Reads like Intel will be using Nvidia’s stuff for integrated systems, and doesn’t say anything at all about discrete graphics cards.

If you’re integrating a GPU, then it’s going to be either for a laptop, in which case performance-per-watt and total die size are very important, or it’s for a generic business PC, in which case ‘as cheap as they can get away with’ takes over. A B580 might be the best mid-range graphics card, but those aren’t the areas where it shines. Using someone else’s tech makes sense.

I got myself a remarkable after seeing a colleague use one and thinking they were cool. An astonishing price for what is essentially a kindle that you can write on, but that is essentially the entirety of its functionality right there. No web browser, no ebook integration, no keyboard, just a thing for scribbling notes with a big battery life. No distractions.

As such, it’s completely ideal for my work diary, meeting notes, D’n’D notes, maps for games that I’ve been playing, random scribbles, all sorts. Quite a lot lighter than the thousands of sheets of paper that would be required otherwise. Also not as rude as popping open a laptop when you’re meeting someone - they can see you’re just making notes and writing to-dos.

Yeah. Got a raspberry pi sat by our router, being the home dns server and fileshare. Installing forgejo was a one-liner, configuring nginx to serve it over https took about half a dozen. Very easy, perfectly reliable.

From the couple of games where I’ve been able to compare; frames per second are exactly the same, but the CPU runs a great deal less hot. No concern on desktop, but that would make a difference on the Steam deck.

(Mark Of The Ninja has a deadlocking issue on native that it doesn’t have on proton, got quite a few of Frictional’s games - Penumbra, Amnesia - that just won’t open on my main monitor when native, and most recently Silksong has been really funny about my 8bitdo controller when native. Works great with my fightstick, though.)

Fifty million? The “StarGate” talk was more like five hundred billion bro, just trust me, one more nuclear reactor man, that’s all we need, just one more hand and we’re going to win it big, bro.

Agree with you completely, but the explanation is probably in order.

CoMaps is a fairly recent fork of Organic Maps. There were questions being raised about Organic’s governance - dodgy partnerships, misuse of funds, not being truly open-source due to keeping core libraries private - and so CoMaps was created to ‘do it properly’. The app functionality is basically exactly the same, so moving over is completely painless.

https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

The app that you’ve always wanted, or at least, close enough so that you can tweak it and maybe submit a PR! Except of course that it’s written in .NET and uses WinForms for its UI. Bastards.

In some ways, I’m a bit envious of Windows for having a standardised UI toolkit, even if it’s terrible. Linux has a selection that are each flawed in their own way. I think the last time I enjoyed writing UI code was on the Amiga 1200, and that wasn’t yesterday.

4K for me as a developer means that I can have a couple of source files and a browser with the API documentation open at the same time. I reckon I could use legitimately use an 8K screen - get a terminal window or two open as well, keep an eye on builds and deployments while I’m working on a ticket.

Now yes - gaming and watching video at 8K. That’s phenomenally niche, and very much a case of diminishing returns. But some of us have to work for a living as well, alas, and would like them pixels.

Speaking as a developer; I’ve a 4K screen which is amazing for having loads of source files open at the same time, and also works for old or undemanding games. Glorious Eggroll’s version of Proton has all the FSR patches in it, so you can ‘upscale anything’. Almost any modern game, I’m going to be running at lower resolution, usually either 1440p or the slightly odd 2954 x 1662. Generally, highest-quality graphics and upscaling looks better than medium-quality native to me, for games where I have to compromise.

I would be interested in an 8K display for coding, as long as the price is reasonable. I’m not spending five grand, that would be crazy. But I’d still be upscaling for playing games, as basically no GPU could drive that many pixels.

Building Vim from source is pretty damn easy. cd vim && make && sudo make install. Just need to be careful not to run it by accident, or you’ll be restarting Linux From Scratch from scratch.

To be fair, their installation page is excellent, but it does require close reading. Where I’d messed up was the “install essential packages” section, where it just says to “consider installing” stuff which is essential really - firmware, network stack, a text editor. If you’re able to access the internet and adjust configuration files, then you can install everything else you need.

Their suggested disk partitioning has a gigabyte for efi, which is twice what I’d recommend, and includes a swap partition, which I would not create. A swap file is just as good, and more flexible. Otherwise yeah, if you can install Arch, you can probably do all the Linux maintenance you’ll ever need to do, and it’s not that difficult - practise in a VM if you want - and will make you much more skilled and confident.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

I actually find that starting a ‘raw disk partition’ virtual machine for Windows is one of the best ways to run it. Stops it from fucking up your BIOS and EFI when it does an update. You can restart into it when you want the ‘native GPU’ for games.

