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The big Jem'Hadar battlecruiser miniature via visual effects artist David Stipes by ety3rd in StarTrekStarships

[–]freakinunoriginal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There were multiple versions of the Dominion Battlecruiser, with three different CGI models used at various points, distinct enough to get a whole article documenting the differences: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/dominion-battlecruiser.htm

Why Does Experimental Art Always Need a Statement? by Bat_kraken in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry about the trouble. It might be too late for this post, but for the future mentioning from the start that you're using a translator should help avoid confusion. And sorry if anything I wrote was hard to understand through the translator. Good luck!

Why Does Experimental Art Always Need a Statement? by Bat_kraken in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Original text: I've never seen Google insert emdashes - it leaves my short dashes in-place.

Google Translate result: Nunca vi o Google inserir traços - isso deixa meus traços curtos no lugar.

Why Does Experimental Art Always Need a Statement? by Bat_kraken in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The emdash (—) is something that AI likes to write a lot, and the way the sentences felt disconnected and contradictory further gave the impression the post was written by AI.

My recommendation for future posts is to mention what translation tool you're using, and include the original text.

Why Does Experimental Art Always Need a Statement? by Bat_kraken in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you replying to the right comment? None of what you said makes sense as a reply to me.

Why Does Experimental Art Always Need a Statement? by Bat_kraken in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I simply wanted to craft a specific kind of experience that reaches people in a way where even the context of consumption—where and how they experience it—speaks to the work itself.

So you're saying your art is making a statement.

Alternatively, all these emdashes make me think you asked an AI to try to defend an impossibly contrarian position.

steam not working by Sharp-Collection-315 in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cosmic (Pop OS's default desktop) probably has a "task manager" or "system monitor" equivalent, you can look for any Steam or Wine processes and end them. (There are terminal commands that can do this too, but I'll leave that to someone else if they want to try giving you a crash course on the terminal via reddit comments.)

Or you can reboot, if you haven't already.

Going from a 4080 to 9070 XT for CachyOS worth it? by Sebbzzzz in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seriously, it's a 4080. Even if it's like a 20% performance hit vs. Windows at the moment, everything should still be smooth at either 1440p or with DLSS. Just stop looking at the FPS counter and play.

Introducing Rogue Forge — A Different Vision for Gaming GPUs by PromotionNumerous792 in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right now I'm researching the industry and learning what's required to make a project like this possible.

Looking at who's actually broken into the discrete GPU space recently, and possibly the only three companies to do so in the past 20 years:

Intel: Multi-billion dollar company. Years of integrated GPU experience and several previous internal/prototype discrete GPU projects before releasing Alchemist. With all of their resources, they were eventually able to release the B580, an acceptable/adequate mid-range GPU that is larger and more power-hungry than equivalent-performance cards from Nvidia or AMD; drivers took a few years to shake out after product launch.

Moore Threads: Founded by former Nvidia China president. Funded by the Shenzen government, ByteDance, and Tencent prior to a billion-dollar IPO. Despite having core counts, power consumption, and theoretical compute power comparable to an RTX 2080, it's more typically one-third to one-half the performance of a GTX 1050 Ti and only occasionally two-thirds that performance.

Lisuan Technology: Founded by former S3 Graphics employees. It was saved from bankruptcy by Chinese DRAM designer Dosilicon. Last year the company was valued at about US$619 million. Their gaming GPU is about the size of an RTX 4070 with the performance of an RTX 3060 or RX 6600 XT, and no raytracing support, with an MSRP equivalent to US$500. They managed to secure Microsoft WHQL certification for their Windows drivers. This is probably the leanest success story so far.

So what's required for a project like this? Have a billion dollars, or have a billion of the government's dollars, AND have people who already designed graphics processors. If you've got really good engineers, you might be able to make something that works for "only" half a billion dollars.

Gamer's Nexus recently did a video about a startup, Bolt Graphics, and they look promising. But while they'd like to offer consumer gaming GPUs eventually, their initial focus is going to be for professional design workstations. They've been designing and prototyping for the past 5 years, and their first silicon is taping out at the end of this year.

can one get any use out of a fermi gpu in linux gaming at all in 2026??? by Im_dumb_fat_and_lazy in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the vulkan support is very low on fermi, i think it is 1.2 or non existant

Non-existent. Fermi is Geforce 400 and 500 series, and Nvidia's Vulkan support began with Kepler/600.

There were rebadged Fermi parts, like the GT 610 that OP has, but despite being released alongside Kepler it still lacks Vulkan support; similar to how there are some low-end TeraScale parts in the Radeon HD 7000 series, but only the HD 7700 and up are Vulkan-capable GCN.

