There’s an argument going around evangelical circles that “empathy” is more dangerous than compassion, with the analogy of jumping in to save someone in quicksand, but getting stuck yourself (empathy) vs throwing someone a rope and keeping your footing (compassion). Like if you understand a bad person’s thinking too much, you are dragged into their sin.

There’s even a tinge of women being more empathetic and “susceptible” than men.

It’s how it sounds.

Dig into the argument, and they all eventually end up focusing on dangerous progressive causes as tempting Christians, basically, and it feels like they’re trying to twist scripture into current MAGA doctrine. JD Vance (a Catholic, not evangelical IIRC) said something related on immigration, that loving your family and those close to you comes before loving distant neighbors, which the Pope very pointedly refuted.

They could just station them in Canada like the US stations theirs in NATO countries. You know, in case Russia invades Canada cough cough.

What if the UK or France “lent” a few of theirs? They have plenty.

It’s a feature.

10% is still a wild fluctuation for a company with the market cap of Tesla. In this case, I think its not “that” deceptive, as zero is not usually a reference in this case.

This ^

It seems like a dismissive statement, but Tesla is the embodiment of this era’s “hype” investing. So many players have it leveraged like a big casino game, and the end result is (mostly) that no professional or “slow” investors (like you, or your retirement fund) get screwed over.

And now I feel old.

Yeah, it’s like night and day. btrfs and ext4 clog up and stall on the PNG workload, it’s why I switched in the first place.

This is on a PCIe ssd though. On an HDD or maybe a big SATA drive, features probably win out over the overhead.

Oh thanks for this.

Yeah I meant no harm :P

IDK what they mean by better ssd I/O performance, btrfs was the worst FS I tested for some heavy SSD workloads (like writing thousands of little pngs in short time, file searches, merging huge weights with some paging)…

The features are fantastic, especially for HDDs, but it’s an inherently high overhead FS.

ext4 was also bad. F2FS and XFS are great, and I’ve stuck with F2FS for now.

Thanks you!

Oh it is my cake day. I’m using the web interface, and didn’t even realize.

Thanks!

I dunno? What app/interface are you using?

Yep!

And this is true for many Linux native games in general. You can’t assume the native version will even be in the same ballpark as the proton path, you just have to try and see.

Sometimes there is a huge advantage for native Linux, too. Modded Minecraft and Starsector (both Java and OpenGL on all platforms) are the concrete examples I personally tested, where the simulation and frame rate are, similarly, massively faster in Linux than Windows.

I tried heavily modded and almost vanilla, just with harmony and DBH. I did not try vanilla Stellaris, but modding is all just text scripting, so it’s not possible to change to the underlying engine.

The problem seems fairly evident to me: the Linux versions of the engines fall back to OpenGL and are poorly supported by the devs, while the dx9 (now dx11 for Stellaris) backends receive the optimizations.

Modded, both cases.

Even worse, TPS. Days chug along in Linux compared to Windows, along the lines of a 1.5x slowdown.

FPS spikes are much worse, too. I tested both extensively on the same saves, using their native performance tools (the perf commands in stellaris and DPA in Rimworld).

Depends how familiar with disk partitioning you already are, but it’s generally not that bad. Shrink your windows partition, create a new ntfs partition in windows, and install Linux. Pretty much every major installer has an option to preserve Windows.

I guess this is the thing with Linux, at various levels it skews DIY and more time intense. And honestly the market seems to be bifurcating between that and the opposite extreme: Android/iOS, which many use as their main PCs now.

Consider this: why do you have 2TB of games installed?

IDK what your gaming habits are, but I find myself bouncing between a few at most, 1 big AAA at most, and found keeping the rest… to be blunt, data hoarding.

I suppose the only exception is modded setups, it even then I always redo them anyway since the base games, modding frameworks and mods get updated over time.

You can redownload what you use, progressively.