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phd in branch predicting, ceo of euro gaming

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pervognsen, to random
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Leaving for the airport in about 12 hours for a long flight to Denmark. Looks like summer has come early there, too.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen good luck, having tested again recently it turns out it's still a real long way. I can also confirm it's quite warm and pleasant. At least on this side of the pond.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen dubai airport really takes nightmare to the furthest possible extent, so you gotta respect it for that. the capitalist franz kafka airport

dotstdy, to random
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One huge benefit of no longer being in the world of the Intel iGPU is now we have actual profiling tools! (please ignore the fact that sway cannot deal with display scale and xwayland apps)

huge shout out to all the people who worked on making RGP et al actually work on RADV.

❯ MESA_VK_TRACE=rgp MESA_VK_TRACE_FRAME=20 cargo run --release

dotstdy, to random
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whos got the tldr on doing non-shitty color stuff in game. tia :')

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen Mostly about the mechanics of putting things together. E.g. pipeline, formats to use, etc. Like as I understand it the hotness seems to be something akin to...

render to f32 rgb -> ??? -> display transform (agx, tony mc map face) -> ??? -> swapchain.

kind of the "minimum viable color pipeline" (obviously the actual minimum viable is just convert to srgb and voila, but I figure if I'm writing the shaders anyway I may as well do it in a nice way)

dotstdy, to random
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It's kind of dumb that you're can't disable xwayland scaling with sway. If you enable desktop scaling it shits all over your xwayland apps. And if you don't enable it you don't get scaling for wayland ones. PITA

dotstdy,
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As is common in wayland it seems that support for anything like this is tied up because people are trying to solve the ultimate mega version of the problem which fixes mixing outputs of different scales, and fractional scaling, and proper scaling of xwayland applications. And has been tied up for at least the last 5 years or so. :)

pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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How much RAM do you have in your dev workstation/laptop?

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen 64 in my big machine at home, 128 in my workstation at work, and 16 in my new laptop, which I'm unsure how much I will regret.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @foonathan The real question is how bad does it make it feel when you go to link it and 127 cores go idle :D

pervognsen, to random
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Wow, hands-on communication with the founders! I feel so special as a prospective customer. It's definitely not because the founders are the only employees.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen at EUROGAMING HQ we're committed to never hiring anybody to ensure your support requests always go straight to the top

dotstdy, to random
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Ah it's very nice when you report an issue on an open source tracker and an actual engineer from the HW vendor replies within a few hours. :) ofc you sometimes get the IDGAF about linux crickets too, but when it works it works.

dotstdy, to random
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Friendly reminder for those setting up a new Linux PC to go change the dumb as dogshit faillock default configuration from "3 failed password attempts = 10 minute lockout". it's /etc/security/faillock.conf you're welcome

dotstdy, to random
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wrong type of performance strikes again! at least it's not as bad as networking https://larian.com/careers/a4899495-d090-4c75-99b6-e5daf950a2e1

wolfpld, to random
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Gnome and window decorations, again.

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-408

dotstdy,
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@wolfpld gnome fails aside, wow they actually fork and save for non blocking save snapshots. That's pretty cool.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @wolfpld one thing I'm curious about is how that interacts with like, the GPU driver and everything else. Maybe they have a separate process for gameplay? Or maybe that just works and I'm overthinking it.

dotstdy, to random
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Actually, according to the Unix philosophy, I do have to shell out to mv if I want to move a file.

rovarma, to random
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The filesystem APIs on Linux remind me of Vulkan in a way. There's all these little low-level bits and bobs that can be used to build anything, but there's not a convenience function in sight, so everybody ends up implementing the exact same things in slightly different ways.

Sometimes a guy just wants to move a file to a different location, ya know?

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @rovarma @molecularmusing exec("mv {from} {to}");

Checkmate atheists, submits, goes to the pub.

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @rovarma @molecularmusing error handling is for nerds I'm a 10x programmer I don't have time for that shit

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @rovarma @molecularmusing tbh I wasn't really sure if mv was a weird shell thing or an actual program, so you might need to launch bash first and pass through the command 🤔🤔🤔

dotstdy,
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@pervognsen @rovarma @molecularmusing right good point.

let mv = env::get_var("MV").or("mv");
exec("{mv} {from} {to}"};

dotstdy, to random
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Ah interesting, in a rather big fail from ASUS, they don't enable CPPC in the BIOS for Zen4 platforms. Apparently AMD has poked ASUS but no new bios release yet. :')

dotstdy, to random
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It's funny, the issue with my Intel machine is that the GPU is extremely under-powered. So if you draw too much stuff it drops to 10fps. However, in my new laptop I have the inverse problem. It's impossible to get the GPU to stay in a high power state if you're not drawing enough stuff. And it's terrible at managing its power level. So I can't get stable 120Hz in the easy case where the Intel GPU did just fine. :) AMD power management, what a wild ride.

dotstdy,
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On the more positive side, the CPU absolutely slaps in this machine. My debug build time is about 2s on here, which roughly matches the 5950x in my big machine.

dotstdy,
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Maybe the play here is to roleplay steam deck and add button to manually control GPU clocks. :') Or perhaps you can even just set the min clock a bit higher so it doesn't get bogged in these little gpu frequency dips while in the middle of a game.

aeva, to NixOS
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I don't actually have time today to work on any side projects, but I thought I'd run through the basic setup steps for MonoGame aaaand

./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame
bash: ./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame: cannot execute: required file not found

... which required file ._. ???

I think this sort of thing means it tried to dynamically link something and failed. I run into this whenever I try to run loose builds of Linux games on , but idk what to do about it.

dotstdy,
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@aeva look don't worry about it, the third committee meeting about wayland high dpi scaling is well into its 6th year, and all portents agree that a swift resolution is in sight.

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