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Latest Comments by M@GOid
The Framework Laptop Mainboard is out as a standalone platform
21 Apr 2022 at 7:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedjeOooh, I recently watched some builds where people put it under a mechanical keyboard for a look back at the wedge computers of old! And I thought "I want one!" and now they do this....
For a while I'm lusting for something like that. I almost got a Raspberry Pi 400, but held back because I would hate had to tipe on a keyboard layout other than the one I'm accustomed to (Brazilian ABNT2).

Dead Cells 'Break the Bank' free upgrade out, more big updates teased
1 Apr 2022 at 1:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wished they made available a easier difficulty for those games. I managed to finish it twice, but comes a time it gets old dying over and over again just to see the "real ending", so I ditched it. After playing this and Cyber Shadow back to back, I got burned out of games with masochistic levels of difficulty.

The older I get, less patience I have with excessive difficulty in games. Not going to buy new DLCs for this one or any other game of this type from now forward. Life is too short to expand on games like this. Which is too bad, because it is a good game.

GOG update their stance on DRM-free, Galaxy as 'optional' for single-player
18 Mar 2022 at 10:53 am UTC

Offline mode for AAA titles is pretty much dead by now, since publishers want to milk anything with the label "game" in it. Is simply out of GOG hands. If they want to survive, they had to bend over for the publishers demands or not have a game to sell.

Intel confirms standalone Arc Graphics due in Q2, also 'Project Endgame' this year
17 Feb 2022 at 7:34 pm UTC

Quoting: CFWhitman
Quoting: M@GOid
Quoting: GuestCan't say Intel is my favorite company but I definitely welcome more competition into the GPU space.
Me too. OTOH, I'm not too happy with them buying TSMC production. Not only that immediately creates a stupid bottleneck for Intel GPUs, but it actually undermine AMD's capability of making their stuff there too, because there is no way AMD can mach Intel's financial war chest on negotiations for TSMC production, thus making sure AMD will never pull a 7nm jump ahead of Intel again.

People may call BS on that, but to me it looks like the Athlon 64 all over again.
TSMC is Taiwan Semiconductor, based, of course, in Taiwan. The article seems to say that Intel is buying Tower Semiconductor, based in Israel (which should also get them a majority stake in TPSCo, based in Japan). If I am mistaken or have missed something, please feel free to correct me.
AFAIK, Intel's discrete GPUs (at least initially) will come from TSMC. Also, they are giving a truckload of money for a big chunk of TSMC's future advanced node production. The only other one is Apple. Both can keep AMD out of the bleeding edge for a couple years, enough to break AMD's growth on key markets like laptops and server CPUs.

Intel confirms standalone Arc Graphics due in Q2, also 'Project Endgame' this year
17 Feb 2022 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: GuestCan't say Intel is my favorite company but I definitely welcome more competition into the GPU space.
Me too. OTOH, I'm not too happy with them buying TSMC production. Not only that immediately creates a stupid bottleneck for Intel GPUs, but it actually undermine AMD's capability of making their stuff there too, because there is no way AMD can mach Intel's financial war chest on negotiations for TSMC production, thus making sure AMD will never pull a 7nm jump ahead of Intel again.

People may call BS on that, but to me it looks like the Athlon 64 all over again.

Retro x86-based machine emulator 86Box v3.2 brings Linux support
17 Feb 2022 at 4:36 pm UTC Likes: 3

They went with AppImage for Linux so it should run across most major distributions.
I wished more devs wold opt for this for their software. Some things shouldn't need you to plug a new repository, compile code or anything that requires a admin password. Just run it from the Download folder without much fuss.

I can hear the security minded folks furiously typing right now, but remember, I said "some things", not all apps.

Mina the Hollower from Yacht Club Games hits the funding goal for Linux
16 Feb 2022 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope they keep their word. The gaming market need more trustable studios.

Mozilla looking to improve Twitch playback in Firefox
6 Jan 2022 at 3:33 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: M@GOidI had problems with Firefox on Youtube, where the page would simply stall and need a refresh to work again. Turned out it was the ad-blocker I was using, µBlock Origin. I changed for another and the problem got away. Maybe this Twitch problem with Firefox may be related to a add-on people are using.
The combination works fine for me.
It did for me for many years. But months ago, mainly YouTube, but also a couple other pages started to act funny. They started to load then stop, or dynamic content like comment sessions wouldn't load. Since I use about 5 extensions, took me a while testing thoroughly until I could point my finger with confidence.

It still works fine with Chromium, but since FF is my daily driver, I had to change.

Mozilla looking to improve Twitch playback in Firefox
5 Jan 2022 at 11:28 pm UTC

I had problems with Firefox on Youtube, where the page would simply stall and need a refresh to work again. Turned out it was the ad-blocker I was using, µBlock Origin. I changed for another and the problem got away. Maybe this Twitch problem with Firefox may be related to a add-on people are using.

Selaco looks mental in the latest 'ridiculous' particle effects teaser
20 Dec 2021 at 11:48 am UTC

I have high hopes for this one. IMHO, the use of the "Jaguar" cores on the XBONE and PS4, caused a serious hit on the physics and AI of AAA games in the past decade.

Now with "Zen 2" cores available, there is no excuse for big studios to not implement copious amounts of great physics and AI on the next gen consoles' games.