Sorry, there are no PPAs that have all codecs compiled in? Is it illegal to distribute or something?

Can’t you just install ffmpeg from a PPA rather than compile it yourself?

No, it’s one person who is so unironically salty that they post memes about how much they hate Linux several times a day.

Hey, don’t be sexist. There’s plenty of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy dudes in the same work pool.

My feed is aware of my politics and throws everyone I’m friends with or follow (and some who I’ve unfollowed) who wrote something objectively wrong or stupid that’s biased the other way politically.

It’s literally all rage bait unless I go in and manually block it from showing me those people at all.

I mean, they don’t HAVE to, but if they choose not to, the board of directors will push for a change in CSUITE personnel

If the board doesn’t maximize profit, the shareholders can sue them, so functionally they do have to.

Am I right to assume you’ve got a laptop? Otherwise 70C is a terrible temp to hit at idle

Generally the app is better. Compatible with more container formats, audio formats (surround sound, Dolby digital, etc), and has hardware supported decoding for h265 video in addition to h264.

At least in the case of a Jellyfin server, you can download media locally when you know you’ll be without internet

This dude’s videos impress me to no end

Those micro stutters and lower performance for the non-steam games are due to shaders needing to compile as you play. If you play for a while and keep the same Proton version, they’ll eventually go away and performance will improve.

Not sure this qualifies as insane. Seems more like a self-defense maneuver to me. People have harassed and stalked this man to an absurd degree over features they wanted and bugs that bothered them that in some cases only existed in forks like Swanstation.

This is on top of this guy working a full time job. He can do what he wants and give away free code to the world on whatever terms he sees fit.

Basically, he got too famous and entitled assholes started treating him like a public slave.

It sucks and I’m sad to see him turn the project away from a true FOSS license, but I’d rather he contribute public code than not.

Is that Reinhard Von Musel?

There are powered extensions, so one of those might work, but a hub is certainly a comparable price and a more compact solution

The architecture was originally developed for desktop PCs, but they discovered it was incredibly efficient at the time (late 80s, early 90s), so Apple partnered with ARM to develop it for the Newton.

The first commercial device with an ARM chip that I remember fondly was a Gameboy Advance.

It’s more like a built-in hardware emulation mode than anything else. Modern ARM chips use out of order execution as the default, whereas x86 uses ordered execution as the default. M-series and Snapdragon X chips have a little flag that can be passed to tell the hardware to run in in-order mode instead of out-of-order mode.

Depends on how it’s implemented. If they have a version of Proton that translates all x86 windows syscalls to ARM Linux, some operations could be extremely efficient.

There’s definitely got to be more overhead overall, though. Especially for devices with memory page sizes other than 4K, like the M-series Apple chips do (they use 16K as their page size), likely a VM will need to be sandwiched in there to ensure memory alignment. It’ll more fully be emulation and not just translation.

Even Rosetta still gives up 10%+ efficiency compared to a native compilation of the same program. I’m not saying it’s not viable, but in a resource constrained (especially battery-constrained) device 10% is a lot.

Steam for Android ready to play my PC games from my phone sounds awesome, not gonna lie.

In the shorter-term the issue is the lack of sufficiently powerful commercially-available RISC-V hardware for the level of gaming people expect out of a Steam Deck or VR headset, which ARM already has a number of SOCs capable of.

I don’t doubt that the work will continue but Valve isn’t likely to pour time or money into it until they think the hardware is there.