it should be part of the fediverse design to incentivize decentralization to avoid a gmail situation.

Also worrying is that the number of Active Users is trending constant or slightly down, but the number of posts over time is climbing dramatically. To me, this could be a sign of inauthentic behaviour on the rise.

To the wealthy, volatility is opportunity. Yeah, the market will go down for a while, and later it'll go back up. Billionaires will cash in both ways.

Lol I honestly don't know if you mean "here" in the US, here on this planet, or here on lemmy because your favorite app stopped working 😆

I feel like this is an argument of Expected Value.

Ex. if the harddrive has $X on it, and there's a Y% chance of finding it over the course of a lifetime, then the expected value of the search is X*Y). But if Y is so low that it would take 10 lifetimes to have a better than 50% chance (we'll say a 6.5% chance if you searched your whole life), it doesn't matter if X is $742 million (so that the Expected Value is about $50 million) or $742 billion, it's still objectively a waste of a life.

Generational Theory refers to them as a "Nomad" generation, analagous to the more literally named "Lost Generation" one sacculum prior.

Generational theory is not scientific, but the patterns it identifies are certainly interesting. It's held up over the last 30 years, and seems to be continuing.