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[billyswong]

There is definitely enough width for bitmap fonts to draw those extra serif lines longer within the rectangle space. Terminus isn't utilizing those space...

[billyswong]

You seriously think that???


Most of the old fonts have their pros and cons, but Ubuntu Mono here is a clear winner among them....

[billyswong]

The advantage of Terminus is it provides more font sizes among monospace bitmap fonts, especially those bigger sizes.

But it is definitely...

[billyswong]

Wouldn't it be better depends on the video metadata (for input) or user preference (for output)?...

[billyswong]

Now this is a good question. Proper tonemapping is unavoidable if we want accurate SDR color on HDR screen. The complexity is also high as we can't hardcode...

[billyswong]

It is silly to expect ancient ISA/VLB/PCI systems to support HDR desktop environment. Those computers can stay displaying 8-bpc SDR....

[billyswong]

In modern point of view, Cell is more like an SoC with integrated GPU/accelerator. If we call Cell a hybrid, we may call every new chips with extra VPU/NPU...

[billyswong]

No, we don't have existing mainstream OSes that support hybrid ISA architecture. BIG.little was and is only about hybrid efficiency/performance.
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[billyswong]

Most if not all CPU-intensive software in x86/x64 architecture have migrated to 64-bit. A significant number of commercial software vendors have ceased...

[billyswong]

You shall "thanks" for the crypto bubble....

[billyswong]

Whatever problem RAID5/6 had in conventional sense, bcachefs is planning to fix that by CoW. Together with atomic update of file checksum and metadata,...