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New comment by mizzack in "Every GPU That Mattered"

mizzack — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:51:53 +0000

Or the S3 Savage3D, which, while being inferior to the TNT2, pioneered texture compression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

New comment by mizzack in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

mizzack — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:50:39 +0000

B2s have made the trip from Whiteman AFB to perform flyovers at the past 20 or so Rose Bowls fwiw

New comment by mizzack in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

mizzack — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:02:37 +0000

VMM7100 based devices like the Cable Matters 102101 work. Also allegedly CH7218 based adapters. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4773

New comment by mizzack in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

mizzack — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:14:29 +0000

Intel did this with the ARC A750/770

https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/HDMI-2-1-UHD-144Hz-A...

New comment by mizzack in "PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism""

mizzack — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:11:22 +0000

List of current theme choices, presented without comment

New comment by mizzack in "FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs"

mizzack — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:22:01 +0000

The end of ESG investing and, yes, preference falsification and preference cascade. They never believed in it, it was just socially unacceptable to admit it until the pendulum swung back in the other direction.

New comment by mizzack in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

mizzack — Tue, 13 May 2025 21:41:08 +0000

I thought most of these comments have actionable if not tough to hear advice.

Perhaps offering an opportunity for more humility and introspection. Instead you’re here doubling down on the victim mindset.

Wishing you the best.

New comment by mizzack in "3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)"

mizzack — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:48:42 +0000

I also had a BP6 with two Celeron 400As. Stuck on Win98 for a while until Win2k graphics drivers got good enough for gaming.

New comment by mizzack in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

mizzack — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:29:11 +0000

> I doubt Vavle would help Lenovo with support on a device they'd shortly eclipse with better specs.

Why wouldn’t they? It more or less locks the user into the Steam store where Valve gets a cut of every sale. That’s their primary income stream.

New comment by mizzack in "Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips"

mizzack — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:51:01 +0000

Inertia, layman brand perception, anticompetitive behavior (Intel has been in court for 15+ years about this).

An example in the laptop space, Intel invested a lot in the marketing and designs of the Ultrabook classification. So customers ask for an Ultrabook from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. and those are only available with Intel CPUs. It’s taken several years for AMD mobile CPUs to work their way into high end designs.

New comment by mizzack in "Affirmative Action Was Banned. What Happened Next Was Confusing"

mizzack — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:26:56 +0000

If you know a student’s residential zip code, high school, and name you can make a very educated guess without ever asking race.

The rules changed but the ideology hasn’t.

New comment by mizzack in "Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU"

mizzack — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:19:48 +0000

Or a syringe with a needle tip. Thats how a lot of the liquid metal TIMs are sold. Works great for picking up excess.

New comment by mizzack in "Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court"

mizzack — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:42:44 +0000

I could have been more clear but you misread. Olives are fruit, too.

An unpitted olive in a jar of pitted olives.

An unpitted cherry in a jar of pitted cherries.

New comment by mizzack in "Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court"

mizzack — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:19:46 +0000

This is a lot more akin to finding a piece of a cherry/olive pit in a jar of pitted fruit. A reasonable attempt was made with natural products in play.

New comment by mizzack in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

mizzack — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:37:41 +0000

Great TV. Iirc the last Triniton tube produced. After moving it 3 times over 15 years I sold mine to a guy during covid for $20 so he could play Time Crisis.

New comment by mizzack in "AT&T Fiber Internet Privacy controls are horribly broken"

mizzack — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:24:13 +0000

Look up the 8311 discord.

New comment by mizzack in "AT&T Fiber Internet Privacy controls are horribly broken"

mizzack — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:19:23 +0000

Yeah, I meant for newer customers. The ONT is built into the BGW320 with no separate ONT box. You still need the certs from a BGW-210 etc. in that scenario.

New comment by mizzack in "AT&T Fiber Internet Privacy controls are horribly broken"

mizzack — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:38:21 +0000

Even if you don't have a separate ONT you can bypass the BGW320 completely with an SFP GPON-ONT-on-a-stick into SFP+ interface or a 2.5g media converter if you are in a GPON area. If you are XGSPON the common option is to buy a WAG-D20. Either way you still need certs for 802.1x.

New comment by mizzack in "Canadian Bill C-63 proposes life sentences for hate crimes"

mizzack — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:25:52 +0000

That’s pretty wild. Seems like it creates perverse incentive to commit physical hate crimes. If the consequences between advocacy and action are sufficiently proximal, it becomes optimal choose the course with the most “benefit” to the actor.

New comment by mizzack in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

mizzack — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:14:07 +0000

Probably just hamfisted calculation. Backlash/embarrassment due to forced diversity and excluding white people from generated imagery < backlash from lack of diversity and (non-white) cultural insensitivity.