Step 1 to Making Europe Great Again: Ignore every idea that comes directly from a Make America Great Again mouth piece.
Step 2: Educate the member states’ populations so they stop voting in fascists.
Step 3: Congratulations, you’re done!
It depends on how they’re fingerprinting the OS.
If it’s by inspecting TCP connection behaviors, a VPN could influence that.
If it’s by reading the user agent, that’s a self-reported statistic. A VPN alone wouldn’t influence that. A bunch of bots scraping for porn videos to use as generative AI training and lying about what they are, on the other hand, would.
Oh, that’s easy. It’s the immigrants’ fault. Or it’s Biden’s fault. Or it’s the Democrats’ fault.
When objective truths don’t hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.
Add in a touch of Ayn Rand and an unwavering belief in unregulated capitalism and you’ll have the prequel to Bioshock.
That was something they could actually market to the consumer as a necessary upgrade, though.
Going from HDMI 2.1 to DisplayPort 2.1a doesn’t offer anything other than higher bandwidth, and not even high-end PCs are capable of pushing resolutions at high enough framerates for that bandwidth to have been the limiting factor for games.
Because of that lack of perceptible benefit to them, the optics of replacing HDMI on consumer devices that are meant to be connected to TVs isn’t going to be good. Even if it’s an objectively better standard from a technical perspective, it will just come across to consumers as an unnecessary change meant to push their TVs towards planned obsolescence.
They’re going to complain about it, the media will pick up on the story and try to turn it into a scandal, and then legislators and regulators will step in and make decisions based on limited understanding of the technical reasons. By that point, one of the console manufacturers will have been pressured into backing down and promise to keep HDMI in their next-gen console, and the other ones will have followed suit because they don’t want to lose sales over it.
The only way console manufacturers are going to stay united in kicking HDMI to the curb is if the organization behind HDMI pulls a Unity move and starts charging royalties to the manufacturers for every time a consumer plugs the console into a TV.
As long as the manufacturers are competing against each other, that’s never going to happen.
The “gamer” consumer demographic has some of the most whiny, entitled vocal minorities. They’re going to endlessly complain about the next generation of console needing a special cable/dongle to connect to their TV, one of the manufacturers are going to fold, and then the other one is going to walk back the lack of HDMI because they don’t want to lose sales to their competitor.
Really striving for the most efficient way to kill the tourism industry, huh?
Nah. He’ll just waste military budget and use the air force as a charter jet service.
Musk’s strategy is to constantly build hype and gain investments by promising something will be “ready by next year”, even if it’s nowhere close to ready. And then, when those investors start pressuring him about timelines, he pushes a half-baked, low-quality dumpster fire out the door.
It’s hard to fuck up worse than that. And to Newell’s credit, he’s run Valve in the exact opposite way that Musk runs his companies: waiting until they have a working product before saying anything.
Mac is very similar to Linux in that it comes with bash (these days zsh) and a lot of the command line tools you’d expect on Linux, including gcc
No it doesn’t.
The gcc command is a wrapper for clang, and the clang command is a stub that runs an executable used to install the “Xcode Command-Line Tools”
It also uses the BSD coreutils, rather than the GNU coreutils present on most Linux distros. The two are only compatible up to functionality defined by the POSIX standard, and anything beyond that is an inconsistent mess.
Windows is more difficult. The command line is very different (it inherits from DOS instead of Unix like both Mac and Linux). It doesn’t come with Python pre-installed
If you limit yourself to not using WSL, sure. WSL 2 runs an actual Linux kernel with the same Linux executables you would find on any other distro.
It’s still Windows and full of telemetry and AI garbage nobody wants, but it somehow manages to have better Linux compatibility than macOS.
Definitely both.
He would withdraw funding to Ukraine just like Daddy Vladdy asks, add tariffs on EU products because “they’re taking advantage of America” by being independent, and assert that he deserves a peace prize for making the EU stronger and “safer”.
Can gop bail out the store or is that strictly for
farmerstheir corporate donors and personal friends?
