Youtube comments of Cestarian Inhabitant (@cestarianinhabitant5898).
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Nice vid man, but 3 problems.
>Virtualbox
Great for linux VMs, but if you want Windows VMs, VMWare player/workstation is better.
>GIMP
No man, Krita is significantly nicer than GIMP; and it does everything GIMP does, and does it better in general.
>VLC
No man, MPV is superior in just about every possible way. At least for video playback. Better upscaling algorithms, smooth motion support, it's basically media player classic for linux, there's even something called media player classic qt which is a front-end for MPV that looks like mpc on windows. VLC was the best video player... in the 90s. It's not anymore, and hasn't been for a long time. People need to get that through their skulls.
>Playonlinux (this isn't a problem, just additional info)
Yes it helps, but at least for gaming, now Steam's Steamplay/proton is a better solution. (This was not out yet when this vid was amde though)
POL does not suport everything so mileage will vary, didn't know it had a photoshop preset but that's nice. There's also lutris which is mandatory to check out if you want to run any non-steam games, it tends to do a better job than PoL; when you can get it to work. It'll give you better support for games that require a custom wine configuration than pol does (like say overwatch or fortnite)
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Can we get it? And can we PLEASE get it open source? Just so that the entire world can play with, modify and upgrade this technology at will. And so that this technology won't be wasted on corporate idiots who only think in dollar $igns.
This technology will change the world of video gaming as the last missing piece to the ultimate virtual reality headset, and this technology will lead to the ultimate artificial limbs.
But in the right hands (Everyone's hands!, not just the hands of a few!) it will change the face of humanity and our culture completely. It will do so because this technology can be used to upload data online, store it on a server, and then download directly to another persons brain.
Hook up an artist (or a few) and bam,anyone can learn to draw in 3 seconds. Hook up a historian, and bam, anyone can learn everything there is to know about history in under a minute. Mathematician, bam!, Language teacher, bam!. martial artist, bam!
We're not just talking information as we read it in text, we're talking motor skills and reflex also being taught in instants, we will no longer have to worry about so called "reading comprehension" when everything is fed directly to the brain.
But we're a bit of ways from there,and corporate idiots would either fail to see this possibility, or develop it at a much slower rate than it could develop in open source, and then use it for profitability (i.e.they'd actually sell the skills for a high price point rather than just giving it all away for free, as information should be.)
This would essentially be wikipedia 2.0.
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A very good video indeed, and I agree, this is the way math should be taught. But I don't agree we should discard teaching the calculation process. We'll never understand how the computers are doing it if we do so. We'll never doubt what the computers tell us is the answer. Computers can make mistakes, because humans can make mistakes, and computers were built by humans.
I do however think that calculating by hand is an absurd way to do math, we should be teaching kids to do it mentally. And there are two ways I know we could approach this, one is doing what some schools in Japan, China and Korea among others are doing, teach them to use an abacus (and by abacus I mean chinese or japanese abacus; not the western crap), when you're good with an abacus I hear it is very easy to do math with an imaginary abacus instead of a real one, and that it can be done on average in about 1/10 of the time it would take on a real abacus. Meaning not just mental math, lightning fast mental math. For everyone. The calculating process is important because it is literally teaching kids how to solve problems or puzzles on their own. They need to understand the process if they're ever caught in a situation where they do not have access to a computer, or if they are trying to solve a problem they can't properly express to a computer.
The second approach I can imagine for tackling mental math is looking to mental math geniuses like Scott Flansburg for ideas on how to properly teach mental calculation. Our brains are more powerful than computers, and we have a good chunky part of our brain dedicated to calculation only, it would be an absolute waste of resources not to use it.
As for bringing computers to exams, this is not a problem when we have things like the raspberry pi (easily affordable to schools) and linux (highly customizable), it wouldn't be hard to set things up, computers wouldn't be hooked to the internet, no USB ports to thwart cheating, just offline computers with all the applications the students have learned to rely on (like a set of programming languages, and perhaps libreoffice or something to write answers to the questions on the exams)
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I can relate so much with what this man is talking about. I'm that guy that's been wasting my life away eating junk food, growing obese, falling to such a level where my once great brain is starting to fucking rot, my reaction speed is at an all time low, my thought processes lacking, I've made like a 100 actionable plans to get on top, get rich, get healthy, get whatever but never acted on it, because I'm always caught up in my addictions to media, to movies, to video games, to novels, every day I procrastinate my plans to the point where it is literally killing me; if I don't turn this shit around within the next 2-3 years that's fucking it for me.
