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Brian McKee

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  1. Bluetooth might be wireless but not all wireless is bluetooth. Every bluetooth peripheral I have ever used has had noticeable latency.
  2. He can use the 16x slot with the a310, irrelevant. The a380s are all 2 slotters which is the point of contention here.
  3. Well hardware acceleration is different from the main core obviously, so it's possible it's defective in some way. But the solution to me is the truly bizarre part, I can't think of any reason as to why that'd fix it.
  4. Put it on display. It's what I do with my old GPUs. Either that or make a legacy gaming rig.
  5. The PCIE lanes won't matter for the hardware encoding/transcoding I'm 99% sure. However, why not consider the sparkle a310? It's single slot unlike the a380 and uses less power.
  6. Haha, if you want to torture yourself, feel free to use bluetooth peripherals. Switching from bluetooth to the official dongle on the xbox controller for example is night and day.
  7. Best video you guys have done in a while. Good job.
  8. I certainly don't like the PS5 either. I've got the XBreadBin.
  9. Even if I were ok with a loud eyesore in my living room, I don't think the others in my house would be.
  10. Giant ugly computer with used components barely matches brand new console in pricing and performance. Great vid guys.
  11. You could sort the pixels of the color you want then use a multi dimensional array to sort groupings of those pixels. You could then determine distance/angle by the amount of pixels and their movement relative to previous frames, or other context clues on environment such as luminosity. This is a very basic solution to the problem, but your example would be (relatively) trivial to do.
  12. Most of the art world is freelancing, and yes it is still relevant. A contractor is a more professional way of saying freelancer if we're being honest. It's actually very difficult to get on the payroll of any company these days... For more menial/nonskilled work you're probably gonna have a much harder time. Work will be taken from people who are essentially being exploited.
  13. The implication would be that AI image/video output doesn't have identifiers. We're a very longs way off of creating things indistinguishable from reality. Right now you can only fool people who don't really pay attention.
  14. You should though. Never expose your direct IP to the internet when hosting a website. You should always use a proxy service like cloudflare even for small tools like this. Realistically though I'd suggest getting a cheap VPS with a static IP to avoid the headaches of home hosting. Don't have to worry about uptime or getting your home IP ddosed.
  15. No, Apple is a tech company. What they attempt to portray themselves as however is a lifestyle and fashion brand. This is why Mac content doesn't typically jive much with your typical tech news since the people who care, care for more than just the tech specs of the products. They care about how it looks and how it'll fit into their lifestyle, and how it makes others perceive them.
  16. That's usually the standard yes. I wouldn't run a single Molex to 8 pin for anything that requires actual powerdraw.
  17. Sure but people should really be using a larger Molex connection and not Sata for an ad hock PCIE connection. Molex is rated up to 8.5 amps per wire.
  18. Apple silicon is cool from a performance per watt perspective I guess, but they're nothing that wild. But then again I'm not one to care about mobile gaming so what do I know. At the end of the day this is Tim Apple's issue and nobody else's. Apple heavily supported Vulkan's creation but doesn't use it?
  19. The biggest disadvantage of Linux to most users will just be the fact that Linux isn't Windows/Mac. You will have to find alternatives to some of the software you currently use. If you use proprietary hardware that isn't supported in Linux you'll either have to find a community solution or find a different hardware solution. When people say Linux is for people who tinker that may have been true years ago. However, Linux today is just as capable as Windows or Mac for most workflows and even for leisure like gaming. You just must temper your expectations, you will not be able to jump into another OS and expect everything to just work or be the same. It'd be the same if you went from Windows to Mac or vice versa. The good thing about Linux is despite the small userbase there usually is a solution to your problem. It just goes to show how dedicated the userbase really is. I'd say historically the biggest weakness of Linux software wise is probably the artistic side. Linux lacks the Adobe suite and even with something like Davinci you're locked into specific hardware/software to get it to work exactly how you'd expect. But still, stuff like Krita/Opentoonz/Darktable/etc... still have been improving rapidly for artists, and just the fact that Davinci is available does mean more workflows are available to people. I think the reason this weakness sticks out so much in people's heads is because the people most likely to report on this (youtubers/other content creators) rely on these pieces of software for their work on a daily basis.
  20. Has nothing to do with the port. Some usb drives just simply do not work on some systems. Had a corporate mini machine I repurposed into a server that simply just refused to work with any USB drive I had besides an old 8 GB HP drive.
  21. As good as Nobara is for gaming I'd always suggest something with a Debian base. Most guides online are for Debian OS's and you'll find support much more easily. I'm currently just using vanilla Debian with KDE Plasma. Rock solid and drama free, at least for my use case.
  22. I don't see what incentive valve would have to do this. Mac gaming market is incredibly small to put the effort in, while Proton for Linux directly benefits their ecosystem with the Steamdeck.
  23. Some older systems don't like booting from a usb 3.0 flash drive. Do you have a 2.0?
  24. Quicksync is certainly more efficient for the use case. My plex server only uses igpu and does plenty of 4k movies.
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