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  • The long game

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  • Other companies running game stores/platforms must think like this which is why their stores end up competing with a 2008 Steam. Does nothing is incredibly incorrect

  • System76 launches first stable versions of COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS

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  • Last I had it on my desktop was like 2 months ago. Oddities with games here and there was a deal breaker for me. Don't remember if I could alt tab over video game windows yet. Not being able to alt-tab other windows over a video game is a deal breaker for me. There were random nich applications I don't recall that didn't handle dialog windows/file pickers well. That may be better by now. The file explorer is really bare bones even compared to nautilus. Not expecting Dolphin but I want something better.

    High hopes though. I may give it another go as my primary with 26.04. The Cosmic applications are all pretty fast. I think I like how it looks more than KDE just KDE is way more fully featured

  • We need to organise...

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  • only difference with tech ceo's is that a handful are relatively public figures. Finance CEOs have a stake in everything, mostly publicly faceless. Even the ones directly appointed around the Trump admin, non-news. The food/beverage conglomerates, mostly publicly faceless. Dupont family poisoned the world, mostly publicly faceless. Weapons exporters, mostly publicly faceless. Real estate investment trusts, mostly publicly faceless. Insurance companies and pharmaceuticals, mostly publicly faceless. Mob justice almost always fails because it's easily swayed towards fall guys and/or it's so minor to just be a pyrrhic victory. Expended so much effort for something that'll wash over in short order. Next guy up

  • Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

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  • The outside display is just about 21:9 and internal about 4:3, sounds like it's an ultimate retro gaming handheld. Lack of SD card support is a pain though

    For folds, I like the old flip phone style flips better. The only puzzling thing with those ones are why keep the front facing camera when the rear cameras have a display on that half on the phone. The outer display on this is 6.5". It's not a compromise in size at all like the flips/razrs. Internal screen shouldn't have a selfie camera either

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • For a Logitech mouse on Linux I use Solaar. Pretty much why I go with Logitech mice now. Solaar works well for me

  • Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal

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  • Sentience reached. Evidence of singularity and people just waltzing by blind

  • Ideas for very simple improvements to instant noodles?

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  • If you want it creamier, add something fatty. Milk, butter, peanut butter, sesame paste. Not a lot. Just a dash. A small slice of butter. Different chili oils. Primarily the bits in the oil rather than much of the oil itself. Buy fried shallots. Baby bok choy makes it a little sweeter. A bit of napa cabbage adds some good flavor. Tubes of tomato paste freeze well, squeeze some in

    Throw in something a bit acidic. Lime or vinegar. A fermented or picked vegetable. Kimchi, som pak, something. A little tamarind paste can add a kick to it. Frozen dumplings. Thai basil. Shichimi togarashi. Five spice. Curry powder.

    Back to the peanut butter, I always have powdered peanut butter for low calorie peanut butter flavor. Try a dash of soy sauce or fish sauce into it. Cayenne and/paprika powder.

    If you have whole spices on hand, it doesn't take long for coriander seeds, fennel, star anise, cardamom, etc to add flavor to a broth.

  • Ideas for very simple improvements to instant noodles?

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  • I've been putting cheese in instant ramen since I was like five. Cheese ramen at restaurants is relatively common for the non-standard restaurant tonkotsu/shoyu/shio options. Maybe just behind those but with a little curry paste curry for the non-standard restaurant ramens

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • Dumb of HP and Dell to not eat the cost. Just in the future never support VVC. HEVC is well enough a thing already. Push defaults to be AV1 and then in like 5-7 years, AV2. I use AV1 for everything I can. Computer supports it. My phone does not but edits I do on my PC will be encoded to AV1. Photos, support JPEG-XL but in the interim, AVIF. Screw apple for going with HEIC. I highly doubt that there will be a successor to UHD Blu-Rays to adopt VVC. No big reason to jump to 8k. Only good would be higher bitrates/better compression and audio.

