This isn’t even close to chill, dude. Wow. If you think that tone is going to help, I’m not sure what going through your head. Would you welcome or be convinced by somebody writing like that in your open source project?

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Bro, chill out. Just because someone missed something doesn’t mean you have to lose your mind about it. Your comment could’ve been a helpful one that provides a solution and explains (in a calm and polite manner) why it could be better than what’s proposed. Additionally, instead of complaining loudly about missing documentation and writing up a storm about it, why not contribute documentation?

Just because someone doesn’t know something you don’t, doesn’t make them an idiot. You need to learn about humility.

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iptables default DENY and flush the rules. Done by at least two people I know (then me) at the same company. Led to them moving the servers in-house and virtualizing some services to connect to the hypervisor. It does happen though.

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I love this argument because it means this dude is the only skilled C developer on the planet. Chromium devs are just chumps that should be replaced by this uncommon God.

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Thanks, this is the answer to the question I was just asking! (What is Magma trying to solve).

Can you dive a little deeper in how Magma is solving this? Don’t VMs have a virtual GPU with a driver for that GPU in the guest that, I imagine, forwards the graphics instructions and routines to the driver on the host? (possibly even translating to OpenGL or VK that then is handled by Mesa?). Where in that does Magma come in? My guess is that magma sits in the guest as the graphics driver and on the host before Mesa, but I know little about virtualisation outside of containers.

Also, what are these “native contexts” you speak of? Are they like the virtualisation extensions on CPUs that VMs can directly use?

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As usual, Apple was never the first to have the idea or have the first implementation. They often take something, make it glossy, and market the hell out of it. Luckily it hasn’t displaced Windows yet and Linux is gaining ground.

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That was a good explanation. The only thing left to understand is Magma. I’m not seeing the problem they are trying to solve.

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Lol, OK, you just answered the exact question I had! Amazing. Thank you.

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Thanks, this answers the questions I asked another commentor 😅 Now I have to ask if Mesa is an implementation of OpenGL, what is an implementation of Vulkan? Or is the reference implementation of Vulkan also called “Vulkan” ?

Edit: alright @who@feddit.org answered the question.

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Thank you. I’ll ask questions here, but might find out more while reading the other answers.

So, SDL provides a window with an OpenGL surface. What is OpenGL? Is it an API spec that can have multiple implementations like the opensource implementation that is Mesa? Is DirectX 3D the same just with a proprietary implementation? @Kissaki@programming.dev answered this.

And when you say “Vulkan is multi-threaded”, does that mean that the implementation uses instructions for drivers that target a multiple GPU cores? I would have expected the multi-threaded or parallelism aspect to be handled by the driver, not the driver client (in this case Vulkan or Mesa/OpenGL).

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Arch users recommending Arch to beginners. In other words, Arch is fine, the community isn’t.

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Here? Or create a community where you’re the admin and make it “admin post only”. You might need to ask your instance admins if that’s alright though.

In other words, use the fediverse 🙂

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And devs get an underpowered laptop with 16GB, an i5, and 128GB SSD, that cost less than a quarter of the product manager’s device, because they dared ask for a Linux laptop. It’s an update from a Chromebook, alright! But the business “cares” about excellence 😉

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That already exists with waydroid. It’s what people use on the Librem 5 and PinePhone to run linux apps. It would save much more battery if it were at OS level, but I assume that would be akin to merging Android and mobile linux distros and a lot more work.

Why do you have the impression that waydroid has a “you must be a hacker” issue?

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Install a user-agent switcher extension and pretent to be firefox or whatever. It should work.

I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s a common phenomenon: available room will be exploited. It’s exactly why computers nowadays don’t feel faster than computers from a decade or two ago: they do so much more because they can.

Stuff like electron would’ve been impossible in 2000 or 2005: it’s just a behemoth in terms of computational needs and power consumption. Earlier computers would’ve struggled endlessly with it. Current hardware however makes it seem as fast as previous tech.

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It’s not a black and white issue. “Jack of all trades, master of none” vs “expert of one”. Both have their place and I think it’s better to have a mix than just one or the other.

I’ve seen python newcomers writing code as if they were writing in another language. They don’t know about dataclasses, operator overrides, __init__ vs __new__, metaclasses, __init__.py vs __main__.py, @property, match, the walrus operator, or assignments, or the common pitfalls of python like mutable defaults, type hints, and a bunch of other things.
Knowing a language in-depth helps write DRY code, avoiding common pitfalls, handling things better like debugging, profiling, and other tooling, and avoiding pitfalls of the language, which newcomers have to first learn, regardless of how their experience with other languages.

A lot of stuff is transferable, for sure, but every language uses different idioms, covers different paradigms, and so on. It’s good to have at least one expert on the term to teach others, and to have people flexible enough to switch of willing to learn. Having only experts can mean a static team unwilling to experiment or use better programming languages or technologies. Having only beginners or mediors of a language can produce functional, but sub-optimal code. YMMV

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I see. Thanks.

I wonder how people will feel once more bluesky servers show up and it suddenly becomes “too complicated”.

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Wait, how do you do that? I want to block bluesky and twitter bullshit too.

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