addie

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Or 'love hotels'. You want to rent a room by the hour, Mario gets his cut.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The harpoon works just fine too, one-hits the stick insects and does her some damage as well if you can line it up. She's not very dangerous if you know her moveset, but that's an education learned by many runbacks.

Doesn't say they've fixed the comedy bug where if you look at the map while on one of the collapsing platforms, then when you fall through then the game stops accepting input, Hornet just stares at it forever. Only glitch I've found, quite impressive for a day one purchase.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

The time for "collaborate and listen" has passed. Now, the time for Nintendo to bring down hammer go hammer mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play has arrived.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

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/

[–] addie@feddit.uk 35 points 2 weeks ago

Oh sweet baby Jesus. That is some astonishing code for validating the title and body of a PR.

      - name: Create PR message file
        run: |
          mkdir -p /tmp
          cat > /tmp/pr-message.txt << 'EOF'
          ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
          
          ${{ github.event.pull_request.body }}
          EOF

Put a single-line EOF in your pull request body, follow it up with a completely arbitrary set of Bash commands, whatever you damn well like, put all the environment variables with the repository secrets into a webhook request and send them off somewhere, make sure you terminate it with another cat > /dev/null << 'EOF' to match the other EOF. Now you can compromise the entire project by raising a pull request.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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...

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

 

Hey gang! Looking for some recommendations on issue tracking software that I can run on Linux. Partly so that I can keep track of my hobby dev projects, partly so that I've got a bit more to talk about in interviews. My current workplace uses Jira, Trello and Asana for various different projects, which, eh, mostly serve their purposes. But I'm not going to be running those at home.

The ArchWiki has Bugzilla, Flyspray, Mantis, Redmine and Trac, for instance. Any of those an improvement over pen and paper? Any of those likely to impress an employer?

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