From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?

In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.

(Federated) email didn’t survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It’s now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn’t interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that’s exactly what it looks like is happening.

Is there something significant about this release, or are we just going to have a post every time every piece of software releases a new version?

You can see the planned specs for the two different models on their indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emudeck-machines-retro-emulation-console-pc#/

I’m guessing they have a pre-selected all-in-one board (designed for mobile devices) and they’re just designing a chassis around it. There’s still a lot that could go wrong, but it’s a bit more achievable than actually designing, testing and assembling your own board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLVSEhB5DI

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to take away from it.

He doesn’t actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

• assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
• assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
• using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold “multiple millions”.

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn’t know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, the other game that ruined his reputation for me is Godus. He funded it with a kickstarter with the promise it would be a successor to the God-Sim genre like Populous. It turned out to have all of the dark patterns of mobile games (time-gating with micro-transactions), but in a PC game.

“Huge Leak” is just clickbait. This is just data-mined stuff from Source engine and nothing here was convincing for me.

Are you using the Import/Export Settings buttons in the settings page?

If you can reproducibly crash an instance then you should definitely file this as an urgent security issue in the lemmy repo so it can be fixed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?

closest current one I can find is

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Is it really a virtual machine? It’s running from a container, so it’s just a containerized desktop exposed over VNC, right?

Is it actually running its own kernel?

Why would there be any reason to bring feminism or Covid into that in the first place?

From another article:

The cautionary note against “feminist propaganda” is a reminder that Game Science have yet to respond to allegations of pervasive sexist behaviour from November last year. In a lengthy report for IGN, Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan described “a studio plagued by claims of sexism”, linking this to misogyny elsewhere in the Chinese games industry and on the government-firewalled Chinese internet. The developers have raised the drawbridge in response: when Edders attended a preview event earlier this year, they refused to say anything on the subject in advance.

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FTFR:

What happened

The code that was previously here has been taken down at AMD’s request. The code was released with AMD’s approval through an email. AMD’s legal department now says it’s not legally binding, hence the rollback. Before anyone asks: I have received no legal threats or any communication from NVIDIA.

What now

At this point, one more hostile corporation does not make much difference. I plan to rebuild ZLUDA starting from the pre-AMD codebase. Funding for the project is coming along and I hope to be able to share the details in the coming weeks. It will have a different scope and certain features will not come back.

This is not a federated bandcamp, it’s a platform for bands to do marketing across mutliple various social networks from one web portal.