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[carewolf]

Ananas is the word for pineapple in most languages. It just English that is pronoucing ananas weird....

[carewolf]

Yeah, but apparently it isn't very good (if I remember correctly this one is based on the bulldozer scheduling), and Zen chips run the same or better...

[carewolf]

They don't have dedicated 256-bit AVX units, instead they have very slightly more 128-bit units, but it does appear to have a serious negative impact...

[carewolf]

Biggest issue? What big issues? I haven't had any hardware trouble with Linux since 2007

[carewolf]

Imagination holds the patent on tile-based rendering which forms the basis of the Metal API. Apple made the mistake of making a low-level graphics API...

[carewolf]

So it is associate to GNOME the same way CMake is associated with KDE? They are early adopters and thus all the early tooling mainly benefits them....

[carewolf]

So Debian has its stretch goal?

[carewolf]

Have they finally merged the patch to support compressed dwarf debug? Otherwise it is still useless by default on Debian....

[carewolf]

I didn't I just wanted to point out there are good reason to block applications from running under sudo. Though I guess someone ought to write a sudofs...

[carewolf]

You should NEVER run X11 application as root. It opens a local root escalation security hole that is trivial to abuse....

[carewolf]

I tried switching to playing XCOM2 on Windows for a fight or two, but dropped it when it turned out to crash just as often as on Linux

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[carewolf]

Let's hope they add something new this time, instead of just rereleasing an old Tropico version, now with even fewer features in the base game, so the...

[carewolf]

It is actually pretty crap, barely works, and little is known about it because it is so damned obscure and complicated.

For instance, as...

[carewolf]

I know, but it is kind of sad. It is the last thing AAC and AC3 still have going for them that open source codecs have crushed....

[carewolf]

No, Qt maintains binary compatibility so you can use an app built with Qt 5.7 with Qt 5.9 as long as you don't use any private API....

[carewolf]

It doesn't support compression between sources more than stereo, and most importantly, in multi-channel mode it doesn't actually say what ANY of the channels...

[carewolf]

I guess the same count of place as MP3 has now that AAC exists. Though Opus also lacks the support for proper surround-sound just like Vorbis and MP3...

[carewolf]

Those are their swiftshader which is another reimplementation of OpenGL. They also have a copy of mesa in there though (their motto is: when in doubt...

[carewolf]

The problem is that OpenGL is not well supported on Windows and that ANGLE is crap. DX12 was a way to get away from buggy OpenGL and ANGLE on Windows...

[carewolf]

I think UEFI is the standard that is called EFI. And the only place old fashioned gen1 EFI is used it on Macs. Everything else is UEFI....