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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week. God bless anime.

The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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A chrome process normally takes up about 100-200MB RAM. Are you running 8GB/200MB=40+ different electron apps at once?

I assume you mean when nothing is loaded in it, or it's showing a plain HTML page. 1GB+ is completely common for a lot of Electron apps in real use. If you run a dev environment and are using 2-3 Electron apps, 16GB will be a struggle. Currently sitting at 29GB (on M1 Pro), just for regular web dev environment on MacOS.

> I assume you mean when nothing is loaded in it

Yes, but that's normally what people mean when they talk in broad strokes about "electron apps". Anything beyond that is application data, which is going to be roughly the same regardless of stack, and in nontrivial apps quickly comes to dominate.

> Currently sitting at 29GB (on M1 Pro), just for regular web dev environment on MacOS

I mean, I assume you're using more than just some regular electron apps. macOS itself is currently using 8GB of RAM on my machine, my docker VM is using 4GB (down from a default of 8GB), etc. And that doesn't include my IDE and its code-scanning and type-checking background processes.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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A chrome process normally takes up about 100-200MB RAM. Are you running 8GB/200MB=40+ different electron apps at once?

I assume you mean when nothing is loaded in it, or it's showing a plain HTML page. 1GB+ is completely common for a lot of Electron apps in real use. If you run a dev environment and are using 2-3 Electron apps, 16GB will be a struggle. Currently sitting at 29GB (on M1 Pro), just for regular web dev environment on MacOS.

Does that include docker (a VM?)

Does that include file system cache?

Having a system with lots of RAM, the OS does it's best to use it. Just because you see 29GB used doesn't mean you'd see a noticeable performance dip on a 16GB machine. You might, but it really depends what that RAM is being used for.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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It's perfectly normal to stream and not show your face at all. Preferring to present as an anime character will always be niche.

For once, I'd like to see a VTuber presented as classic Warner Brothers characters. Let's see Porky Pig present this stuff. (Anyway, the work itself is great!)

I would love to do a tech vtube as Slappy Squirrel.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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> Also, it is not unfair to ask questions considering people are donating money for this. Anyone who is donating money to both, to discover they may be the same entity, should be rightly upset.

Exactly, that's the point of a AMA (Ask Me Anything). You can literally ask them anything and as I presume you or others have paid / donated money to them and need to know what they are paying for or towards and who is doing it, for transparency purposes. That isn't doxxing, that's transparency (Especially if you paid or donated for this.)

Now, for 'transparency', name please?

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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It's perfectly normal to stream and not show your face at all. Preferring to present as an anime character will always be niche.

For once, I'd like to see a VTuber presented as classic Warner Brothers characters. Let's see Porky Pig present this stuff. (Anyway, the work itself is great!)

More likely it'll be a character like Dot. Or Bugs Bunny in a dress.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Incredibly fun hack to make it work (start of the video): TLB flushing is a bit hard, so let's reset the GPU after each frame(!!!). And at the rate this advances, this comment will probably be obsolete in less than a week !

The standard solution: turn it off, and turn it back on.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

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Just a heads up, scare quoting someone's preferred pronouns is not a good thing to do and comes off as very disrespectful if not outright transphobic.
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