LaggyKar

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

They're also generally lower quality

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A big blocker that the article surprisingly doesn't talk about is tons of IoT stuff that uses 2G and 3G. Stuff like alarm systems, emergency phones, street light control, cars etc. Here in Sweden there was recently a report that thousands of elevators have emergency phones using 2G and 3G, and if the network is shut down you would no longer be allowed to use those elevators. And since 2018 all new cars in the EU has to have eCall, which alerts emergency services on a crash. Many of these use 2G and 3G, and if it stops working the car won't pass inspection so you'll no longer be allowed to drive it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not even that, there are multiple languages spoken in the same region. Webpages should just use the language the browser tells it to use.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago (5 children)

A robot doesn't need to be anthropomorphic, an assembly line robot is still a robot. It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it says so in the first paragraph

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Still doesn't allow background playback though, so it's useless to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think there has ever been a PPU on the GPU. It did originally run on PPU cards by Ageia, but AFAIK PhysX on GPU:s used CUDA GPGPU right from the start.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Mirror's Edge actually had a place with tons of broken glass falling down, where the framerate would drop into the single digits if it used CPU PhysX. I remember that because it shipped with an outdated PhysX library that would run on the CPU even though I had an Nvidia GPU, so I had to delete the game's PhysX library to force it to use the version from the graphics driver, in order to get it to playable performance. If you didn't have an Nvidia driver you would need to disable PhysX for that segment to be playable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Though that's not where you would use HDMI. I would argue for TV:s, 4k is generally enough, and HDMI 2.1 already has enough bandwidth for 4k 120 Hz 12 bit-per-color uncompressed.

But DisplayPort, yeah, that could use a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

One thing that you do still need root for however is proper backups. The built-in backup system is tied to Google, and it's very limited in what it will back up, nowhere near what you can do with root backup software like Titanium Backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

A normal copy consists of a program reading from one file and writing to another. There is no way for the filesystem to do a reflink in that case, it just sees that the program is reading and writing stuff. In order to do a reflink, the program must tell the filesystem what data should be "copied" to where using FICLONE or FICLONERANGE. Though some programs will do that by default if possible nowadays when copying files or when moving files between different subvolumes on the same partition, including the Coreutils cp, mv and install commands and some GUI file managers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, using KDE Connect, which has had this functionality for ages. Though you're best off using the F-Droid version since Google has severely limited the Play Store version using SAF. Seems like they've they've given Microsoft a pass here even though they've blocked KDE Connect from doing the exact same thing for years.

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