But after listening to this man speak, I look at the chrome tab where I have some webnovels and manga open, and despite the temptation I can't bring myself to click on it, I see my video game shortcuts on my desktop, I can't click on them, I see some movies I could watch, I can't click on them either. Because I realized today, before I watched this video, that I've centered my entire life around escaping reality, because life sucks, reality sucks, I don't want it, so I run into a digital world, surround myself with fiction, and close my eyes to what's happening around me, what's happening to my body, what's happening to my mind...
I realized that I've been conditioned to do this, from elementary school we're only given one choice in life, to become corporate drones, and whoever discards or fails on that path is considered a failure, he will be looked down on for failing, or even outright refusing, to become yet another drone; but look, we have video games, movies, and social media, through which you can live through other people's fantastical lives (lies really)... So it's only rational then that before the thought of doing something as daunting as changing the very reality around you, you would instead escape reality, get your next fix of dopamine, consume, consume and consume more! Every waking moment about getting your next fix of meaningless entertainment that will lead you nowhere and add no value to your life whatsoever....
And for 10 years that's the only thing I've done, at all. No, longer than that, it's been 12 fucking years until I finally realized that I was lead to this point, around the nose, my weaknesses exploited, and I swallowed the bait, hook line and sinker, and let myself become something even worse than a corporate drone, a leech. A leech who takes and takes but has nothing at all they can give back in return, nor any desire to do so.
And facing this uncomfortable truth, that I've been played, and that I've actively allowed myself to be played for such a long time, it lead me here. After making the realization, it was not enough to stop at first, but I somehow got led to this video, and now... At least for the past few hours, I am unable to keep doing this to myself.
Now I am slowly coming to another realization, that it doesn't truly matter very much, how I do it, or what I do, as long as I stop running from reality, and start facing it, and changing it into something that I run towards, instead of away from.
Wading through the suffering and tackling all challenges is not a novel idea at all, but seeing that there's somewhere out there who is just doing it, and doing it, and keeps on doing it really makes me think: Why not me too?
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@Preinstallable This is something that will happen, it is inevitable. An ai that can code as well as a human programmer, will be created by human programmers, only unlike human programmers it's not gonna make mistakes, it's not gonna need to debug, the human programmers worked for years to make this ai, and this ai is gonna be able to make a new superior version of itself in a couple of minutes. But will that newly created superior version be able to create a new even more superior version? Probably not. It just doesn't work like that.
Until you get into AI running on quantum computers that is, then it's probably gonna work exactly like that. Yikes. When we mix technology so complex we barely understand it (neural networks), with another technology so complex we don't understand it at all (quantum physics). That's where this singularity is gonna happen, 100%. That's the missing piece of this puzzle, and you know what, it's not gonna be long from now, in fact I'm sure someone is already working on this. It's just that the quantum computers we have aren't ready yet for this task... But they will be, in just a few years they will inevitably be ready for this. Right now, quantum computers are growing exponentially in power by the year. It's growing so fast it makes moore's law back in the days of CPU transistors being half the size next year they were the last a funny joke.
This is happening soon.
All the AI tech we're using right now is gonna be obsolete within 10 years. Maybe even within 5....
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I'm mildly impressed, it's late, but it's on par with the 2080 and the 1080-Ti. It doesn't have anything that directly competes with RTX (except that their cores were always more suited to compute work than nvidia's which may be enough to compensate, in theory) but it makes up for that with 16GB of HBM2 competing with 8GB of GDDR6. Where the 2080 will barely have enough VRAM to run everything, the Radeon VII has so much of the stuff it's got much more potential longevity as future games will start using more and more VRAM, the 2080 will eventually fail to keep up, but the Radeon VII will not. It'll also be used for CAD work.
And another beauty of it is Linux users will flock to buy this. AMD's Linux driver is better than Nvidia's (for a very long time Nvidia's were much better than AMD's on Linux, but that all changed when AMD made an open source driver called amdgpu, when it was new it wasn't up to spec, but over the years it's caught up by now) there are many reasons for Linux users to prefer AMD just for this alone, chief among them being that it's more convenient. You put a (supported) AMD card in any computer and install Linux on it? It will be ready for gaming as soon as you boot it. For Nvidia? It will (at least for recent cards) use a generic driver and require you to install Nvidia's driver manually, which for some distributions is a pain in the neck, especially for the less savvy.
