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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • The 4090 isn’t that much better than the 4080, and the 4080 is much more energy efficient

    The 4090 often beats the 4080 with a margin of 25% or more often has a one percent low figure better than the average frame rates delivered by the 4080. If that is not enough for it to be considered much better, I don’t know what is.

    Regarding your comments on efficiency, generally the high end is not as efficient as the other GPUs as they are pushed beyond the ideal point of the voltage-frequency curve to extract the most performance. And even after this, in GPU bound scenarios, the 4090 does great as it uses 25-35% more power to deliver 20-30% better fps which puts it on average around 10-15% behind in efficiency which is not enough in my opinion to claim that the 4080 is much more efficient.

    Article based on hardware unboxed’s review - https://www.techspot.com/review/2569-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080/









  • I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

    But the voyager dev has not seen or used apollo’s code to build voyager. He has done everything from scratch only taking heavy inspiration from Apollo. Christian has helped indirectly by being the one to develop the UI which serves as inspiration but considering that voyager is not a competitor to apollo, in my opinion he has no right to be outraged at the fact that it is a looklike. He is free to not contribute to voyager and it is true that he has already contributed a lot indirectly but him getting angry or upset at the fact that the UI is pretty similar makes no sense to me.


  • RevenueCat used for in-app tipping is quite a heavy sdk. I’ve switched to a custom-built, lightweight solution.

    Slightly off topic but have you seen an increase in donations since the introduction of in-app tipping¿? If yes, then other open source apps could also implement this. The current funding and donations space of the open source community is in a poor state. I try to help by donating but I am from a developing country with a low cost of living so my donations are usually small amounts. Hopefully with in app tipping non tech oriented people who moved to lemmy are also donating.



  • I was talking more about the UI specifications and not about open sourcing the entire app. In any case it seems I was wrong because I could find nothing relating to Christian sharing his code or specification relating to apollo’s UI.

    This makes me respect @aeharding@lemmy.world even more because he was able to create an app pretty similar to Apollo(UI wise) by writing everything from scratch