DacoTaco

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Thanks pihole!

(Also, hibernate > sleep imo )

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

God damn you big gay al

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Was it? I got it on my first try because i convinced half the duegar to work with me, then forced them to go away haha

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

I asked around with friends after i posted my comment and they said the same. Thank god i wanted to talk to everyone before progressing in the story haha

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Good idea. Let me disable it and see what breaks! ( i have firefox and inbrowser installed on lineageos )

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Ive been using podman on my nas, and i like it.
It has its issues, but knowing your containers dont run as root just makes me feel more at ease. I dont really understand why a docker should run as root, if the software in the container often run as their own user…

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Ive been wondering what stops people to mod their phone for wireless charging

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Warlock: hey guess what guys, im using eldrich blast!

And then its the wizard’s turn…

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

The released fairphone 4 in the us comes with a special os, not based on android iirc.i think it was to test the waters.
What i am curious about is wether they can be reflashed to run lineageOS

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

If it has that bad of a cpu affinity, and barely using 4 threads, i wonder why its hitting 100% on my 4 core 4th gen i5 and it has 47 threads… :')

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

Why should it? It runs 60fps at ease with a better system And no, not a typo (Trying to add a screenshot, but liftoff is acting weird)

DacoTaco, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Im a developer, and ive written a thread scheduler for an os, i know what threads are :‘)
The game has 47 threads, which you can verify in task manager. What you are thinking of is how many threads the cpu can process in parallel, which is indeed 4 on my cpu and nowhere before was it said you were talking about cpu “cores” ( or cpu threads like you call them )

However, like i said, the game runs perfectly on my system and my friends’ so the engine and windows seem to balance the priority and timings of those 47 threads just nicely here, even past act 2, and i dont see why it would need to use more cpu cores to process… Nothing. Adding more threads and using more cpu cores does not always mean faster processing of data…

DacoTaco, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Look, this is the last time ill reply to you because weve deviated far from the original topic.

There is only 1 definition of a thread. A thread is a piece of code that is executed on a processor, and which contains the state of a processor and its registers ( where in memory it was executing, memory locations, stack, state of the function it was executing,… ). Which thread gets executed is for the operating system to decide depending on several things ( priority or affinity as its called in windows , type of thread, what layer of the os requests time etc etc ).

Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)

There is , at its core, no such thing as a “cpu thread”. This is marketting speak to indicate how much threads a cpu can processes at the same time. Depending on the operating system’s scheduler, the processor and the type of instruction it needs to process, a cpu could processes 16 threads at the same time on a 8 core/16thread cpu so its constantly using everything of a cpu. However, if 2 or more threads are doing similar instructions it is possible a thread has to wait for the other to process despite them not having anything to do with each other. Thats on the processor’s scheduler to decide btw.

Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

Adding more threads to the os’ thread queue isnt magically going to make things faster. Take a look at dolphin’s thread and core usage. They have ( used to?) be against adding more threads to the emulator because it made 0 sense to do so, despite some games running slow. This resulted in dolphin at one point using 2 cores 100% on a quad core cpu, while 2 were doing nothing. Just because adding threads that would 90% of the time do nothing was a waste of resources and processing time.

Source : …dolphin-emu.org/Thread-multi-thread-explanation

I have a feeling you dont understand how this stuff works, as you have given me nothing of proof, details or anything of how any of this works. Have you profiled the game? Checked gpu busy vs cpu busy? Looked beyond the cpu % usage? Checked on different hardware?

DacoTaco, 8 months ago

No, i claimed the game’s process has 47 threads.

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

To be fair, compared to systems outside of the us, all of it is “right wing”. To me, the us is just capitalism to the extreme which, just like socialism’s extreme ( communism ) is fucking terrible.

So whatever you do in the us, youre fucked…

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

Is it me or does millard fillmore look like somebody from the present day. Cant put a name on it, but he looks… Familiar

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

Die anon.

( those on 4chan back in the day will remember the hate)

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

There are 2 sides to the discussion of arm imo. On the arm side you have the pros of :

• big companies still using their design licenses, for example mobile phones
• with apple making their own soc based on arm, we could see the general computing landscape move away from x86 based computing ( including x64 ) and into arm
• the single board computing world ( think raspberry pi, quartz64,… ) has moved onto arm with the popularity of the raspberry pi
• low power usage
• some data centers ( like aliexpress’ ) have moved towards arm cpus

On the RISC V side the pros are :

• low power usage
• arm as a company has become a bit toxic. I know somebody that worked for arm and left because of the office environment
• despite people shouting “RISC is the future” since the early 90’s, there have been development on the platform recently, mainly a few development boards and single board computers being made and released that are RISC V based and are at decent price.

This is just my knowledge of the discussion, and its a very high level one imo. Feel free to reply and educate me on the subject, specially the RISC V side

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

… Except this team has had linux running since the m1, which was way before last year :p

But i agree, its been moving fast

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

Ye, youre overthinking it. Gameboy cartridges are basically 32 contacts to a memory controller (if any) and a rom/ram chip. Nothing more, nothing less

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

And to add : if the handshake fails, or no common voltage can be decided, it will stay at 5v

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

I am a usb-pd believer. My phone, laptop, soldering iron, … All usb type-c with usb-pd capability, all running from my laptop charger that can do 5,12,19 and 20v

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

Pine64’s pinecil v2 actually. But it uses the same tip as miniware’s soldering irons.

Cant help with powerbank though haha

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

No, this is correct. The switch and adaptor use voltages that arent standard to the usb-pd protocol. However, using the adaptor on your phone should be fine as both need to accept the voltages before it switches

DacoTaco, 9 months ago

Oh, the “pools closed” memories…