vividspecter 2 hours ago • 100%
I've seen some reports that it works with Windows too, although the syntax for setting it is slightly different. I'm guessing it was intended as an exception for the Steam Deck as offline mode not working on a handheld is more of an issue than a desktop.
vividspecter 22 hours ago • 100%
I understand that trucks and SUVs are more dangerous to pedestrians due to increases in hood height and reduction in curvature (along with reduced visibility). Is this not correct?
vividspecter 1 day ago • 100%
As someone who already has a Deck, I'm more keen on this. The Index was very expensive and only had a limited run. Mind you, the Index is expensive in general and I hope they aim for Quest level prices this time around.
vividspecter 1 day ago • 80%
I'm not holding my breath but hopefully it increases youth turnout of women. Which is a group that is much more progressive than young men, but both have poor turnout compared to older people.
vividspecter 1 day ago • 100%
This is regarding the NZ government's plan to introduce higher speed limits. Unsurprisingly, the conservative party is in power at the moment.
vividspecter 1 day ago • 100%
The game can be played offline on the Steam Deck. You might also do the same on desktop Linux with:
steamdeck=1 %command%
in the launch options for the game.
Although I haven't tested it myself, and reports are mixed.
vividspecter 3 days ago • 100%
paperless-ngx, after having to turn my apartment upside down to find some paper documents.
vividspecter 3 days ago • 100%
I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that reasoning.
It's the drug dealers' defense. Which has also been used for justifying the continued export of coal.
vividspecter 5 days ago • 100%
Probably about this British woman who got a Trump face tattoo.
vividspecter 5 days ago • 100%
Developed countries typically have lower birth rates than undeveloped countries.
That is more to do with education and women's liberation (including contraception), than finances. Which I suspect is still the predominant reason that birth rates are dropping, with finances just a secondary reason.
vividspecter 5 days ago • 100%
The NoDerivatives part is concerning. Is he trying to prevent forks?
vividspecter 5 days ago • 100%
I'm not sure how this helps Trump. He's not some upstart like in 2016 where people didn't know that much about him and the publicity benefited him. All this is doing is solidifying the racist vote, which he already had locked in. The increasing craziness and utter stupidity is going to continue to peel off the slightly more reasonable, and the Democrats can sit back and let the Republicans tear themselves apart.
vividspecter 5 days ago • 100%
Unsurprisingly, a former candidate for the Liberal (conservative) party: https://web.archive.org/web/20220518064350/https://cityofsydneyliberals.webflow.io/candidate/sam-danieli
Perhaps he was too crazy even for them.
vividspecter 6 days ago • 100%
and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.
We better get the preeminent scientist, Bart Simpson, to actually confirm this.
vividspecter 6 days ago • 100%
Online scam artists tend to do it, along with random emphasis. It just makes the person using it seem illiterate to me, but we're not the target market.
Think dick pills, pick up artists, conspiracy theorists, and so on.
vividspecter 1 week ago • 100%
We've got hearsay and conjecture. Those are "kinds" of evidence.
vividspecter 1 week ago • 100%
I only learned to touch type properly because I was bored one summer and went cold turkey and learned Colemak. Before that, I had this weird pseudo touch typing technique with some keys being touch typed and others not, and because of the muscle memory, it was difficult to change.
vividspecter 1 week ago • 100%
Batteries are likely to degrade over time, meaning you’ll eventually end up with a worthless ear bud on the left or right and the only solution will be to throw them out. These things are often pretty bad scoring on repairability metrics, and I can’t even blame the companies producing them here because they’re so small.
I'm hoping these start getting recycled for their batteries, like the EU has plans to do.
Anyway, I feel full size wireless headphones are somewhat less problematic as they have bigger batteries, and you can always fall back to wired use (in most cases). But the proprietary app concerns are definitely valid.
vividspecter 1 week ago • 100%
An e-bike might be a better option if you have many hills and are carrying a lot of weight, if not a proper e-cargo bike. But for the former you need to be careful about how adaptable it is to racks and fenders etc, since some are not great.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
I don't want to look like a weirdo! I'll just go with the muumuu Trump cape.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 83%
if you aren’t American you can agitate and tell people “don’t vote, voting for the lesser evil means you end up with slightly less evil and that’s bad, instead you should not vote or ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting” and then suffer no consequences.
