Agreed, but a 13 year old Nissan leaf is rather old at this point (which is a good thing!), and is affordable. The person I was responding to implied that there are current production cars without tracking, but they are just unaffordable to most, which I found confusing, as I struggle to come up with a modern current production vehicle that doesn’t track the user regardless of it being basic affordable transportation or a Ferrari.

Besides kit cars or deliberately older designed cars like a Morgan Stanley, what modern cars have no driver tracking? The only one I’m aware of is the Slate EV.

I’m not sure if it’s just that my palate became more picky as I’ve gotten older, but I remember canned soups being pretty decent as a kid. Nowadays I usually cook my own food, but recently I’ve been trying canned soups again, and I’m astonished how bad most brands are. Campbells or Progresso are either bland or taste actively terrible. The only ones I’ve tried that actually taste good are usually kinda expensive, like Amy’s or Snow’s.

Curious if anyone here who was an adult 20 or 30 years ago can confirm that affordable canned soups tasted better in the past, or if my memory is deceiving me.

It’s not that they don’t process words, it’s that those without internal monologues may think in concepts, images, or visualized actions rather than using the words those concepts are attached to. As an example, some deaf people if they have an internalized monologue have reported their monologue being visualized sign language, instead of audible speech spoken in their head. There’s quite a lot of variability in how someone processes their internal thoughts.

Some without internal monologues have mentioned that they can vocalize text in their head, but only if done consciously, and they usually find that it would make reading agonizingly slow to do so for them.

Simon Roper does a couple really excellent videos on this subject, if you’d like to hear a very eloquent first hand experience of someone else’s non-monologue internal thoughts.

• Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way?
• Consciousness, Qualia and Internal Monologues

Also @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz

That’s a good point. I went back to the video to rewatch it, and turns out I totally missed where they said they only freeze things during a testing phase, then unfreeze it after they’re done and allow updates to commence as normal.

They mentioned that due to Linux receiving more frequent updates often with meaningful performance improvements, they’ll have to throw away older data and re-test more often on Linux, as Windows doesn’t really change much in performance between updates. So I would guess that they would use release drivers with new cards, and likely would only re-test their entire suite if the release driver also gave a big performance boost on older cards.

AFAIK, It’s not an issue of automated testing, and I don’t believe they re-test all their cards on Windows with every new review either. Instead, they maintain the same versions of software on Windows as well until enough time has passed and enough updates have piled up that they do finally re-test everything with new games to create a new dataset to compare against. They’re trying to do the same methodology on Linux.

Without re-testing their entire suite of cards for every new card review (which is cost prohibitive), performance changing from updates would make the comparisons between cards less useful, as it cannot be determined if the newer card being tested is better or worse purely on the merits of the hardware itself, since newer software may be artificially making it look better or worse than the tested cards that came before, and thus the actual integrity and usefulness of the testing comes into question.

They are trying to assemble a like-for-like dataset that doesn’t require their entire catalog of cards to be regularly retested to ensure that it remains like-for-like. Keeping all the software the same across tests ensures that they can add new data piecemeal and still retain an apples-to-apples comparison.

I’ve seen the ancient gameplays video you linked, but there is very little out there for linux vs windows benchmarks that are of high quality.

The video I linked is 2 months old, only focuses on graph data (no gameplay videos) across both AMD and NVidia cards and multiple distros. It’s quite high quality IMHO. Are you confusing it with something else?

EDIT: I just realized you’re referring to the name of his youtube channel. D’oh!

GamersNexus’ normal GPU benchmark videos are to help gamers compare GPU performance on various games to determine what they should purchase for their needs. With this new video, they are now providing the same service for Linux Gamers going forward.

The goal of this video was not to compare Windows performance to Linux performance. There are videos that exist which do that, if that is what you’re were hoping for.

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Personally, in this case I think the title itself is enough info to determine if it’s an interesting enough topic to visit the youtube page to then read the description for more info before clicking play. Some lemmy clients even provide the youtube description in the post itself (the desktop Lemmy-UI only shows a short preview of the description).