FTFY
Even Musk, for all his recent evil got rich trying to reduce our dependence on gas cars.
Everybody else already covered his role in Tesla, so let’s look at something else that demonstrates his concern for the environment and his fellow species:
He has a datacenter in Memphis running 35 “temporary” methane generators to power Grok, the self-described “Mecha Hitler” AI. All but a dozen of them are being used without permits for permanent generators, and none of them have air pollution filtration systems installed. Oh, and it’s near a low-income community that was already plagued by air pollution.
Typically, people voting against their own interests fall into one of two categories:
Their life circumstances have improved, and now they want further benefit to themselves at the cost of helping others. I.e., lower taxes and cut free school lunches because “fuck you, I got mine”
They’re extremely un(der)educated and surrounded by emotionally-manipulative propaganda.
A recession helps the wealthy. They get to buy property, services, and company ownership at fire-sale prices while the rest of us have to sell assets and labor below their actual value to avoid starving to death.
I can’t speak for the others, but for CachyOS at least, there is actually a valid justification for its existence. The kernel is built with a different CPU scheduler, and they have packages repos built using modern -march options instead of targeting the lowest common denominator for compatibility.
“Every accusation is a confession.”
It’s actually pretty easily explainable as stupidity.
They don’t actually know what being fascist entails, nor do they care to learn. They are told by conservative mouthpieces and their ilk that it means “Nazi” and they accept that as the definition.
They vehemently disagree with the idea that they’re Nazis because the general belief is that Nazis are evil, and they don’t think they’re evil like the Nazis, and therefore aren’t fascist. Even if some of them could see the parallels between their conservative nationalist beliefs and the Nazis, they would still argue they aren’t and justify it with any excuse they could find. Human egos are self-preservationist, and it’s in our nature for one to avoid viewing themselves as something they consider repulsive.
Uneducated/undereducated people who voted for him aren’t cunning. They’re just maliciously stupid, willfully ignorant, and easy to emotionally manipulate. That doesn’t mean they’re benign; in large numbers such as those enough to influence the outcome vote, they are an actual threat.
Beyond the stupid ones I mentioned above, there are the ones that willfully embrace fascism. The ones who wear “Nazi” like a badge of honor and take pride in their nationalist views. For them, I agree with you that they shouldn’t be underestimated as merely stupid.
Unsurprising. Drivers are better than they used to be, but some of them (Nvidia) have a long way to go in terms of optimization.
More importantly, however, is the complete lack of info the article provides about their testing methodology.
They said they tested on SteamOS—ok, but it’s not officially available on non-handheld devices. How did they install it? Did they use HoloISO? Did they install the version meant for handhelds on a desktop PC?
How did they run the games? Directly through an embedded gamescope session like the Steam Deck, or through KDE Plasma, which has a compositor that can’t be disabled on Wayland. Or, did they take the double hit and run gamescope as a window within Plasma?
Speaking of Wayland, did they use Wayland or X? They have different performance characteristics, and it’s not negligible.
How many runs did they do? One-and-done, then record what the game said the average FPS was? Average of 5 runs? Were runs with outliers excluded and retested?
Did they pre-run the scenes to ensure the assets were cached from the disk and the shader caches were available? Did they restart the system between games? Did they restart the system between runs?
And the way they present the results are also bad:
They graph the FPS achieved by each platform, but they have absolutely no detail about the 1% or 0.1% lows—and at a sufficiently-high average FPS, these are what make the games feel slow and stuttery.
What about frametime graphs and frame pacing information? If Linux can achieve more consistent pacing at 85% of the average FPS, it would still be a better experience than having the same frame being presented repeatedly because the game missed the vblank window.
They didn’t try multiple resolutions to identify where the bottlenecks are occuring in each game. If a game is CPU bottlenecked by their hardware choices, it’s not a good comparison of GPU performance. Likewise, if it’s GPU bottlenecked, it’s not a good comparison for CPU performance.
Why did my son die in the rehab facility?
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