    Films are mostly recorded digitally with 4k-6k cameras or a limited amount of 35mm still going on that scans well to around 4k. 8K digital cinema cameras are becoming more common but the 4k-6k ones are dominant and 70mm is expensive and uncommon. Plus significant digital effects are prevalent on even low action movies, non-sci-fi. Those are still going to have been mostly done and mastered for 4k. Another round of remastering required for 8k content where digital or 70mm film masters exists. Dinosaur broadcasters may choose VVC the shrinking world population watching dinosaur broadcasters. AV1 is increasingly the present and AV2 will be the future. VVC will be end of line because of short sighted greed

  • NVIDIA - the AI company that sometimes makes graphics cards for gaming

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  • At least AMD/ATI and Nvidia came up when gaming was the core reason to buy a dedicated graphics card. They have the dev pipeline to at least still make good drivers for gaming. Chart makes me think - that's why at least the proprietary drivers for Mali, PowerVR, Adreno, etc are all so mediocre when it comes to games. AMD great on Linux. Nvidia great just proprietary. Intel it was well regarded until they made Arc cards and people started comparing them to AMD/Nvidia and the Linux/Windows performance gap for Arc cards was very noticable. Qualcomm hyped up Linux support before the X Elite. Still mediocre.

    The chart makes me think, the only hope for good drivers for gaming from non-AMD/Linux will be the open source Adreno driver. The 8 Elite and 8 Elite Gen 5 should be getting initial support early next year.

    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38450

    The rest, which company is going to put in money to do a driver fix for some video game with buggy rendering from like 2010 when they can be focusing on fixing any bugs brought up having to do with pytorch and whatever other stuff people use

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • You may just want to head to YouTube and look for a really dry video instructions. When I first got started on Linux like 15 years ago, videos were a lot less intimidating to me

    I'd YouTube installing Ubuntu and use the YouTube filter option set to like 1 month. There's constantly new videos for intro to Linux YouTube. I say Ubuntu because it's a part of the most common family of popular Linux distributions

  • What do you think the future of Windows is?

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  • More subscription service pushing. Windows isn't a source of revenue growth for MS, it's a cheerleader. Lost subscription revenue for Windows on servers to Linux. MS SQL couldn't stop MySQL, MariaDB, PostreSQL, etc. Games for Window Live and paid online gaming failed on PC. Windows Store has been a decade and a half dud. Gamepass looks stagnant and Xbox hardware in decline. Windows Phone failed - big reason Windows Store failed and no presence as a TV OS anymore besides the declining Xbox

    MS wants products where users are continuously monetized. The software storefronts haven't worked out like they wanted so focus on subscriptions and advertising. Azure, OneDrive, O365, Copilot, Gamepass less focused on Xbox hardware, ... whatever else they can come up with. Windows will advertise them sacrificing user satisfaction for Windows

    For MS it may be the right move. Don't think there's political willpower for trying again to compete with Android and iOS for mobile. Don't think they'd even manage TV against Roku let alone Android TV or big TV makers like Samsung with Tizen. Apple would have to screw up hard with MacOS for those users to switch to Windows rather than sticking Mac or go to iPad's. Android has a desktop cooking with an eventually graphics accelerated Debian VM. Linux in general still on the multi-decade nibbling towards the mainstream along with software like Blender, Krita, LibreOffice

    OS reccuring fees is a server and enterprise workstation support contract thing. Trying to do that to consumer desktop would kill it pretty quick. Windows is in a hard place of being a mature big money maker that doesn't look possible for growth but still too big to cast aside. It'll straddle the line of advertising where MS tries to not kill its market share but nag users to buy MS subscription services. More telemetry for advertising

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • If you have a stable job with good pay or good upward mobility in the company potential and don't have periods of unemployment, if it has a 401k, you're 401k is being invested while the market is down. When unemployment is high, the Federal Reserve sets the federal funds rate much lower to try and stimulate the economy. That results in lower rates for consumer loans. So people that have stable jobs that pay well enough can take out loans and/or refinance their current loans to do better than they were.

