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  • FBJimmy@lemmus.orgtoLinux@lemmy.mlSwitching back to Windows. For now.
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    4 kuukautta sitten

    Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.

    I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.

    https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio

    At this point from a user experience p.o.v it’s not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn’t need backing up


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    I’ve been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now… With one exception… To be honest I didn’t even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

    Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it’s own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it’s in the same category as running console emulation.

    As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.











  • FBJimmy@lemmus.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzRecognize the mother of Wifi
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    Great to recognise this invention.

    I was surprised by the choice of ‘Mother of Wi-Fi’ though - Wi-Fi hasn’t used ‘frequency hopping’ as such since 802.11b was released back in 1999 - so very few people will have ever used frequency-hopping Wi-Fi.

    GPS only uses it in some extreme cases I think, but I’m not an expert.

    However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.







  • FBJimmy@lemmus.orgtoPhotography@lemmy.mlDSLR vs Mirrorless Decision
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    Just to add in case you’re not aware, the EF-RF adapters are literally just spacers that shift the lens mount to where it would have been if there was a mirror in there - optically it’s just 24mm of air, so no quality impact at all.

    The only thing to keep in mind is that there is a slight autofocus slow-down with the much older lenses, but not enough to bother me.