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[stormcrow]

That's an ugly trophy. Just sayin. I'd be conflicted between the recognition and wanting to hide the atrocious looking thing.

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The rantings of a true ideologue. "My way or the highway." That's why FSF is irrelevant to most people. The real world most people have at...

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It takes away the memory safety foot guns that C developers are so fond of using to blow their own feet off....

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The only way V4L2 is going to be "replaced" is for something that takes its place that leaves the current V4L2 API in place unchanged. This...

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Google's engineers have a tendency to overthink problems. Sometimes coming at problems from a different point of view results in improvements that others...

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How is browser performance down by 40%? Versus mitigations being off on the Selenium tests? Take that with a grain of salt translating that to any practical...

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They likely 'just' optimized for the concepts behind the mitigations same as processor designers have been doing for certain language concepts and usage...

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I'd rather pay a little more for hardware that works (AMD) versus hardware that doesn't work correctly (Intel) once the driver situation is factored in...

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With Steam you should know what you're getting into. Only the most naive believes you 'own' any games from Steam. It's more of a permanent rental instead....

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Youtube does, but much of the rest of the Internet doesn't. The vast majority of media on the internet is still mp4/h.264 including much of the home...

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If you bothered to look, they explicitly said "High", which is the same settings (excluding ray tracing) I use for my 5500XT. The raytracing...

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I just took a look at the benchmarks on Intel's promotion page. It advertises running Cyberpunk 2077 @ just over 60 FPS at a resolution of 1440p for...

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You still have to know to go looking to find anything. In some cases you have to build the tools to even go looking. This sounds like heat mapping of...

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Ignoring stated problems with filesystems out of hand without investigation is stupid as are broad, sweeping statements of adequacy for each and every...

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No, it doesn't force them to fix it. What it does is piss them off and they call their nearest IT person to "fix it". Being the IT person...

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It doesn't 'force' anything. People that are blythely unaware of case sensitivity will remain so even in environments where it matters. It causes more...

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Not really. As others have mentioned, plasma TVs had a lot of problems not least was they were several times the price of competing technologies. But...

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That was all well and good till out-of-order & branch prediction brought us Spectre....

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*sighs* and the two software systems I've used that still depend on Java are still stuck on 8 & 11 and show no sign of ever moving past them. That's...

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Subjective opinion. Compared to what? A very vocal few still stuck in the early 10s with only 4GB of system RAM? People that don't clean up their open...