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  • Recommendations for a source code hosting service

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  • Having a web UI is useful even if you're not using the extra tools. Not mandatory of course, but nice.

  • Australian politician Gareth Ward found guilty of rape

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  • He also won re-election running as an independent, well after the rape charges were known and he was kicked out of his party and suspended from parliament. But that wasn't enough for the people of his electorate to go: "Err maybe this rapist isn't the best option to represent us."

  • Rate my Build: Long time since a hardware upgrade, and finally making the jump to Linux

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  • I'd probably get the 9070 XT over the 7080 XT, just for full performance FSR4 (there's some compatibility with it on Linux, but it's slower). Maybe even the non-XT model for the same reason.

    I feel like you might be able to do better price wise on the RAM, although I'm not up to date on current prices for DDR5.

    EDIT: I see you have an itx case, so maybe that limits your GPU options a bit.

  • Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS is Taking over (ProtonDB data)

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  • The sandboxing sometimes breaks applications or requires additional configuration. And I don't like that it's a separate thing I need to maintain, although some package managers pair main package updates etc together.

    And as a NixOS user, I prefer to use nix to handle as much of my system as possible, although flatpak at least is useful as a fallback in a pinch. Of course, this is a niche within a niche and mainstream users, particularly those using immutable distros can and do benefit from flatpak.

  • ‘Japanese First’ party emerges as election force with tough immigration talk

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  • "Globalism" invariably means some sort of conspiracy theory, usually about Jews. Given this party are also anti-vaxxers, that's the most plausible conclusion.

    And a broader coalition among the rest of the Western countries including Europe and Australia/NZ etc makes more sense than duplicating effort in every country.

  • Texan Moved Fam to Russia to Flee Woke—Now He’s Headed to Ukraine Front Line

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  • And even if they could, it wouldn't save them, as being "one of the good ones" does nothing to prevent deportation or worse.

  • OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'

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  • I'm guessing it's the AI agent stuff. Which at the moment is literally just automating browsing through a website.

    Apparently there will be APIs to do this in the future. Ironically, AI wouldn't even be needed for that to be useful.

  • More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver

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  • Valve is one of the main contributors to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and a bunch of other parts of Mesa and the open driver stack in general.

  • More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver

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  • I should probably add that some of this work is on RDNA3 FSR4 support, which isn't even supported on Windows. It's not amazingly fast, but it's now faster than native and that might be enough to make it worth it (especially in the cases where it improves image quality due to poor TAA implementations).

  • KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead

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  • mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that's unlikely to happen due to DRM.

  • Ntsync x Fsync on Wayland - 5 games comparison

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  • It's main benefit is compatibility. As you said fsync is a hack and can cause issues with some games and applications.

    The other benefit is more about packaging and the like, in that you won't have to deal with third party patches. Not an issue if you're using Proton but can be if you're using vanilla Wine.

  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • Neither Reddit nor Lemmy are monoliths. Yes, some are likely being hypocritical, but it's also likely that there isn't much overlap between those that were critical of Nvidia's FG and not of LSFG. I say this because there is still a lot of people shitting on FG in general, whether it's justified or not.

  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • Another useful use case is that the tool works on videos with mpv to interpolate to a higher frame rate. I know that subjectively not everyone likes that for film, but for footage that doesn't rely on sets and the like such as sport and Youtube videos it's a nice improvement.

    In terms of quality vs performance, I'd say it's somewhere between the lower quality SVP default and the higher quality (but very resource intensive) RIFE implementation. There's also LSFG_PERF_MODE=1 and decreasing the flow rate, but the former was a pretty obvious decline in quality, but might be needed on slower GPUs.

    EDIT: Another piece of advice I'll give is to set PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 if you're trying to run a 32-bit game, as there isn't a 32-bit build for lsfg-vk at the moment. The env above allows 32-bit games to use 64-bit dependencies, provided it's a Windows game and you use a recent version of Proton (Experimental and likely Proton GE 10 or greater).

  • GE-Proton10-9 Released

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  • Your kernel must be patched with ntsync patches. If your system does not have /dev/ntsync then your kernel does not have the patches required to use ntsync.

    It might also be compiled as a module, but not loaded by default.

    sudo modprobe ntsync can be used to test this.

  • RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fear

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  • It's at least partly eugenics, which is a common undercurrent in the anti-vaccine movement. Remove healthcare altogether and only the "strongest" will survive.

  • Installed an Intel Arc B580 GPU today

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  • Intel provides solid Linux support, I’d say it’s probably on par with AMD.

    I'd say in the long run yes, but they tend to be slower at adding features compared to AMD (which tends to be where all of the experimental stuff happens first). Or rather that AMD cards are often the first target for Mesa developers, which includes the likes of Valve.

  • Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?

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  • I go even further and set the proportion to 100%, since ZSTD compresses so well (and the % is based on uncompressed usage).

    There are theoretically some cases where zram can be harmful, but in general I find it works reliably.

  • lsfg-vk aims to bring Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux

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  • DXVK Release Version 2.7

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  • A bit of a downside is that the minimum driver requirements are pretty aggressive at the moment, so people could be stuck using WineD3D without realising it. But I suppose crashing isn't really much better. And people who play games should use a distribution that moves pretty quickly in general.