* more people get more fed up with microsoft + gaming on linux gets more popular
* some few distros will be very oriented for closed source drm heavy software.
in this scenario the regular Debian "i wont install binary blobs on my machine" folks wont get affected, but certainly there will be "blackbox linux" distros with the "i have no idea what i am running" binary blobs kind of environment.
If the word is: "hey, you need this distro to play netflix drm content at 4k" a lot of people would pick that over the regular "opener source" stuff.
if it were viable to have some sort of "witchcraft, undecipherable, untamperable" linux pseudo variant that allows for intrusive anti cheat software for the games that dont support regular linux, we would be there already. I know I would be using that for being the "lesser crap than windows 11" that lets me play my comercial multiplayer games.
on the other side, if the day comes that "Linux from now onwards officially forces HDCP" the regular purist would ignore that without many problems... thanks to open source! and we would probably call this fork something else.
... therefore maybe this trojan horse is sign of the end, but mostly as the end of the "main brand name" and not of its forks.
some people want to implement this DRM support and some others want to use this support.
freedom in this scenario is more akin to "you are free to choose" above "you should pick one of the free choices".
some people will decide for paid products and some people will consume closed source "evil corporation" software.
... while it IS "anti ethical" to some of its founders, it should be an individual choice of each user, after all its my machine, and i don’t have to care about what Stallman/whatever says I should or shouldn’t do with my stuff, the same way they have their right to tell me to go fuck myself for my choices.
i can vouch for desec.io for having the option to have TXT, NS, CNAME, etc dns entries on their free tier! (limited to 1 domain, up to 50 entries)
i really had a bad time trying to get a letsencrypt certificate through the regular auth because it does require ports 80 and 443 tcp that by ISP blocks.
(you can get a letsencrypt cert through a TXT entry too, but most free DDNS´s providers dont seem to offer that)
out of the box, I imagine that surfaces can be lit, but probably not shadowed correctly. (structures aren’t solids, more like particles in 3d space)
it could look like the real-time lighting of an old game engine on rather modern assets. (quake 2-3 era)
or perhaps some "occlusion pre-pass" could be done to create a voxelized sparse volume from the splats that set a "voxel opacity value" for each to absorb light? (not far from how prebaked GI works nowadays)
note: not an expert on rendering, just a nutjob that did stuff in opengl in the old days.
to be fair there are some degree of "hand curation" of the data so while "it is the internet", the actual trained data is a derivation of that.
in a mild but productive analogy:
I could actually hand a K&R book C programming book + lots of specs to say "this is the linux source code" (the raw data that were all observations were made, aka "the internet")
...or just send them the "kernel the source code" (the refined training data, after a LOT of manual stuff)
... that your compiler consumes to generate the kernel. (the Open Weights model, what they actually shared)
Mildly related rant: honestly its a bit shit to say "open source model" in a "open weights" model, its like saying World of Warcraft is opensource because they gave you an executable of the game. (you can still change it, but in more restricted ways)
4000 certainly did, the "shader execution reordering" gave an meaningful uplift to tasks that "underutilized warp units due to scattered useful pixels".
its a very honorable mention in my eyes because its more appropriate of the tile of "first independent Graphics unit" than the Geforce 2. (did more than just blast already projected triangles at the screen)
not that it was an awesome product, but certainly it was flexible.
a good (albeit tiny) demo of that is that vquake has the same wobbling water distortion of the software renderer quake but rendered entirely through the gpu. Perhaps with some interpretation this could be called the "caveman discovered fire" of the pixel shading era.
intel support has been mild to non existent in the VR space unfortunately. Given the very finicky latency + engine support i wouldn’t bet on a great experience, but hope for the best for more competition in this market. (even amd has a lot of caveats comparing to nvidia)
Footnotes:
* critical "as low as it can be" low latency support on intel XE is still not as mature as nvidia, amd was lagging behind until recently.
* Not sure about "multiprojection" rendering support on intel, lack of support can kill vr performance or make it incompatible. (the optimized vr games often rely on it)
i had brainstormed a bit a similar problem (non world aligned voxels "dynamic debris" in a destructible environment. One of the ideas that came through was to have a physics solver like the physX Flex sdk.
https://developer.nvidia.com/flex
* 12 years old, but still runs in modern gpus and is quite interesting on itself as a demo
* If you run it, consider turning on the "debug view", it will show the colision primitives intead of the shapes.
General purpose physics engine solvers arent that much gpu friendly, but if the only physical primitive shape being simulated are spheres (cubes are made of a few small spheres, everything is a bunch of spheres) the efficiency of the simulation improves quite a bit. (no need for conditional treatment of collisions like sphere+cube, cube+cylinder, cylinder+sphere and so on)
wondered if it could be solved by having a single sphere per voxel, considering only the voxels at the surface of the physically simulated object.
from what i seen in "low end" ssds like the "120gb sata sandisk ones" under windows in heavy near constant pagging loads is that they exceed by quite a lot their manufacturer lifetime TBW before actually actually started producing actual filesystem errors.
I can see this could be a weaker spot in the durability of this device, but certainly it still could take a few years of abuse before anything breaks.
an outdated study (2015) but inline with the "low end ssds" i mentioned.
yep.
overall what I expect to happen in a few years:
* more people get more fed up with microsoft + gaming on linux gets more popular * some few distros will be very oriented for closed source drm heavy software.
in this scenario the regular Debian "i wont install binary blobs on my machine" folks wont get affected, but certainly there will be "blackbox linux" distros with the "i have no idea what i am running" binary blobs kind of environment.
If the word is: "hey, you need this distro to play netflix drm content at 4k" a lot of people would pick that over the regular "opener source" stuff.
if it were viable to have some sort of "witchcraft, undecipherable, untamperable" linux pseudo variant that allows for intrusive anti cheat software for the games that dont support regular linux, we would be there already. I know I would be using that for being the "lesser crap than windows 11" that lets me play my comercial multiplayer games.
on the other side, if the day comes that "Linux from now onwards officially forces HDCP" the regular purist would ignore that without many problems... thanks to open source! and we would probably call this fork something else.
... therefore maybe this trojan horse is sign of the end, but mostly as the end of the "main brand name" and not of its forks.