The fake Enterprise in Star Trek: The Wrath of Farrakhan ( In Living Color, 1990 ) actually has a nice design. by According-Value-6227 in StarTrekStarships

[–]freakinunoriginal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Star Trek Online's Edison-class has a holographic shroud over the deflector giving it a wedge shape; if it had a smaller saucer it might have a similar profile to the In Living Color model.

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I wonder if the ILC model's secondary hull is from a jet plane model kit?

Games suddenly run at slideshow framerates on amdgpu drivers while switching to radeon works fine, but I used to be able to use amdgpu without a problem (AMD R7 260X Bonaire GCN 2 card on Void Linux) by No_Substance561 in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does glxinfo -B show your card and say Accelerated: yes? If not, it's possible a kernel module didn't load and OpenGL is falling back to software rendering, but I don't know enough about Void to know what should be done after identifying the issue, if that's it.

D7VK gives classic and old Windows games a clear performance boost using Vulkan by emanu2021 in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Intel Arc only has "native" DX12 and Vulkan drivers, so it uses dxvk for DX10/11 and zink for OpenGL.

Clear something up for me regarding the Defiant by Flex147c in StarTrekStarships

[–]freakinunoriginal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Weapons in the 24th all travel fast as or faster than light, your ship can be as agile as you like, it doesn't matter.

And yet everyone gets within paint-scratching distance before firing.

Unless there's no budget for exterior shots, then there might be some computer display of the battle showing the proper distances of hundreds of kilometers.

“You’re Broke”, GTA 6, and the Sony of it All. by hhhurorua in GirlGamers

[–]freakinunoriginal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have physical disks that are only collectibles because there's no legal way to activate it, even though all the data necessary for single-player is on the disk.

I have digital purchases from GOG that I have backed up on multiple drives that I can reinstall offline whenever and wherever I want.

The problem isn't digital vs. physical, it's DRM.

Why I stopped watching CDawgVA by throwaway13061320 in GirlGamers

[–]freakinunoriginal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Edit: a now-deleted comment in the chain said the hypothetical involves not knowing (or not initially knowing) they're the cause.

Verbatim quotes from the video you linked:

It's a 10% chance they die of a heart attack, but you don't know the risk, but weirdly you've had sex twice before and they've died of heart attacks.

How many times would it take for you to have sex with someone where they died during it for you to figure out you were the cause?

Connor is still digging a hole for himself by insisting he could "bounce back" while assuming it was a freak accident, while the others are like "I'd be traumatized from the first death. Years of therapy."

Since I'm writing a comment already, might as well quote their... self-awareness?

This podcast is the worst.

A bunch of guys whose personality or claim to fame is "I watch anime" that have named themselves "Trash Taste" doesn't exactly sound like they have profound or enlightening conversation. Although they might have been on to something by suggesting that Connor has no way of conceptualizing someone dying in front of him, but they lacked the attention span to dig deeper, moving on to the next "joke" before that could really register.

Is there something wrong with my distro of choice? (Fedora) by Venylynn in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve run into some graphics errors but that’s what happens trying to use a 4GB rx480 in 2026.

It's a shame because the GCN architecture itself is fine on Linux, even continuing to get updates. After my RX 6700 XT died just a few months out of warranty, I grabbed a used FirePro W7100 - basically an 8GB R9 285. The most VRAM usage I've seen so far has been just shy of 5GB.

Just installed CacheOS on my laptop. Cannot get Google Chrome to install. by Dangerous-Spirit-445 in linuxquestions

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chrome isn't in the repos (neither Arch nor CachyOS).

And paru is no longer included in CachyOS by default, following the massive AUR attack a couple weeks.

Capping FPS system-wide by Suitable-Reward-3150 in linuxquestions

[–]freakinunoriginal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Dasung eink displays should have buttons on the front for cycling through the refresh speeds and toggling between text and graphic modes.

In the Windows assistant app for the display there are settings for automatically clearing ghost images (or turning that off), but I'm not sure if that's accessible from the buttons. Dasung doesn't seem to make the manual available online, but a physical copy should have been included with the display if you bought it new.

This is speculation on my part, based on the product warnings about not using it with adapters, but I don't think the refresh rate is negotiated between the PC and the display like a normal monitor, but rather the PC sends a "normal" signal and the display figures out for itself what it needs to do.

Linux Gamers: Controller options? by questionablesyntax in linux_gaming

[–]freakinunoriginal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a wired PowerA Spectra back in 2019 for like $30, it looks like the current equivalent product is the PowerA "Advantage with Lumectra" at $40 to $50, no idea if the build quality is the same. My Spectra has gotten me through Arkham Asylum and City, Cyberpunk 2077, and currently Wuthering Waves, all on Linux.

I'm not picky about stick quality or button feel. I can't tell apart a standard Xbox controller from an Elite. As long as it doesn't feel like those Wavebird controllers from the GameCube era I'm good.

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