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I’ve heard something about Apple Silicon GPUs being tile-based and not immediate mode, which means the Vulkan API is different compared to regular PCs. How has this been addressed in the Vulkan driver?
I’ve heard something about Apple Silicon GPUs being tile-based and not immediate mode, which means the Vulkan API is different compared to regular PCs. How has this been addressed in the Vulkan driver?
Huge fucking deal, especially for Nvidia users, but it is great for the entire ecosystem. Other OSes have had explicit sync for ages, so it is great for Linux to finally catch up in this regard.
You’re correct. While the stable version of KDE Wayland is usable right now with the new driver with no flickering issues, etc., it technically does not have the necessary patches needed for explicit sync. Nvidia has put some workarounds in the 555 driver code to prevent flickering without explicit sync, but they’re slower code paths.
The AUR has a package called kwin-explicit-sync, which is just the latest stable kwin with the explicit sync patches applied. This combined with the 555 drivers makes explicit sync work, finally solving the flickering issues in a fast performant way.
I’ve tested with both kwin and kwin-explicit-sync and the latter has dramatically improved input latency. I am basically daily driving Wayland now and it is awesome.
I love Nextcloud Talk, but my biggest annoyance with it is that text chats don’t properly scroll to the bottom when new messages come in.
No port forwarding though :(
I used to use Mullvad but after they disabled port forwarding I switched over to Proton.
They’re at different layers of the audio stack though so not really replacing.
I’ve been using it for years and now I basically can’t live without it. I consider OpenWrt compatibility in all of my router purchases. Currently using a Netgear R7800 and a Belkin RT3200, both are going strong.
It isn’t as widely used because it can be finicky to flash sometimes, and that’s if it’s even compatible in the first place. Even if it works, you may experience a drop in performance unless OpenWrt supports using the routers hardware acceleration features. If there’s no support, OpenWrt basically uses the onboard CPU to do routing and they’re usually not all that powerful.
Yeah it’s literally free marketing for them and they’re crushing the community.
It’s a native app on Windows and Mac?
Yeah I am getting this offset bug as well. It works if you enable the native window frame in the Customize settings though, but I do miss having my tabs at the very top of the window.
Does it have any features missing in the open driver?
You can see the differences in the official README here: https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/550.54.14/README/kernel_open.html
The main difference for me is the inability to preserve video memory during suspend and hibernate. Without it, sleep and hibernate will cause all sorts of weird graphical glitches upon resume.
God, it’s like they don’t want RCS to succeed.
I am so happy power-profiles-daemon now sets the CPU driver instead of only setting the platform_driver when it is present. It was a big pain point of mine.
Definitely not necessary. If that was the case, it wouldn’t live up to it’s claims of being a transparent Docker replacement at all. I think you do need to use systemd if you want to go full rootless, but I haven’t tried it enough to make a solid call on that.
But yeah, with the above steps, I’ve moved seamlessly over to Podman for my self hosting stack and I’ve never looked back. It’s also great because I can take literally any Docker Compose I find on the Internet and it will most likely just work.
You can avoid a lot of trouble by running the containers as root and using network=host
Root yes, but you can avoid network=host most of the time pretty easily. I am still struggling with going rootless myself tbh.
Have you tried it with podman-docker? I’ve basically switched my entire self-hosting stack onto podman without much issue using that compatibility layer.
It does. You probably did not enable docker.service
to start on boot.
God the sound design in Alyx was insanely good. I felt like I was legitimately in City 17 and it was terrifying. It was a really good showcase of what Steam Audio can do.
Seriously. I really hope this allows Ken to get some additional developers onboard. Dude sounds like he’s shouldering a ton of responsibility at the moment.
Yeah, in a Reddit comment, Hector Martin himself said that the memory bandwidth on the Apple SIlicon GPU is so big that any potential performance problems due to TBDR vs IMR are basically insignificant.
…which is a funny fact because I had another Reddit user swear up and down that TBDR was a big problem and that’s why Apple decided not to support Vulkan and instead is forcing everyone to go Metal.