Jeremy [Iowa]

We went from a time where you had to rebuild your fucking kernel to get your graphics card to work and fucking around with Wine to get to a point where you nearly throw your PC out the window until you can get a little app to run to simply running apt install nvidia-driver-xxx and clicking on a button to make a Windows game run in Linux.

I have fond memories of getting World of Warcraft working on Linux back in ~2008 only to realize it had an OpenGL mode that ran better than the DirectX mode I was trying - and failing - to get working.

You aren’t wrong about kernel and driver shenanigans.

I consider the privilege of choice in taste of one’s preferred stimulant to be one of the few small joys to late stage capitalism.

Username checks out.

That’s fair - it seems to depend on if you’re using the Windows 11 consumer version or the current enterprise version.

Yes. It will allow Firefox to use any graphics processing available which is incredibly more efficient for video workloads.

Even shitty onboard Intel Iris and similar handle video workloads that much more efficiently.

Not to be flippant, but you could have just stopped at Microsoft Teams running like ass as the problem is Microsoft Teams and its bloated, over-ambitious nature running in fucking Edge via WebView.

Specific to your case, you seem to be referring to a video call - is Firefox using hardware acceleration? I seem to recall each video feed is its own transcode/render process so if that’s entirely on CPU, it could definitely wreck your performance.

I’d say cope and seethe, but… you’re definitely already there.

You’re not wrong though; give Linux a whirl.

You are aware that was a generalized observation, right?

You seem to be the exact type of unthinking blue-team diehard called-out for bizarre, near-vitriol reactions.

I suspect you’re just not liking being in this comment.

You’ve managed to avoid the knee-jerk “useful idiot” etc vitriol? I’m impressed and envious.

The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.

How does that in any way explain the bizarre, near-vitriol reactions of blue team participants to criticisms and jokes about Biden?

A relative excess of funny would just explain more jokes, and poorly.

The various @politics communities are currently chock full of a weird deflection of all jokes and criticisms of Biden and a focus on jokes and criticisms about Trump. It’s pretty hard to see how the blue team part to this pans out at all.

Why can’t my queer ass think guns are awesome like c’mon

This exact combination has begun to break brains over here in such a manner as to be exactly like the old r/Politics that made r/liberalgunowners so lovely.

It always amazes me the extent to which people with such absurd reductionist hyperbole seem intentionally unaware of the extent to which there’s an exact mirror of oversimplification on the other side.

The Politics@ communities seem to be doing their best to bring that back to the right, but yes, outside of that it’s leftist to a lovely degree.

It’s not just that Reddit migrants tend to bring shitty content but also shitty behavior - dogpiling, partisan circle jerking/navel gazing, etc. all make for a terrible discussion experience.

You can summarize by thinking of vertical scaling as “make machine bigger / more powerful” with horizontal scaling as “make more machines”.

Are you seriously pretending things such as

“actually no one was killed at tiananmen square and if anyone was it was soldiers who were killed by those unruly students and not the other way around.”

are mere opinion?