Dark Arc

Yeah, AMD basically said “tactical retreat” and tried to make a popular midrange card to get market share back up.

I don’t think they have long term plans to stay midrange only. They’ll keep working and once they have something that can compete, they’ll launch it.

Ugh yeah that’s been an increasing problem too. I had some guy last year just as dusk was starting to set with a bike headlight blinding me on the bike trail.

100% this; I’ll see the same make a model go by, with LED lights, and it will be fine one time the next time I’ll be like 🔥 MY EYES 🔥.

It could be the VRAM like others said, but it could also be that the DirectX -> Vulkan translation fails because your Mac’s CPU doesn’t have support for the necessary parts of Vulkan.

Not to link to “that site”, but that seems to be the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/sd7yup/how_can_i_fully_install_vulkan_in_my_intel_hd_4000/

I did not bother to look into exactly why, but that can be a mix of what the Linux drivers for the integrated GPU support and what operations the hardware actually physically supports.

On some level … because it often doesn’t matter. Most people just buy the game and if it doesn’t run well enough for them refund it under steam’s 2 hour window. Even for Windows this is an issue because of the large variety of PC hardware; you might have a chip that’s new but weak (kind of like buying a new Kia and expecting it to compete with a new Corvette).

On another level … because you’re using hardware that’s over a decade old. What you really want for Linux gaming is either a Steam Deck or a desktop PC with an AMD GPU. If you have to go with a laptop, I’d probably look at the Framework 16; definitely no modern Macs because the ARM chips are pretty hostile to Linux and especially Linux gaming.

I use Kopia to B2, then on a monthly basis I copy the current Kopia repo to an external drive that’s otherwise kept offline in my house.

More like 20 years ago, but yeah

Yup really does sound like that. I had a friend make this mistake when we upgraded some components in his computer last summer I asked him to plug everything back in…

In his case there wasn’t a GPU on the CPU so the computer wasn’t booting to any image.

We spent way too much time in the case second guessing my work only for me to go around to the back of the computer and facepalm.

I don’t know; it’s one of those weird things where digital “cost to copy” being cheap really makes things problematic.

Unlike BitTorrent you were giving away your access to that item and possibly never getting it back; we don’t really have a standard way of doing stuff like that in the digital era. The closest thing we have is very clunky, greedy, and intrusive DRM systems.

They also had subscriptions… And paywalls… You had to buy them from a newspaper stand or subscribe to have the paperboy deliver them…

I’ll make some specific comments.

The Atlantic does have two tiers of subscription, one is ad free, it’s worth it for me, I wish there was a way to share those articles with everyone without them paying, but yeah 100% agree on the point about ads (didn’t see your comment and made a very similar one).

This is a bad take.

Paywalls are the norm of traditional journalism. People got so used to a bunch of spammy, ad-fed, click bait journalism and now many are not willing to pay for good articles.

I wish there was a better way to discuss these kinds of articles. There are sometimes gift links which are best for smaller group discussions… But nobody’s found a model that isn’t the mess that is ads that also allows “free viewing.”

Eh… Without examples, I don’t know that this is a good warning.

Everyone gets into different technologies at their own pace. Even if it does bite OP in some abstract way because they eventually get to some complex use case, that’s okay; it’s all a learning experience.

PostgreSQL is just better. It’s supports transactions on DDL (things like altering table structure) and enforces unique constraints after transactions complete … so you can actually do a bunch of important stuff (like update your table structure or swap unique values between rows) safely.

If he’s looking for something social… Consider Brighter Shores.

It’s a modern table top styled MMO by Andrew Gower (the RuneScape guy). Just like RuneScape it’s a point and click adventure MMO so … it’s really easy to pick up. It also works great as a windowed game, has low hardware requirements, and everything is saved server side so progress is pretty much impossible to lose.

It’s got 2 free episodes (which is a lot of stuff to potentially do) and the optional subscription is currently $5.99/mo so it’s also very affordable.

Linux is not natively supported but it runs great under Proton … and the team seems very keen on making it work on as many platforms as possible.

As someone that uses a custom domain for the majority of his email, it’s not really a privacy thing, it’s a control thing.

I have hundreds of unique unpredictable email addresses and I can disconnect them at will to stop spam.

That’s not true. It’s not all free software. The distribution of it certainly isn’t free even if most of the individual pieces are.

My distro containing emacs doesn’t make the distribution itself free software, it just contains some free software. Similar to how emacs being on Windows doesn’t make Windows free software.

Steam OS is a higher percentage of free software than Windows, but it is not exclusively free software. The SteamOS trademark is also not free to use without authorization.

This is not disparaging free software, you’re making drama where there need not be any.

I worry we’re going to reach a point where we’re too far down the rabbit hole and the million and billionaire class that’s heavily invested in the fantasy will just not accept their bad bet.

Do you have a screenshot of what it looks like in 2024 (or I suppose 2025 lol)?

I want it to render things quickly and to support light & dark themes.

Both konsole and alacrity have failed me there.

If it has any window chrome, I want it to look good.

Ghostty … actually does everything I want pretty well, modulo some rendering glitches I attribute to GTK and fractional scaling.

Edit: I do like smooth scrolling, but I can live without it. I’ve used emacs for so long … I’m just used to not having it for walls of text, even though I think slight smooth scrolling majorly improves readability of motion.