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  • I’m using fedora 42 kde on my new laptop since I couldn’t get mint working - fucking visit drivers.

    Anywho, doom: the dark ages runs like wet ass and I’m wondering if it has something to do with video codecs or mesa )don’t know what mesa is and there’s a 5080 in there.

    I reinstalled tempeh and all my videos work, but - any chance you could point me towards what to do with the video codecs just so I can confirm? If you can offer some guidance on how to install whatever mesa is I want to try that to see if it helps (even though afaik the game should be using the ncidia drivers anyway).

    The laptop has a ryzen cpu btw.

    Also cool if you can’t help. Figured I’d ask. I’m new to fedora.

    Edit: it just suddenly works fine now for no particular reason.




  • I really don’t understand this perspective. I truly don’t.

    You see a new technology with flaws and just assume that those flaws will always be there and the technology will never progress.

    Like. Do you honestly think this is the one technology that researchers are just going to say “it’s fine as-is, let’s just stop improving it”?

    You don’t understand the first thing about how it works but people like you are SO certain that the way it is now is how it will always be, and that because there are flaws developing it further is pointless.

    I just don’t get it.




  • Patents can’t be owned by companies. Only individuals. In the event of any patent being the result of a team effort each person responsible for its development is gets a proportion of profits from it.

    If person develops a patent while employed at a corporation that company owns a lease on the patent lasting 10 or 20 years or something .

    I’m sure there’s holes in this you can drive a truck through but high level I feel like there is something there.

    I also can’t be arsed to flesh it out further.



  • way back in the early oughts i was in a tech enjanced learning program - on paper it was a solid idea. Small class size with hands-on support from our schools more tech literate teachers.

    in practice we pretty much just tried to play quake 3 with each other withojt getting caught.

    our teacher was on a years long crusade to find the server hosting the quake 3 installer, as we had software that locked the hard drives so any changes would be undone when rebooted. to my knowledge he never did, and the entire drama around it was hollarious.