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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by jotm »

cjsawyer wrote: post #85
philistine wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget to dissociate the concept of virtual worlds which already exist and are quite popular (MMOs etc.), and the idea of a virtual world owned and imagined by Zuckerberg which has been a terrible failure so far.

The opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular yet unrecognized for what they are.

Everyone just pretends there wasn't a time when people were spending years of their life in an MMO.

That was ruined by games trying to appeal to more mainstream people (with less hardcore Features like losing all your possessions upon death) and the micromonetization strategies that everyone hates.

I wonder if VR will even have games like early Everquest, WoW, EVE, etc but in VR.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by segmondy »

cjsawyer wrote: post #85
philistine wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget to dissociate the concept of virtual worlds which already exist and are quite popular (MMOs etc.), and the idea of a virtual world owned and imagined by Zuckerberg which has been a terrible failure so far.

The opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular yet unrecognized for what they are.

The difference between Facebooks Meta and other worlds is the difference between getting a billion+ people into the same virtual world. How big is Second Life? or Roblox?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

masklinn wrote: post #81
wilsonnb3 wrote: post #70

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Surprisingly it is not that niche anymore - for example, the hololive subreddit has 800,000 subscribers which is about half of the hockey subreddit.

Do all subscribers to team subreddits follow the main sub as well though? Because I assume fans follow "their" teams' subreddit, and there's several in the 100k range.

I think most fans subscribe to the "main" sub (r/hocket, nba, baseball, etc) for general league news and discussion in addition to team subs.

Hololive functions in a similar way - the most popular members have their own subreddits in addition to the main hololive sub.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by MisterTea »

dist1ll wrote: post #92
est31 wrote: post #84

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I think making it harder to build an OS by increasing its scope is not going to help people to build Linux alternatives. As for the components, at least their interfaces are standardized. You can remove memory sticks by manufacturer A and replace them with memory sticks from manufacturer B without problem. Same goes for SATA SSDs or mice or keyboards. Note that I'm all in favour of creating OSS firmware for devices,…

Building an OS is hard. There's no way around its complexity. But closing your eyes and pretending everything is a file is a security disaster waiting to happen (actually, happening every day). And furthermore, OS research is not only about building Linux alternatives. There are a lot of operating systems that have a much narrower focus than full-blown multi-tenant GPOS. So building holistic systems with a narrower f…

> But closing your eyes and pretending everything is a file is a security disaster waiting to happen (actually, happening every day).

What is this in response to? GP never mentioned file interfaces.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by babypuncher »

helf wrote: post #57

The fact so much hardware these days is running a full real-time OS all the time annoys me. I know it is normal and understandable but everything is such a black box and it has already caused headaches (looking at you, Intel).

This isn't even that new of a thing. The floppy disk drive sold for the Commodore 64 included it's own 6502 CPU, ROM, and RAM. This ran its own disk operating system[1]. Clever programmers would upload their own code to the disk drive to get faster read/writes, pack data more densely on the disk, and even copy protection schemes that could validate the authenticity of a floppy.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_DOS

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by sangnoir »

psychphysic wrote: post #90
masklinn wrote: post #80

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> From what I have gleaned, vTuber is a virtual YouTuber. The streams use an anime model a s behaviour. Yes, basically instead of streaming as themselves vTubers stream as a persona, usually with an anime-style virtual avatar. > And for some reason I feel creeped out now. There is something perturbing about the saccharin persona coupled with the pseudonym. I've not found a vTuber I enjoyed (but the main vTuber commun…

> However how is "Asahi Lina" and an animated cartoon avatar creepier than psychphysic and a random picture or manga snip on a forum 15 or 20 years ago? That's a really good question and I only have a cop-out answer. I'm not the type to get the creeps. But the immediate thought I had and commented else where was of Pennywise. Which is really quite alarming! I think the core was that Asahi in my mind is quite infantil…

> Nothing particularly predatory here, but there is still a feeling of a false sense of security.

What danger could an online persona possibly present to you? "[...]a false sense of security" implies there's a danger

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by fulafel »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #33
abdusco wrote: post #30

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GPU driver. So that one can install Windows on Apple Silicon and get accelerated graphics.

It would take more than a GPU Driver, or actually, drivers at all. Windows has some behavior that is hard-coded and cannot be changed except by Microsoft. This behavior can fairly easily be bent on Linux, but Windows drivers can't bend the rules for some of these issues. The biggest issue that immediately comes to mind is that the M1 MMU (Memory Management Unit) only can handle 16K pages. Linux can easily be built fo…

In https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/ it says that 4k pages work on the HW but 16k has tome advantages. Dropping 4k page size supporrt would imply a departure from arm architecture compatibility compatibility I think, it might have also nontechnical problems (ARM license).

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by astrange »

philistine wrote: post #59
segmondy wrote: post #54

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Which is what Zuck is trying to get us all into with the Meta, but the world is not ready yet.

Don't forget to dissociate the concept of virtual worlds which already exist and are quite popular (MMOs etc.), and the idea of a virtual world owned and imagined by Zuckerberg which has been a terrible failure so far.

Vtubers are popular because they aren’t in a virtual world you have to go visit. You just open up YouTube/Twitch and they stay in that little window without the possibility of getting trapped in an MMO where you die in real life if you die in the game.

Although some of them are designing “virtual worlds” as an excuse to get around YouTube moderation and taking 30% of superchats.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by Philip-J-Fry »

throwntoday wrote: post #43
qrio2 wrote: post #23

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pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.

Have to say as much as I want to watch their streams, I can't get passed the annoying voice.

This shouldn't be controversial to say, but it's blatantly obvious that it's a voice changer.
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