[-] geoff@midwest.social 24 points 14 hours ago

Just one in four??

[-] geoff@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago

I’ve been all Wayland for years on Intel and AMD, never had a single problem. I’ve also been choosing those GPUs due to their high quality open source drivers, and I don’t regret it.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Pretty much! As in, same goal as Vulkan, but realizing that Vulkan and friends were released ten years ago, and GPUs have changed a lot since then.

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No graphics API (www.sebastianaaltonen.com)

Sebastian Aaltonen’s super in-depth analysis of all current graphics APIs, GPU history, and a proposal for a much simpler API that better fits today’s GPUs

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submitted 2 weeks ago by geoff@midwest.social to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6891969

If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago

I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The red flag I see is the word “Caucasian” in his username.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago

Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.

The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

This is actually really thoughtful.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 107 points 2 months ago

First two are right on, but I haven’t been charged for an actual software update on the Mac in 30 years.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience — whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

DO NOT fire at those vintage Macs. They are not responsible for this.

[-] geoff@midwest.social 22 points 5 months ago

I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?

[-] geoff@midwest.social 14 points 6 months ago

I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.

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