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  • edinbruh@feddit.ittoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldYou got it, buddy
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    Anyone who’s a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that “transform” means “changing shape”, and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called “canines”. At that point, “caniformia” obviously means “dog-shaped”.

    Specialistic terms don’t need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist. I can say that “a complete lattice is the generalisation of the power set of some domain” which is a phrase composed entirely of English words but if you haven’t studied anything about abstract algebra you don’t knkw what it means, but that is a phrase made for math students, not for any random guy.

    Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say “Canis lupus” to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.

    P.s. you know that Mussolini had all commonly used foreign words and names translated to Italian? And to this day Italian children don’t study Francis Bacon and René Descartes, but Francesco Bacone and Renato Cartesio.




  • edinbruh@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.mllooking for a RDP client
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    7 days ago

    Have you tried gnome connections? It’s more on the “quick and easy” rather than “professional” side, but maybe it does the job.

    Tho I wonder whether it’s more of a windows-side issue… maybe windows 11 requires some kind of online authentication that cannot be implemented by other clients, and maybe this authentication can be turned off. I’m merely speculating here, but I know that remmina works for windows 10 so it’s suspicious.







  • AMD has an nvdec/nvenc equivalent called AMF, on Linux it’s going to be deprecated in months in favour of va-api.

    To my knowledge, it does not have an nvfbc equivalent. Which anyway, Nvidia has deprecated on windows in favour of a windows-native screen capture with a name I don’t remember.

    For what is worth, va-api encoding + kmsgrab works pretty well for me, it does have some latency, but nothing too unacceptable. Probably less than the one caused by the Bluetooth controller. And none of this is vendor specific, you can get it working on Intel, AMD and Nvidia (Nvidia needs a compatibility layer, but it works). Also, it works on Wayland, but sunshine needs some privileges to work.

    Sunshine supposedly supports nvfbc with patched Nvidia drivers, even on Linux, I haven’t tried it, so I don’t know if it works on Wayland. I don’t see why it shouldn’t, as long as you give sunshine privileged permissions (like you need for kmsgrab). Even without nvfbc you can use nvenc, so you don’t need the va-api compatibility layer.

    Supposedly, since this Nvidia driver release nvfbc is used as backend for pipewire screen capture, so it should just work for apps like OBS, I don’t know if sunshine has intention to move to it.

    In general, screen capture on Linux pretty much works, even on Wayland. The general sentiment that it’s broken is actually old news.

    There’s a caveat though. Proprietary apps tend to use outdated stuff (e.g. electron builds from 5 years ago) and thus don’t support screen sharing on Wayland.








  • The PS3 doesn’t have an ATI gpu. TL;DR: it’s Nvidia.

    The PS3 has a weird, one-of-a-kind IBM processor, called Cell. You can think of it kind of as a hybrid design that is both a CPU and a GPU (not like “a chip with both inside” but “a chip that is both”) meant for multimedia and entertainment applications (like a game console). It was so peculiar that developers took a long time before learning how to use it effectively. Microsoft didn’t want to risk it, so they went with a different CPU always from IBM that shared some of the Cell’s design, but without the special GPU-ish parts, and paired it up with an ATI GPU.

    Now, Sony wanted to get away with only the Cell, and use it both as CPU and GPU, but various tests showed that despite everything, it wasn’t powerful enough to keep up with the graphics they expected. So they reached out to NVIDIA (not ATI) to make an additional GPU, so they designed a modified version of the 7800 GTX to work together with the Cell. To fully utilise the PS3 graphics hardware, one would have to mainly use the GPU for graphics, and assist it with the special Cell hardware. Which is harder.