And the response of staff at the temple was to take a video and post it on Facebook? That’s kinda upsetting.

The headline is a little misleading.

As I understand it, they haven’t retroactively removed the HEVC capability from any devices that already shipped with it enabled.

Rather, they have stopped including it in new ones of the same model or in certain new models, even though those machines still have CPUs which have the capability built in for it.

This has resulted in e.g. businesses buying a laptop which works fine for conference calls and other stuff, then buying another laptop the “exact same” and suddenly it’s nerfed.

You’d have to assume so!

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.

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.

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.

Steam is absolutely the EASIEST way to run games on Linux.

It abstracts Wine, Proton and all the other dependencies so you don’t have to think about it much.

You just install it, download and play exactly the same as you would on Windows.

There is also Heroic launcher, which is a similarly streamlined experience for Gog. (And Epic and Prime Games, if you’re into those)

Why are you commenting on a post you think has nothing to do with you, then?

But let me say this; corporations becoming increasingly emboldened to replace people with AI, disregard accessibility concerns, and make ethically bankrupt purchasing decisions without any consequence is something that perhaps should concern you, regardless of whether the company’s output is of relevance to your interests or not.

Hot take, I know.

Personally I saw a very noticeable improvement in battery life after turning it off.

Just get it done and don’t look back

It is innovation.

Just for the company, not for you.

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

It’s really interesting when you think about that.

In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.

Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.

I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.

This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.

Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.

Why are we changing the default SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.

More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.

I haven’t even tried it yet, but just from the video you can tell it’s going to be insanely good. I’m so impressed.

It’s the first bit of software I’ve seen in a long time where I took one look and immediately thought “Fuck me, I need that!”

I use Unraid for my NAS server and just on the off-chance I checked the Unraid community ‘app store’ and someone’s already created a Docker definition for it, published just today! The hype is real

I’ll be giving this a shot

Can claim “It even works with browsers from the future!”

Dynamic range and loudness normalisation are surely the main reason people are using subtitles, but habits are undeniably also changing too, as is the way people consume media in general.

People don’t just look at the TV for an hour straight - they are doing other things, or second-screening, or having conversations, and multiple methods being available to pick up on the show dialog is helpful.

Let’s not forget simple reasons like accessibility, either. My friend here in the UK is Hungarian, and despite being completely fluent in English he always likes to watch shows with subtitles as it helps with understanding some British accents which can be tricky for non-natives.

And people just process information in different ways. We’ve all heard by now that some individuals can be visually oriented, while other people are aural. If you get a choice, why not take it?

Not to mention that subs on streaming services are much better visual quality and timing than subs on broadcast TV used to be, which felt nasty and mis-timed, and very second-class. Clearly ‘good enough’ for hard of hearing individuals but not very pleasant.

I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that as accessibility features get better and more available, more people will use them. And accessibility is for everyone.

Yep. My Dad in his late 70s uses this system and it works great for him.

People make fun of it, but for people with low tech literacy this is actually far better than having a mish-mash of solutions where some their logins end up automatically saved in iOS on their phone, some are saved in Chrome on the desktop, some are just in their head, they don’t know where anything is, and are constantly losing access and resetting credentials all the time.

And it definitely reduces the burden on me of parental tech support, when its all in the book.

Same with me, and a few people who call me ‘Tira’

I am perfectly happy to have it that way - just like OP suggested it’s a nice separation. And while I have nothing against my given name and actually quite like it, Tira is a name I chose for myself.