From a quick look, the patch doesn't seem to contain references to Metal, but just a lot of random updates—backports from upstream Wine to the CrossOver thing?—including an AMD ADL implementation that is clearly for Linux (using /sys/class/… stuff). Maybe the whole toolkit is… literally just CrossOver?
Nope. The Game Porting Toolkit itself contains a large `D3DMetal` framework that directly translates Direct3D calls into Metal. The Homebrew repo is only part of the toolkit. To actually use it, you have to move the Direct3D -> Metal translation layer into installed Homebrew prefix. From Apple's README:
The graphics bridge libraries need to be placed inside your Wine prefix in order to finalize your game evaluation environment. These instructions assume you have mounted the Game Porting Toolkit at /Volumes/Game Porting Toolkit-1.0.
• Copy the Game Porting Toolkit library directory into Wine’s library directory.
Seeing "Sizzle" in that profile made me feel shocked. Uhhh Wikipedia actually still uses an ancient build of jQuery that does not take advantage of native querySelector at all?!?
No, jQuery falls back to Sizzle when a selector is not supported by native querySelector, either due to using jQuery-specific extensions, or due to lacking browser support.
> Did you know that technologies such as Intel Boot Guard that have existed for the better part of a decade defend well against such attacks that might seek to overwrite flash memory?
It's rather funny to see Boot Guard as a "good" example here. Boot Guard is what's actually taking freedom away. With a vendor-locked Boot Guard configuration, you cannot replace the firmware with anything not signed by the vendor. Bye bye dreams of coreboot (until a private key leaks like it just did ha ha).
Netflix & co denying service to machines that don't pass Microsoft attestation? Literally who cares, just go to The Pirate Bay instead.
Wait so they… they have a hook in the mmap() equivalent that allows AV software to scan new pages mapped as executable? I see the reasoning but damn does that feel cursed.
Another really important aspect everyone is forgetting is the location privacy problem with being "naked" on a residential IP address. The best reason to relay your traffic through a provider like Mullvad is so that some random forum admin who disliked your posts doesn't GeoIP you down to your city district.
?? It's entirely identical to the desktop version. Desktop is just an electron wrapper that adds fancy integration like rich presence and in-game overlays and whatever else.
