<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: NekkoDroid</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NekkoDroid</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:18:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=NekkoDroid" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NekkoDroid in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know about that specific optimisation, but I remember Helldivers 2 did drop support for loading from HDDs, which allowed them to deduplicate assets bringing the game down from what I remember like 120GB to somewhere round 30GB.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352580</link><dc:creator>NekkoDroid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NekkoDroid in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me Windows becomes unusable as soon as any of my drives is being hammered, including when it is swapping, but not limited to it.</p>
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<p>> Although presumably this only applies to a small fraction of the VRAM?<p>They did mention they saw 4GiB of eviction for a single 32MiB scan out image.<p>So while I would call the image allocation small, it seems to cause an avalanche of evictions. Amplified by the fact that each frame has one of these images, though I expect subsequent frames might have a better chance of already fitting into evicted space.<p>What I don't exactly understand is: doesn't it make sense to always reserve the contiguous physical memory for this case and not allow anything else to be put in it?</p>
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<p>> They're being put on things like the MI350X.<p>Maybe we can get a few MI350P's out of that then :) Surely it will be easy to do :clueless:<p>On a more serious note, I do wonder if it  would theoretically be possible to put HBM on something like CAMM instead of regular DDR? I have not done any research on this.</p>
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<p>> You probably want to have milk one year from now. That doesn't mean you keep a jug/carton of milk for a year. That way, you'd really only reduce the chance, taking space from something valid.<p>I always crave milk. That is why I always have milk on hand and if I for some reason need more milk one day I get more milk than usual, but I will still always have at least a little bit of milk on hand.</p>
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<p>> If GAO was half serious, it'd have set an expiry date on itself.<p>While I get where you are coming from, but the government isn't just a static thing that once you've done something it will stay like that. New procedures and jobs come and go all the time and will always need some form of optimisation.</p>
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<p>"For legal reasons my lawyer has advised me to call the criminals"</p>
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<p>> A light switch not working for 30 seconds, or a door not opening for 30 seconds<p>I dunno if its just me, but having a manual override for such important/basic stuff is kind of a must for me. As much as I enjoy smart home stuff, having anything critical only available via that is just stupid.</p>
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<p>I personally run the Q6 quant on my RX 9070 XT (16GB VRAM). On r/LocalLlama there was a post recently as well, which talked about the degradation of different quants (for the 27B version)[0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vef79c/quantization_hurts_knowledge_nonlinearly_qwen36/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vef79c/quantiz...</a></p>
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<p>I am getting ~13-15 tps with my 9070XT for the 27B (~35tps for the 35B-A3B), but I think for me the main bottleneck is the 64gb of DDR4 3600 memory. What kinda speeds are you getting with what speed of DDR5?</p>
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<p>> A sane person would have made it a Daemon that processes talk to surely?<p>> Really it should probably be part of SystemD<p><a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39855" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39855</a></p>
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<p>Reminds me of EA calling lootboxes "surprise mechanics, quite ethical"...</p>
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<p>Apparently "load-bearing seam" is something Claude (or one of the frontier US LLMs) really likes to say.</p>
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<p>> but no one is suggesting to do the same on mobile today.<p>I am unsure what you you mean with this? If you are talking about choosing a different browser on mobile I will point you to the DMA Browser Choice Screen page for Android[1], it has been a thing for a while as far as I can remember.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.android.com/choicescreen/dma/browser/" rel="nofollow">https://www.android.com/choicescreen/dma/browser/</a></p>
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<p>> Things not working the way I expect means I have to do more work to figure something out.<p>I dunno, "things not working the way I expect" is very subjective.<p>I personally think it makes more sense that processes do not outlive the parent from which they come (in this case processes spawned from a user shouldn't outlive that user) unless you explicitly go through something which outlive the parent (process manager in this case (e.g. running via systemd-run)).<p>Though I am also strongly of the opinion of just because something is a feature, does not mean it is good to keep around, e.g SUID/SGID (which has a similar "I get more than the parent" problem).<p>Though I guess different people can have different opinions/values on this.</p>
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<p>> They are pointing out that Valve can actually afford to make the cube affordable while still making money if they wanted to.<p>They could, but since its literally just a PC it would just be subsidising PCs for something they likely aren't gonna make their money back, unlike XBOX or PlayStation, which are locked down and you are forced to use their store where they make the money back.<p>Will they make some of the subsidisation back? Sure, there will be some gamers that will be able to buy it just from pure numbers, but I feel like a massive chunk would just end up as office PCs with Windows on them in some office if subsidised.<p>The deck might make more sense to subsidise, but to do it for the gabecube doesn't make sense in the world we live in.</p>
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<p>Isn't it more s/tok?</p>
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<p>> Baguettestral for the baking automation division.<p>It would be a bit more general, for general cooking and be called Cookstral</p>
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<p>> What about /boot - encrypted and tamper proof? Resists evil maid attack?<p>> Rabbit hole, I know, but so fascinating if you solved it all :)<p>Encrypting `/boot/` is the wrong thing to do. One can just replace it with something that logs the encryption key instead (and sends it off to somewhere). You actually need to verify that what you expect to be there is actually there and a encryption isn't gonna do that for you.<p>A reasonably secure boot chain looks roughly as follows: bootloader is checked by the UEFI (read secure-boot), bootloader chain loads a signed UKI which also uses secure boot verification (or just skip the bootloader if you only have a single kernel with no fallback), this then loads a signed dm-verity `/usr/` which brings you to the login screen. Root is just data (e.g. mounted `noexec`) and is encrypted using e.g. PCR 11 so that it only unlocks if the UKI is the one that is expected (with some other backup unlock method).<p>This is basically #2 of the "Design Goals" of Poetterings "Fitting everything together"[0]. It's a good read if you are looking to designing your own Linux image and are looking for some inspiration. There is ParticleOS[1] which somewhat dogfoods this kind of system, though I don't think it is anything remotely considered for a production system.<p>[0]: <a href="https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html" rel="nofollow">https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/systemd/particleos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/systemd/particleos</a></p>
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<p>> Unsure how it got messed up for you.<p>If you didn't transfer it from your Mojang account to your Microsoft account in time (before the account was shut down) you just straight up lost access to it.</p>
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