The performance did not need an upgrade as much as a redesign of the cramped and unfriendly interior.
FreeLikeGNU
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I don't see how "slightly different" could support the argument that things were effectively better at the time citizens were put into camps. The legal system supported a racist policy by "6-3 ruling about their constitutionality". Furthermore:
internment camps were effectively ended by the the supreme Court the next year.
No. It was over two years before the order was suspended and the last of the camps shut down. The order was not officially terminated until 1976!
Over the spring of 1942, General John L. DeWitt issued Western Defense Command orders for Japanese Americans to present themselves for removal. In December 1944, President Roosevelt suspended Executive Order 9066, forced to do so by the Supreme Court decision Ex parte Endo. Detainees were released, often to resettlement facilities and temporary housing, and the camps were shut down by 1946.
Pretty sure you said:
Or: hey, we can label ANYONE we want as “ENEMY COMBATANTS” and they will have NO RIGHTS and we will torture them.
You don't think sending an entire ethnic group who are also American citizens to internment camps in the dessert forcing them to abandon their homes, work, friends, businesses is what you just described?
I think American citizens of Japanese descent would disagree with your good old days assessment of how Americans were treated by their own government during WW2. They certainly had their liberty and livelihoods taken from them. Furthermore people of color in general were still under the thumb of institutionalized racism that continues to this day. Do you believe they were better off back then too?
Arc won't have proper game support until it's using the Xe kernel mode driver (not until at least kernel 6.6) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will not be supported with Xe, however.
If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn't require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.
There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don't really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.
As far as performance I found the A770 to fall quite far behind the AMD RX 6700XT for games (but no hardware AV1 encode for RX6700, the RDNA3 - RX7000 series can provide this). Who knows what the next gen Arc Battlemage will be like, but until the drivers mature I don't think you will be unhappy with AMD.
This puts the concept of Disney employees in costumes as "cast members" in a rather diminished light.
Dough Rey
AMD seems to be eating their lunch in small computers for consumers with their APUs in the Steamdeck and the more than a half dozen like handhelds, mini-pcs, etc. I'm sure intel will hang onto small embedded devices for industrial applications for some time but it's puzzling that they would just drop RISCV which seems poised to proliferate in this sector as well. It could just be that intel seeing that manufacture in China is and will continue to be very tricky has to narrow focus while they move their manufacture closer to home.
Arc won't have proper game support until it's using the Xe driver (not until at least kernel 6.5) instead of i915. You can follow the progress of sparse rendering support for Xe here. Hardware AV1 encoding will not be supported with Xe, however.
If you want to stream your gaming (as long as it doesn't require sparse rendering) and enjoy hardware AV1 encoding of the video you will have to disable Xe and revert to i915. You can choose one or the other.
There is a little hope for i915 to fake sparse rendering support (for games that don't really use it, yet expect the feature flag). But you will still be stuck with last gen driver performance unless the optimizations are back-ported somehow.
Populous Redux
I love Xubuntu LTS and have been using it since Ubuntu dropped Gnome 2. It's light and stays out of my way.
Some things that make it really great are these PPAs:
- Oibaf (for the latest mesa graphics drivers)
ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers- Kisak's Mesa PPA as an alternative is great too!
ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
- Kisak's Mesa PPA as an alternative is great too!
- Mainline (for the latest kernels)
ppa:cappelikan/ppa - Xubuntu-dev staging for latest Xfce software
ppa:xubuntu-dev/staging - WineHQ staging (I rarely use wine directly anymore and just launch non Steam windows games in Steam (leveraging Proton) https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
I'm a bit frustrated that Xubuntu is using snap for browsers so I use the Firefox tar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_local-firefox-installation-in-users-account
I came for the pics and stayed for the story!