Re: 🏳️‍🌈GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?🏳️‍🌈

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 21:07:30 -0000 (UTC), LO AND BEHOLD; vallor
<vallor@cultnix.org> determined that the following was of not great
importance to vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> and subsequently decided to
freely share it with us in <uusdii$2848h$1@dont-email.me>:
 
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= wrote in <uurc4n$1vjvo$1@dont-email.me>:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:27:32 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= in <17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Provide testimony.  Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= revolutionary Usenet group. Testify!  Fucking lackey assholes!
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Sorry, didn't hear the sound of your whine over all this ocean noise!\
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= stream video through Twitch or YouTube without having the sound of
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= another video bleed into the stream.  Also, IM pings (such as from
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= WhatsApp) don't have to be on my stream.  This is handled with a
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= virtual audio device.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Furley Fart couldn't bring himself to answer all of my message, so I
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= suppose turnabout is fair play:  Herein are his points, paraphrased.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= "Real men do only one thing at a time."  Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= "Learn ALSA" -- Friend, you must not have been using Linux for very
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= long.  After OSS, ALSA was the only game in town, and is still the
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= driver component for pulse.  I was running mplayer on my HTPC with ac3
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= passthrough when you were a gleam in your father's eye, Son.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Before, I've actually bought products for Windows that claimed to have
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= this capability, but they never worked right with OBS-Studio. Speaking
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer.  There is no xdaliclock
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using Linux.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Here is where he snipped.  Let's see what he took out of my post!
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= I shudder to think what would be necessary to build Pan for Windows.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= It's not a cakewalk on Linux, either, but much more manageable
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= (Sidenote: It escapes me why you don't take the time to stop being a
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= "distro lackey" and build your own Pan from sources.  Jedi knights
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= build their own light sabers, don't they?)
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= [ crickets.wav from the distro-lackey Farley ]
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Anyway, back to streaming:  when I stream, it's usually games, and those
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= games often used DirectX.  The Linux implementation of DX is DXVK,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= which uses Vulkan -- and can run faster than Windows. Elite Dangerous
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Odyssey uses Frontier Development's _Cobra 4.0_ engine, which I cap at
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= 90 FPS.  I run the 60Hz display at 4K resolution with all the knobs
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= cranked up to "Ultra".  There's still plenty of overhead to run
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= OBS-Studio, which can stream the video while writing to the 10G-Base-T
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= attached NAS.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= [ Farley describes this as "cacaphony" -- but it describes realtime
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= rendering using high-performance computing, the likes of which Farley
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= never sees on his single-task system ]
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= A word about the NAS:  it is a Synology DiskStation, which also runs
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Linux.  But that is more of an appliance, with web-based GUI management
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= software.  I record at 4 Gbit, because the disks are only 6 Gbit SATA
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= drives.  That is RAID5.  The new NAS that I haven't assembled yet will
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= have a RAID0 volume for captures; it will be a two-volume NAS with the
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= other volume either RAID5 or something I haven't tried yet:  Synology's
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= hybrid RAID that allows one to grow the volume.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= [ "cacaphony" again?  Clearly, Farley has no knowledge of modern
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= high-performance Network-Attached Storage systems.  So, "crickets.wav"
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= again from him. ]
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Conclusion:  Farley is a blow-hard.  (But you already knew that.)
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Captain's log, supplemental:  The guy asks for people to post about
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= their uses for Linux, then ridicules a fairly reasonable response.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Linux is a good OS for high-performance computing.  Farley has never
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= posted once about any HPC he's done -- mostly, he posts about how
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= enamored he is with updates to his distro.  Boooriiing.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=

Did you win Linux Advocacy today?

pros use jackd, not alsa or pulse.

You use your HPC to play FPS nonsense, most likely.  Quit acting like you're folding proteins or analyzing particle accelerator data.

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