Past Cure

It’s not the worst game ever but i had worse. The name is perfect for this game, so let’s just go with it. Well it’s obvious that the main character has some memory problems with bad presentation, like a unfinished tech demo from ’99. Yeah it’s Unreal Engine, but maybe they rather go with Unity for non-open world would be better in this case. Graphics is a bit blurry and not very sharp. No i haven’t finish the game but i did get it for 5€ new in box for Xbox. It’s a 4+ hour game and i respect every developer whatever it is. If i decide to finish it, will try to write some more about it, maybe now i will, after this short note here. To be continued…

My ultimate browser

Vivaldi is very close to that, you can have basically everything and setup everything. I want the quality of render like Firefox has it and the speed of Chrome but this days you can’t have both. Try a very long site with scrolling and then compare it with Firefox and Chrome. With my Lots of text HTML5 demo, Firefox actually uses GPU up to 30% to render better and faster, so looks like Chrome don’t use GPU for basic render of web sites but just for 3D elements i guess. Chrome GPU usage was 15% in this case.

Lubuntu on Vbox

This is the fastest Linux so i have install it on Virtual Box. I have selected 4 cores, 4GB RAM and 3D acceleration, so that’s fine to run this distro, fast as possible. There is not much to test on, well you can install your favorit browser and that’s about it. The rest of the apps are also available for Windows. With Wine you can install and run something from Windows that’s possible, i use Terminal for that. Sadly Wine still isn’t part of user interface, at least i don’t know how to use it without Terminal. I think that supremacy of Windows 11 just checked all the check boxes, including security.

From 66MHz to 4GHz

Back than there were clone CPUs or x86 compatible, like AMD 486 DX2 66MHz, that what we had in first family PC. System had 8MB of RAM, 1MB graphics card and 420MB hard drive. Later on there was multimedia upgrade with CD-ROM, sound card and Juster speakers. We had Philips 14″ inch monitor VGA 640×480, good for everything. Okay, fast forward to 2023, i was just wondering why we need this much power this days with quad core at 4GHz and in laptop that has AMD APU with plenty of power for editing whatever content might be and some light gaming on the side. Basically i’m talking about user interface, is all that power needed for that or is it just evolution of hardware. Yes, thanks for good speakers, display, quiet fan and fast file system. This days RAM minimum is 4GB just for web browsing, sure but a web browser this days can do almost everything. So my question is, are we getting anywhere or this is it?


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What is an ad blocker?

Ad blocker will block ads on web site that you visit and maybe don’t want. Well, i’m not against ads but they should be put in background of web site or in head of web page, but not in content of web site and if they are than they should be part of the content of web site itself. In the old days they were Flash ads with Flash plug-in and that made things very slow. Vivaldi uses internal blocker, it’s good, i rarely see any ads anywhere. The rest of browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge is required an add-on, like uBlock Origin is good enough. I’m on the web like from the ’90 so i think i know what i’m talking about. Some sites will try to block the blocker, you can still disable ad blocker for specific site, it’s not that hard. Ads should be always part of the content that are relate of content itself, so that’s my point on that matter and of course we need good ads not spam that’s for sure.


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The last Saints Row

This game is not that bad, like some reviews are. Sure, maybe there is some lack of quality control with story dialog and sound but the gameplay is good. No silly stuff this time, maybe some players want that but can’t make the same soup every time so thanks for that. Driving is good, but engine from cars sounds muffled, that’s my only complaint. This game can be done in a couple days, it’s fun after all. I saved side missions for last, so it’s still something to play after the game is done. Completion of the game is under save game, so it’s not that high even if the game is done. I have done playing at 78%, it’s good enough for me.

PC gaming is dead

Why? Well, less and less people can afford 4k equipment. I mean giving some company half a grand for almost every component it’s just nuts. Having something in between and ray-tracing enabled, will just give you mediocre frame rates. Prices for games are also need to be paid, so my advice is better invest in gold, or have a car, it cost just the same. Soon the world will run out of food but not TVs, so it’s still a chance for console gamers. Yes, next generation of consoles will go for 8k, that’s for sure.


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Zen

I helped making Zen, with saying that it needs to be modular by design, for easier adding and removing cores. It’s like a human body is also modular or engine of a car, can’t put everything in one solution, that’s impossible. Don’t believe me, sure i don’t believe myself but here we are and facts are here. My Zen 2 laptop makes about 50k+ in Octane 2 benchmark so i’m happy with it and for AMD. They crippled my APU GPU because it’s Ryzen 3 and not 5, sure thanks anyway don’t need that much GPU. I’m not an engineer so but this was produced in my head, so that’s that.


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