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> This isn't any different than being "required" to create an Apple account. There's no requirement to create an apple account.
There isn't a requirement to create a Microsoft account, either.
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On that subject, anyone know why shifting to HDR dims everything that way? My mental model of it is that SDR brightness goes from 0 to 100, and HDR brightness goes from -100 to 100, and that turning on HDR moves everything not HDR-aware down to the bottom of the brightness space. I could look this up, but never think about it outside of conversations like this and figure it might be more fun to talk about it.
Because windows map sdr contents to srgb color space. Which nobody except designers uses. Most monitor today ship with a much brighter and, high contrast, vivid color profile by default. If you toggle your monitor to srgb color profile. You should see a color that looks really similar to sdr contents in Windows hdr mode. In my opinion, I also don't like it. But there is surely no way for Microsoft to chose a color pr…
I have monitor that have 187% sRGB, 129% Adobe RGB and 133% DCI P3 gammut volume. But to have correct sRGB colors with maximum coverage on monitor I need to clamp ICC profile via Novideo SRGB. Without it, sRGB content looks oversaturated in orange spectrum.
I hope for a future where we are not trapped between Windows, MacOS, and Linux. They are all very complicated, and have much state. They're great for general-purpose computing, but it would be cool if you could use the same hardware in these GP computers with lightweight firmware that doesn't get in the way, and can be tuned to a specific task better. Simple, responsive GUI, could run your specialty software etc with…
That's what I've been thinking about. Modern runtimes try to do a lot of OS' job(s) - memory management like gc, threads management, etc, etc. What if we stopped using OSes and their perf. penalties and run our software (with its runtimes like clr/jvm/wasmish) directly on the hardware
The alternative could be GPU like devices: A PCI-E card with sockets for the chip and some RAM running it's own firmware. Intel tried that with it's Xeon Phi line and they opted to run Linux (called uOS) on the accelerator board, so apparently that was never an issue.
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Where do I learn modern desktop Linux? I am using it on servers since 1993 and used for desktop 2004-2017 (and was very unhappy with it) so my desktop knowledge is severely outdated.
This is almost me. I used Linux on and off over the last 15 years. Mostly in servers, but I often installed a linux partition to try it out. I always went back to windows since windows was much simpler and I thought KDE and Gnome was similar anyway, I didn't see any benefit in switching. I permanently switched to Linux in august. I found out about window managers and now I see a real benefit on using Linux over Windo…
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Consider that your display can only do 0-100 brightness (not really but for sake of argument) In SDR, you map the full SDR range (also 0-100) to that 0-100. When you add HDR, you’re now adding levels above 100 (let’s say 0-200). If your display can only do upto 100, you now need to put all the 0-100 stuff in 0-50. Or you get a display that can also display 0-200. Very few computer displays can do over a standard SDR…
But why isn't SDR then scaled from 0-200, then? That is, why isn't "fully bright SDR" mapped to "fully bright HDR"?
AFAIK, most encoding standards only define a relative interpretation of the values within one data set. And even if standards did have a way to pin absolute physical ranges, many applications and content producers would likely ignore this and do their own normalization anyway, based on preconceptions about typical consumers or consumer equipment.
To have a "correct" mixing, you would need all content to be labeled with its intended normalization, so that you can apply the right gain to place each source into the output. And of course there might be a need for user policy to adjust the mix. I think an HDR compositor ought to have gain adjustments per stream, just like the audio mixer layer.
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Interesting thought, but you might be missing the hardware perspective. I switched from Windows to Linux this year, and the biggest issue has been drivers and hardware compatibility: audio available via headphones but not (laptop) built-in speakers, occasional display issues depending on the monitor setup, occasional WiFi issues. If hardware innovation stopped, Linux could catch up easily... but it won't, so there is…
> switched from Windows to Linux this year, and the biggest issue has been drivers and hardware compatibility It's not 1999, this hasn't been an issue for me on any Dell, HP or Lenovo system in 2 decades.
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Where do I learn modern desktop Linux? I am using it on servers since 1993 and used for desktop 2004-2017 (and was very unhappy with it) so my desktop knowledge is severely outdated.
Depends on your focus. If it is privacy or security, you may want to consider Tails and Qubes OS recommended by Edward Snowden. [1] https://tails.net/ [2] https://www.qubes-os.org/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-B9d7iz1A
The whole point is that you want all instances of Tails to look the same on the network so they can't fingerprint you. Once you start making it a daily driver, picking up a lot of cookies, making it your own, etc. then the point of using it is moot.
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I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus). It's the first thing I disable whenever I want to do some serious disk I/O. Also Windows still uses NTFS which dates back to 2000. For compatibility reasons, fair enough. But surely NTFS wasn't designed with SSDs in mind, let alone NVMEs.
> I blame Windows Defender (anti-virus). It would be nice if Windows Defender tone down their on-the-fly aggressive scanning for anything I/O related. For any I/O activity, it regularly consumes up to 30% of my CPU. Moving files to a different directory rev up Windows Defender even it scans the folder in the past. I wish there is a granular control over Windows Defenders in a way that it would not be aggressive with…
I've been playing around with Ubuntu training myself for the day that I have to give up windows 10. My only complaints are that Linux can be tedious, everything is just 43 commands away; it requires greater understanding of not just what the system is doing, but how it is doing it; and the documentation is written like a Wikipedia article on advanced nuclear theory. Windows and OSX have, for the most part, just worke…