For videos that don’t have a simple premise and are difficult to capture in a short post title, I sometimes add a longer description and my own thoughts in the post body (such as when I post movies to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social), but for videos like this, which is quite straight forward, I don’t feel the need to summarize their methodology of the benchmarks, since it’s there in the video for those interested, but most will be more interested in the benchmark data itself.

A brief statement on how the OS used may be detrimental to windows would have been useful, for example.

This testing is not comparative to Windows benchmarks, it is only testing and comparing benchmarks on Linux between different GPUs. This is sort’ve a big deal, because GamersNexus is known for extremely rigorous and consistent testing, to the point where all in it cost them 10K in labor to fully set up their Linux testing suite. Long term this is a great boon to Linux gamers for deciding what hardware to purchase for their needs.

I’m not sure what advantage a summary of benchmarks across multiple games would bring, or how that amount of data could be summarized.

The average American reads below a 6th grade level.

Here’s a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.

Ah, bugger :(

Hopefully they’ll get it to 100% at some point.

On a more technical note, the OMEMO-related code was completely redesigned and simplified. This fixes numerous issues we had with key synchronization and message decryption.

That’s very good news, as OMEMO been a consistent paper-cut in the past. If this update resolves that, that’ll make Movim very slick to use with encryption enabled!

I didn’t interpret their comment as suggesting that modern consumers would be familiar with a floppy disk, but instead was pointing out that regular consumers in the past often handled floppy disks, which made a good case for it being a common symbol at that time. However, since SSD’s aren’t used so commonly by average consumers, it may not make a good replacement as a symbol.

That would suggest that perhaps there is a more commonly recognized object that can be represented skeuomorphically. Off the top of my head, an SD card may be a good option.

A lot of consumers don’t work on their computers. They either bring it to a computer repair store or buy a new one if they don’t have a family member or friend who can fix it for them.

As for what exact percentage of people in the world work on their own computers, I’m not sure if that has been studied. PC gamers often build their own PC, but many may buy a pre-built instead.

the Movim XMPP client could probably be modified to replicate discord, as it’s already close.

The linked documentary offers a strong critique of the reformist attempts from local Chileans who were there on the ground (starting at around one hour in). I can only offer my own criticisms as a non-Chilean looking in from the outside.

Historically liberal reform either kicks the can of capitalism’s problems down the road (FDR in the 1930’s), or fails to even kick the can due to so much corporate capture of the government, that it actually accelerates a turn toward right-wing authoritarianism.

In the case of Chile, the latter case seems to be happening. The proposed progressive constitution to replace Pinochet’s constitution likely failed due to the deep corporate pockets available to right-wing institutions, who are able to effectively trick under-educated citizens into voting against their own interests through massive propaganda campaigns (the same thing happened in the US thanks to Fox news, hence why they are now in a power struggle against literal fascists).

The right-wing then mobilized to create a new right-wing pro corporate constitution, which was only narrowly avoided despite their propaganda efforts.

The new leftist president Gabriel Boric, as most leftist politicians do after reaching political office, began to become more moderate, all the while congress, who are corporate captured, continued to vote down his reformist taxation policies. It’s a classic tactic of letting the left spin their wheels and burnout in congress/parliament for years to stall direct action. All the while regular people continue to suffer under capital, and become more and more enchanted by the easy solutions fascists can offer.

History has generally shown that the olive branch of reform is a tool used by the elites and capital to quell a growing movement to overthrow them. It’s their last option before using more brutal authoritarian control to maintain their grasp on power.

The most effective non-violent action we can take is to organize a General Strike.

The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.

If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike).

• 🌍 US/Global: IWW (Français) - (Español)

And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.

• 🇦🇷 Argentina: FORA
• 🇦🇺 Australia: ASF-IWA
• 🇧🇷 Brazil: FOB
• 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: ARS, CITUB
• 🇩🇪 Germany: FAU
• 🇬🇷 Greece: ESE
• 🇮🇹 Italy: USI
• 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 Netherlands & Belgium: Vriji Bond
• 🇪🇸 Spain: CNT
• 🇸🇪 Sweden: SAC
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: UVW