darcmage

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[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I don't think AMD (& Nvidia) care about GPU gaming market share when they'll be selling all the MI accelerators they can make using the same wafers at much higher profit margins.

As consumers, we're going to have to get used to getting mediocre offerings at inflated prices until the AI hype dies down or they find a way to use some of the other manufacturing nodes to make competitive GPUs.

I like what the Arc division has been doing lately, especially with Linux support. I am looking forward to what battlemage can bring to the table.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago (13 children)

We'll have to wait ~ 2 years since the next round of AMD cards are rumoured to be midrange cards. The Steves are right that if A.I is still as profitable for both AMD and Nvidia by then, expect prices to go up for any flagship. It wouldn't make any business sense not to.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Absolutely this. It is becoming increasingly rare to find a game that doesn't work in linux (excluding stupid copy protection/anti-cheat implementations). We haven't reached the works-out-of-the-box stage but the combination of proton-ge/wine-ge with lutris or heroic provides a solid alternative to games not on steam.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's great and all but if your experience was typical, Mozilla wouldn't have created webcompat.com and it wouldn't be as busy as it appears to be. We can probably work around such issues but I wouldn't expect non-techies to do the same.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Firefox has been my preferred browser since 0.9. But whenever I help set up a relative's or friend's computer, I always install chrome as the default browser. With the lack of adherence to web standards and most sites only testing against chrome, it just makes chrome/chromium the obvious choice if you don't want to deal with the occasional breakage.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think they're comparing chrome's user interface which, on a tablet, switches to a more desktop like interface with the tab bar instead of the tab counter. It is something I wish firefox would also implement but not a deal breaker.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Great ANC is still a premium feature that you'll pay a premium price for. But good ANC has made its way into the budget space and if you're willing to compromise on some features, you'll find some decent options. I usually pay attention to rtings reviews: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best/noise-cancelling-earbuds

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This was a major plot point in Doctorow's Bezzle that I just finished. It's depressing to see it happening in real life but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Voyager but keeping an eye on the development of Raccoon.

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