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Project 2025 Roots Date Back Half a Century
  • I think the interesting thing about project 2025 is how specific they get over the plans. It's not just what they want to do, it's a plan for how to do it.

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    E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing
  • I mostly agree, but it would be nice if it was a bit faster to be able to use it for web browsing. I still like reading long form articles and such but navigating and scrolling isn't very viable yet on e-readers.

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    My impression of github since switching to Linux
  • Yep. I'm Linux at home but macOS all day at work. My employer won't let us use Linux workstations (despite everything I work on being Linux...). Both are vastly superior to Windows.

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    My impression of github since switching to Linux
  • As someone who works fairly extensively with all three major platforms... You're definitely wrong about macOS here. Almost everything on GitHub that works on Linux also works on Mac, aside from GUI applications which are often more OS dependent. The readme pages often just lump Mac and Linux together as they can be pretty similar, especially for things written for interpreted languages (python) where it's often literally the same.

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    Is FreeSync over HDMI not supported in linux even for FreeSync compatible monitors?
  • It would allow them to do HDMI FRL also, which is probably what you mean when you say HDMI 2.1. AMD cards also do HDMI FRL I thought. FRL is what allows things like 4k120Hz (higher bandwidth modes). The VRR that the Dock does is the VRR standardized with 2.1, which is why it works on TVs and devices that do not support freesync (see: LG TVs).

    Anyway, the Dock doesn't have a fast enough HDMI converter to do that. It's not a licensing issue. Next gen Deck/Dock will probably do it.

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    Is FreeSync over HDMI not supported in linux even for FreeSync compatible monitors?
  • Actually it works fine on Steam Deck. It uses VRR over DP to the dock, which then translates it to HDMI with VRR. The dock has proprietary firmware to do this.

    Intel and Nvidia hardware with open source kernel drivers also do a similar trick where the HDMI part is in a firmware blob. Only AMD does not work with HDMI VRR.

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