aka @jsylvis@lemmy.world

Just another person seeking connection, community, and diversity of thought in an increasingly polarized and team-based society.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • We went from a time where you had to rebuild your fucking kernel to get your graphics card to work and fucking around with Wine to get to a point where you nearly throw your PC out the window until you can get a little app to run to simply running apt install nvidia-driver-xxx and clicking on a button to make a Windows game run in Linux.

    I have fond memories of getting World of Warcraft working on Linux back in ~2008 only to realize it had an OpenGL mode that ran better than the DirectX mode I was trying - and failing - to get working.

    You aren’t wrong about kernel and driver shenanigans.




  • Not to be flippant, but you could have just stopped at Microsoft Teams running like ass as the problem is Microsoft Teams and its bloated, over-ambitious nature running in fucking Edge via WebView.

    Specific to your case, you seem to be referring to a video call - is Firefox using hardware acceleration? I seem to recall each video feed is its own transcode/render process so if that’s entirely on CPU, it could definitely wreck your performance.





  • an EV charged from fossil electricity saves only 33% on emissions compared to a fossil car

    Or, stated more honestly, an EV deriving electricity from even fossil-based grid-scale generation uses roughly half the raw combustables as an ICE with the added benefit of emission scrubbing.

    if i am paying 40k$ for an EV i am expecting my purchase to act as a contribution to safeguard the environement

    We are fortunate, then, that this is already the case.

    EVs are a pass for me for now but thats my opinion.

    I’m not sure how you’ve determined they should be a pass - if you’re comparing like to like and comparing to new ICE vehicles of similar capability, there’s no reason not to go EV for most people.

    But sure, it is a matter of preference.