Of course, the even better way to stop Windows from fucking up your hardware is to not allow it anywhere near your hardware in the first place…

Ah yes, the ‘Arch Linux’ experience. To be fair, your machine boots really really fast when you don’t read the install guide carefully enough and fail to put a network stack on. Valuable learning opportunity.

The Android dev kit includes a copy of QEMU that’s set up to emulate ARM with a selection of popular screen sizes and revisions of the OS, so that you can test your app on a variety of ‘potential phones’ before you upload it to the marketplace. Snapdragons are amazingly performant CPUs for how gently they sip at the battery, but they’re not that strong in the big scheme of things - any random x86 processor should be able to emulate them while using fifty times the power. A Steam deck ought to be able to do it; the request will then be ‘we’d like to play Android games better’, which to me is a much more reasonable ask.

I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.

The ability to do some basic calculations is what was missing in CSS from the start, IMHO. You don’t want paragraph text to be too narrow or too wide as it would become unreadable, so a rule like “at least 20 ems, and then whichever is smaller of 100% or 80 ems centered on the page”. But that required either really convoluted layout and rules, or just to work it out with JS after the page is loaded.

Would have been even better if we’d got Donald Knuth involved in the early CSS efforts, with some LaTeX-like attention to the details. There’s no reason that computers can’t render beautiful text, but it’s rare for one person to be an expert typesetter and an expert programmer.

I’ve used “Linux for work” and “Windows for gaming” for a long time, about twenty years now. Got fed up with Windows shitting itself on a regular basis, and made myself a new year’s resolution to try Linux-only gaming for a bit, see if it would work for me, and I never went back. That was in 2021, and it’s just been getting better and better.

Linux Mint has always been an easy install, and putting Steam on top to get Proton is pretty trivial. A few things have made an amazing difference:

• installing the official NVidia drivers used to be a pain in the arse. Download them, stop your display manager, blacklist Nouveau, install them from the command line, restart and hope for the best. Awful. I’ve gone fully AMD, but I understand they’re pretty much a non-issue now.

• Proton keeps getting better and better. Seriously, they fix compatibility with about 99% of the games that were broken every year, basically everything runs now. Maybe leave off buying anything with a tech-demo engine for a week, and accept that you won’t be playing stuff with certain anti-cheat, and it’s all good.

• DXVK gets overlooked, but it’s amazing. Basically frame-for-frame with Windows on every game, and on some it’s better as it fixes intrusive stutter by precompiling. Can’t argue with that.

You can turn off “delete”, but modification is a danger, it’s true.

Turning off delete makes it excellent for eg. backing up photographs on your phone. I’ve got it doing this from my Android to my raspberry pi, which puts them on my NAS for me. Saves losing all my pictures if I lose my phone.

Yep. Got an Intel AX210 Typhoon Peak in my (AMD) laptop. Never had a single issue. Their CPUs might be crap, but their wifi is the business.

The ‘traditional’ way of storing a database is on a mainframe or supercomputer, where all the information is stored in tables with the information all uniquely stored, frequently containing id references to other tables. For instance, an ‘orders’ table would have a customer id in it, and the ‘customer’ table would have their name and address. The programming language for databases like that is SQL - PostGres and Oracle are examples. That model gives you a lot of advantages - the data is always consistent, changes are either made completely or not at all - but every query has to go through one machine, so performance can suck, and you waste a lot of time ‘joining’ tables together for certain kinds of query.

If you’re storing eg. a blog with comments on it, that model doesn’t make sense. Each page has a varied selection of comments, comment will have a username and maybe their icon, which will rarely change, but will need to be evaluated by the database every time. It would make more sense to output the pre-rendered page as a JSON blob, and you could have a hundred machines with a few pages each to share the load. Updating people’s icons and adding new comments would need to be done by telling each machine to make a certain update if they’ve a copy of that page; you’d ‘eventually’ be consistent, but if you don’t care about that then you get a very scalable robust solution quite cheaply. Examples of such ‘NoSQL’ databases are MongoDB, Hadoop and DocumentDB.

Linux foundation have looked at DocumentDB’s license and said ‘yes, free enough for us’, so they’ll adopt it.