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Games which run on Vulkan / OpenGL don't have any GPU translation overhead, and some run straight-up better via Proton than they do on Windows. Doom 2016 does for me, for instance.

Of course, that game is so well optimised it's the difference between 140 fps and 200+ fps, which is not terribly obvious, but even so.

That's fascinating stuff, thanks!

Moved my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Mint.

Biggest problem was all his 'documents', which were office365 web links rather than 'actual documents'. Linux presents them as the urls that they really are. They open just fine, though, and can be exported as real local docs for libreoffice etc.

Security and privacy were the main selling points for him. He'd done some reading and thought that Mint was among the best choices for a newstart that just want everything to work; no interests in playing games or anything. I agreed that was the most solid choice. I use Arch btw myself, but wouldn't recommend that for beginners.

Hey, works for me mate. I'll take 'elaborate and poetic' writing over 'AI slop' every day of the week - it's a great match for all the gothic writing style in 40K as well.

Speaking as someone with a chemical engineering degree and twenty years in industry:

• we have some really complicated computer programs and simulations for all the important stuff, then we add ten percent for safety and round it up to the next standard size. We don't buy 292 mm pipe, we just use 300 mm, because that's what's on the shelves.

• you need to be able to decide quickly whether results you're seeing are sensible, usually to order-of-magnitude, and whether eg. it will take an hour to fill a tank, or a week. We usually don't care whether it's 55 minutes or 56. You need to be able to do those sums in your head, though.

3 is more than accurate enough as an engineering approximation for pi. In fact, 5 is close enough, and much easier to work with.

See, that's why you start with the demolition. Can't leave it like this, big ugly scar in a historic building, even if the costs have increased 10x from the original estimate. Got to keep paying.

Aww, sweet looking puss. Good work on taking her in.

Was kind of hoping that your other cats would be called Ryuk and L, but that might be asking for trouble.

Aww, man alive. Most perfect desktop environment I've seen in years, and then it's a full OS rather than just a DE. Had been looking in the ArchWiki for how to install it and everything.

We'd managed to snag a second-hand i186-based PC, with integrated green-and-black screen and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Most useless excuse for a computer you ever did see; good luck trying to take notes with edlin on DOS any faster than just writing them down. Super-futuristic looking, though - predated the iMac by over twenty years.

Remember getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas and being astonished that computers could actually display colour and play games. Z80 for the win.

There's no committee that approves words being added to the English language. Anything that's understood by the group that uses it is a real word. We make up new words and change the definition of old ones all the time; dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive.

That doesn't stop the concept of 'agentic AI' being a pile of bullshit being peddled by snake-oil salesmen, of course, but you don't have to be Shakespeare to be permitted to make up new words.

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!

The sound and the video would get out of sync if you left it on long enough, like 24 hours or so, for added confusion.