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Mesa 23.0.2 is out today with dozens of fixes including some RADV ray-tracing fixes, RADV ACO fixes, a null pointer dereference fix within the Vulkan WSI code, a variety of Intel driver fixes, a handful of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan fixes, an Akka Arrh arcade game workaround for Mesa, and other random fixes throughout.

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Ewww...this is good news. Long time Nvidia GPU user but got a really good deal on a 6700xt card, installing today. I haven't used an AMD card, well, in many years. :crossed_fingers:t2::crossed_fingers:t2::crossed_fingers:t2:

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System’s so full of rust now I need a gallon of WD-40 to get it running.

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Good thing I prefer older vehicles:

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It is beyond me why a light needs to be attached to a data bus.
Why does a car even need smart lights...

To make all new vehicles unservicable by the average purchaser. The dealerships all make most of their profits from their service garage. The more complex the vehicle is, the more money they make, as most maintenance requires special tools or computer diagnostic equipment these days.

:money_with_wings:

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To be very honest, I don't see point in "smart vehicles" at all.

Like I like electric cars, because they help to reduce urban pollution a lot, especially in crowded cities. They help to kind off "decentralize" the pollution. Pollution is major issue why I don't like metropolitan cities as well. But electric cars and 2 wheelers helps to reduce pollution a lot and pollution is slowly but surely, getting reduced in these cities. ( take example of New Delhi, the capital of India )

But I don't see any valid reason for connecting cars with internet and all that. They make cars more vulnerable to theft, and as @ tbg said, make cars require more frequent high cost maintainence.

Plus most of them doesn't sound as good as old cars :grin:

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The only reason I see for cars connected to the internet is the nowadays often included navigation system, but yet again it can be used beautifully to track your exact location, speed and rotation at all times...

Also who marked a solution for this thread? This means it's gonna get closed automatically

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good point i dont know but I will unsolve it :smiley:

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Speaking of cars...

...and now to Mars...

Fancy a Mars flyover this weekend? You're in luck, as a team from Caltech just published a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of Mars that can be explored in 3D, just like Google Earth.

With a resolution of five metres per pixel, the new Global CTX Mosaic of Mars boasts twenty times the image quality of previous global Mars maps, Caltech said. It covers around 99.5 percent of the Martian surface, between 88 degrees North and 88 degrees South, with the remaining half percent missing because the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) either hasn't snapped shots of an area or the images weren't high enough quality to include.

EXCLUSIVE: Here's a photo they omitted...

[Marvin the Martian]

:smiley:

Owners of MSI-brand motherboards, GPUs, notebooks, PCs, and other equipment should exercise caution when updating their device's firmware or BIOS after the manufacturer revealed it has recently suffered a cyberattack.

In a statement shared on Friday, MSI urged users "to obtain firmware/BIOS updates only from its official website," and to avoid using files from other sources.

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Just released...new KDE widget for external monitor adjustments. How-to in the github description.

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WARNING…controversial open source topic ahead, please check your pulse and proceed…

The Free Software Foundation is one of the longest-running missions in the free software movement, effectively defining it. It provides a legal foundation for the movement and organizes activism around software freedom. The GNU project, closely related, has its own long story in our movement as the coding arm of the Free Software Foundation, taking these principles and philosophy into practice by developing free software; notably the GNU operating system that famously rests atop GNU/Linux. Today, almost 40 years on, the FSF is dying.

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html

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If they end up dying, all their licenses pretty much lose their entire value. The FSF is the organization that you can call upon to enforce the licenses they created. If they vanish, I don’t think you can do a lot to protect your licensed things apart from straight up going to court, which will cost money and stuff.

I don’t necessarily agree with most of their visions but I do respect them for their licenses. I think Richard Stallman is a bit too radical.

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Hm, is there any indication that "the FSF is dying" other than this blog post?
I confess I'm not following the news so I may be missing some important information, but it came across more as opinion than fact.
And his point 1 makes me think it's more about Stallman and "the demographics he represents" than anything else.

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I haven't really been keep up with the Kardashian's Stallman drama, which seemed to really be at the heart. This is the first I heard of the FSF "dying." I wonder if it is more about "change" than anything else, and in this opinion piece, change in the form of more progressive ideals?

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Last week I ran some benchmarks of AMD EPYC with the new AMD P-State EPP mode while in today's article is a look at the laptop impact with Ryzen Mobile when comparing ACPI CPUFreq, the existing AMD P-State driver, and the new AMD P-State EPP mode and its multiple different preferences.

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When looking at the peak CPU frequency on a one second polling basis over the course of all the benchmarks run, amd_pstate powersave never broke 414MHz on its fastest core and thus the very poor raw performance.

This brings back memories... :confused:

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