You don't seem to have an Nvidia Vulkan driver installed.

Your system can see the Intel and Nvidia GPUs, but it only sees an Intel Vulkan device and a software emulation device (llvmpipe).

Proton needs Vulkan for graphics to work.

Okay, but running a huge online service on the internet means massive cyberattacks happen on days that end with a Y.

He pulled the plug on equipment and fired people who were supposed to handle the problem, didn't he.

Fucking called it

Only some Pixel 4a phones are affected, apparently.

You know… the stuff they’re doing to some Pixel 4as - reducing charging speed, limiting charge level, etc - those are the same things EV manufacturers do when they’ve got known faulty batteries catching fire and are trying to work around the issue with software.

Doing it to certain devices which you can look up by IMEI, that sounds a lot like something you’d do if you had a certain batch of batteries catching fire and knew which devices had those batteries.

More than a year after end of life, Google suddenly decides “stability of battery performance” is such a big issue that they’re going to pay compensation to people? That isn’t suspicious at all.

But then you can't inflate the numbers by putting a 3.7 volt battery in a power bank, listing the capacity in amp-hours and implying that you get that many amp-hours at the power bank's 5V output voltage.

We've all had Kerbal Space Program missions that went like that.

No, I mean that if lots of developers are using Denuvo wrong, it's Denuvo's fault for being too difficult to use correctly or not providing enough support to developers.

Even if it's the developers using it wrong, if lots of developers are doing that then it's a fault with Denuvo.

If one car hits something, it's a problem with that car. If lots of cars keep hitting something, it's a problem with the road.

Okay, but if lots of games are doing it wrong, it's still Denuvo's fault.

IIRC there is actually some benefit to having a low gear and a high gear, because the electric motor works at any speed but can't give the best power output if it's too slow or too fast.

You don't get CEOs and billionaires.

It's not enough to have more money than you could ever spend, you need to have all of the money.

Well, we have preferential voting, so you can vote for whoever you actually want and put both of those further down the ballot.

I mean, where I work we've hired every female applicant we've ever had and we're still at around 98% male. I'm not sure what we could even do about it.

The thread is great.

Tentacles dropped out of the top 25 for the first time. Times are a changin

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I remember hearing during lockdown that sales of business pants had tanked, but sales of business shirts hadn't.

It was originally one computer that everyone connected to, it wasn't a fleet of separate computers like Windows PCs.

Why is it we send things by car and it's a shipment, but we send things by ship and it's cargo?

• No existing nuclear industry. We can't just send the people who built our last nuclear power plant to build another one, we don't have any of those people.
• Massive amounts of space and tons of sun year-round for solar

We do have a huge coal and gas industry looking to pay politicians to slow down the shift away from fossil fuels though, so the party that was trying to build new coal power plants last time they were in power is talking about nuclear while they're in opposition. It isn't about taking action, it's about delaying renewables.

If you believe it hasn't occurred to them that they won't have to pay wages any more, I have a bridge to sell you.

12% of humans believe we aren’t apes

All humans are apes, those people more so than most.

Pry it up slightly and get an actual finger under it before pulling. Put your thumb in the centre of the lid for leverage.

What are your fingers made of, mashed potato?