Nvidia put some effort into their Linux driver, their Linux driver is actually all things considered quite good, but they're dicks about certain things, the GUI control panel for example looks like it belongs in the 90s, a lot of their technologies which they use for marketing aren't supported in them; if it requires you to turn on a setting to enable it in-game, it probably won't work (so no DLSS for example, GSYNC support was added in like just the other day, finally. It didn't work for a long time until now... They also occasionally decide to develop their own library implementations for things and refuse to support alternatives (Wayland, a very important developing software for linux that many are hoping will replace X11 for example, is generally implemented with GBM, an API for buffer allocation, Nvidia developed something they call EGLStreams or something and refuse to support GBM. Nobody really wants to use Nvidia's shit when the other thing was already in place and there are no demonstrable reasons why EGLStreams would be any better. But we all know how Nvidia likes to overcommit on random bullshit they develop, like Gsync, despite competing tech being more sensible, like Freesync)
Meanwhile AMD is mostly free of all that bullshit, and since their driver is open source, if support for something is missing, anyone can just add it themselves if they have the desire and skill to do so.
Speaking of Linux anyways, Linux gaming has become a lot more viable in 2018. You can probably expect about 80% of your Steam game library to run without much trouble on it now thanks to steamplay/proton, most of them (especially DX10/11 games) will run at 80-90% native performance too)
The performance of the card lines up with what's displayed here on Linux as well (with AMD's open source driver vs Nvidia's closed one) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-vii-linux&num=1 the mean result of all the benchmarks combined marks the Radeon VII as 12% faster on average than the 2080 on linux (sometimes it wins by a large margin, sometimes it loses, but usually not by a large margin). It also seems like it's compute performance with properly optimized usage is potentially above the 2080-Ti (although I have no idea if RTX cores were also being used here, but it's semi-irrelevant since if it isn't being used then it's because no one is supporting it yet)
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Krita is not any slower than GIMP... But it can in some cases be slower than photoshop, still, for example in the case of brush engines, krita does indeed have slower brushes than photoshop, but it has significantly more versatile brush engines than photoshop allowing for greater customization, as a tradeoff.
I bet if you had choppiness with MPV, you were using an upscaling algorithm that was just too much for your hardware, or not using the opengl renderer, try an mpv front-end like media player classic qt, see how it works, it should have the gl renderer on by default.
I know, steamplay is better than POL for games though :D that's why I wanted to mention it. To tell the truth though, I wasn't aware photoshop could run properly through wine until I saw this video, last I checked a few years ago it wouldn't work right.
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What the fuuuuck...... I knew they were idiots and terrorists, but pedophilia? Oof, that's a hard blow man. I do agree with people defending loli art cus that is in fact just harmless art, and I believe artistic freedoms should be protected even if I am not a fan of the actual content in question, a lot of haters of that just call its defenders and fans pedos as an insult, but these are bona fide pedophile sympathizers, there's no redemption for this scum, they would never defend the act of pedophilia were they not at least closet pedophiles themselves, the law is there for a reason, the age of consent can be questioned, argued and debated perhaps, maybe 14, maybe 16, maybe 18, maybe 20 (if I recall correctly it was 13 or 14 not so long ago in my own country, I believe it's 16 now) but the fact remains that whatever is below the age of consent is an inexcusable crime socially viewed as second only to murder, and by some even murder is viewed second only to pedophilia, that is how serious of an offense it is to pursue relations with a child and there's no sympathizing with it. I can forgive closet pedophiles, but only as long as they stay in their closet and make do with what can legally be found on the internet and their sick imagination as no one is harmed in that process, everything else is out of the question.
Antifa are now officially as negative an existence for society and civilization as isis. Let them burn.