The entire planet suffers the consequences when Trump undoes all climate action and destabilises the world.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
Userbenchmark have a long running grudge against AMD. I'm not sure why, but they therefore aren't a trustworthy source.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
The point is to harm people that have less power than you do. There's a whole political ideology based around that idea.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
A major improvement already happened in 5.2+ but few devices support it yet (LE Audio with LC3 codec).
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
LDAC is a very inefficient codec, and isn't lossless even at its highest bitrate. But they are all close to perceptually lossless even at relatively low bitrates so it's a much of muchness.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
Someone among Linda Reynolds’ advisors should have had the courage to tell her that persisting with this defamation trial, especially in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann trial, is really shitty optics.
She seems to have the hubris of Lehrmann, as Christrian Porter had before them. Something about being in the Liberal party makes you believe that normal rules don't apply.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
You can also connect rural towns by cycling routes. Some parts of Australia are doing this by adding cycling tracks to long-abandoned rail links (would be nice if some of these were used as rail again but that's another story). Yes, not everyone is going to be willing and able to use these but it's great for tourism, and even getting a small amount of people out of their cars now and then is a win.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
The characters were just 2D sprites from what I recall. And the isometric camera kind of gave it a 2D feel even if it wasn't actually 2D.
Anyway, hopefully this isn't a Switch exclusive as that would be lame.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
When conservatives say "fiscal responsibility" they mean cutting social spending so they can inflict as much harm on poor people as possible. If you look at everything they say through that lens, it all makes sense.
vividspecter 2 weeks ago • 100%
A couple of things:
- Biden was still the candidate, and a lot of young people were angry with him at the time
- Younger people are less likely to identify or register with any party (but will still likely vote in one particular direction). So focusing on the results by party identification isn't that useful.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
No official Linux support, which means no Steam Deck support as well. Yes, there's Legendary but I shouldn't have to jump through those hoops.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
They’re not going to be defended by the soy boys who want to feed the monsters.
He really is just the typical, always online, alt-right loser. Same as Steven Cheung accusing people of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" during the ongoing Arlington scandal.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
Beyond moderation, Phoronix is a case study in why downvotes are a good thing. Those idiots going on dumb tangents would continue, while the rest of us can read the actual worthwhile comments (which does happen, given AMD employees and the like comment there sometimes).
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
they have to de-MAGA the whole party, then they’ll be in good shape.
Hopefully not because conservatism itself is a morally and intellectually bankrupt position. So I'd be much happier if they burn themselves to the ground, and/or conservatism becomes unpalatable to the vast majority.
It became very obvious after starting this channel that probably the biggest motivating force for people who care about urbanism is, simply, the fact that places with great urban qualities are often so unaffordable. Enter YIMBYism, the movement that says the more neighbors, the better, and the more people who can afford to live in a city, the better it is for everyone.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
nixos-anywhere also works well for this use case.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
He may be a liar, an idiot, a fascist, a weirdo, but he is NOT a porn star!
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 88%
Good, but I wish they'd stop pandering to conservatives in the first place, and now they'll get the whole "flip-flopper" routine from the press.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
Reminds me of this Simpsons bit. But yeah, a lot of well off people (even those that are well meaning) are just completely out of touch on how many people actually live.
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
Ooh can't forget the mints!
vividspecter 3 weeks ago • 100%
This view only works in a world where the right and left have a common view of reality and a common agreement on what the outcome should be, they just disagree on how to get there.
Which is why being centre-left or centre-right makes logical sense, since the positions and policies within those halves are consistent with their perception of reality and desired outcomes. And being unbiased about which position to pick within those ideologies is perfectly reasonable.
But being a centrist between the left and right doesn't make sense, as the view of reality and goals is entirely distinct. There's no middle ground between "cutting social services for the poor because you believe poor people deserve to be poor, and that hierarchical societies are inherently right", and that "we should increase social spending to help those that are less fortunate because an equal society is inherently just".
tl;dr ![Geometric mean results](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoronix.com%2Fbenchmark%2Fresult%2Fwindows-11-vs-ubuntu-linux-on-amd-ryzen-9-9950x%2Fgeometric-mean-of-all-test-results-result-composite-w1vuloar99.svgz)
tl;dr EEVDF CPU scheduler that has replaced Linux's previous default scheduler (CFS), is close to completion. CPU schedulers can have a significant effect on performance and latency of various tasks. It will be interesting to see how it compares to [BORE](https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler) which is what I use on my desktop systems. There's also the many workload specific schedulers that [sched_ext](https://blogs.igalia.com/changwoo/sched-ext-a-bpf-extensible-scheduler-class-part-1/) allows for, but it's still not in mainline I believe.
