Quoting: Para-Gliding

Quoting: illwieckzAre you the one spamming the unvanquished website with hate [...]?

:D interpersonal relationship to deal with or a hateful competitor?

The dude is known to spill hate on forums, blog post comments, in game too: he joins servers and fill the in-game chat with endless complains and criticism to discourage newcomers to play the game, even using in-game names with sentences trashing the game, recently he even started to team kill, destroying bases… etc. to make the game unplayable for peoples. He got banned on the popular game servers and now look for new places where he can spread his hate, reach people, and avoid moderation.

Example of spam: https://dl.illwieckz.net/b/unvanquished/spam/20230201-192134-001.unvanquished-spam.png [External Link]
He even fakes discussions: https://dl.illwieckz.net/b/unvanquished/spam/20230131-234109-001.unvanquished-spam.png [External Link]

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Quoting: bioshockI've tried this game. Its nothing like Gloom or Tremulous. Gameplay is ridiculous bad compared to the other two mentioned. Thumbs down for me.

Are you the one spamming the unvanquished website with hate using different VPN end point for every message and even sometime impersonating developers? You surprisingly just created your account and posted here after nine messages with repetitive hate were posted then moderated, and more surprisingly, you posted there right after I actually pasted the link to this article in the thread where such spammer was acting?

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Quoting: EikeI can get a CPU good enough for many things for 50 Euros from Intel, 2 cores, released in 2022 ("G6900T").
I'd buy such a thing e.g. for my HTPC if the last one gives up.

The Ryzen 5 7600X is the entry level model for the mainstream range of products. You don't compare the same range of products. 1. this is Ryzen, 2. this is Ryzen 5, it is expected to be good for gaming.

The G6900T is a Celeron for light clients, point of sales and tablets, on AMD side you may want to look for lower-end Ryzen 3 or Athlon. Even the Ryzen 3 range (“entry level” Ryzen range) may still be too high level for what your are looking for as they are still Ryzen CPUs (Ryzen is not the entry level family).

Quoting: EikeDunno why AMD shouldn't be able to make something similar.

Of course they do something similar, they even have more low-level CPU families. What's right is that they are harder to find as a consumer outside of OEM, I would agree on that and maybe in the end you will buy Intel because of that, who knows…

I just picked some AMD CPUs (not all are listed there unfortunately) for a comparison:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare//4605vs4924vs4927vs4389 [External Link]

AMD has released a 2 core Ryzen 3 5125C in May 2022 but is not listed by cpubenchmark.net yet but you may look at the 4 core 5300GE and remind it has twice the cores but is from more than one years ago so you should get something between the Athlon Gold 3150C and the Ryzen 3 5300GE, but with less energy consumption than the Celeron for sure.

Producing 2 cores Ryzen 5 doesn't make sense for AMD, that's for other ranges of products (and they exist).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: illwieckz

Quoting: darkoverlordofdataThis has the benefit of adding (in this case) vscode to apt's automated update cycle.

Only because this particular `.deb` file sets up a repository and a key in your back, allowing Microsoft to replace every file on your distro in your back and have full control to be your own computer sysadmin (Yes that's also a problem PPA have too).

Any program installing this `.deb` file, being `apt` or something else (`dpkg`, `gdebi`, whatever…) will set the repository and the key to give full package and file replacement permission to Microsoft, because those permissions are set up by the package itself, not `apt` or any program installing the `.deb` file.

So do you mean Microsoft in specific or just anyone in general, Microsoft just being an appropriately annoying example? Because I'm not seeing what this would have to do with Microsoft specifically.

Anyone in general. I was talking about Microsoft because I responded to a comment using vscode as an example. But PPAs in general are bad: every maintainer of a PPA you add to your system is actually root on your machine. Adding a PPA requires the same precautions as when hiring a sysadmin or contracting a maintenance enterprise: they will be root on your machine and you would have to trust them. On every `apt-get upgrade` a PPA maintainer can add a piece of code to your system to delete, exfiltrate or encrypt all your data, steal your passwords and certificates, impersonate you, open backdoors, etc.

