One of the reasons being Nvidia forcing unethical vendor lock in through their licensing.

Also, fun fact: Kagi owner believes only criminals want privacy and GDPR doesn’t apply to them, because they said so!

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Well, “not to be confused”, but the same page says AAVE is just a dialect of AAE, so mostly not much of a difference, I think.

For anyone that, like me, was confused what the hell is this language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_English

Seems to be proper name for the kind of language a stereotypical black character in a movie would use.
Can’t say about real world, since I don’t live in the USA.

You know what else is unsafe? Letting Windows force the auto-update and break your bootloader (and that’s just their latest fuck-up).

I don’t think so. Maybe they’ll have something new for the next Nintendo Switch?

In fact, the Shield is using the same chip as the Switch (same for the newer revisions).

It’s supposed to use S905X3 with ARM Cortex-A55.

There’s already plenty of devices on the market with this chip, and it’s fine, but in real world as a user you won’t really see any improvement over something like a nearly 10 year old Nvidia Shield that’s still using a more powerful chipset.

Which is sad for a new device…

They’re supposedly using pretty much the same chipset. So the most important part is still underpowered, these Android boxes generally work fine even with 2-3GBs of RAM.

I don’t have QSV or NVENC hardware to compare, but AMD is perfectly fine in most cases.
I mostly noticed quality drop with very busy scenes and some scene transitions.
Outside of those the quality was acceptable.

I’d say on my setup it’s comparable to software encoding with x264 veryfast preset.

And my GPU is 5 years old now, so I’m sure newer cards have improved.

Amd transcode isn’t very good and isn’t very compatible with Linux

It’s compatible just fine. But the quality… well, it’s not the worst, but definitely not the best quality.

users expect support when things don’t work

no shit, that’s why you refuse support for users with unsupported configurations.
This is not a new concept.
It’s standard for big companies to say they only support RHEL or Ubuntu, in every other case you’re on your own.

Instead of axing their entire Linux support they could just do the reasonable thing, which is ignore issues that are out of scope.

Or should they support users trying to run their software on Windows 95, just because it’s still technically Windows?

But they’re not - it’s the same old, tired excuse that was never true.

“Too many different distros” was never really a good argument.
Just support one and users will figure it out, like we always do.

I’m still not sure. It’s hard to believe anyone at their company would OK this idea.

Are they actually trying to deliberately kill their brand?

It’s EU’s GDPR.

Anything like a newsletter or marketing must be opt-in. And it cannot be bundled with other consent, that is they can’t refuse to provide you a service if opt-in isn’t absolutely necessary.

To be honest, not sure if any other countries have such laws.

Opt-in by default is illegal, so OP has every right to be annoyed.

Just leave them be. I think their point was to route tubing for custom water cooling loops.

I guess you’re right. I should’ve upgraded first and checked it, oh well.

It specifically does mention that though. In Plasma 6.1 you can choose EDID, custom ICC profile or no profile.

You know, this explanation isn’t wrong, but having a printer manufacturer in your analogy show up as a victim just feels wrong.

Misquotes? There are literally screenshots in the article showing full quotes, I don’t know who are you trying to lie to…

And just because Kagi put some text on their website doesn’t make it true.
Taxes don’t work like that (at least not VAT) and you’re a fool for trusting a company which tried to commit a fraud.

Some EU countries do have tax exemptions for small businesses, which Kagi isn’t by any definition.

Anyway, that sure didn’t take long for you to prove Godwin’s law, huh?