It seems silly to be distrustful of proprietary BIOS firmware without having the same skepticism of the actual hardware.

Accurate except for the “instead” part. Road maintenance comes from local taxes, whereas military aid comes from federal taxes.

I had a linux 5520 and it was terrible. Standby and bluetooth never worked properly. Are the new models any better?

I think it’s more like “snuck up on us” than any kind of nefarious connotation. Kind of like “how did a niche game like BG3 sneak into the top ten games list”?

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That’s a very strange way to phrase it. I wish we could just recognize that sex and gender can be orthogonal properties of an organism.

That’s why your phone has a brightness slider, or better yet an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness. DE will need something similar.

reads; nods; reads; reads; nods…

Also, it must be ensured that user data is accessible to all competitors.

whaaaaaaaat!?

Did nobody stop to think that maybe the value of A24 comes from the fact that they’re not making bland action blockbusters?

The preview image looks like the lady on the right just let loose the most foul stench imaginable and the other two are being forced to deal with it.

TFW you roll a natural 1 on your background.

Is that why shitty Chinese microprocessors are all 32-bit?

I’ll save you a trip to your shrink and armchair-diagnose you with NPD.

I blame Linux distros for being too complicated and unintuitive for 95% of the population, which in turn gives it a negligible market share from a game development perspective.

NATO shills

Says the guy with a brand new account who has exclusively posted anti-west and anti-Ukraine content. Go home, Putin - you’re drunk.

Or just sync before pulling it.

Always has been

The problem is that only half of the chiplets have access to the large cache. If the scheduler isn’t aware of that and a lot of data is shared across cores (as in the case for many games), you’ll miss out on most of that performance. AMD wrote a driver for Windows to help optimally schedule threads with high cache intensity to the expanded cache chiplets, but they didn’t do it for Linux. If your workload is not very chatty between cores, and threads don’t need to synchronize at 60Hz, it won’t matter as much. But for game workloads, it makes a big difference, and can actually result in worse performance than the homogenous chiplet design of the mid-tier 7800X3D if you get it wrong.

That’s kind of my point. Linux supports it, but Windows doesn’t anymore. Why? Money - OEMs aren’t selling them anymore, so why spend time to support new features on them? On the flip side, the heterogeneous chiplet structure of the 7950X3D was supported on Windows from day 1, while on Linux the scheduler is still unaware of the different perf characteristics to this day. Why? Same answer - money. AMD doesn’t make money selling 7950X3D on Linux, so they’re not going to spend time writing a kernel driver to optimize perf on it.

I hate to break it to you but 4 years old is nowhere close to “bleeding edge” when it comes to PC hardware.

Linux has better support for the long tail of hardware. Windows has better support for bleeding-edge hardware. The main reason for this is money.