- tina, rex sometimes | mid-30s | gender disaster, trans girl demiguy girl thing, they/them or any pronouns (don't gender me) - Artist, former youtuber, and generally kinda-weird-mostly-earnest bunnyperson thing from Regional NSW, Australia. 🐇💫 Disclaimer: I have serious intellectual disabilities so pls be patient with me if I act or say something stupid. I genuinely can be stupid but never on purpose.
I also have a system with Intel HD Graphics 620 but it's honestly too good to be interesting. That's when Intel graphics actually got good. And Linux support for it is pretty great.
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So this is the mythical "Potato of Harkinian" PC build that apparently I never showed off here.
It's based around an old industrial motherboard from 2013-2015, the ASRock QC5000M, featuring either an AMD A4-5000 or A4-5050 APU with Radeon HD 8330 Graphics. Mine is the A4-5050, which is slightly faster.
It's not that exciting on the face of it. It's a 10W quad-core Jaguar netbook CPU running at 1.5GHz, with barely any cache. But the secret sauce is that the Radeon HD 8330 IGP is actually GCN 2.0, like the Radeon R9 200-series, albeit a lot tinier. In fact, both the CPU and GPU are actually architecturally similar to the PS4, just… worse.
(There's also an ITX version of the same motherboard, the QC5000-ITX, but it's harder to come by. The same AliExpress seller had it, but I missed the boat. This short mATX version was cheaper anyway and has better connectivity, but the ITX version would have been so cute!)
Add 8GB of CeX-spec DDR3 RAM, a SATA SSD and a power supply. Despite the poor single-core performance, the many cores means it's actually a half-decent computer for web browsing and light productivity. This is way more than I expected, so I'm really happy with it.
So I built this not for gaming nor is it to be a home server, but for one purpose alone. It's for testing open source console-to-PC ports on low-end hardware. GCN 2.0 means Vulkan support, and this is likely the single lowest common denominator of the Vulkan era, save for the dual core version of this processor, which also has a weaker iGPU.
But this quad-core is much more sensible for this purpose, and I've got a dual-core system I can test on already.
But can it game? Well, kind of but not really. HL2 runs at about 50-60fps at 1024x768. Tomb Raider (2013), which traditionally loves AMD Radeon GPUs going back to TeraScale, even when running at 800x600 and lowest everything barely managed 30fps in the benchmark, running closer to 20fps once you're actually ingame. It's not clear whether this is a CPU or GPU bottleneck, and it's likely that it's both.
So this isn't really a cheap entry into PC gaming or anything. Despite the architecture it's less powerful than an Xbox 360, and it wasn't even cheap compared to like, getting an old Skylake-to-Kaby Lake office PC. Don't do this. Don't be me.
It plays a mean game of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, though. On Wii settings.
This all of course depends on how your Linux distribution is configured, and in fact I'm dual-booting Linux Mint and CachyOS for this very reason.
X11 loses graphics performance compared to Wayland, around 10% on this system. Crucially, GCN Southern Islands/Sea Islands support in [amdgpu] was in beta until very recently where it's now officially supported, so distros based on Ubuntu 24.04-LTS like Linux Mint (or ZorinOS, ElementaryOS, etc.) default to the legacy [radeon] drivers and will require additional kernel configuration to actually utilise the GPU properly.
CachyOS? It simply just works out of the box.
(Although I found it won't boot on the latest 7.x kernel for some reason, so I have to use 6.18-LTS. It's probably fine. Probably.)
But of course, its true calling is here, in what's becoming a little bit of a homelab.
And for this purpose, it performs beautifully. Every single Harbour Masters port runs at 60fps, with the all-new Lighthouse being insanely well optimised even on hardware this low-end. It also runs Dusklight and Banjo Recompiled at mostly 60fps, so long as you keep the resolution low. I've been helping test Courage Reborn across a variety of Linux setups, which it also runs perfectly with relatively low CPU impact.
So this has worked out to be a decent floor for performance across a lot of these ports. You could chuck a Dell OEM Radeon display adaptor into a Core 2 Duo/Quad system and enjoy performance on par with or better than this.
(Tangentially related fact: Did you know that Wiseguy tests his N64 Recompiled ports on a Core i5-2400 and GTX 750 Ti system? Now you do.)
Oh and, in case you're wondering about that laptop…
Sitting next to the Spud of Harkinian is my hp Pavilion dm-1 Notebook PC, with the AMD E-450 dual-core APU and Radeon HD 6320 IGP, and a whopping 1.5GB of RAM. The stock configuration of my university laptop that I actually posted on Tumblr with back in the day, only it too runs Linux Mint now. That iGPU is actually really good, but it's hampered by the glacially slow CPU. It sits in this setup mostly to torment the Harbour Masters crew, and being Terascale doesn't have the capability to run ports that require Vulkan (or DX12) like Dusklight. But hey, it actually can run the Harbour Masters ports at full speed at the original 20/30fps frame rates. While screaming.
(I probably should make a post about this on my human blog as well so I can link it to people in the port community. But considering I'm writing this at nearly 3am, another time.)
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In Super Mario Maker 2, sideways trampolines are a type of object from which Roy will not emerge, while POW Blocks are an object from which he will. As such, if all ground on the screen is covered with sideways trampolines and there is a single POW Block, he will be forced to emerge from the latter.
Since a POW Block is portable, this means that Mario can wait until Roy hides into the POW Block, pick it up and carry it to a different spot in order to create a "portable Roy", as seen in the footage.
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I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia
As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!
If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.
Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.
This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.
By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...)
(...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.
yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??
also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!
like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.
the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.
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Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests
unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right
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