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Markaos

@ Markaos @lemmy.one

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  • Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4

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  • It's an AMD GPU, so how does it have anything to do with RTX, which is a marketing name for a bundle of Nvidia technologies including the CUDA compute framework, an AI framework, and of course a ray tracing API (which games generally don't touch, because that would limit their ray tracing implementation only to Nvidia GPUs)?

  • Horsepower required for 10 Gbit router?

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  • Ghostty 1.0 is Coming

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  • As @Treeniks@lemmy.ml pointed out, the author considers something as small as spawning a separate process for each window to mean a "non-native experience" (wait till they see how web browsers work)

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Markaos @lemmy.one

    P3477R0: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

    wg21.link /P3477r0

  • "Designed to better support our users"

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  • Convenience (after you install it, all you have to do is enter the code and you're connected, no other setup required), familiarity (it's the default name people will think of or find if they want remote access - that alone means they can get away with pushing their users slightly more) and - IMHO most importantly - connectivity: if two computers can connect to the TeamViewer servers, they will be able to connect to each other.

    That's huge in the world of broken Internet where peer to peer networking feels like rocket science - pretty much every consumer device will be sitting behind a NAT, which means "just connecting" is not possible. You can set up port forwarding (either manually or automatically using UPnP, which is its own bag of problems), or you can use IPv6 (which appears to be currently available to roughly 40% users globally; to use it, both sides need to have functional IPv6), or you can try various NAT traversal techniques (which only work with certain kinds of NAT and always require a coordinating server to pull off - this is one of the functions provided by TeamViewer servers). Oh, and if you're behind CGNAT (a kind of NAT used by internet providers; apparently it's moderately common), then neither port forwarding or NAT traversal are possible. So if both sides are behind CGNAT and at least one doesn't have IPv6, establishing a direct link is impossible.

    With a relay server (like TeamViewer provides), you don't have to worry about being unable to connect - it will try to get you a direct link, but if that fails, it will just act as a tunnel and pass the data between both devices.

    Sure, you can self host all this, but that takes time and effort to do right. And if your ISP happens to use CGNAT, that means renting a VPS because you can't host it at home. With TeamViewer, you're paying for someone else to worry about all that (and pay for the servers that coordinate NAT traversal and relay data, and their internet bandwidth, neither of which is free).