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Unsurprising. Drivers are better than they used to be, but some of them (Nvidia) have a long way to go in terms of optimization.

More importantly, however, is the complete lack of info the article provides about their testing methodology.

• They said they tested on SteamOS—ok, but it's not officially available on non-handheld devices. How did they install it? Did they use HoloISO? Did they install the version meant for handhelds on a desktop PC?

• How did they run the games? Directly through an embedded gamescope session like the Steam Deck, or through KDE Plasma, which has a compositor that can't be disabled on Wayland. Or, did they take the double hit and run gamescope as a window within Plasma?

• Speaking of Wayland, did they use Wayland or X? They have different performance characteristics, and it's not negligible.

• How many runs did they do? One-and-done, then record what the game said the average FPS was? Average of 5 runs? Were runs with outliers excluded and retested?

• Did they pre-run the scenes to ensure the assets were cached from the disk and the shader caches were available? Did they restart the system between games? Did they restart the system between runs?

And the way they present the results are also bad:

• They graph the FPS achieved by each platform, but they have absolutely no detail about the 1% or 0.1% lows—and at a sufficiently-high average FPS, these are what make the games feel slow and stuttery.

• What about frametime graphs and frame pacing information? If Linux can achieve more consistent pacing at 85% of the average FPS, it would still be a better experience than having the same frame being presented repeatedly because the game missed the vblank window.

• They didn't try multiple resolutions to identify where the bottlenecks are occuring in each game. If a game is CPU bottlenecked by their hardware choices, it's not a good comparison of GPU performance. Likewise, if it's GPU bottlenecked, it's not a good comparison for CPU performance.

You're giving way too much credit to the intelligence of the typical red state rural voter. They don't know they're fascist, they just like the convervative nationalist promises coming from the big man who tells them that their misfortune is the fault of the people even less fortunate than themselves.

It would be a mistake to assume the admin or an educated Trump supporter is merely stupid, though.

And native software.

Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating "apps" and PC "programs" that are little more than glorified web views. There's normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you're ruining the end-user experience.

They make entire SOCs. None of them are x86 because of the duopoly that Intel and AMD have thanks to their cross-licensing agreement, but they still have functional CPUs with a common ISA.

AMD: "Our partners will fry your expensive CPU on some boards."
INTEL: "Our software will fry your expensive CPU on all boards."

Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they're AMERICAN* cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.

* With the extra irony being that many of those "American" brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn't even headquartered anywhere in North America.

From the perspective of the Kohler toilet camera being the sender and the Kohler shit-reviewing service being the recipient, TLS can technically be end-to-end encryption. As long as the shit-reviewing server is doing the TLS termination itself—and not Cloudflare or a reverse proxy—that meets the definition insofar as only the two communicating parties having the ability to see the cleartext. That's assuming the server has disk encryption and no employee has access to it while the disk is unlocked.

Kohler calling it E2EE is still disingenuous as fuck regardless of my above hypothetical, however.

they exist, in large part, because articles like this normalize it

This complaint is missing the forest for trees.

Special classes of people have existed for as long as civilization has exited. Leaders and followers, kings and peasants, the wealthy and the poor, etc. As animals, it's in the nature of some of us to desire a greater share of resources and luxury at the cost of depriving others from having the same.

An article repeating the notion of people with specific skin tones are part of a privileged class isn't the problem, it's just a symptom of the problem. The problem is the bigots who put that into practice, singling out and causing problems for people with specific tones while providing benefits to those with other specific tones. Getting rid of public acknowledgement about class disparity isn't going to get rid of class disparity, it's just going to get rid of discussion about class disparity. The racists will still be there, being racist.

The only way that username would check out is either if it was owned by a pushy and holier-than-thou social progressive with zero self-awareness, a conservative with a small world view that feels "owning the libs" is a personality trait, or a troll.

Now, considering your account was created on this platform two days ago, just called the resident population of Lemmy stupid, and drink whatever kool-aid Musk is selling, it's a toss-up between the last two.

The University of Oklahoma Trans Instructor's Suspension Shows “Freedom of Speech” Only Applies to Conservatives

Conservatives hide behind 'free speech' to hurt others. They take it away when it hurts them.

No shit. That's been conservatism's selling point for the past 50 years.

Much like Musk himself, it seems.

I'll never understand the anti medicine POV from some of the rich.

Sure you will. Just look at their investments and what businesses they have stakes in.

It's a lot more pricy to perpetually treat people for symptoms than to cure the of the underlying cause, and when the healthcare system is "pay up or die," the odds are that they'll make a tidy profit.