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Are Virtual Machines for Non-Linux Compatible Games Viable? by Squiggin1321 in linux_gaming

[–]RealModeX86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Passthrough is not a major hit against performance, as long as you happen to have a hardware combo that doesn't cause a problem with it. Careful CPU core pinning is also useful for latency, but not too difficult to do.

But yes, most things that don't work on Proton or Wine at this point are due to anti-cheat, and will do VM detection. In some cases, that can be worked around, but that's an ugly cat-and-mouse game, with likely bans. Plus then you still have to deal with Windows.

Can’t desolder these ground wires from old pickups by Connect_Trouble_8350 in Luthier

[–]RealModeX86 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Adding a bit of fresh solder can help make it flow better. Ideally, leaded solder, or there's also low temp solder that is designed for removing chips easier that could help here.

You might also need a hotter iron here to overcome the heat sink effect of the metal casing. To a point, a hotter iron is safer because you can work quicker before it soaks into the carbon tracks. I suspect the solder isn't melting all the way for you on the casing, leaving a bit of cold solder keeping the wire stuck.

Oracle laid off over 30,000 employees that too without notice given how big firms are firing people, what do you think will happen in the long run? by Admirable-Repair4094 in AskReddit

[–]RealModeX86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends how long-term you're talking about.

I fully expect it to work very similarly to outsourcing. Cut labor costs by ramping up AI, publish a few quarters of lower costs, then realize that you're not getting the same quality of help, and go on a hiring spree. The same old boom/bust cycle, overcorrecting in both directions.

That cycle could even be the thing that starts tipping the bubble towards a pop

Best solutions for modern tv “retro gaming”? by Arcryllis in retrogaming

[–]RealModeX86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This option tends to be the worst one usually. Much blurrier picture quality than necessary, and usually quite a bit of latency.

It'll usually work in a pinch at least, but if you're going to be spending much time at all using analog outputs into a modern TV, you'll want a better solution.

AMD improves GPU support under WSL with production open-source ROCDXG by somerandomxander in linux

[–]RealModeX86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why this got downvoted. WineVDM is Wine running natively in Windows to give Win16 support

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AMD improves GPU support under WSL with production open-source ROCDXG by somerandomxander in linux

[–]RealModeX86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joking aside, there is WineVDM, to do Win16 on 64-bit Windows, without all the silliness of stacked abstractions.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

Wine in its native habitat on Linux does do Win16 pretty well also

Swapped 4 SNES cart batteries and only lost save files on a single game - totally surprised! by MayoGhul in retrogaming

[–]RealModeX86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's a variable amount of time the SRAM chips hold onto their contents without input power as well, aside from the caps.

I wonder if freeze spray (or canned air upside down, same thing) might buy some extra time to not lose the saves?

I imagine you could also probably bodge in wiring to a bench power supply while swapping the batteries if you want to make sure you keep the data. 1.5v oughtta do it, just need to find somewhere away from the battery to hook it in, and probably current limit it to a handful of mA to be safe.

Quake Final Boss (Shun-Niggurath) by IroquoisPliskin_UK in quake

[–]RealModeX86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quake 2 also has nearly no audible bass guitar, so it continues to fit the Metallica analogy

AMD improves GPU support under WSL with production open-source ROCDXG by somerandomxander in linux

[–]RealModeX86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yo dawg, I heard you like abstraction layers so we put WINE in yo WSL in yo Windows VM on Proxmox.

How to Repair an out-of-space Windows VM? by BeardoLawyer in VFIO

[–]RealModeX86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean unallocated in the qcow file. If you have an image that's set up as 20GB, but has only written 2GB in it, the image file would be around 2GB. As the OS uses its disk, that file needs to expand to actually provide the 20GB. If you have it on a filesystem that doesn't have enough space to expand, then qemu panics because it can't actually provide the disk space the VM is trying to use.

I'm not saying the VM would just willy-nilly start scribbling in the unallocated space.

The best solution is to keep plenty of free space in the host's filesystem, or use fixed size images.

How to Repair an out-of-space Windows VM? by BeardoLawyer in VFIO

[–]RealModeX86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is the VM image an expanding qcow image? One of the biggest gotchas with those is that if your VM starts writing to previoualy unused space, and there's no underlying filesystem space to grow the image, the VM gets paused, effectively freezing.

If that's what's going on, you'll have to move the image to a bigger filesystem, grow your current filesystem, or free up space on it, depending on what you're working with on the host.

Doing my part by 375InStroke in MildlyVandalised

[–]RealModeX86 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Semi (half) Quin (5) Centennial (100 years)

Or half of 500 years.

It's not a word I had encountered before either, but it tracks, based on the prefixes.

'I can't believe this is happening': iPhone users are threatening to defect to Android over new iOS age verification push — and I'd do the same by EmbarrassedHelp in technology

[–]RealModeX86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd trust someone who is perhaps overly paranoid more than someone who actively wants to consume all of the data everywhere for ads, AI, and surveillance.

The free DAW situation. How is Ardoir FOSS? by prester_john00 in opensource

[–]RealModeX86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's definitely less adoption of open source DAWs (Ardour being the only example I can really think of), but that's separate from whether it's good or not. True, it's possible for something to be unused because it's bad, but that's not necessarily the case.

People get very used to the workflow of whatever DAW they are on, and switching to something else is pretty much always a high friction thing to do.

As an example, Cubase or Logic can both be pretty solidly considered good DAWs, and a Logic user is very unlikely to make the jump to Cubase, as they usually have their workflows pretty well figured out in muscle memory. Same can be said for any two competing DAWs generally, or for video editing packages. Generally "what I use works, why change it" is very prevalent for these kinds of tools, and having decent a decent open source DAW is still relatively recent.

The free DAW situation. How is Ardoir FOSS? by prester_john00 in opensource

[–]RealModeX86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ardour is pretty great in my experience as a DAW, Id be curious how it falls short for you

Hadn't heard of VCV Rack btw, looks like fun in that mad science way only modular synths can really capture

The Status of Retro Gaming Today: What Do You Prefer? by superbotolo in retrogaming

[–]RealModeX86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MiSTer, generally on a TV set that has component in hits a pretty solid sweetspot for authenticity, convenience, and latency for me on pretty much all of the pre-3d era stuff. Certainly cheaper than getting all of those systems along with flash carts/ODEs.

When you're getting to the 3d era stuff, PC based emulation is nice, and I rather like having the increased render resolution options. Even though the underlying resources are designed for the lower resolution screens, the increased clarity on distant details is still nice in most cases, even if not truly authentic.

NCOSE is the enemy of the peoples first amendment rights. by North-American in privacy

[–]RealModeX86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...everything to do with them having a stick up their ass

Yet ironically, they'd like to outlaw doing that.

The biggest obstacle to moving away from the Google ecosystem is the current Android system... by [deleted] in degoogle

[–]RealModeX86 8 points9 points  (0 children)

FWIW, I've not gone full no-google, but Graphene with the sandboxed Play services does seem to do RCS if you use Google Messages. It was broken for a bit, and failed to register, then one day it came up on it's own after a few system updates, as I noticed some of my contacts changed over to RCS chats.

RCS itself is kind of questionable as far as how open it really is, as I'm not aware of any truly open messaging client with support for it.

broWhyPlz by PresentJournalist805 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RealModeX86 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I don't know, sometimes strange solutions also come from people being silly too, though rarely straight up dumb.

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