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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by chrisweekly »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #17
londons_explore wrote: post #7

The November 2020 M1 machines are nearly getting to daily usability in Linux. Support for screen brightness adjustment, the webcam, speakers and mic are the remaining things for day to day use for me. All look like they should be working in 6 months-1 year. It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms - I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

> I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time. I honestly hopoe Electron has to improve it's performance or companies start moving off of it. It's honestly a bit of a joke at this point.

Desktop PWA is becoming a pretty reasonable alternative.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by lnyan »

Also check out Alyssa Rosenzweig's "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU" series

- https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html, https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-2.html, https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html

- https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html, https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-5.html, https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by _ph_ »

Thaxll wrote: post #8
spyremeown wrote: post #5

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.

For me, it isn't annoying, I basically cannot understand it most of the time. Which of course kills the whole thing for me.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by cguess »

chrisweekly wrote: post #41
that_guy_iain wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time. I honestly hopoe Electron has to improve it's performance or companies start moving off of it. It's honestly a bit of a joke at this point.

Desktop PWA is becoming a pretty reasonable alternative.

I don't want to run a web browser to run a desktop app. I don't care how useful it is to run JS and HTML from a dev standpoint it's an absolutely absurdity that my desktop app has a CORS vulnerability.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by brundolf »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

The November 2020 M1 machines are nearly getting to daily usability in Linux. Support for screen brightness adjustment, the webcam, speakers and mic are the remaining things for day to day use for me. All look like they should be working in 6 months-1 year. It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms - I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

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

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by snek_case »

resoluteteeth wrote: post #9
spyremeown wrote: post #5

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.

It would kind of make sense for people who just don't want to show their face even if they don't want to be particularly vtuber-y I was wondering if this would be more common as the technology developed but it seems like it hasn't and instead there are specific ideas about what vtubers are supposed to be that have become entrenched. There are some people like Hikalium who are using vtuber avatars for live programming…

With deep learning you'll eventually be able to just have a very realistic avatar that looks and sounds like a real person. Might eventually be hard to tell if people are using something like this or not.
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