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Why would you need a playlist function for watching videos? (Also even recently I recall having issues where VLC used an incorrect color range by default, e.g. all content would be displayd with wrong colors/limited colors whereas most players default to full range. I think it's been fixed by now, but that is a SERIOUS problem and I remembered I had to change some obscure option to fix it, can't remember which one) anyhow I listed my reasons for mpv being superior, and it has nothing much to do with file compatibility although that is indeed a part of it, there will also be corner cases where vlc can play files that mpv can't... probably. It's more to do with playback quality, especially for upscaled content, but also the option of motion interpolation for smoother playback. Both features can massively improve the quality of compressed media (like if you play a 720p file on a 1080p screen, or god forbid UHD screen; or if a video file has low bitrate which is extremely common for just about every video you'l lever download from the internet as the bitrate has the most noticable effect on file sizes out of all encoding settings, low bitrate = choppy video, motion interpolation = no longer choppy video. The feature can even further enhance quality of high bitrate content like if you're playing directly from a bluray disc)
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Yeah the reason mpv has issues has to be poor configuration, if you have a dedicated gpu set the rendering profile to gpu-hq, if not opengl-hq and you should be good to go, at least on modern hardware. PS hasn't really had any serious updates since CS6 (surprisingly) so CS6 is fine, at least for a certain group of people that shall go unnamed.
Here's my tweaked ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf; it's tuned for quality over performance, I have no idea how it would perform on mid or low end hardware (it shouldn't require high end hardware, but the interpolation actually might I have no idea what kind of specs that demands) https://pastebin.com/JqTa5LLg
It was heavily based on this slightly outdated file https://gist.github.com/Hikari9/15ae5d31664ef761df4aa70778c2c0a7
Here's my input.conf with some tweaks to make it more similar to MPC-HC on windows https://pastebin.com/bzuSAiQV
Line 16 and 17 are commented out in favor of this script https://pastebin.com/FAFAE8JZ (to be placed in ~/.config/mpv/scripts) it is configured by me to use the mouse side buttons for the function of skipping to next chapter or next file on playlist if no chapters are present, here is the original using pgup/down instead https://gist.github.com/Hakkin/4f978a5c87c31f7fe3ae
Without the script if you uncomment the lines it will skip to next chapter or do nothing if no chapters are present.
A complementary script I also use would be one that auto-loads all files in the playing file's folder into the playlist to make it behave more like mpc-hc which has this same function https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua
And the last script I'm using is stats.lua https://github.com/Argon-/mpv-stats which gives me similar stats as ctrl+j in mpc-hc (keybound to i instead, because ctrl+j is a stupid keybind)
MPV by itself does have some issues for new users due to lack of GUI and the fact that you need to tweak it through a .conf file which is not really well documented enough. And some basic functions need to be implemented via scripts, however the only functionality that I'm still missing is a recent files list/file history to make it functionally equivalent to mpc-hc for my purposes, it's video playback is already superior, although the upscaling algorithm is only one of the more basic available in the madvr renderer, it was the best available not that long ago and alternatives are only extremely much more resource intensive without giving really noticably better results anyways, on the other hand it does not have a motion interpolation option, it has video smoothing but it's not as good as mpv's motion interpolation which is where it shines through.
The reason I am not using a gui frontend is quite simple, none of the ones I've found allow me to tweak the settings to the same extent as just mpv and while the initial setup may be a bit of a pain, it's all worth it in the end. There's no use for a gui in a video player anyways except for making it easier to configure settings.
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You don't need to be a doctor to be able to talk about this, you need to have experienced it, depression is not just regular sadness, it's long-term, lingering and unyielding hopelessness for most, despair for some unlucky bastards. I've experienced it, I get your views and I agree that depressed people will always stay depressed if they never stop whining about it, I even agree it can be dealt with without the use of anti depressants.
But it's not a minor deal, it's a monster, and it's not a monster tied to your depressing circumstance, it's a monster tied to your depressing way of thinking. It's a self-made mental prison, and breaking out of it is not easy because to truly make it out you have to literally change the way you think. As somewhat subjective evidence for this, my situation when I was depressed and my situation when I was not depressed, at least speaking physically, were identical, the biggest change was that I chose to view my situation as good instead of wallowing in how bad it was. This also somewhat explains how it can be that the have-it-all celebrities and rich folks can still be depressed. It's not what they have or don't have on the outside, it's how they see it from the inside.
That said, you're not wrong that it's shockingly common that people cry about how they're depressed when they're really just a little sad or unsatisfied with their life.
