So infuriating when you have some dickhead making themselves unfireable by intentionally convoluting the codebase and chasing out any other hire. And even worse when management bought into it and think the guy’s an actual irreplaceable genius.

Probably even believes it himself. I hate narcissists.

You’d have to assume so!

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“Washed” means to be played out, over the hill, past it. Uncool, no longer trendy, not part of the younger generation who are “with” it.

Not understanding the term “washed” therefore serves as proof that you are, in fact, washed.

Absolutely loved GameFAQs in the day.

I’ve just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it’s SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.

If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube playthroughs, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)

I guess the beefier your system is the less you will notice the impact of a greedy OS (because thats a fixed/absolute overhead) while the performance hit of having to translate directx through Proton will always be there (because that’s a percent-based overhead for each rendered frame)

So for the most top-end rigs, probably still Windows will squeeze a few more FPS. But it’s close.

At the end of the day Linux and Windows are both pretty comparable for gaming performance, so we shouldn’t worry about that as a deciding factor in which OS to choose, and can decide based on other merits.

On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.

The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.

Sure. But that’s intended to detect shorts caused by water, and water is a much worse electrical conductor than a piece of metal, and so less damaging in the time it takes to detect a short.

Even if phones have some level of protection, why risk damage when you could use something wooden or plastic and just not risk it at all?

As far as I understand, it’s purely marketing semantics.

The point of the ‘Turbo’ button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.

Calling this a “slow” mode or “compatibility” mode wasn’t very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed ‘Turbo’.

With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.

So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.

Thanks!

Seems like CCC may no longer be the best choice, but it is still a free choice, and the article doesn’t seem to suggest they are falsifying their data.

Good to know.

This custom SKU trick is also used by retailers to advertise “We’ll price match any other store!” when technically the only store who sells that exact SKU is them!

(Of course some retailers are genuine when they offer to price match, it’s not always a scam)

Do you have a source on that? I can’t find any mention of this from having a quick search just now.

It’s not in their interest for people to switch to something actually good that they will want to stay on, though.

This was never about security. That’s just the excuse.

This is about removing user freedom, and consolidating corporate control. This is about ensuring that every app and service you use is approved by the big G, and consumed in the way they want - with ads, with tracking, and with nothing you can do about it.

I appreciate him in panel 4 not wearing shoes indoors.

One word: Kewpie

Yes, that’s right. Steam can play windows-only games via Proton, which is the exact same thing they are doing on Steam Deck. Steam Deck is what really motivated a lot of work in this area, and why the situation is so good these days.

It sounds like you’ve already got plenty of Linux machines, so perhaps try it for yourself and see.

Not in my case, no. The content was completely custom to the organisation. I assume they were big enough that they felt like a lot of the risk would come from coordinated spearphishing carefully crafted to look like genuine corp email.

No mom, I’m gonna BE a girl for Christmas. puts on programming socks

For real! A course is work. If I’m working I get paid for my time. End of story.

Don’t let them rob you! (any more than they already are)