Dudewitbow

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[–] Dudewitbow 1 points 1 day ago

its partially tsmc, the other half is getting ASML EUV machines, which require getting past US/Dutch trade secrets.

ASML is the top level grip on edge node manufacturing because not all companies at the post 14nm wall believed that it would arrive in a timely matter. TSMC was the one that took that bet and why its the biggest.

[–] Dudewitbow 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

China's biggest hurdle is not the ability to make a chip, but more the ability to get good yields. It's more or less running into the same problem Intel did with 10nm, and what samsung has and the main reason why basically every chip maker is behind tsmc on bleeding edge.

This has the potential of accelerating a switch from x86/arm to more open standards.

hardware is a two way street, the other is getting a proper OS environment and people to be behind said projects. It's not like RISC-V designs aren't currently available.For example, Pine64's risc-v options have been available in the market for quite some time now. And DeepComputing is trying to release its framework laptop equivalent board using a StarFive JH7110. It will only accelerate if there is a bodies available to create the ecosystem in it, and as of the moment, not many developers are putting effort into making it an ecosystem.

An example of why hardware/software need to coexist is Snapdragon X Elite on Linux, as well as Asahi Linux(Arm based Macs on Linux). Neither are complete projects and do not hit the same performance their native OS versions hit yet remotely(nor efficiency). Theres a LOT you have to do to optimize hardware to the OS, and that just doesn't happen instantly.

[–] Dudewitbow 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t understand what you mean by this. The time people want to minimize their grid usage is during the hours of 16-19 which is peak usage and when electricity is most expensive. These panels will still provide a decent supplement in that time during the summer half of the year.

the suns only up during that time period over the summer. during other parts of the year, it's only partially up. If you have to go for a specific time of the year in order to fix a problem, then it hasn't fixed much of the problem if it only addresses 1/4 seasons. solar is often not that strong during peak usage. It's basically effective if you have a lot of appliances at home that are timed specifically to run when most people are away, which is the part that you have to train an audience to do.

[–] Dudewitbow 4 points 2 days ago (19 children)

While the panels are important, the main reason why its important to also have the battery component is because most people tend to work when daylight is out (where the house is theoretically using up the least amount of power) thus, if one didn't have a battery, its pushing the power back into the grid. At the same time, power usage tends to spike when it gets closer to night, where solar is ineffective, and relies thus back on the grid if there's no battery. While personally(not the original person) would never claim it does essentially nothing, the battery component is extremely critical for energy independence as the time period people want to minimize grid usage the most should be during the peak hours, which inconveniently is when the sun is down.

[–] Dudewitbow 5 points 2 days ago

The only thing you have to watch out for is that the Pi on its own is not a great device to transcode natively on, so you're using the client devices to be able to watch content on the Pi. So be wary of which media files you download and what your devices support.

[–] Dudewitbow 8 points 5 days ago (10 children)

vegetables in general and tasting bad is moreso lack of preparation/cooking rather than the actual thing itself most of the time. Brusselsprouts is the polarizing one where its seen the most.

[–] Dudewitbow 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

are they fucking serious lol. who in the right mind would design a product where the battery is constantly under human weight crushing it. thats darwin award bait right there if you willingly bought that product and died because of it.

[–] Dudewitbow 2 points 6 days ago

you don't have to onsider off platform titles on its own. just take proton DBs list and sort by playercount and youll have your handful of misses on some of the top currently played titles. that already filters the non steam games already, and it still has its small handful of titles not on board yet.

[–] Dudewitbow 6 points 1 week ago

sadly theres a line between shouldn't and how the market responds to it. Regardless of the fact, it is a hurdle, and the reason why not all of the top games on the concurrent player list on steam is playable on SteamOS, whether one likes it or not.

[–] Dudewitbow 85 points 1 week ago (30 children)

the biggest wall imo is still getting companies with anticheat games on board.

[–] Dudewitbow 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do you think most games might perform better on linux in the future?

maybe, depends on steamOS hardware adoption rate. You're far more likely going to see windows regress in performance rather than linux get better upper tier performance on average (imo)

When game makers put more effort towards optimising for linux considering linux has less bloatware etc?

theyll optimize for linux whent he market grows enough for it, which I personalyl believe will only happen when Linux gets at least ~30% of the steam hardware survey OS market.

not many devs will spend time to cater to 2% of the steam market.

[–] Dudewitbow 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

vim is a very common text editor. hes just using it as an example program to install/remove

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