I have split views on this, on the one hand I agree that depression is something you get over and one of the major steps in doing so is just accepting it as a part of your life, moving on and not dwelling on it, but at the same time, you don't get over it in a day, it's a much larger beast than that.
Your opinions on depression clearly come from a place of lack of understanding, but the people on the other side of your argument ALSO come from such a place. Depression is real, it is a problem, it can be a crippling problem, it is common, but there are solutions to it, and while it depends on the person perhaps, drugs are usually not gonna permanently solve it, the only solution I found was a radical 180° personality shift/attitude change which in a nutshell involved going from pessimistic/negative to optimistic/positive for like 80-90% of my thoughts, this shift took a few years and my method of doing it probably wouldn't even work for most people, but it can be done, and I never used drugs.
You're making too much light of depression, and unless you shift your attitude to acknowledge that it indeed is serious, no one will take your opinions on it seriously.
PS: Churchill is a shit example, the guy was a crazy warmonger and all but invented the bombing on civilian cities, he was an even bigger monster than hitler himself. Clearly he did not function very well, guy was a psychopath!
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I like to tune out from news most of the time, just to get away from all this shit, because there's nothing I as an individual can do about it anyways, but everytime I tune back in the situation seems to have gotten 10 times worse than last I checked. The dystopia we often see in sci-fi films is already here, we just can't see it, cuz it's nowhere near as glamorous as in said films.
The surveillance state is already 100% in effect.
Microsoft? Spies on you through all products.
Google? Spies on you through all products
Absolutely any Social Media product? Tries to spy on you beyond the bounds of it's platform (e.g. facebook using tracking cookies to track your internet use outside of facebook)
Apple? Spies on you through all products. (You could have argued against this before, but since maybe around 2018 or so, there's no argument anymore, they're selling your data too!)
What is the most used desktop operating system? Windows 10, spyware galore.
Second most? MacOS, now also spyware.
Most popular search engine? Google by very far.
Most popular social media platform? Doesn't really matter, they're all out to get you.
Can you get your computer to stop spying on you? Only if you're one of those super nerds over in the land of Linux desktops (and even they will struggle a bit...)
Can you get your phone to stop spying on you? No, it will spy on you 24/7, as long as it's microphone is in hearing range of your voice, it's listening. But you could get an outdated model like one of those old nokias, that will actually work.
Beware though, all your text messages and phone calls are listened in on by someone, you have an old nokia? Well does the person you're calling also have it? And are you sure they're not just following you by listening in through the cell tower in the first place? (e.g. even if you can make your phone stop actively spying on you by getting a model that's incapable of it; you can't stop your text messages and phone calls from being listened in on)
Is the minimum wage high enough to cover rent and food for one person for a month? In most countries it is not. Especially rent, there are countries where people with jobs remain homeless because the jobs are only paying enough for them to eat, not for them to sleep under a roof...
How far are we going to allow ourselves to fall before we do something about it? I already see the answer, I can read it from the market share of Windows 10, the just under 90% market share, followed by just about 10% for MacOS is telling me that about 98% of humanity is entirely willing to see us fall all the way to the bottom, so long as they don't have to give up any conveniences on the way down.
It's fine if the world's gonna end, so long as I still have my facebook and google; is basically what 98% of people seem to think.
They think we're stupid? Are you trying to tell me we're not?
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Feel like you should have mentioned some things, like how the lib equivalent on windows is C:\Windows\System which can be used to host .dll (dynamically linked library) files which are the primary format windows uses for libraries. On windows those dll files are always either buried somewhere in C:\Windows or shipped with the program that uses them on an individual basis, whereas on Linux, in general, all software refers to the lib/lib32/lib64 directories to find their library files which has some notable pros and cons over the windows method.
Also, in /boot you didn't explain what bootloader is, which is the same as 'bootmgr' in windows; it allows the bios to detect that there is an operating system on a hard drive when it attempts to boot it. Also in /boot is the actual linux kernel.
Apt was possibly not the best example for a program that requires system-wide configuration. Xorg, Alsa, Pulse or Systemd all would have made somewhat better choices probably.
A really quick way to explain the /home folder would have been "this is exactly the same as C:\Users" (because it is, it is exactly the same)
Overall a great vid though, definitely favoriting this one and sharing it around. This is one aspect of linux that is a real struggle for superusers from windows to figure out.
