Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCMmm... Not sure if it is a bug from the website or my gateway proxy, but I couldn't access the livestream page before setting my timezone. I didn't try reloading the page before setting it, though.

What happened when you tried? There's nothing in place to block it at all, we default to UTC for anyone who hasn't set it.

I just had a blank page, but I can't reproduce it anymore, even when reverting to UTC. Since I can't reproduce it, I don't think you should pay much attention to it, unless someone else reports the same.

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCI must say that all those dates are pretty hard to read on the livestream page. But timekeeping is hard ;)

Agreed, I've removed the extra UTC time, it will only show the one localized (or UTC default) time plus the countdown now. Was a little bit of info overload.

Thanks, it feels a bit less cluttered now. I don't think the UTC information is that necessary, unless sharing it with other people, in an online chat, for example.
It could be reintroduced as a tooltip on the date or the timer itself, but I don't know how useful that would be.

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: M@yeulCDoes it affect the timestamps in the messages as well?

The timestamps on messages are already localized using the jquery timeago [External Link] plugin. Have been for a long time.

That's true, I didn't see it that way. I was thinking about the time we get in the tooltip when hovering over the timestamp. Not sure if those need to be localized.

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Mmm... Not sure if it is a bug from the website or my gateway proxy, but I couldn't access the livestream page before setting my timezone. I didn't try reloading the page before setting it, though.

Other than that... great idea! Does it affect the timestamps in the messages as well?
I must say that all those dates are pretty hard to read on the livestream page. But timekeeping is hard ;)

How about using some client-side timezone detection [External Link], to display a notification in the likes of: "Your browser seems to be configured to a different timezone than your account, click here to manage your timezone settings". I think that some websites such as bitbucket do it that way.

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You might also be interested in the book of unwritten tales on Steam. It's 80% off, u just picked it up.

I'm torn on deus ex... On one hand, I am pretty sure I won't be able to play it with my current setup; but on the other hand, it's a pretty good discount, and I don't know if I'll see another like this before I upgrade it (let's say six months).

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Quoting: HailToTheGrail

Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.

No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

Are you sure it is owned by root?
chown root script.sh

A plasmoid to change the CPU governor doesn't seem a bad idea, I might look into that.

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Quoting: Keyrock

Quoting: M@yeulC...

My Manjaro system doesn't even have an interactive governor

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
performance powersave

Yeah, I remembered reading the other posts that it might not be standard. I don't have my computer with me ATM, unfortunately, so I can't check, but I will do in a couple hours.
"interactive" seems to be more of a real time governor, it looks more common on Android [External Link].

What I said is generally valid about "ondemand", though it ramps up a bit slower.

My bad, here I was thinking defaults were a bit less fragmented all over the place. Hey, that's part of the Linux charm, no? :D

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Uh? "powersave" shouldn't be the default. I think "interactive" is. It provides some sane balance between power usage and performance.

I would generally advise "powersave" only when battery life is a problem, to maximize its capacity (and bear with a bit of stuttering/other), maybe lower the settings a bit as well to minimize the power draw.

Now, on desktop, I think that "interactive" is the default, which is a good one IMO. I would be curious to see some comparison with "performance" on Vulkan, but I don't expect it to change the result by more than 0.5-1%, and you might have much higher idle power draw. I personally never bother to change it.

You might also want to avoid "conservative", which might have lower performance than "powersave".

That's if for the basic performance governors, but I want to point out that, while performance governors and schedulers might seem "dumb" (probably because they are well-documented, and generally don't try the one-size-fits-all approach), they are well-proven and battle tested, from small embedded devices, to Android phones, to supercomputers.

There is also more to scheduling than performance governors, and the schedulers can have a role to play as well, but I don't think that gaming is the most complex scenario to handle, so this should make little difference, except for special cases.

EDIT: Ninja'd by a bunch of people :P Also, it seems that I am confusing "ondemand" and "interactive". I can't check ATM that "interactive" is what I am using, but IIRC, it should be a bit more aggressive on frequencies than "ondemand". Not that much difference, though. And yeah, "ondemand" might be the default.

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Meh. Bought it in july 2013. I guess I will have to pay for this one...

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Quoting: Vuko2000Havent seen yet even one All In One PC (even announced) wit components from AMD. Since years I use AMD Gpu and CPU but now I whould like to buy All In One PC no way to find in POLAND. Everything with Intel CPU

I wouldn't be surprised to see some after they announce their Ryzen-based APUs. I have been waiting on laptops as well, to see what's coming out (still hanging to my Atom Samsung notebook from 2007 until now... :P)

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This is what I got last time I tried it on r600 (using family sharing from a friend's account -- HD6870, epileptics beware of the spoiler):

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(I tried webp as well, the images aren't as big as apng, but neither Firefox nor imgur seem to support it).

I will give it another go, and will probably buy it if it works.
Just one question: does this count as a Linux sale? Do the porter receive money for it? I seem to recall that yes, this is the case, but I am not sure.

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By the way, I didn't watch the video, but Ars technica [External Link] put the prices down:

There are four Ryzen 5 parts launching on April 11. At the top end is the R5 1600X: 6 cores, 12 threads, with a base of 3.6GHz and a turbo of 4.0GHz, for $249. Below that is the $219 1600. It has the same core and thread count but cuts clock speeds to 3.2/3.6GHz. At the bottom end are a pair of 4-core, 8-thread parts: the $169 1400 at 3.2/3.4GHz, and the $189 1500X at 3.5/3.7GHz.

This is quite appealing, and could do for a very cheap upgrade. Also, given the price of the lowest-end ones, Ryzen 3 will probably be quite inexpensive.

I will need to upgrade at some point, but don't need anything extremely fancy, so I am quite tempted by those. I will probably wait until we have all the benchmarks to make my choice, though.

Plus, I am not sure if the "core cluster" will be useful in games without them rethinking their threading model. The infinity fabric adds around 100ns latency to interprocessor communication (which sits at around 40ns for two cores in the same cluster, and 23ns for two threads in the same core, IIRC). So, it might not be worth having more than one cluster for now.
That said, games can always try to optimize for this, and we might then see huge performance improvements (for example, decoupling physics, rendering and AI in a way that minimizes the need for synchronization, then split them over the different clusters). Time will tell, I guess.
EDIT: I did a bit of research, and it seems they will have their cores in a 2+2 configuration, so it might not be optimal for gaming. Also, it seems to be "core complex", not "core cluster". They might have a better memory bandwidth in this situation, though.

Then, they are already a good fit for other tasks, such as video encoding, compiling, raytracing... And multitasking, of course. So, don't strike them out just yet.

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