Imagine if ransomware did a BYOVD and held your actual hardware ransom.

Shit like that should never have been signed by Microsoft, let alone made it through developer review at Gigabyte.

Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who’s a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:

Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.

So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.

But don’t all cubes have 217 vertices? /s

Your teammate has the right approach here. People will quickly learn to stop relying on the dev environment in production deployments when the environment becomes unreliable.

Those are the requirements for the upcoming Vulkan renderer update to the Java edition of Minecraft, which supposedly will feature a lot more complicated lighting and shaders.

The previous releases used old versions of OpenGL where a lot of time is spent waiting to synchronously dispatch commands to the hardware, and even then it didn’t make very good use of the GPU hardware it has available. It still doesn’t use LODs from what I heard, but to give them some credit, they did finally start to use VBOs about a decade in development.

Look, at least it meets the recommend specs for Minecra—

Without the standard file hierarchy (which can be enabled), most executables straight up wouldn’t work. The linker and standard library .so files aren’t where they’re expected to be.

• Check for the existence of Z:/etc/os-release and parse it
• Check for the steamDeck environment variables set by Steam
• Check that the current account’s username is “deck”
• Use assembly to directly perform a Linux syscall that would crash the application on Windows but not on Linux.

It still can’t guarantee that the system is a Steam Deck, but combining all the above is reliable enough to that it would be easier to write an assembly patch for the game than to spoof all of those checks to pass.

That being said: any developer who adds an achievement just for playing on a specific piece of hardware deserves to be kicked in the groin.

The funny part is that despite telemetry that shows how little people interact with Copilot, it still gets shoved down our throats.

Nobody writing anything seriously is going to use Notepad, and yet…

Is the Reddit one serious? I know the lemmy.world one created by madthumbs appears to take itself seriously.

Ubuntu seems universally hated. Why?

Root on fat32

I don’t think that’s even actually possible with modern distros. Symlinks are used everywhere and FAT has no concept of setuid.

Is that a genuine question that you want to know the answer for, or is it a setup for calling the person you replied to a hypocrit when they say “yes”?

“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit

It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.

Here’s a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.