“Globalism” invariably means some sort of conspiracy theory, usually about Jews. Given this party are also anti-vaxxers, that’s the most plausible conclusion.

And a broader coalition among the rest of the Western countries including Europe and Australia/NZ etc makes more sense than duplicating effort in every country.

Good - Leaptel, Superloop

Good but expensive - Aussie Broadband, Launtel

Okay - TPG, Spintel

I avoid Telstra and Optus and most of the other providers, so can’t comment on those.

Typically, I switch back and forth between Leaptel and Superloop as they normally have 6/12 month deals. One downside with Superloop is that you are expected to give 1 month notice when switching away. Sometimes you can get away with not, but I wouldn’t rely on it.

I’ll add that Exetel is owned by Superloop now, so experience will be roughly the same (but they use PPoE which is slightly annoying).

The other points have been answered, so I’ll try and give a surface view of Magma. It’s basically an abstraction layer for virtual GPU drivers used in VMs. Currently, you need specific implementations to handle all of the pathways between different types of VM guests and hosts, which gets complicated fast, and duplicates a lot of work. The idea is the Magma abstracts this away, and so host and guest GPU drivers only need to interface with Magma. Which means you can swap out different host OSes/GPU drivers and different guest OSes and GPU drivers, and as long as they interface with Magma, they should “just work”.

Of course, whether it will work out that way in practice remains to be seen. I think Google is using it internally but it’s not in Mesa yet, so it may not even roll out widely. You can follow the MR if you want more detail or to see its progress.

If you’re wondering why Google is implementing this it appears to be for Fuschia and Android, and compatibility between those two and with desktop Linux, with Windows support also supported as an additional value add. Chromebooks in particular should benefit from this, since ChromeOS is being retired I believe.

And as an aside, unlike some of the traditional GPU implementations you’d find in VMs, these are or will be pretty much just the normal graphics driver that you’d use on the host. They are generally called “native contexts” and have been implemented for AMD and Intel at the least, but only on non-Windows systems for now. These implementations alone, once they are widely supported, should result in near native GPU performance in VMs, without having to use GPU passthrough (I.e. passing through a physical GPU to the VM guest). So even without Magma there’s some promising stuff happening, albeit mainly on the Linux host -> Linux guest pathway.

And even if they could, it wouldn’t save them, as being “one of the good ones” does nothing to prevent deportation or worse.

I’m guessing it’s the AI agent stuff. Which at the moment is literally just automating browsing through a website.

Apparently there will be APIs to do this in the future. Ironically, AI wouldn’t even be needed for that to be useful.

Valve is one of the main contributors to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, and a bunch of other parts of Mesa and the open driver stack in general.

I should probably add that some of this work is on RDNA3 FSR4 support, which isn’t even supported on Windows. It’s not amazingly fast, but it’s now faster than native and that might be enough to make it worth it (especially in the cases where it improves image quality due to poor TAA implementations).

mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that’s unlikely to happen due to DRM.

It’s main benefit is compatibility. As you said fsync is a hack and can cause issues with some games and applications.

The other benefit is more about packaging and the like, in that you won’t have to deal with third party patches. Not an issue if you’re using Proton but can be if you’re using vanilla Wine.

Personal responsibilty approaches to behaviour change have never worked and never will work. You might as well be shouting into the void for all the good it will do. You need to address these sorts of issues at the societal level.

This seems like a “why not both” situation. Limit e-bike speeds to those that are typical in most parts of the world and reduce city speed limits for cars to 20mph, and enforce it aggressively.

Youtube varies from genuinely good content, to generic filler, to complete and utter trash, and there is much of the latter two because it’s not curated by anyone (other than by algorithms).

Try “We Own This City” from David Simon, if you want a documentary on the police that isn’t propaganda.

Neither Reddit nor Lemmy are monoliths. Yes, some are likely being hypocritical, but it’s also likely that there isn’t much overlap between those that were critical of Nvidia’s FG and not of LSFG. I say this because there is still a lot of people shitting on FG in general, whether it’s justified or not.

Another useful use case is that the tool works on videos with mpv to interpolate to a higher frame rate. I know that subjectively not everyone likes that for film, but for footage that doesn’t rely on sets and the like such as sport and Youtube videos it’s a nice improvement.

In terms of quality vs performance, I’d say it’s somewhere between the lower quality SVP default and the higher quality (but very resource intensive) RIFE implementation. There’s also LSFG_PERF_MODE=1 and decreasing the flow rate, but the former was a pretty obvious decline in quality, but might be needed on slower GPUs.

EDIT: Another piece of advice I’ll give is to set PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 if you’re trying to run a 32-bit game, as there isn’t a 32-bit build for lsfg-vk at the moment. The env above allows 32-bit games to use 64-bit dependencies, provided it’s a Windows game and you use a recent version of Proton (Experimental and likely Proton GE 10 or greater).

Homer pretends to be Cornelius Talmage so he can finally be “like a baby, but you’re old enough to appreciate it!” In this scene, he’s racing Jasper for first dibs on the quality cuisine served in the retirement home.

Your kernel must be patched with ntsync patches. If your system does not have /dev/ntsync then your kernel does not have the patches required to use ntsync.

It might also be compiled as a module, but not loaded by default.

sudo modprobe ntsync can be used to test this.

It’s at least partly eugenics, which is a common undercurrent in the anti-vaccine movement. Remove healthcare altogether and only the “strongest” will survive.

Bring on socialised dental. The horror when our entire population has healthy teeth!

I’m not sure if this is anything new, but maybe it’s getting worse. Most of my friends when I was younger wouldn’t do anything more than the “stand still and sway” method of dancing because they didn’t want to look silly.

One of the reasons people do use roads is that they are often flatter and in better condition, and you’re not competing for space with children and dogs. But better that than cars with all the risks that come with them (collisions and noise/air pollution).

However, the health benefits of regular exercise tend to outweigh the risk of air pollution (although perhaps not in severely polluted cities like in parts of India). So it’s probably still worth if that’s the most convenient place to exercise, if you can minimise the safety risk at least.