    When the market recovers, you've had years of experience that you can now use for job hopping at more senior level roles when the job market recovers. Also a lot of late career people end up consulting for companies large and small with inexperienced staff. Those that didn't fare well in a career during a market downturn, it's either stagnation or hardship after hardship

    It doesn't necessarily have to be office/lab work. I know people that grinded the past decade+ in restaurants until an owner would trust them to manage a restaurant including all the supplies and payroll and then trust them enough to partner on a another restaurant and then that be their ticket to financial security. Some in their 30s, some 40s, some 50s. It's a grind but at least they didn't end up drug addicts and alcoholics like so many others

  • Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble

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  • The s&p 500 tanks a ton and banks call on loans from these AI hyped companies using the price of the stocks as collateral (previously expected to rise). Credit crunch and now companies tighten the belts even further so higher unemployment again. Federal funds rate gets slashed and those that can manage steady good work during the recovery years will be fine. Everyone else will be struggle busing as usual

  • AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month

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  • Streaming sites use them so there's a solid chance you've used it plenty without actively choosing to

  • Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

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  • Steve Jobs just didn't have the right foresight. PWA's were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA's. Steve was a salesman first and foremost

  • In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

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  • I switched back to RSS sometime ago. Been using Inoreader

  • Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks

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  • How's the GPU drivers though? Especially to me for Linux. These should be used in PC gaming handhelds but Qualcomm support is mediocre

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization - Phoronix

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  • It's preparation for 26.04 and it's a lot of work to maintain support for the older hardware that's not very popular. Optimizing developer resources towards what should be the first RISC-V hardware to try and get mainstream adoption

  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    Imagination PowerVR Driver With Linux 6.18 To Support RISC-V

    www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.18-PowerVR-RISC-V
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    NVIDIA on RVA23: “We Wouldn’t Have Considered Porting CUDA to RISC-V Without It” – RISC-V International

    riscv.org /blog/2025/08/nvidia-cuda-rva23/
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    No new PinePhone (Yet), future with RISC-V

    pine64.org /2025/08/14/august_2025_short_update/
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with completely functional Linux for $149

    www.tomshardware.com /tablets/worlds-first-risc-v-tablet-is-finally-fully-baked-pinetab-v-now-ships-with-completely-functional-linux-for-usd149
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    Breakthrough in Automotive AI: Running BEVFormer on SiFive’s Early Access RISC-V Intelligence XM Platform

    www.sifive.com /blog/breakthrough-in-automotive-ai-running-bevformer-on
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    "Weakening encryption undermines ProtectEU's objectives" – experts slams EU plan to create an encryption backdoor, again

    www.techradar.com /computing/cyber-security/experts-deeply-concerned-by-the-eu-plan-to-weaken-encryption
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support

    www.phoronix.com /news/CentOS-RISC-V-Support
  • Laptops Community @lemmy.world
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    Not Just Xbox: Microsoft Raises the Price of Its Surface Laptops

    www.pcmag.com /news/not-just-xbox-microsoft-raises-the-price-of-its-surface-laptops
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly

    www.reuters.com /sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-seeks-breakup-googles-ad-tech-products-after-judge-finds-illegal-monopoly-2025-05-06/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android

    www.phonearena.com /news/several-phone-brands-rumored-to-be-planning-a-major-shift-away-from-android_id170038
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    DeepSeek R2 AI Model Rumors Begin to Swirl Online; Reported to Feature 97% Lower Costs Compared to GPT-4 & Fully Trained on Huawei's Ascend Chips

    wccftech.com /deepseek-r2-ai-model-rumors-begin-to-swirl-online/
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    Fedora 42 RISC-V Released - Builds For SiFive HiFive Premier P550 & Milk-V Megrez

    www.phoronix.com /news/Fedora-42-RISC-V-Released
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/chinese-chip-giants-say-they-dont-care-about-u-s-tariffs-many-dont-sell-to-the-u-s-anyway-due-to-existing-sanctions
  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    Ubuntu Adds Support For A New Low-Cost RISC-V Board: The OrangePi RV2 8GB For ~$64

    www.phoronix.com /news/Ubuntu-Linux-On-OrangePi-RV2
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump's tariff rates for other countries radically larger than World Trade data

    www.cnbc.com /2025/04/04/trumps-tariff-rates-for-other-countries-larger-than-word-trade-data.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent

    wccftech.com /trumps-liberation-day-bernstein-posits-that-a-10-percent-baseline-us-tariff-on-raw-semiconductors-is-not-going-to-do-all-that-much-but-pcs-servers-and-smartphones-are-about-to-get-pricier-by/