AirBreather

That’s beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.

Real https://xkcd.com/567 vibes

all numbers are imaginary

It’s more complex than that

Have you checked out Bottles before?

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles

I haven’t used it myself in forever, but IIRC this was another bigger attempt at this kind of thing.

Yes, all of that, PLUS the impacts of this very related news which will make the impact even worse:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers

not NVK

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

edit: oh I see, nvidia-utils is still a closed thing and the only alternative is Zink/NVK unless you go back to nouveau. I got it confused with something else. carry on

Hard no, with an Nvidia GPU you absolutely should go for a distro like Bazzite to avoid the driver headache.

I switched to AMD for my own use a long time ago because of how this used to be the case, so I can’t verify this for myself, but… these days, isn’t that no longer an issue for anyhing newer than Turing? I see RTX 3060 TI in there, which should be fully supported by the open-source drivers that NVIDIA themselves recommend for that hardware, no?

Again, I could be wrong since I haven’t had direct personal experience with it since the days when I DO know that your statement accurately reflected the NVIDIA GPU + Linux driver situation.

https://jabde.com/2025/10/24/bark-direction-and-ranging-barkdar-a-barko-location-method-for-neighborhood-threat-surveillance

If shaders don’t get preprocessed, then a lot of the same work has to happen later, it just shows up as a seemingly random frame that takes particularly long to render.

(edit to add:) or a section where some of the rendering doesn’t look quite right initially, if they do asynchronous rendering.

In the limit, the sum of all these delays can add up to the same amount of time that the preprocessing WOULD have taken, but you also don’t necessarily use every shader every time you play every game, so YMMV.

JPEG also supports lossless compression.

Technically, the spec does require it, but given that we’re in a thread about ecosystem support for a file format that’s approaching its 15th birthday, it’s worth considering how many image viewers will actually be able to work without the DCT step that is the essence of what typical JPEG does.

I don’t have a Windows machine handy to test, but it’s entirely possible that maybe lossless JPEG won’t display in its default viewer.

Apples unite them all

I think you may have whooshed: this person was pointing out a “th” that slipped through.

Updated title is now:

Japan’s PM Ishiba denies talk he will quit following election drubbing

Na

127.69.420

127.69420

127.42069

The “only 800mb of free RAM” was a reference to how much Windows was consuming before the switch to Linux

Wait, this is a memes community… crap…

Uh… I mean…

Haha funny

False. The speed of causality is also c, so you would only have the extremely small interval of time represented by the difference between c and the speed of light in whatever not-total-vacuum exists between the Sun and Earth. Not 8 minutes.

I’ll figure it out

FOSTA-SESTA is at the heart of it, as I understand. I don’t want to elaborate much more because I don’t know nearly enough about the situation, but adding this search term helped make it make a little bit of sense to me.

Edit: not that I’m lumping these different ideas together, but that the prudish folks could theoretically use this legal framework to throw allegations that Visa/MasterCard would rather not have to defend against.