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[Zan Lynx]

For one example see user-space spin locks. They are generally slower and worse than kernel locking. In order to set them up to be better than the kernel...

[Zan Lynx]

That's weird. I've been using laptops with Intel for a while and s2idle is great with them. I wonder why the AMD GPU keeps running? And I wonder if it...

[Zan Lynx]

A lot of that is just not being used to reading it. A second part is that Rust programmers are in love with lambdas and so you end up with function calls...

[Zan Lynx]

And people who show up at Microcenter early on delivery days. And people who win the Newegg Shuffle, like me. That's where I got a 6900.

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[Zan Lynx]

No, there's like six X implementation that run on x86 hardware. Most of them are obsolete and haven't been maintained for ages but they're there.
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[Zan Lynx]

There's nothing broken about EDID here. All of the compositors handle EDID exactly as well as X.org ever did.

But are you aware that EDID...

[Zan Lynx]

Yeah, no.

I come from the days when a desktop PC cost $2,000. As far as I am concerned, that price never really went down. Not if you want...

[Zan Lynx]

This kind of person should not be expecting their retro-computing experience to be trouble free. This is the kind of person that should buy a locked-down...

[Zan Lynx]

Auto-vectorization can result in a 4x performance improvement. It all depends on where the time is spent in the code. And of course, what the code was...

[Zan Lynx]

Yes, and those enthusiasts did not think it was too difficult to move the pin jumpers around on their Ethernet card and edit and recompile the driver....

[Zan Lynx]

I put the new Fedora on my laptop today. I don't know who was complaining about input and scroll lag, but for me the Firefox scroll bar appears to be...