Bruce Lehrmann has been committed to stand trial on rape charges. The 29-year-old faces two counts of rape, alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, in October 2021. Magistrate Marc Howden found sufficient grounds to commit the former Liberal Party staffer to trial on Thursday, rejecting his argument that he had “no case to answer”, two-and-a-half weeks after the complainant gave her evidence and was cross-examined in closed court. “In my view, when considering the evidence as a whole, it is sufficient at this stage for me to reach a conclusion that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could return a verdict of guilty,” Howden said. The trial will now be heard at the Toowoomba district court at a date to be set. Prior to Howden’s decision a packed courtroom heard facts agreed upon by Lehrmann’s barrister, Andrew Hoare KC, and prosecutor Nicole Friedewald, relating to the night and morning following 9 October 2021. It was agreed Lehrmann and the complainant, who cannot legally be named, met at a strip club after both had been drinking alcohol and the complainant had taken cocaine. The pair went on to take cocaine together and in the early hours of the morning took a taxi to a Toowoomba home where they engaged in consensual sex. However, the complainant then claims she awoke to find Lehrmann on top of and penetrating her without a condom, despite her having insisted upon contraception during their earlier consensual encounter. She alleges she pulled her body away and told him to “stop what you are doing” but that he instead climbed back on top of her saying “it’s ok, it’s ok, it’s ok”, continuing the unwanted sex before ejaculating inside her. After messaging her friends about the alleged assault on November 6, the complainant first went to police 20 days later. Friedewald told the court the complainant, as was “not uncommon” in cases of sexual assault, took some time to “come to terms with what had happened to her”, citing a message to her friend in which she said was “starting to feel really shit” and “hadn’t really processed what had happened” or admitted it to herself. “I just feel so shameful,” the complainant wrote to her friends. “Who is going to believe me?”
- Nvidia 555 Drivers on Bazzite (Nvidia :heart: Wayland) - Handheld Daemon Version 3 - Full Steam Deck OLED Support
tl;dr technical about about the upcoming sched_ext interface in Linux 6.11, used for running out-of-tree CPU schedulers on the fly
- Support for asynchronous processing has been implemented. Nodes can choose (or be forced) to be scheduled asynchronously. The graph will not wait for the output of the node to continue processing but it will use the output of the previous cycle (or silence) instead. This adds one cycle of latency but it can avoid having some nodes blocking the processing graph. Non realtime streams and filters now also use this asynchronous processing instead of their own slightly broken version. - The concept of node.sync-group was added. This groups nodes with overlapping sync-group together when one of them sets the node.sync = true. This is now used to make sure all nodes are scheduled together when JACK transport is started so that they all see the same transport time. - Config parsing errors are reported earlier and much better with line and column numbers where the parsing started to fail. - Add support for mandatory metadata when negotiating buffer parameters. This can be used to only negotiate extra buffer planes when certain metadata is negotiated. One use case is the explicit sync support that requires 2 extra fds for the timelines. - Explicit sync metadata and support was added. - Support was added for making and using multiple data-loops in the server and clients. Support for CPU affinity and priorities was added to the data-loops as well. - The log topic debug levels can now be changed at runtime with metadata. - The log levels in the pulse server can be dynamically changed with a /core message. - The UCM conflicting devices patches were merged. - Add snapcast-discover module to stream to snapcast servers. - Rework how peers are linked and the counters are updated. Resume the peers when a node is unlinked and not yet processed. This should cause less occasional dropouts in the graph when reconnecting things. - Many GStreamer element updates. - Many more fixes and improvements. EDIT: Whoops, looks like a repost.
tl;dr this allows one to link Pipewire filter chains (such as EQ) to specific devices automatically. Useful for system-wide EQ, noise filters etc, especially multiple filters together. In particular, it all happens transparently so you can just connect to your normal hardware output and it should just work. You could already do this manually with some work, but this should be simpler and more robust. I suspect this will help with the Steam Deck too, which uses some filters to correct the built-in speakers, and this has caused bugs at times.