Quoting: ScottCarammellstill waiting for that legitimate use case the technology is sure to get. I mean this is supposed to be the next motor vehicle or whatever, right? there's gotta be something huge right around the corner. not like this was all a giant, unbelievable waste of time, money, life and resources for absolutely nothing of value. that's impossible. the people on wall street said otherwise. they're supposed to be smart, right?

I'll drop another one: generative ai found an algorithm to multiply matrices faster

https://spectrum.ieee.org/matrix-multiplication-deepmind [External Link]

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Quoting: Persephone the SheepPart of me is like "man now minecraft can't run on anything" but also vulkan support have been here since 600 series nvidia with kepler and HD 7000 series AMD with GCN 1 both from 2012 so as long as your gpu isn't more then 14 years old you can still play as long as they don't go past vulkan 1.2 because of kepler. I'm not sure about the laptop side with intel so that concerns me. I don't know how kepler does with vulkan I know it does terribly with DX12 my GT 640 is dead so I can't check for myself. I just hope this doesn't effect too many people.

On linux side:
* Intel GPUs found in Intel Gen 6 & above have active support and vulkan 1.4, can run latest dxvk or vkd3d
* Intel Gen 5 has Vulkan 1.3, supports up to dxvk 2.5.3. Can run minecraft with zink.
* Gen 4 has 1.2
* Gen 3 either has 1.2 or nothing

Below has nothing

On windows side, according to the url, anything under gen6 has nothing. However I recall the same document mentioned 1.2 support all the way back to Gen 2 in the past.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005524/graphics.html [External Link]

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157 [External Link]

ohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.

I'm guessing the bug is specific to my hardware though, the problem appears to be that nothing can turn off vsync so I have higher latency. You can test yourself by bringing the server next to client, opening the website below and shooting a video at slow motion.
https://dregu.github.io/frameskip/ [External Link]

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Quoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.

So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

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Quoting: rustynailAurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb

How can I install a kernel module on aurora? It certainly doesn't have the kernel module I need for wifi (Broadcom wl) and I could not figure out how to make a custom image with the wifi driver included.

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

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Quoting: Nostalgia_RealmCould anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

First things first I wrote that comment not because of umu but because of Proton-GE. The default runner was Wine-GE until this update which caused installation of Battle.net to mysteriously fail, some Windows apps to detect no available storage etc. I had had enough telling people to use Proton GE in Bazzite discord😆

Now about umu, it does 2 things:

* Running Proton with Steam Linux Runtime: This replicates how Steam runs proton, aiming to reduce unusual bugs.

* Game fixes: Umu contains a database of game fixes for both Steam & non Steam games, launchers capable of parsing the data automatically benefit from the unified effort of assembling game fixes. Things like passing SteamOS=1 to Wuthering Waves, enabling DLLs etc.

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Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157 [External Link]

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The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen.
An optional new login manager for Plasma.

Whaaaaaaaa

Optional automatic screen brightness on devices with ambient light sensors.

Interesting, I wonder if that works on my intel macbook. (it does on bootcamp)

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Proton-GE launched via umu is now the default. Umu takes care of keeping Proton-GE up to date.

About time.

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