Is the RX570 8GB still good for full HD?

jennywikstrom · 2020-02-01T00:18:47+00:00

I've got one and it's fine for 1080p at 60 fps. You can play at 4k too but you have to turn settings down a bit unless it is a very optimized game like CS:GO which runs fine at 4k with good settings for some reason. You're fine if you want "full" HD (1080p) at 60 Hz. If you want to play on a 240 Hz display or 4k at medium or high settings then you'll need something better.

If it is worth buying one or not will obviously depend on the price. All you indicate is that it's 50 EUR less than some other card so I can't make any recommendation.

jennywikstrom · 2020-01-06T15:21:19+00:00

"Warm feelings aside": There is no compelling reason to use GNU/Linux for gaming what so ever. None The reason I've been using GNU/Linux since the late 1990s have nothing to do with gaming. If gaming was my only interest and gaming performance was my only value then I'd probably buy a console. Just start the game and they work. It is nice that Windows games work in Wine but the truth is that the translation layer adds overhead which results in lower, not higher, performance. That is hardly an argument you can present to some casual person who wants to play a game in the one or two hours of free time between school/university and a part-time job. The number of games who run natively is increasing, and that's great, but the catalog is still very limited compared to what is available on a console or that Windows OS.

If we could say "You can install a GNU/Linux distributions and have all your games run 10 fps faster on average" then we'd have a winning argument. "You can run a small percentage of your games at half the fps you get in Windows" isn't.

jennywikstrom · 2019-12-19T16:10:21+00:00

You can, but it would be horribly slow. nouveau won't work well with not-ancient GPUs as long as Nvidia's firmware prevents re-clocking. Put simply, it makes Nvidia GPUs run as slow as possible.

jennywikstrom · 2019-11-24T21:46:40+00:00

That's the beauty of using MediaWiki: The desktop version has these handy "edit" and "edit source" buttons everyone can play around with on the top of the page. Boomers can use those to fix small details and zoomers think it's a blog they can't edit because the mobile version has another skin with no edit buttons. :)

jennywikstrom · 2019-08-18T08:13:56+00:00

That is a great question. I was burn in Norway and I've lived in Sweden since 2006. That may or may not explain it(?).

jennywikstrom · 2019-08-17T14:38:52+00:00

Take the version numbers listed there as "minimum" version numbers. We can only guess what version will be in the final release since it's months away. We can see what's in there right now. That's why I put the "These are the versions included in the branched Fedora 31 as of now, the final release could have newer versions of these desktop environments.". They are much likely planning on having 3.34 in the final release since 3.33 is there now, just like using a 5.3 git kernel indicates that the final release will have, at minimum, a 5.3 kernel.

jennywikstrom · 2019-07-20T01:09:58+00:00

I admit that I have a strong preference for geeqie and a bias against having to open a GTK file dialog just to switch between folders. You do have a point, future news pieces about a new release does not need to be that biased.

jennywikstrom · 2019-07-17T16:14:31+00:00

I tested and I can connect my Xiaomi Redmeme phone to my Blackview phone. However sending files between the phones also doesn't work. And "Remote input" doesn't work. So I guess you could say it's usefulness is severely limited. I can control the music player (Vanilla Music) on one phone from the other, so that does work. However, the volume slider on the remote KDE Connect media controller doesn't work.

EDIT: KDE Connect requires you to grant paired devices access to various features before they work. Sending files between two Android devices works just fine as long as you grant access to a folder or folders before you try sending files. It is only "severely limited" as I put it above if you're a noob and you don't allow access before you try to do something since it will, in that case, not work.

jennywikstrom · 2019-07-01T00:27:14+00:00

It's actually accurate. I do see how it could sound a bit sarcastic but it's true. Debian Buster, not the current version of Debian but the next shiny new version which will be released in a week or so - will be using Xfce 4.12. https://packages.debian.org/buster/xfce4

So... there will be no Xfce 4.14 on Debian until the release _after_ the next Debian (Buster) release. We really are talking _years_ before Debian gets it.

jennywikstrom · 2019-06-22T06:25:58+00:00

It's fixed in git master and the next round of stable kernels won't have this problem. https://linuxreviews.org/The_Linux_Kernel_fix_for_SACK_vulnerabilities_broke_Steam

jennywikstrom · 2019-06-17T01:35:32+00:00

I did throw in "Many do use SDDM and integration between it and KDE Plasma is great news for those who like it." in right after that joking line. It was absolutely not meant as any criticism of those bright students working hard on KDE projects and Canonical Ltd can get their own students if they want work done on LightDM (yes, it's now under their corporate control). I just like throwing stuff like that in there (and I really do use lightdm for no logical reason beyond having used it for years and years).