It remained a head scratcher for me for years until I realized it had a structure of some kind and even after reading up on what's what I still managed to learn new things from this video. I didn't know /run was tmpfs, i ddin't know what /proc was, I didn't know the difference between /bin and /usr/bin, or /lib and /usr/lib...
Honestly, if I really think about it.... It seems like an outdated filesystem structure in some regards, the entire /usr directory and it's subdirectories only create needless confusion to be completely honest, especially /usr/local it's like a redundancy within a redundancy for like no reason,´and thanks to that whenever you're looking for something, you have to search in 3 directories instead of just one (program files) on windows, why do we have /usr/share when we already have /opt?
After looking deeper into FHS I found out that there's an OS called GoboLinux, it's filesystem structure is beautiful compared to this ugly mess; why hasn't something like that been adopted by now?
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A quick internet search will make you realize that several people are in that situation on ALL distributions lol, tearing issues are nothing new with X11, and has only been recently fixed for the various drivers, most distros will default to a configuration that minimizes tearing for open source drivers (intel, amdgpu and nouveau and a couple of others) but for nvidia proprietary drivers, you need to fix it with the nvidia proprietary driver configuration lol :D
If you went back to manjaro right now and didn't even install the nvidia driver on it, I'm pretty sure you would have exactly the same amount of tearing as you have on opensuse now :P
Also @Fubar, jesus christ that sounds like a fucked up experience, I would like to say it was just your hardware breaking on it's own but if the same thing happened to another computer, maybe that wasn't it after all... I only tried suse once, it just was not working for me, after problems installing it I had problems running it altogether hehe, never even considered going back to it after that. The default on Manjaro btw is xfce, it's what I'm using and I'm quite happy with it, functionally speaking it's more or less just as good as kde, but a lot faster and a lot less buggy.
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Top 5, allright in no particular order, and excluding browsers and the basic shit like steam and discord...
1: K-Lite Codecs Standard (Configured to use madvr, and then I configure madvr a little extra to get some smooth-motion and that nice ass upscaling algorithm all tweaked)
2: QBittorrent (Like utorrent, but not crap)
3: 360 Total Security (Configured to use all the available active antiviruses), it's probably the best free antivirus software. I always used avira before this which is probably still the second best.
4: MSI Afterburner, I use it both to OC my gpu and to monitor my hardware when in-games with the OSD, quite useful.
5: Autohotkey (besides it's various uses in games (for example remapping your arrow keys to WASD for games that don't support changing your keybinds (like rpg maker and various older games) I also use it to keybind switching between desktops the same way I do it on linux, e.g. ctrl+f1 through f6 changes to desktop 1-6, which is a fairly vital function for me to avoid cluttered windows all over the place...)
Linux edition:
1: mpv (the tricky part here is finding the right configuration to get the best image quality, enable motion interpolation and whatnot, but the result is more or less equal or better than k-lite)
2: QBittorrent ( :D )
3: Conky (and I set it up so I can monitor my cpu/gpu temps from the desktop, cpu usage, memory usage, which applications are using the most cpu/memory, and my active network usage, it's real freaking handy but configuring it just right is a bit of work)
4: Lutris (wanna play windows exclusive games? Use steam & it's proton. Game not on steam? Use lutris)
5: Audacious (There's a lot of music players available on Linux, but I prefer this one over all of them, the reason being that it's not a music library app like itunes or whatever, it's functionally closer to winamp or windows media player, there's no extra complicated bullshit on top. Just a music player, and some basic tools like an equalizer)
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This is a good thing, intel did not do the smart thing and lower their prices, they did the stupid thing and went for a quick cash grab. I hope this will hurt them so AMD can thrive a little for a while.
I want to see the companies compete, seriously compete, especially in the pricing department, but right now with Intel's resources if they would aggressively lower their prices to compete with AMD, Intel could probably crush AMD as it is due to the sheer difference in available cash money.
I've had issues with intel for years now because of their absurd pricing I still used their products of course, there was no other choice but now that there is, I'm gonna switch over to AMD first chance I get. Then again I was gonna do the same for the AMD RX line of graphics cards since they've got comparable price to performance to Nvidia's competition, but then Nvidia went and chopped the prices of the 900 series by half so I got myself a 980-Ti instead (for just a bit more than an RX 480 or gtx 1060 would have cost!) that was a deal too good to refuse.
