People tend to imagine owning an electric vehicle and doing exactly the same things with it that they do with a gas car, so a 5 minute charge on the way to work every week or two. But that’s not what you actually do.

You can tell people about home charging and that you haven’t been to a charging station in six months, but they won’t really get it until they drive an EV themselves. You only fast charge on long trips, and by the time your car needs charged you need a break and a coffee. My car charges pretty slowly and it’s still ready to go before I am.

Even electric trucks do okay on 350 kW charging - driving time rules mean that if you plug in when you take a break, the truck won’t run out of miles before the driver runs out of hours.

The big charging number gets the attention, but installing more chargers in more places is really what’s needed. And 50 kW chargers for charging trucks overnight.

As we saw with Intel GPUs performance isn’t even the main issue, it’s the drivers. How many games will run on it without crashing or having bizarre performance problems?

Put a strip of tape across the top of the screen.

The problem it solves might not be a problem for anybody but Google. They might be trying to build their own OS to put on future devices.

Vulkan was the successor to AMD’s Mantle API from 2013, though. Metal wasn’t first.

They do seem to alternate between making MacOS graphics worse and wondering why nobody’s making games for MacOS.

Management seem to think that desktop Mac has the same market share that iPhone does and keep wondering why throwing their weight around isn’t working.

Not an expert, but I’ll give it a shot. That way someone will speak up to correct me. 🐸

With an AMD GPU on Linux, you’ve got your kernel amdgpu driver which talks to the hardware, loads firmware, etc.

Sitting on top of that is Mesa, which provides an opengl and vulkan driver. Your application talks to the opengl driver which talks to the kernel driver which talks to the hardware.

Windows has it’s own graphics stack, which has video card drivers and DirectX drivers.

Metal is Apple’s proprietary Vulkan knock-off, which seems to exist to force game devs to write games that only run on MacOS. This hasn’t really worked.

Magma seems to be about inserting a layer between the kernel driver and Mesa, so you can use Mesa OpenGL drivers on top of Magma on Windows kernel drivers? That’s not really something most people are looking to do.

You can’t even assume those people are people. There’s a lot of bot powered disinformation out there.

WoW64 is a Windows subsystem for running 32-bit stuff on 64-bit Windows. You’re talking about Wine’s implementation of WoW64 - there’s the old one which needs 32-bit Linux libraries and the new one which doesn’t.

Also, if you want people to solve your issue instead of just guessing, we’re gonna need to see some logs.

port forwarding/firewall issues that most people don’t know how to deal with

This sort of thing makes me want to tear my hair out when I hear “Why bother rolling out IPv6 when IPv4 just WORKS!?”

NAT, port forwarding and the problems they cause are seen as expected, just the way the internet works instead of the dirty hacks they actually are. Most people aren’t old enough to remember the time when everything connected to the internet had a routable IPv4 address.

My phone will hotspot when it’s connected to WiFi. I can even tether it to a desktop PC and use it as a WiFi adapter.

against two weaker GPUs (the 3060 and 2060 Super) where the new card would be sure to win.

IIRC they also insisted multi-frame generation be used, which the 3060 and 2060 Super don’t support. That’s why the 4060 isn’t allowed, it does support MFG and it’d sink the plan to inflate 5060 benchmark results with fake frames.

The specific games using specific settings at 1080p bit is because in 2025 they have to carefully choose scenarios that won’t overflow the tiny VRAM of the cards and tank performance to below the level of the 3060 12GB.

Shout out to Hardware Unboxed for getting a 5060 review done at Computex with some amazing B-roll

I’ve heard that’s a thing - people spend the morning in church being told that they’re better than everyone else and then they carry that attitude with them when they go out to eat after church. It takes them a few hours to sober up and remember how to human.

Bonus points if they complained about all the foreigners (French people) in Paris.

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.

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.