Because you’re dead my with natural objects of varying size, shape, defect, etc. this isn’t taking a 4x4 piece of sheet metal and punching the same shape out of it 100 times.
I'm fairly certain that this has been the case in the past. I think i remember when wine was still very unstable some games ran better on linux than on windows. But the caveat was that some of the features were not translated via wine. For example some type of lightning or shading (as in shadows) technique... like you would just not have shadows. So back then it was said that games ran faster because the GPU did less work cause of the missing "features" when doing the translation.
Is this not the case anymore? Does proton translate all of the api calls from say dx12? Were the games tested in vulkan or dx12 and are we sure thy look the same visually?
> But the caveat was that some of the features were not translated via wine. For example some type of lightning or shading (as in shadows) technique... like you would just not have shadows. So back then it was said that games ran faster because the GPU did less work cause of the missing "features" when doing the translation.
Do you have a source or example vid or something to link to showing this? I ask cause I've seen this claim pop up a number of times here and on reddit but never have been able to find concrete examples of it actually happening, in addition to the Wine docs saying (IIRC) that if Wine runs into something that isn't/can't be translated, that the program will crash, not just omit it. The idea that it would just not appear at all seems less probable to me than the game crashing.
Unfortunately no, this is from the memory, from around when I first heard of WINE like 20 years ago. Might have been a discussion on osnews.com but I can't really remember it well.
>The idea that it would just not appear at all seems less probable to me than the game crashing.
Now that you mention it, the story might have been something else... there was news about linux beating windows in gaming, but the issue was not WINE but linux drivers for the GPUs at the time not having some features supported.
Again this is such a random information for me to remember it's all hazy. I'm almost 40 years old >.>
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But to steal millions from those people you need a lot more resources and a risky plan. Whereas to steal BTC from someone like you, you need a wrench to the head for some convincing, like in the linked comic.
I mean to steal millions from someones bank account you need them at the bank and even then you get a trail from bank transfer to another account etc. plus the bank could reverse transaction when police gets involved. While if they can access your wallet they can transfer anonymously to another wallet that no one knows who it belongs to.
So the person you are responding to has a point, I think.
I used elementary in the past and I was very happy with it. I did not want to donate but I did want to support them by buying their ware. Stickers and shirts. Problems is... for over 3 years now their store only supports US customers. A year ago they said they are working on it and still have not fixed it.
> I used elementary in the past and I was very happy with it.
Are you aware that they just may want to be able to have a part or full time job doing software?
What do you expect them to have? A trust fund from their parents and they just give you free stuff?
> Stickers and shirts.
Serious? The gap of money they'd keep to feed themselves from that - plus the extra labor (distraction from improving the code).
I think you mean well, but here and other commenters seem to view GPL more as a right to pirate legally.
Who is the real freeloader, the guy who is very happy with [software]" and can't pay without foaming at the mouth, or someone who actually developed a created work in the first place*.
The insensitivity and entitlement is mind-boggling, from my perspective as a coder.
>Are you aware that they just may want to be able to have a part or full time job doing software?
>Who is the real freeloader, the guy who is very happy with [software]" and can't pay without foaming at the mouth, or someone who actually developed a created work in the first place*.
I am, like people from KDE or Gnome or whichever WM out there. You still don't see them being smug about donations. Oh and elementary guys don't even want to call it a donation. They've built their distribution on top of GPL software and they think you should pay for what they did, not donate. Quote from the comments section from that article:
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Cassidy James Mod Andrew Sauder • 3 months ago
We never use the word "donate." That's kind of a the core idea; we're not saying, "here's this free thing, donate if you want."
We're saying, "We've poured time and money into making this thing, and we think it has value." You get to choose how much you value it, or, if you can't afford it, that's okay too.
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If anyone is a pirate (oh the irony of calling someone who uses gpl a pirate) here it's them.
>Serious? The gap of money they'd keep to feed themselves from that - plus the extra labor (distraction from improving the code).
Then why are they even selling the wares? You make it sound like they are losing money on that stuff as if the developer is packing my shirt. If you read the comment that I linked you would see that the shop is web team's responsibility.
>commenters seem to view GPL more as a right to pirate legally.
I think that if Richard Stallman were to read this it would make him sad.
I know this is offtopic... but I recently emailed the squareup's support over an issue that got me really mad at their development team (or whoever is reponsible). I was trying to buy some elementary OS stickers as I've been using it for over a year now and I'm extremely happy with it. Turns out you cant order anything from squareup if you are accessing outside of US. What made me write to their support is that there is no notification about it when you try to buy a product. It just shows you "add product to list" button but hides "buy" or add to cart button and does not display any info on why the buttons are missing. I mean... if you implemented a solution that detect non us ips and made an effort to hide the buy button... at the very least put some notification in there. Sometimes I really cant understand stuff like this >.>
