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[arQon]

I'm not going to outright call bullshit on this, since it's always possible that you hit a corner case, but I've written daemons that have stable footprints...

[arQon]

I'm surprised you ever had working h265 decode in the first place, unless you mean via the very-hacked custom VLC Raspbian ships.

AFAIK,...

[arQon]

Sure: how about "Anything based on Gamebryo", i.e. Skyrim / Fallout / etc, since that one has user-level proof available for you. The comments...

[arQon]

Yeah, per-follicle shadow casting on the fur absolutely kills performance. :P...

[arQon]

It's not. I simplified things down to a concept that would be easy to understand.

As a starting point, consider standing on a street: you...

[arQon]

Not sure I understand what needs explaining. Did I confuse things by talking about "base" loads when we were mostly discussing streamed loads?...

[arQon]

The only thing keeping Wayland from being "the leading desktop tech" on Linux is the Wayland team's inability to deliver, which has literally...

[arQon]

Right: the point is to reduce opex for YouTube, Netflix, etc, and in the short term that happens by pushing some of the cost onto the user in the form...

[arQon]

Not to rain on your parade, but we've had "streaming" asset handling for about 15 years now.

There are too many basic errors in...

[arQon]

And I would bet that the largest source of hate for Windows is from Windows users.

99% of the noise about Windows from Linux and *BSD...

[arQon]

I think even 2010 is being generous.

The reason Intel had support for it back in the C2D era (which is technically correct, but I suspect...

[arQon]

I actually maintain one of those still (for someone who has 2 other laptops, both of them with much newer and faster CPUs, much more RAM, etc, but that's...

[arQon]

I'm not sure the two of you are really talking about the same cases, but VMs aren't necessarily "easy to upgrade". Removing BIOS support certainly...

[arQon]

6 months, not 3. It's "only" 3 releases though.

> It seems that Mozilla doesn't care that without hardware acceleration many...

[arQon]

1000% pure bullshit. As if the idea that variable-sized documents never existed before. You know, in like, word processors nsuch. ffs.

We...

[arQon]

devilspie. I've been using that to work around this exact bug (and literally nothing else) for a very very long time now......

[arQon]

erm... I'm not sure why everyone seems to have the memory of a goldfish, but this was *GNOME's* decision, not Firefox's. Like 8 years ago.

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[arQon]

> "and whatever platform they're creating for"

You have to admit, that part was pretty funny.

The piece people...

[arQon]

You're probably right about "X* p; foo(&p); *p=42;" cases (where foo() has a path that doesn't populate p) being overlooked by the compiler,...

[arQon]

AIUI, Ubuntu's DE is still built using the reasonably stable GTK3, whereas RH are using the alpha-state GTK4. If that's correct, it would explain the...