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I'd say it's deserved, not FUD. Nvidia did improve in some ways, but it's still way too heavy into blob even in case you plan to use it in the future with nvk. Nouveau / nova developers explained that Nvidia pushed a lot more into their firmware than AMD, turning the kernel driver into more of a shim than an actual driver. That's already a big downside.

A lot of people still use X11 over Wayland because Wayland is said to have much worse input lag

Wayland is fine. People should use AMD and KDE Plasma.

I'd avoid Nvidia to begin with.

Exactly. Let them sell games on GOG DRM-free. You buy it, it's yours as long as you back it up. No one stops you from storing it on any physical media you want. Just use an HDD.

When things on the other are presented as rent only, it's very bad.

Why not on floppy disks.

Apple will never care about what users want, they only do what Apple want. If you want to free anything, don't use Apple. It's an obvious lesson that should have been learned a long time ago.

Nice. Good to know that Tor books are DRM-free.

Does it work with US networks?

To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.

Releasing source code for games (including server part) should help.

I don't care much what it says as in "fix", "chore" etc, but for me the main benefit is breaking changes indicated with "<type>!", something like "feat!: ... ".

This makes neovim plugin manager highlight the change differently which brings attention to it when you update stuff.

So please do use it instead of complaining!

I do like the suggestion of

scope!: ...

if it will be treated the same way with breaking changes reactions.

+ Long live Linux Desktop!

Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously.

But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them this way in the past, but they should be renewed.

I wouldn't trust it to have good upstream support. It's Nvidia. So not really interested.

It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s

There should be a stronger push to fight these trolls. AOM has enough resources to bust their garbage patents and make them pay damages for patent racketeering. At least until software patents are banned for good.

No one can predict patent trolls - they can surface at any time randomly. But there should be a more organized fight against them. I assume AOM should be backing that.

Because they have nothing to do with AV1, they simply want to leech on it. It's fitting to call them a patent troll.

I'd classify any patent racketeer as a troll. Dolby has nothing to do with AV1, they just want a parasitic rent on it. Whether the troll actually does anything else besides the trolling part isn't really relevant.

AMD added AV1 encoding only in later SoCs though. Next Steam Deck will have both.

Even better, software patents should not be allowed in the first place.

Hopefully their patents will be busted and preferably Dolby will be also forced to pay damages for filing invalid lawsuits. That's the only way to teach patent trolls proper lessons.

Good to know, thanks. I should try it with vim.pack for local repos.

That's fine and not anything new for codecs, they always take a long time before mass adoption.

Take a look at AV1 itself, you can't even say it's really ubiquitous on all hardware. It's quite well along in adoption compared to early days, but some mobile devices are still lacking hardware acceleration for it.

Congrats!

How is the case of fighting off Dolby's patent racketeering going? They tried to attack Snapchat for using AV1.

Can it work with file://?

It's been the year of the Linux desktop for a while. Someone has been sleeping under a rock.

100%. And that psychosis translates into kafkian level of bureaucratic absurdity and stupidity, especially when real motives are masked under pretense of something rational which it is not.

Dumb bureaucracy with dumb requirements will be met with corresponding response.

ntsync was out already for a while. And it's not necessarily faster than previously available esync and fsync, but it's more correct and clean.

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