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[Prescience500]

I'm genuinely confused as to why Microsoft thought this was a good business move. I mean, I can't imagine anyone using it. A much better business move...

[Prescience500]

I think most of the benefit is on new driver bring-up such as on mobile devices or even some IoT devices. Desktops already have working OpenGL....

[Prescience500]

If Zink can be made performance competitive, it would make bringing up new open drivers really easy where OpenGL support doesn't already exist. It's ...

[Prescience500]

Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of major open source NVIDIA announcement that was postponed when COVID happened? What ever happened to that?

[Prescience500]

I definitely don't trust them. I have heard it said that they are shifting from being an OS company to a software company and they may be true. If so,...

[Prescience500]

Considering how vibrant and independent the Linux ecosystem is, would they even be able to extinguish? I mean, many of the players like Red Hat/IBM, are...

[Prescience500]

Very much this. I had such high hopes for Daala. Daala should have been the base codec. If they had done that, then AV1 wouldn't have all of the issues...

[Prescience500]

There's a lot of research being done into using light/photons instead of electricity/electrons in processors. Who knows if it'll be able to overcome the...