ProdigalFrog

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I read a few posts from a few years ago that they suffered from some sort of ring crash bug frequently.

If you're currently on either of those cards, how is the stability nowadays? Any hiccups or problems, or is it 100% in gaming now?

Bonus question, does the Mesa driver allow you to access the VCN video encoder on the gpu?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.

What you're witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

AFAIK he's never spoken of the IWW before.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I did build the big ship, but I don't think I used the planters effectively. I just remember needing to frequently recharge it and repair it.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I also wasn't a fan, mainly due to how often you need to resupply to stay alive. You get a very small window of opportunity to do actual exploration before you need to go find more food and water, on top of gathering a bunch of other materials.

I liked parts of it, but ultimately just got frustrated with the tedious parts and bailed.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

One of the reporters for More Perfect Union, a leftist pro-union organizatiom is from west Virginia and wears a mullet.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, but mixing in 3D hardware acceleration was apparently quite difficult to achieve until systemd came along to make it somewhat painless.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

True, for anyone who has a more modern AMD laptop, it would fare well with Parsec.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

I will admit I became a bit giddy at the prospect of using a beefy Linux rig like it's 1971, as our Lord and Saviors Dennis Richie & Ken Thompson intended. 😌

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only reason any of this is easily possible by laymen is thanks to Systemd.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You still can, as far as I know! It's just that I don't think X would have the throughput for games. I recently learned about that functionality in a Cathode Ray Dude video, where he shows how it even got ported to Windows 3.11!

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Well I'll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC's with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Ah! sorry, posted the link to the trailer instead of the full doc. Link should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

 

This is a super interesting project, and the video is really well presented and explained, if you prefer that format.

I think this method could be brought even further by using 'thin clients' (a cheap laptop or used office mini-PC), making it possible to access the main gaming rig from any room in the house as long as you have access to a good network speed.

Utilizing a 'dummy' HDMI or Displayport stick, which simulates a monitor for the GPU, you could then remote into the gaming rig from a thin client-like PC through Moonlight/Sunlight, allowing you to use it as a fully fledged gaming or workstation PC.

If anyone decides to go that route, be aware that AMD GPU's have pretty notoriously bad encoders, so I'd recommend sticking with Nvidia (Pascal/1000 series or newer) or Intel GPU's/Integrated Graphics (6th generation 6000 series or newer) for the Host machine. It's a little less important for the client, I think.

EDIT: AMD did actually improve their encoders in recent years, starting with the Raven Ridge integrated graphics APUs, and the first generation Navi cards (RX 5700 onward, the lower end cards don't have it).

 

I thought this video was rather interesting, because at 12:27, the presenter crunches the numbers to find out how many years it would take for a new computer purchase to be more environmentally friendly (in regards to total CO2 expended) compared to using a less efficient used model.

Depending on the specific use case, it could take as little as 3 years to breakeven in terms of CO2 if both systems were at max power draw forever, and as long as 30 if the systems are mostly at idle.

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