It's a good one: the NVIDIA App has no unique features by itself, most of you don't need it and it's better to keep only the Control Panel. Oddly enough, there's a lightweight alternative!

— It will not increase the average FPS by any noticeable value, but it will help with performance dips and overall privacy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfutB69rmE
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We rarely write about politics, but The US attacked Venezuela. Caracas is on fire and the air defense systems were insufficient against the number of rockets and aircrafts. The reason behind it is very simple — the biggest oil reserves, which will be stolen to help the unstable US economy.

Sad shit to be honest.

The image also explains why they are so obsessed with Iran and its "freedom".

UPD: They literally announced it on the briefing, saying that they will extract resources "which they have plenty".

Apparently, now the world will announce sanctions against the US, and American citizens will no longer be allowed to have visas in Europe?

Right?

Yeah, and EA will send a big press-release on how it's leaving this toxic market. And will send $$ to Venezuela.

Someone made the best AI analogy

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From the chat

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Git gud, Shaw!

Silksong is GOTY and Best Game You Suck At on Steam. Labor of love is BG3, which is still not fixed in terms of stability and performance in the last chapter.

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Just in case you were looking for video editing software, DaVinci Resolve 20 got actually usable, even the free version — it's now fast, mostly reliable, and simplified enough to be good for YouTube edits.

And no, I could not recommend 18 and previous versions, since they were not accelerated well, created huge proxy files, and so on. Now the paid tier is a must for several extra features, like denoiser and collaborative workflows.

But even free version now can run almost any reasonable codec without proxies, can do tons of effects on a consumer-grade card without any lags, and so on. I still hate hotkeys, there are obvious usability bugs, but overall, it's a huge step forward (at least on Windows).

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A useful batch-processing plugin for GIMP 3 (since BIMP is limited to GIMP 2.x): it can do tons of stuff on folders and file queues and runs very fast, since it's relying on GIMP acceleration.

The noscript can be as complex as you dare to make it, like running certain actions on certain layers, like "blur on current layer".

https://kamilburda.github.io/batcher/
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It seems that Microsoft is forcibly deleting Paint for some users in a form of "system update"...

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By the end of 2025 Stack Overflow basically died. Search engines stopped suggesting it, users stopped asking questions.

The rise of LLMs is only a part of the issue. The biggest deal was the extremely toxic and conservative community:

Active replies were insulting, but also often outdated — ignoring new features and environments. Because of that even before AI Reddit and some other UGC platforms started to gain traction for developers to discuss their issues.

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What a notoriously bad idea!

https://lyra.horse/fun/foldy-bird/ — payable on Galaxy Fold 🌚

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Playing that new fancy game now, called Borderlands 2 🗿

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Hopium!

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Yeah, the moment when he tries to install DaVinci is exactly how I felt doing the same!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDARtFe8rV0
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Translation time! (via)

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🌚 122h

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