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The cool part of Canonical's Snap, is that my machine can now ray-trace an entire (simple) scene faster than it takes the web browser to start!
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The cool part of Canonical's Snap, is that my machine can now ray-trace an entire (simple) scene faster than it takes the web browser to start!
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It's simply amazing how long they can make the web browser take to launch on a machine with an I7 6700, 32GB of memory and a SATA ssd.
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Don't you hate it when there's a quality discussion on a forum somewhere online about something, but then two disagreeing users derail and transform it into a back-and-forth poo slinging competition at one another?
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@Jaxa, accidentally clicked the report button, sorry. Anyway what surprises me and amazes me, is how rarely that sort of thing happens around here.
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Server is still on shaky legs while I arrange a disk replacement. More downtime to be expected when that happens.
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Was wondering what was going on; whether the site was under attack, or what.
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You might be wondering what happened to all your firefox extensions. Well, ready, set, cluster***k! https://betanews.com/2019/05/04/mozilla-fixes-firefox-add-ons-problem/
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Aaand why do they constantly check in? Surely they only "need" to check the certificate when a new version of an extension is being installed, not once a day, seeing as the installed version hasn't changed. But that wouldn't be nearly spywarish and Orwellian enough.
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You might be wondering what happened to all your firefox extensions. Well, ready, set, cluster***k! https://betanews.com/2019/05/04/mozilla-fixes-firefox-add-ons-problem/
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The minute you start arbitrarily disabling software on me without permission is the minute you crossed the line. If I wanted to deal with s*** like that, I would be using Windows and Steam, not Linux and Firefox.
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Since the tax software industry is hiding the fact that they must now let you complete taxes for free when you fall within a certain financial bracket, it seems fair that we spread this story. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/us_tax_turbotax/
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Gotta love the good old Straisand Effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Man, who needs parallax cubemaps when you could have RTX? But seriously if they got demos of Quake 2 running it, what would it take for RTX to run on something like TDM?
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Money and manpower. Those cards are extremely expensive right now, not for any good reason other than that they currently have no competition.
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Consider buying a new (used) laptop. It has about the same horsepower as mine, but better screen and battery. (and more expensive as well). Makes sense or it's just consumer rabies?
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I'm done with laptops personally. Can't remember the last time I whipped one out and used it on e.g. a vehicle. Instead, I use ITX systems. Tiny, powerful, upgradable, and cheaper than a laptop. Here's a good place to get you started. Yeah, it fits in a backpack!
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Been using computers for 25 years, and I've finally run my first java/.jar file. This awesome project: https://m210.duke4.net/index.php
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I guess Java is a perfect way to port these old games, because they become cross-platform easily, and performance isn't important; it will run 100+fps on any even slightly decent machine.
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Still spreading the word about TDM on forums to new peops... Funny to see people say "Awesome, I loved playing Thief back in the day!"
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Yes it was in a discussion where someone was saying how unhappy they are with the way game companies grant themselves permission to do whatever they like to your PC and personal info today. I pointed out that giving up games completely is an unnecessarily overkill solution when there are free games like TDM to play.
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Is there a quick way to view the player model without decking the walls with mirrors?
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WTF Intel? The cheapest laptop with Iris and 4 cpu cores is a MacBook Pro? For that price I can get TWO hp's with a similar Ryzen APU. Or even TWO asus's with quad code Intel and a dedicated nVidia. Stupidest pricing ever!
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Really thankful for Ryzen myself. Yes there were stability issues at first, but they're ironed out now. And now we have processors with integrated graphics that aren't useless. TDM runs great on a Ryzen 2400G.
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Why smart people don't want crap like this in their PC. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/12/intel_sgx_hacked/
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Sooner or later I'll have to switch to an architecture that isn't mainstream X86. If I wanted a computer that was compromised by Hollywood, I would just buy a Sony CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
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Performance wiki updated with 2.07 info: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Performance_Tweaks
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Thank you for doing this, and thank the rest of the team for getting 2.07 out the door! Not really using low end hardware anymore; the weakest thing I play on is a GTX770-4GB, but still.
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Thanks, Norton, for nuking my TDM installation and forcing me to reconfigure all my settings... >
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It could be worse. At least your computer still boots. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/04/microsoft_windows_update_woes/
That said, a computer that can't boot anymore is pretty darn secure!
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Two things about TDM I learned yesterday: 1) You can look away in the middle of a lock-picking-sequence and continue right where you left off if you keep pressing the frob button. You are not reset to the last tumbler you unlocked when doing that. 2) You can actually cancel bow-draw by pressing the "block"-key. I feel like I knew #2 once, but I must've forgotten. It amazes me that after all these years, you still discover new stuff about the game!! :-D
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There used to be a funny bug where you could hit yourself with your own sword by swinging it at a specific angle. I told Springheel about it and he fixed it.
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So Wine on Android is now a thing, meaning that you could play Thief TDP on your Android phone. No Direct3D support as far as I know, because mobile devices only implement OpenGL ES, which is a subset of OpenGL.
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Wine converts Direct3D calls to Opengl on the fly, so no OpenGL, no Direct3D!
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Old fx6300 running at 4.3GHz takes 5 minutes to compress 26000 small files into 1. New Ryzen 1700 at 3.6GHz on all cores takes 2 minutes and 9 seconds to do the same thing. This machine stomps that old one into the ground...
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Yeah looks like I made the right choice in picking sides for once. And for those wondering, the data set is my collection of Doom/Duke3d/Blood/other 2.5d game levels. There are more than I can ever play, about 4.3GB (uncompressed) of them. They fit into a 1.2GB squashfs image.
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Updated my Uefi the other day and suspend to RAM finally works correctly! It took more than a literal year to be fixed. But I suppose I should be happy it got fixed at all.
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The machine I gave her is an old AM3 system, so that bug will never be fixed. But thankfully it is triggered by a USB device that she doesn't need anymore anyway.
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Updated my Uefi the other day and suspend to RAM finally works correctly! It took more than a literal year to be fixed. But I suppose I should be happy it got fixed at all.
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Asrock seems to be pretty good at supporting motherboards they sell, given their price friendly nature. But there is one bug in the motherboard of the computer I gave mom; if you leave certain USB devices plugged in, sometimes it will hang during POST. Took me forever to figure out what was causing that!
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Anyone else get a major Thief vibe from the photo on the top of this article? https://www.howtogeek.com/394427/what-is-a-dark-web-scan-and-should-you-use-one/
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I suppose it is the lighting, the hood, and the color that makes me think of Thief, though our man Garrett would never use something resembling a laptop.
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How to design a not-very-good Doom level. Pack fifty high-tier monsters into a small hallway where the only way to fight them is to lower a lift that brings one or two down at a time. The player is stuck slaying them until boredom sets in. Of course he can take the lift up, but then he gets ripped a new one, emerging in the middle of the pack with no room to dodge.
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But, the level that preceded this one was quite fun.
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PSA: Latest Linux distros like Ubuntu 18.10 contain an updated version of Mesa which significantly improves performance and compatibility with games and open drivers like Intel and AMD.
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Yep, it seems to run faster on my old laptop with Radeon 6700 graphics. But I don't have stats of the performance before the upgrade to compare it to. Also, games like Gzdoom used to suffer from graphical glitches on that hardware, and they're gone.
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PSA: Latest Linux distros like Ubuntu 18.10 contain an updated version of Mesa which significantly improves performance and compatibility with games and open drivers like Intel and AMD.
