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I think they dropped the old i.MX6 support because this new stuff was on the way, plus the fact it locks you into older kernels. I also found the closed...

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Yes, unfortunately their build system currently only allows you to target one window system, that is X, Wayland, or GBM. I wanted to use Wayland but my...

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This is the first version (literally this Alpha 2 release) I've seen that's been able to play hardware-accelerated video on my i.MX6-based Utilite Pro...

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If it was, there wouldn't be much for them to do. I heard a quick port was already done in-house in about a day but they just didn't release it for political...

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Nothing too concrete, I just found the performance lacking, but for a desktop app, it's probably fine....

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I usually regret using SQLite every time I try it but this is a nice feature. The PostgreSQL version has made our bulk data loads a hell of a lot fas...

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That does actually look very nice. Unfortunately it's tricky for new languages to gain traction, no matter how good they are....

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Of course, I admitted as much, I'm just saying that despite the lack of JIT, it's still a lot faster now than it was 10 years ago. Hopefully the JIT will...

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I find Ruby mostly gets a bad rap from people who don't know anything about it or people who still think it performs terribly. It's improved a lot in...

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/me still codes in Ruby almost every day. Just saying.

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I have been playing the shit out of Rise of the Tomb Raider but I always use Big Picture Mode so as usual, no survey.

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I hope you like reading......

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Well aware of the RCU_NOCB_CPU workaround, I'm the one who discovered it. That isn't the recommended fix now, you should disable the C6 Package state...

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My new Ryzen 2700U-powered Acer laptop freezes several times a day. I found a bug report from someone else with the same hardware just the other day and...

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Cool, I didn't even know they'd added Bluetooth support to the Steam Controller.

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No mention of Leap 15 being released today?