I wouldn’t say I was friends with Windows. It’s more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.

I mean, you wouldn’t actually want to eat what you saw in the ad. Meat painted with wood varnish to make it shiny, cardboard spacers between layers of a burger to make it stand up more, white paint in the thick shakes, etc.

Weird that Epstein committed suicide just before he was let go due to lack of evidence.

Why do payment processors have to be concerned with age ratings at all?

That poor efficiency isn’t even compared to a modern heat pump, either. In terms of heat output vs energy consumption, they can be up to 400% efficient.

If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well.

This, but unsarcastically. It’s 2025 and people are still buying huge 4WD diesels to drive through the city to the office.

Common wildlife species also weren’t designed by art and marketing people to be visually distinct and easy to recognise.

FYI, there’s a modern Descent-like game called Overload.

It has VR support.

Fun fact: Overload supports VR.

It didn’t make me motion sick, so I’m confident nothing ever will.

As we saw with Intel GPUs performance isn’t even the main issue, it’s the drivers. How many games will run on it without crashing or having bizarre performance problems?

Put a strip of tape across the top of the screen.

You don’t understand: when they say truthful, they mean agrees with Trump.

Granted, he disagrees with himself constantly when he doesn’t just produce a word salad so this is harder than it should be, but it’s somewhat doable.

The problem it solves might not be a problem for anybody but Google. They might be trying to build their own OS to put on future devices.

You should probably know that ‘trolling is a art form’ is kind of a meme, because the statement itself has an obvious language error in it that people feel the need to correct.

Trolling is a art form.

Vulkan was the successor to AMD’s Mantle API from 2013, though. Metal wasn’t first.

They do seem to alternate between making MacOS graphics worse and wondering why nobody’s making games for MacOS.

Management seem to think that desktop Mac has the same market share that iPhone does and keep wondering why throwing their weight around isn’t working.

Not an expert, but I’ll give it a shot. That way someone will speak up to correct me. 🐸

With an AMD GPU on Linux, you’ve got your kernel amdgpu driver which talks to the hardware, loads firmware, etc.

Sitting on top of that is Mesa, which provides an opengl and vulkan driver. Your application talks to the opengl driver which talks to the kernel driver which talks to the hardware.

Windows has it’s own graphics stack, which has video card drivers and DirectX drivers.

Metal is Apple’s proprietary Vulkan knock-off, which seems to exist to force game devs to write games that only run on MacOS. This hasn’t really worked.

Magma seems to be about inserting a layer between the kernel driver and Mesa, so you can use Mesa OpenGL drivers on top of Magma on Windows kernel drivers? That’s not really something most people are looking to do.

It doesn’t need to be secure, they fire anyone who removes someone else’s lock.

The whites are whiter, too. This guy would approve.