Keep in mind gcc even supports the still undocumented instructions (at least in the english world) such as the vector instructions for 128 and 256-bit vector registers. That’s probably because people at Loongson were responsible for the implementation. They also maintain their own soft-forked Linux kernel and their patches eventually make it into mainline. Their soft-fork is more bleeding edge though I guess.

They have published documentation of the ISA in english though it’s not complete: https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/README-EN.html

gcc and qemu already support la64 so cross compiling and basic testing is already possible for anyone.

It’s not like you have any choice other than GNU/Linux if you get a LoongArch based computer lol. I don’t think Apple will ever give a shit and Microsoft currently only has an ARM port of Windows which mostly works on some aarch64 boards. It’s obviously a move to make themselves more independent of western closed source garbage.

You don’t need bleeding edge hardware to do email, spreadsheets, and document editing.

emacs ftw.

Too bad lemmy doesn’t show who upvoted/downvoted. Would be interesting to see.

https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker

The real solution is to allow users to flash custom firmware onto those headsets. There is no way I would ever buy VR/AR equipment if I don’t even have control over it. A machine that doesn’t follow the operator’s commands is useless.

I once showed a person who was constantly scrolling and sitting through ads on their phone that those ads can just be blocked with little effort. They were interested in the idea so I introduced them to Firefox and uBlock Origin and I even helped them setting it up. Days later I meet them again and notice they’re scrolling through ads again. I ask them why they’re using all those apps instead of the Firefox we set up. They told me that using Firefox is difficult because dealing with URLs and setting up bookmarks is complicated. I can’t ever imagine being inconvenienced by a different way of doing things to the point where I go back to watching ads.

Also the fact that they have a sponsor. I can’t take anyone with a sponsor serious.

Gallium-Nine also tends to be buggy if used with 32-bit software in particular. All the 32-bit games I’ve tried have problems with it. They usually work fine for the first 30-60 minutes and after that the framerate becomes unstable to the point where the game becomes unplayable. It happens consistently with Gallium-nine but not at all with DXVK.

Do you happen to have a higher res version of this particular image?

It’s like the cyber zombie apocalypse happened and there are only a few fortified camps left, the fediverse being a federation of camps.

Can’t wait to see all the tech bros training their LLMs on superior western Tube- Intel/ARM-based computers while claiming that chinese RISC-V/LoongArch systems are worse because backdoors and communist spies.

Westmere Xeon processors are still quite OK imo. I have an old enterprise machine with one. 12 Threads, 2.6 GHz is still quite usable for many things. I mostly use it to compile larger software. But personally I’d argue that Longsoon is already far better than Intel/AMD since Longsoon is based on MIPS, which is based on RISC, while Intel/AMD still clings to their bloated and way too power hungry CISC crap. Plus today most performance comes from parallelism and cache size rather than core frequency and Longsoon does already have 128 and 256-bit vector instructions in their ISA, which is pretty decent. Maybe they can figure out a 512-bit vector extension that doesn’t severely throttle the CPU when using it before Intel can, lol.

Same. But I also want to live long enough to experience the world post collapse, at least for a little bit.

US Imperials about to seethe

I have the same experience. I wrote a simple program with SDL2 to test a software renderer. All it does is create a window then go into an event loop and after each iteration it streams a framebuffer to a texture that gets displayed in the window. In the default mode (X11) my frame timings fluctuate a lot and for a while I tried to massage the code to get it stable because I was convinced that it was just my draw code. Then I eventually forced SDL2 to use Wayland and not only did the draw time per frame go down by 2ms but the fluctuations went away completely.

It’s depressing to see so many AI powered FOSS projects that are basically just a chatbot/autocomplete or something that can spit out some images, when there are so many cool things you could use Neural nets for. For instance, as a FLOSS enthusiast a tool to help with reverse engineering proprietary binaries, specifically firmware and driver blobs would be awesome and could permanently change computing for the better. But everyone in the west seems to be more concerned with how they can use Neural nets to reduce production costs and increase profits.

Nice. Go home imperials

ComfyUI seems like the most promising but it also uses ROCm/CUDA which don’t officially support any of my current GPUs (models load successfully but midway through computing it fails). Why can’t everyone just use compute shaders lol.

I’m pretty sure I tried that one but it kept running out of VRAM. Also it utilizes proprietary AMD/NVidia software stacks which are a pain to set up. GPT4ALL is a lot better in that regard, they just use Vulkan compute shaders to run the models.