zurohki

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's even worse when you take a bunch of the small percentage of energy the heat engine successfully turns into motion and then use it to heat up the brake discs.

Being able to recapture kinetic energy into a battery and reuse it later helps overall efficiency a lot.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Okay, but that's still partially on Nvidia for refusing to participate. They could have argued for explicit sync early in Wayland's development but they weren't at the table at all, so they got stuck with the technology that was decided on without them and had to argue for changes much later.

And they started off arguing for EGLStreams, but it didn't work well either. Explicit sync came later.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wayland has a bunch of features that are so new they aren't in the stable distros yet.

Nvidia went from declaring they were never going to support Wayland to trying to force their own EGLStreams stuff on everybody to reluctantly accepting the standard that was developed without them and trying to make it work for their driver. They're playing catchup and it's entirely their own fault for refusing to cooperate with anybody.

They're moving more towards open source drivers now, probably because the people buying billions of dollars worth of GPUs to use on Linux servers for AI training have had words with Nvidia on the subject.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's not happening. They're desperate to push revenue per user up, so they keep hiking low speed prices to push people towards 100+ megabit plans.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

don’t use masks, wait use masks

IIRC this one was about ensuring the supply of masks for medical staff early on before production ramped up.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not the sort of power from above churches are supposed to believe in.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Pointing a desk fan into a computer works fine and is a useful troubleshooting step if you suspect something is overheating, but if you need to do it that probably means heatsinks are clogged with dust, aren't sized appropriately or aren't making good contact. So you really should fix that problem.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

The free trial isn't a business model. It's a demo.

You only have a F2P model after you add the aggressive monetisation.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Okay, but if they packed it full of microtransactions and premium currency, it'd be a worse game.

Unless you mean you just want the publisher to make less money, which isn't an option they're going to be interested in.

 

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