Installing a distro requires the same trust, but at least you can evaluate the distro once for all as a whole (like trusting a IT company to maintain your IT). PPAs require to re-evaluate the trust anytime one is added.

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Quoting: mr-victoryMin 6 cores? Isn't there an entry model or something?:huh:

6 cores is entry model… They do 6 cores [External Link] and 8 cores [External Link] since more than a decade (here, the linked models are from 2011).

What is more problematic is that a 6 core CPU from AMD like the FX-6100 was costing $165 at introduction with 95W TDP while now the Ryzen 5 7600X is $299 with 105W. They can definitely produce some more-entry-level CPUs (probably released later?), they just have no reason to make them having less than 6 cores.

If I'm right even the 6 core FX-6100 from 2011 was in fact produced with 8 cores with 2 being disabled… Producing a CPU with less than 6 cores in 2022 is probably requiring a specific production process that would skyrocket their price for no benefit… the less costly solution to produce CPUs with less than 6 cores in 2022 is probably to produce the cores and to disable them. Better keep them enabled if they work.

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Quoting: darkoverlordofdataThis has the benefit of adding (in this case) vscode to apt's automated update cycle.

Only because this particular `.deb` file sets up a repository and a key in your back, allowing Microsoft to replace every file on your distro in your back and have full control to be your own computer sysadmin (Yes that's also a problem PPA have too).

Any program installing this `.deb` file, being `apt` or something else (`dpkg`, `gdebi`, whatever…) will set the repository and the key to give full package and file replacement permission to Microsoft, because those permissions are set up by the package itself, not `apt` or any program installing the `.deb` file.

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Wow, I'm not an Nvidia user myself so that's not my own problem, but how many years the GBM support has been missing, 5½ years [External Link]? It looks like Nvidia lost the arm wrestling…

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Quoting: TcheyHm... Installed, and then when i go to the directory, open a terminal to launch, i see the launcher a couple seconds and it goes boom.

If someone knows something... Thanks.

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Hi Tchey, I reported your issue on the Unvanquished bugtracker [External Link] which is the best place to get help. :wink: Better continue the discussion about the bug there. :smile:

I don't know yet what is happening. For sure, the updater properly load the game once the download is complete, then the game fail. I don't see anything related to a crash in the log, that's surprising.

Edit: maybe do:

rm ~/.local/share/unvanquished/lock

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Quoting: GuestIs it not "normal" to use a GUI to set display options instead of fiddling with the terminal? Give me a break...

You don't notice you talk about about something Intel and AMD users don't have to do since many years. They even don't think about it or don't know that exist because they have no need for it. Intel and AMD user don't need to set display option with vendor-specific tools. Period. They just use their desktop and their standard interfaces, being graphical or textual ones, whatever personal taste.

On Intel and AMD side, there is no need for hardware-specific intel-settings or amd-settings tool to set display options. Period. That mess ended years ago for people using free and open source drivers.

That's what some others have said in that thread: even people not caring about the mindset of open source ideology can find benefits in what open source model achieves on the technical side: the best integration they can get from hardware to software.

Nvidia is now multiple decade late on Linux integration, and things will get worst and worst, probably quicker than before as old technologies like Xorg starts to rot.

And if Nvidia wanted to go the open source route to fix that integration issue and avoid that software rotting issue, they are also decade late in the game. They are really in bad position in Linux's future, worst than anytime they been.

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Quoting: ShmerlAlso, what's that "direct storage" thing? How does GPU supposed to support it?

At some point in the past they even integrated a 1Tb SSD in their GPU to get access to larger storage without being slowed down by the CPU and other components:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3099964/amds-new-ssg-technology-adds-an-ssd-to-its-gpu.html [External Link]

I guess that may be a variant of this that would still uses computer's SSD (so they don't have to ship it themselves, to reduce price) but in a way performance approach this. There was huge improvements in PCIe and specific AMD technologies for interconnecting things last years.

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