It’s actually pretty easily explainable as stupidity.

They don’t actually know what being fascist entails, nor do they care to learn. They are told by conservative mouthpieces and their ilk that it means “Nazi” and they accept that as the definition.

They vehemently disagree with the idea that they’re Nazis because the general belief is that Nazis are evil, and they don’t think they’re evil like the Nazis, and therefore aren’t fascist. Even if some of them could see the parallels between their conservative nationalist beliefs and the Nazis, they would still argue they aren’t and justify it with any excuse they could find. Human egos are self-preservationist, and it’s in our nature for one to avoid viewing themselves as something they consider repulsive.

Uneducated/undereducated people who voted for him aren’t cunning. They’re just maliciously stupid, willfully ignorant, and easy to emotionally manipulate. That doesn’t mean they’re benign; in large numbers such as those enough to influence the outcome vote, they are an actual threat.

Beyond the stupid ones I mentioned above, there are the ones that willfully embrace fascism. The ones who wear “Nazi” like a badge of honor and take pride in their nationalist views. For them, I agree with you that they shouldn’t be underestimated as merely stupid.

Unsurprising. Drivers are better than they used to be, but some of them (Nvidia) have a long way to go in terms of optimization.

More importantly, however, is the complete lack of info the article provides about their testing methodology.

• They said they tested on SteamOS—ok, but it’s not officially available on non-handheld devices. How did they install it? Did they use HoloISO? Did they install the version meant for handhelds on a desktop PC?

• How did they run the games? Directly through an embedded gamescope session like the Steam Deck, or through KDE Plasma, which has a compositor that can’t be disabled on Wayland. Or, did they take the double hit and run gamescope as a window within Plasma?

• Speaking of Wayland, did they use Wayland or X? They have different performance characteristics, and it’s not negligible.

• How many runs did they do? One-and-done, then record what the game said the average FPS was? Average of 5 runs? Were runs with outliers excluded and retested?

• Did they pre-run the scenes to ensure the assets were cached from the disk and the shader caches were available? Did they restart the system between games? Did they restart the system between runs?

And the way they present the results are also bad:

• They graph the FPS achieved by each platform, but they have absolutely no detail about the 1% or 0.1% lows—and at a sufficiently-high average FPS, these are what make the games feel slow and stuttery.

• What about frametime graphs and frame pacing information? If Linux can achieve more consistent pacing at 85% of the average FPS, it would still be a better experience than having the same frame being presented repeatedly because the game missed the vblank window.

• They didn’t try multiple resolutions to identify where the bottlenecks are occuring in each game. If a game is CPU bottlenecked by their hardware choices, it’s not a good comparison of GPU performance. Likewise, if it’s GPU bottlenecked, it’s not a good comparison for CPU performance.

You’re giving way too much credit to the intelligence of the typical red state rural voter. They don’t know they’re fascist, they just like the convervative nationalist promises coming from the big man who tells them that their misfortune is the fault of the people even less fortunate than themselves.

It would be a mistake to assume the admin or an educated Trump supporter is merely stupid, though.

And native software.

Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating “apps” and PC “programs” that are little more than glorified web views. There’s normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you’re ruining the end-user experience.

They make entire SOCs. None of them are x86 because of the duopoly that Intel and AMD have thanks to their cross-licensing agreement, but they still have functional CPUs with a common ISA.

AMD: “Our partners will fry your expensive CPU on some boards.”
INTEL: “Our software will fry your expensive CPU on all boards.”

Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they’re AMERICAN* cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.

* With the extra irony being that many of those “American” brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn’t even headquartered anywhere in North America.

they exist, in large part, because articles like this normalize it

This complaint is missing the forest for trees.

Special classes of people have existed for as long as civilization has exited. Leaders and followers, kings and peasants, the wealthy and the poor, etc. As animals, it’s in the nature of some of us to desire a greater share of resources and luxury at the cost of depriving others from having the same.

An article repeating the notion of people with specific skin tones are part of a privileged class isn’t the problem, it’s just a symptom of the problem. The problem is the bigots who put that into practice, singling out and causing problems for people with specific tones while providing benefits to those with other specific tones. Getting rid of public acknowledgement about class disparity isn’t going to get rid of class disparity, it’s just going to get rid of discussion about class disparity. The racists will still be there, being racist.

The only way that username would check out is either if it was owned by a pushy and holier-than-thou social progressive with zero self-awareness, a conservative with a small world view that feels “owning the libs” is a personality trait, or a troll.

Now, considering your account was created on this platform two days ago, just called the resident population of Lemmy stupid, and drink whatever kool-aid Musk is selling, it’s a toss-up between the last two.

Much like Musk himself, it seems.

He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform

Don’t forget the blatant scams called crypto games! He proudly announced Epic Games Store would happily sell games centered around NFTs and crypto after Valve said they wouldn’t allow it.

“It’s hard to understand why we would revoke a rule that simply requires companies to test for asbestos.”

It’s really not.

1. Testing costs money.
2. Sourcing talc with lower levels of asbestos costs money.
3. Corporations only care about profit.
4. The current admin is corrupt as hell.

After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”

Derogatory use of the term aside, it looks like it’s time to reset the counter back to “[0] days since Elon Musk actually said something true”

If only it were that easy. A conversation with one of them would go something more like this:

“It’s not Trump.”

“Okay, prove it!”

“I don’t need to because THIS IS AMERICA, and it’s INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.”

“Like the people arrested by ICE?”

“THEY WERE CRIMINALS!”

“Even the 93% without criminal records?”

“THAT’S FAKE NEWS, LIBTARD”

Agreed. The call trace shows it occurred as part of a drm_ function, which is related to the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem.

There’s a chance it might not be the root cause, but the more obvious answer is that the Nvidia driver managed to corrupt a kernel data structure.

Say what you will about medieval monarchies, but at least those had the good sense to permit a court jester to speak foolishly of the head of state.

Walmart and every other grocery store corporation:

It really makes you think: which rich assholes recently bought stock in grocery store corporations?

It’s not just flagrant; it’s fragrant, too. The hypocrisy stinks like shit to high heavens.