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[linuxgeex]

Thanks starshipeleven, you got me on the right path. Short answer for anyone else who was interested:

X startup log showing the drivers being...

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I've always been curious why we have an i965 X11 driver, i965 DRM module, yet X11, lsmod, find /sys, etc all report i915 is in use instead, when my hardware...

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TL;DR - The browser should be treated like a Virtual Machine. If you see Virtualbox having a need for USB, so does a modern browser. End of story....

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That doesn't change the fact that with a single unified API (and the promiscuity that it encourages) it becomes much less work to PWN multiple networks...

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Yes, beause nobody said they were looking specifically for a PS2 emulator. And hilariously enough, you yourself still haven't. Why is that?...

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Michael this is a disease on this forum. Please fix it....

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Well the glaringly obvious example is mobile phones. By locking them down, carriers have been able to provide them at a greatly reduced starting cost...

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I agree that there should be consumer protection legislation and processes in place so that consumers can get value from things they've purchased. Ie...

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If you want to lower your system noise profile and/or keep that noise profile consistent so you don't have to keep making new NR profiles:

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If you look at performance per watt and consider where the lion's share of performance is for the amount of money you will spend over the course of a...

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The only value of 10-bit HEVC at the moment is that it gives you some extra gamut to choose from before exporting 8 bits of it to your display. Most displays...

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True, if the test environment is quieter than the fans you want to test. But you seem to be forgetting that this is a server room. Server rooms are notoriously...

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And don't forget that all of that is only true so long as there's no privilege escalation exploits. cve.mirte,org has (ahem) one or two examples of that....

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Oh Jeebus... what scares me is the idea of a unified cross-browser Social Media Sharing API.

If you think the NSA has its hands in every...

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Also requires a consistent low-noise test environment, so you'd need to lug the equipment to a spare room, set up a white noise generator and adjust it...

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crypto mining is generally a negative net income earner. There's basically two scenarios where you actually make money mining crypto currency:
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Tivoized is the manufacturer locking the platform so they can amortize the development and manufacturing costs over the cost of the software and services...

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That plus mentorship is a hell of a lot better deal than university where the poor kids pay to do all that hard intellectual work, and the university...

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Michael Readers might like to know that OpenMAX-IL is an API for hardware-accelerated Audio/Video/Image media.

[linuxgeex]

It would be sweet if AMD themselves would set up a PPA so users can track their state of the art, and give them timely/detailed feedback.

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