Truth is I want both companies to succeed so that they can compete, intel going all suicidal for a while is a good thing because it'll level the playing field between intel and AMD a little.
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Damn overclocking is pretty fun, taking an old processor and squeezing it to the performance of new processors, feelsgoodman. My new 4790k is outperforming stock 6700s by a noticable margin on benchmarks. I just tried to get the highest performance I could within the 1.3v safety limit I hear 22nm processors tend to have. (I could only get it to 4.76ghz stable though, with 4.14ghz base clock, I almost got 4.44ghz stable base clock though, almost. but I'm pretty happy, 947 multi threaded and 196 single thread scores in cinebench, definitely worth it, I started out with like 805/170) but it's my first overclock, think it's not bad.
Cache and RAM are a pain in the neck to tweak though oh my fucking god.
The hardest part was finding the right aircooler that fit in my case.
Although I?m not sure what safe operating temps are, my idle temps go pretty high (~50°C) but my load temps hover around 75-83.
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I bet a lot of handyman type guys got very triggered watching this.
Also Jay, it's ok if you don't know how to make things look pretty, here's what you do: Go minimialist, and then just buy one potted plant (fake plant, you know, so you don't have to water it), and put it somewhere, and you're good, it looks great. Only other rule is that everything must have the same 1 or 2 (max 3) colors, except the potted plant, which can only be green.
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I believe that the problem with RTX, and why more developers don't implement it, is that it's Nvidia exclusive tech, this means it's extra work being done only for Nvidia card users, the AMD customers won't get to enjoy it even if they have cards powerful enough for it, and also, perhaps most damningly, it cannot work on any platform other than PC, and a lot of games get most of their players from consoles making it a wasted effort.
Additionally, further down the line in the future where we don't know if people might even end up gaming on integrated graphics (I mean AMD's integrated vega series was a pretty huge thing since it allows you to play a lot of games decently well already and I imagine this will only improve over time), there won't be any forwards compatibility with any such advances because of the nvidia exclusivity.
RTX is great technology. However making the software/engine end of things Nvidia exclusive as well is a huge fuckin mistake; what's more, it makes them look like complete jackasses, especially since AMD has a strong tendency to do the exact opposite and make all software solutions open (even going as far as open source a lot of the time) and not directly dependent on their own hardware (e.g. works on nvidia cards too).
As for DLSS, DLSS is also great technology but it is severely limited, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to implement, more of a pain in the ass to maintain said implementation and is potentially incompatible with modding (e.g. things like texture replacers or model replacers in particular, or new added content via mods; DLSS requires a deep learning AI to be trained to do the (honestly amazing) upscaling on a per-game basis and it needs to be accordingly retrained if any textures or models change or new content gets added, which is why I call it limited)
I understand how they like to advertise their cards at their best with DLSS enabled, but it's honestly misleading, the 3090 is not really an 8k capable card as they claim, it's only truly 4k capable, at least from the gamer's point of view, unless the game supports DLSS 2. Great thing to have, when you have it, but most of the time you probably won't have it.
These are no doubt impressive cards, but the way they implement RTX makes them look like morons, and the way they rely on DLSS to falsely advertise their cards as superior to what they actually are makes them actual assholes. The only saving grace is the more sane pricing strategy and elevated base performance. The nvidia exclusive tech is still, as always, a letdown in some way or another.
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True story:
I saw all the jokes about exiting vim in this video, so i fired up a terminal and typed vim. I thought "hmm, ok, i remember having had this problem sometimes in the past (looking at visudo in particular) let's see if i can figure this out"
I learned from the video u press esc to pick a mode, so i hit escape and q as a guess. Nothing
Tried a buncha things. Nothing.
Spammed Ctrl+C, and it tells me: Type :qa! and press <Enter> to abandon all changes and exit Vim.
I press qa, it does weird shit.
I hit esc, type :qa and hit enter, it gives me a bunch of errors and tells me to press enter to continue.
At this point i'm about ready to ragequit and just close the god damn terminal, but then i noticed something. There was an exclamation mark in :qa
So I hit esc, typed :qa! and hit enter, and vim closed.
Thanks to this video, I learned how to close vim. God help me if I want to do something else in vim.
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