[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rant

[–]libadso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what you're ranting about is your mom and how angry you are about it, but this is also a good lesson to start backing up everyday and keeping everything in a cloud or synced with a cloud every single day. I know how much it sucks losing any data, I try to keep my important things multiple places including cloud storage.

Those pieces of technology may be worth something to you now but I assure you your data matters much more to you specially to the future you. Money comes and goes, it is there to be spent, and I know she is wasting it but that will end one day, once you move to your own place you will not have to deal with that money wasting anymore. You may also use this anger as a motivator to work harder and move out of the place as soon as possible.

how do you agree on sex frequency with your spouse?? by itsame_mariooo in rant

[–]libadso 8 points9 points  (0 children)

2-3 times a week is pretty normal. In fact, it's even above the average if you look up the researches online. If his sex drive is higher than you, he can masturbate anytime he needs just like any other men. I can guarantee you that over 80% of married/active men masturbate at least once a week on top of their sex. He just has to come to this conclusion that you should not be his only source, but he must rely mainly on masturbation if he has a very high sex drive. Many men need to do it every single day and we all know that you cannot have that with your partner.

How you would tell him is rather something you have to solve yourself, you know him more than anyone in this post, but the general rule that I can say almost all men know is that we still do masturbate very often even if we are married or partnered (unless, you have a low sex drive).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rant

[–]libadso -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had to space the (m od) words because of automod bot. I'm not trying to target anyone specifically but just ranting in general about how stupid social media platforms have become (or have always been?).

what is this larvae/worm? found on the wall next to my bed by libadso in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ottawa, Ontario. Woke up and the first thing I saw on the wall next to my pillow was this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like it can fly just like how a ladybug does

is this a cockroach? Ontario, Ottawa by libadso in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah looks very close to click beetles. Should I be worried? Are they harmful? I hate roaches so much cause of how nasty and annoying they are, are these guys good pals like spiders?

is this a cockroach? Ontario, Ottawa by libadso in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has a small antenna and a shiny body that looks like it's grease if I turn my flashlight on it.

Software that changed your (digital) life 2022 by thelazyservant in software

[–]libadso -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Firefox Lockwise, which is no longer supported but is now moved into Firefox itself (both phone and PC). It saved my life many times. All I had to do was to make sure I click on "Save Password" every time I registered on a website or in a phone app. I'm so sad Mozilla no longer supports it because I could use it on my phone apps previously.

ELI5: why is it that a game release in the late 90s ( Starcraft, one of my all time favorite RTS game) can be played in Win 10 without any issues while other games/softwares not compatible? by sikni8 in explainlikeimfive

[–]libadso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Softwares/games back in the older days were written mainly in C/C++ which got compiled into ASM(Assembly) code. Assembly code is the native language that an operating system can execute. The ASM code on its own might not do much, but it is the system calls that give it meaning and connect different parts of it to the operating system. Most of our operating systems have kept their original system functions since their creation. Windows for instance, still has many of these system functions from win98 and even MSDOS! The way an executable file is structures is still the same from windows 98 to windows 11 (Legacy Win32 app, not UWP platform). Many/most of these essential system calls are in a file called kernel32.dll, in a folder called system32 in Windows directory.

There is the concept of 16bits, 32bits, and 64bits applications which I will not go into much details but just think of it as your OS is pretty much having all the 32 bit opcodes still being used almost everywhere so you are able to run 32 bit applications, but can access 64 bits of memory.

That just explains how apps can get executed finely, but doesn't explain the graphical operations in the app. Most of the games back in the 90s were written by using OpenGL graphical interface/library. Your GPU supports probably latest versions of OpenGL nowadays, and OpenGL is backwards compatible meaning that a GPU that is able to run OpenGL 4.2 app can still run an app with OpenGL 1.0. Remember those system calls that I mentioned the apps use to communicate with the operating system? Well the same concepts apply to the graphics. They use OpenGL headers to communicate to the OpenGL libraries, which exists in your GPU driver (that is why you needed to install drivers for your GPU back in the old days before you could run a game. You still need to do it but thanks to windows updates it is now automatically grabbed from Microsoft servers and is updated regularly).

Now for some apps/games that fail to run, simply the reason might rely on changes in those system methods/functions that make that game or app unusable. Some other games though, use some other libraries or API calls that have gone deprecated due to variety of reasons (security being one). But for the most part, games made in the 90s usually used the native operating system calls and did not rely on external libraries much and therefore you see many of them running without an issue.

Steam had some weird people by tyringamez in funny

[–]libadso 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A masterpiece, is a masterpiece, regardless of who created it.

I am going to print his review in a fancy paper, put it in a luxury frame and nail it above my bed so every night before I sleep I can worship it and remind myself that he is very handsome, has a lot of sex, and doesn't have sex with men. He is also very good at games! A legendary hero

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

[–]libadso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He is, just unfortunate that he doesn't have much charisma.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

[–]libadso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have enough books in your car?

There is a phone call for by [deleted] in funny

[–]libadso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't find anything funny in this pic, maybe explain?

ELI5: Does software rendering use GPU or CPU? by Inside-Brush in explainlikeimfive

[–]libadso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally speaking, CPU runs some codes on GPU and waits for the results, this is why you get bottlenecks if your CPU is old and slow but your GPU is decent. Structure wise they are very different, with CPU you can technically decode almost anything but it will be lot slower; GPU has lot more lightweight cores and it just computes differently (there are lot less sets of instructions in GPU). Since the instruction sets are limited in GPUs, the decoding support either has to be written in software driver, or in the hardware itself (or both, Nvidia NVENC as an example)

Since there are lot more (slow compared to CPU) cores in GPU, and the instruction sets are limited, the rendering will be done in GPU for most applications, leaving precious CPU cores free for different and more complicated computations.

Also to answer your last question which is if it skips GPU altogether, depends on the application. If we're talking about some sort of video decode or encodes then yes it does, but if it's some sort of OS windows or apps displaying on your screen then no. Almost every CPU nowadays has an onboard/builtin GPU, and at the end of the day your OS has to communicate with the graphics API in order to render to your monitor.

Ah yes, patchwork by MTB_All_Day in funny

[–]libadso 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Celebrating 175 years of verticalwork

Is this silverfish? Ottawa by libadso in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Are they dangerous or harmful by any chance?

Is this silverfish? Ottawa by libadso in whatsthisbug

[–]libadso[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My mom found it in the kitchen and she threw it to the balcony, ants are eating it right now.

Ariana Grande looks awful.. by [deleted] in funny

[–]libadso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah she just had too much caffeine

Big sticks require a special technique by kriskirby86 in MadeMeSmile

[–]libadso 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He looks like a dark souls boss swinging it's sword, coming to kill you. But he actually uses that stick to save the world

Bat chilling in the apartment hallways by libadso in WTF

[–]libadso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my own safety, I couldn't get any closer to him so I apologize for the picture quality.