Vash63

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[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 104 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We are now at the point where lobbying looks like a moral option compared to this shit

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They could close everything except the kernel and maybe a few libraries here and there. The Linux kernel alone does not exactly get you close to having an Android distribution.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uh... Obviously? When people talk about wafers coming out of a foundry they're talking about processed ones...

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You have a point if you're talking about Dems as a whole, but both Sanders and AOC have been pushing to stand up since the beginning. They are definitely not on the list of people sitting by the sidelines and letting it happen.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's looking increasingly like a big "if", unless you mean a Russian style election.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's not known either way yet, but unless they offloaded it to a separate firmware like Nvidia or Intel, it's not possible for them to do in Linux due to HDMI patents. The way the other vendors avoided this is to use a separate component that does everything internally, so none of the code is in the drivers. AMD doesn't do that historically, and thus can only support such features with closed source drivers/OS.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Will it? They'll just say it's Biden's fault and enough people will buy it to prevent an organized protest.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, if you can get a 50 series card at MSRP then do, the scalping sucks but otherwise it's still a slight perf/€ win over 40 series.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, AMDVLK is also a user space driver. You're confusing it with AMDGPU, which is a kernel module.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I don't think AMDVLK is even installed by default with Fedora. It can definitely be installed, but there's not much reason to as it's a really bad Vulkan driver.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The default driver used by Fedora is RADV. Steam/Proton does not choose your Vulkan driver. That's why your games run well - you aren't using the one made by AMD.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

You're missing my point. AMD's official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You're almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

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