ProdigalFrog

You still can, as far as I know! It's just that I don't think X would have the throughput for games. I recently learned about that functionality in a Cathode Ray Dude video, where he shows how it even got ported to Windows 3.11!

Well I'll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC's with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

Ah! sorry, posted the link to the trailer instead of the full doc. Link should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

Perhaps !boardgames@slrpnk.net might be a community better suited to this topic?

What you're witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

Union membership declined from 2023 to 2024 to under 10% of the US workforce, despite a high public approval.

I think Bernie explaining to people how unionizing could be weaponized against the regime would help, and particularly if he endorsed the IWW; a more militant union who are not corporate captured, nor only seek increased wages and are then become pacified as other more normal trade unions tend toward. The IWW is the only worker-led anti-capitalist union in the US.

It’s just that there is little to nothing the average viewer can do to make it happen.

There are some tremendously powerful actions Bernie could be suggesting we do to fix this mess.

For example, he could be publicly calling for people to:

1. Perpare for and participate in a general strike, which would target the establishment's income streams, and is capable of bringing a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale. Immigrant farm workers are already potentially going forward with this plan of action.
2. Contact a grassroots decentralized union like the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

Vaguely calling for the end of oligarchy instead of loudly calling for those very actionable steps is a bit of a missed opportunity for the resistance.

However, If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective the above mentioned methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

I suspect it's potentially due to relations with Russia going slightly sour, as Russia is the largest exporter of asbestos.

You can read more about it here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-Newcomers-LLMs

They also seem to have voted on this subject back in may, but I don't know how to find the results: https://www.debian.org/vote/2025/vote_002#secondsa

He wouldn't have any problem whatsoever if Debian was publicly endorsing right wing views and losing leftist contributors.

Linux and the GPL FOSS movement is inherently leftist, snd right wingers have been wailing about leftist views in various FOSS projects for over a decade. I recall many threads on reddit accusing Linus of having been made 'woke' by his daughter when the CoC was introduced, back during the gamergate era.

It's all the same shit, all the same complaints, and all a waste of time. As the US descends into extreme fascism to the cries of approval of the MAGA cult, it becomes harder and harder to stomach them in a project.

The more concerning thing going on is Debian potentially embracing AI, which I am very much not a fan of.

I really, really like the logo you have for it. It's snazzy AF :)

Piefed is another reddit-like forum that is federated using ActivityPub (the same underlying tech that Lemmy uses).

Piefed is very similar to Lemmy functionally, and the creator designed it specifically to be as compatible with lemmy as possible so they can communicate with each other without a problem. You can even visit piefed communties from your lemmy, like !animation@piefed.social or !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social.

Piefed is already compatible with a couple of lemmy mobile apps, like Interstellar and Voyager, so if we were to switch SLRPNK to a piefed instance, you would be able to continue to use those apps, if you already are used to them. You can also make the mobile web page itself into a web app.

The Web UI will be different from lemmy, which you can test at Piefed.social to see what it'd be like. We'd very likely create a custom theme for it similar to our existing lemmy one.

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

• a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
• the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
• the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

On the sysadmin side of things, it'd bring some nice advantages regarding network resource usage.

So overall, it hopefully wouldn't bring many downsides, besides potentially having to learn and get used to a new UI (though Photon, which we host as an alternative web UI, will soon support it as well, making the experience pretty much identical if you're already used to that).