We are now at the point where lobbying looks like a moral option compared to this shit

No, AMDVLK is also a user space driver. You’re confusing it with AMDGPU, which is a kernel module.

I don’t think AMDVLK is even installed by default with Fedora. It can definitely be installed, but there’s not much reason to as it’s a really bad Vulkan driver.

The default driver used by Fedora is RADV. Steam/Proton does not choose your Vulkan driver. That’s why your games run well - you aren’t using the one made by AMD.

You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

What does that have to do with AMD’s driver support? AMD’s Linux Vulkan driver (AMDVLK) was so late and bad that Red Hat and Valve had to make their own (RADV), which is the default in Fedora and SteamOS. AMD’s first party drivers are still garbage.

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32GB is news. It confirms either a 512 or (more likely) 256 bit bus, which would be a significant drop from the 384 bit on the 4090.

I’m sure the increased perf of G7 would fully offset that, but this means without some larger caches it will be difficult for this to be a massive performance jump from last gen.

Unless they’re going 512 bit, in which case ignore all that and wow is this a monster.

Sounds like you should be in the market for an electric boiler and induction cooktop.

I’m fairly confident “rustls” should be “rust language server” if it stands for anything…

Ideal would be them not reversing a decade of energy savings in the name of AI, but yeah, if they’re going to do that anyway then Nuclear is one of the better options.

I don’t think there’s a good guy. Both parties suck here.

Mostly that it doesn’t work on Steam Deck. Hits memory limits IIRC.

I mostly agree, but it would be nice if it was a bit faster to be able to use it for web browsing. I still like reading long form articles and such but navigating and scrolling isn’t very viable yet on e-readers.

It would allow them to do HDMI FRL also, which is probably what you mean when you say HDMI 2.1. AMD cards also do HDMI FRL I thought. FRL is what allows things like 4k120Hz (higher bandwidth modes). The VRR that the Dock does is the VRR standardized with 2.1, which is why it works on TVs and devices that do not support freesync (see: LG TVs).

Anyway, the Dock doesn’t have a fast enough HDMI converter to do that. It’s not a licensing issue. Next gen Deck/Dock will probably do it.

Actually it works fine on Steam Deck. It uses VRR over DP to the dock, which then translates it to HDMI with VRR. The dock has proprietary firmware to do this.

Intel and Nvidia hardware with open source kernel drivers also do a similar trick where the HDMI part is in a firmware blob. Only AMD does not work with HDMI VRR.

Exactly. That’s why it’s a trash motherboard as soon as root access is gained. It can never again be trusted.

How do you trust that the flash was done properly if you did it from the compromised system? This would only work if you flashed it externally somehow without the system running.

But the energy usage is quoted as peak for the entire venue - which is literally a theater / concert hall. It opened with a live U2 performance. The energy usage isn’t just for the displays, it includes all the power for the entire building, the concert speakers, heating/cooling, indoor lighting, any kitchen equipment, etc.

Yes it is. It’s not in mainline wine, it’s been in kernel for a long time now.