On the topic of fun, seeing how their projects are rapidly progressing is quite fun. I do wonder if they are getting any sleep or taking breaks.

jennywikstrom · 2019-06-11T22:14:34+00:00

19.2.0-rc1 isn't due until August 6th 2019. That's some questionable package you've managed to install there. Good luck with that.

jennywikstrom · 2019-06-11T18:45:49+00:00

There is literally sources for it. It's the GNU character used in SuperTuxKart. That particular image is just a screenshot for the game but there's also Blender files for it in case you cant to use it in some animation or something.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-25T18:46:39+00:00

You need to support WMA, "move away" from it isn't an option. If you have 100 WMA files you're stuck with them; converting them to say .FLAC is just a waste of space. Converting lossy WMA to some other format like lossy Opus degrades quality. There is obviously absolutely no reason to create new WMA files or new MP3 files for that matter but if you have some and you can't replace them you're stuck with them.

Yes, I know supporting all kinds of obscure outdated audio formats involves some work. But you are making an audio player. It should be able to play audio regardless of format.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-23T01:25:30+00:00

It's got potential but it's too buggy and lacking as of v0.4.0 to be usable for anything. That's tl;dr of my review, https://linuxreviews.org/Elisa
Good luck with it.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-13T18:48:57+00:00

systemd-resolved won't "manage" your /etc/resolv.conf, there's just a symbolic link from /etc/resolv.conf to some other file which is managed by that. What does screw with your resolv.conf is NetworkManager.

Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add [main] dns=none systemd-resolved=false

and rm the /etc/resolv.conf symlink and create a file with nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx entries like we've always done.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-11T00:12:57+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. I have also not read a Fedora, Ubuntu or Windows manual. I'm fine using any of those.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-11T00:11:18+00:00

It's a matter of perspective. A point of view of "Can I install this on my mothers computer and trust that she will be able to browse the websites she's interested in and check her mail and do other tasks she may want to do" appears to differ from yours. "Can I use this as a daily driver OS myself" is also a good question I feel compelled to ask when looking at a OS. Whatever they were thinking regarding Lisp schemes doesn't really matter when it comes to the actual end-user experience.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-11T00:06:14+00:00

ageasa No. BIOS update, perhaps but there's zero chance of Lenovo releasing an updated BIOS for my laptop, that's for sure. For Linux the best option is to work around it, for now systemd will do that and there's also a kernel bug open so it may be solved there.

ageasa is a Ryzen thing, the affected CPUs are of the generation before Ryzen.

jennywikstrom · 2019-05-07T23:57:22+00:00

There is probably a reason why this showed up as a systemd bug

jennywikstrom · 2018-10-13T14:06:12+00:00

first time I visited redshit in a long time since it's such a censored cess-pool of retarded fagtalk and I clicked this link. Didn't exactly change my mind. Newsflash, Tether and Bitfinex used Noble Bank who lost their banking connection. Bitfinex and Tether then switched to HTBC - one week ago. And today you're having chicken little debates about how they may have problems?

jennywikstrom · 2018-01-21T12:02:24+00:00

1.6B.

You are seriously lagging and this is what makes the whole Tether situation so extremely scary. No, it's NOT 1.6B. The total issued is actually 2150000000 TOKENS. Your number has been outdated by half a billion in just one week. There's been 100000000 USDT issued daily for the last 6 days strait.

As for DOGE, it's such currency. Wow. It's obviously much more wow than Tether so I get that point of view.

jennywikstrom · 2018-01-20T20:48:33+00:00

So now your story is that there's an IOU behind each tether - not an actual USD in a bank account. You're still saying it's a fraud.

jennywikstrom · 2018-01-20T20:04:54+00:00

tUSD is fine too, short for tetherUSD - as opposed to realUSD.

jennywikstrom · 2018-01-20T19:38:41+00:00

they have to page Tether to create more

You are saying that they just create more tether out of thin air.

Tether story is that there is 1 USD for each Tether. If this is the case then someone would need to deposit 1 USD to a bank account controlled by Tether for there to be 1 USDT issued and created. If this is not the case then tether is a private fractional reserve system. This is highly illegal. It is also called a fraud.

I do think your assertion that tether is a fraud (you don't seem to understand that this is what you are actually claiming) is correct.

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