ProdigalFrog

I'm not sure if it's just that my palate became more picky as I've gotten older, but I remember canned soups being pretty decent as a kid. Nowadays I usually cook my own food, but recently I've been trying canned soups again, and I'm astonished how bad most brands are. Campbells or Progresso are either bland or taste actively terrible. The only ones I've tried that actually taste good are usually kinda expensive, like Amy's or Snow's.

Curious if anyone here who was an adult 20 or 30 years ago can confirm that affordable canned soups tasted better in the past, or if my memory is deceiving me.

It's not that they don't process words, it's that those without internal monologues may think in concepts, images, or visualized actions rather than using the words those concepts are attached to. As an example, some deaf people if they have an internalized monologue have reported their monologue being visualized sign language, instead of audible speech spoken in their head. There's quite a lot of variability in how someone processes their internal thoughts.

Some without internal monologues have mentioned that they can vocalize text in their head, but only if done consciously, and they usually find that it would make reading agonizingly slow to do so for them.

Simon Roper does a couple really excellent videos on this subject, if you'd like to hear a very eloquent first hand experience of someone else's non-monologue internal thoughts.

• Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way?
• Consciousness, Qualia and Internal Monologues

Also @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz

That's a good point. I went back to the video to rewatch it, and turns out I totally missed where they said they only freeze things during a testing phase, then unfreeze it after they're done and allow updates to commence as normal.

They mentioned that due to Linux receiving more frequent updates often with meaningful performance improvements, they'll have to throw away older data and re-test more often on Linux, as Windows doesn't really change much in performance between updates. So I would guess that they would use release drivers with new cards, and likely would only re-test their entire suite if the release driver also gave a big performance boost on older cards.

AFAIK, It's not an issue of automated testing, and I don't believe they re-test all their cards on Windows with every new review either. Instead, they maintain the same versions of software on Windows as well until enough time has passed and enough updates have piled up that they do finally re-test everything with new games to create a new dataset to compare against. They're trying to do the same methodology on Linux.

Without re-testing their entire suite of cards for every new card review (which is cost prohibitive), performance changing from updates would make the comparisons between cards less useful, as it cannot be determined if the newer card being tested is better or worse purely on the merits of the hardware itself, since newer software may be artificially making it look better or worse than the tested cards that came before, and thus the actual integrity and usefulness of the testing comes into question.

They are trying to assemble a like-for-like dataset that doesn't require their entire catalog of cards to be regularly retested to ensure that it remains like-for-like. Keeping all the software the same across tests ensures that they can add new data piecemeal and still retain an apples-to-apples comparison.

I’ve seen the ancient gameplays video you linked, but there is very little out there for linux vs windows benchmarks that are of high quality.

The video I linked is 2 months old, only focuses on graph data (no gameplay videos) across both AMD and NVidia cards and multiple distros. It's quite high quality IMHO. Are you confusing it with something else?

EDIT: I just realized you're referring to the name of his youtube channel. D'oh!

GamersNexus' normal GPU benchmark videos are to help gamers compare GPU performance on various games to determine what they should purchase for their needs. With this new video, they are now providing the same service for Linux Gamers going forward.

The goal of this video was not to compare Windows performance to Linux performance. There are videos that exist which do that, if that is what you're were hoping for.

Personally, in this case I think the title itself is enough info to determine if it's an interesting enough topic to visit the youtube page to then read the description for more info before clicking play. Some lemmy clients even provide the youtube description in the post itself (the desktop Lemmy-UI only shows a short preview of the description).

For videos that don't have a simple premise and are difficult to capture in a short post title, I sometimes add a longer description and my own thoughts in the post body (such as when I post movies to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social), but for videos like this, which is quite straight forward, I don't feel the need to summarize their methodology of the benchmarks, since it's there in the video for those interested, but most will be more interested in the benchmark data itself.

A brief statement on how the OS used may be detrimental to windows would have been useful, for example.

This testing is not comparative to Windows benchmarks, it is only testing and comparing benchmarks on Linux between different GPUs. This is sort've a big deal, because GamersNexus is known for extremely rigorous and consistent testing, to the point where all in it cost them 10K in labor to fully set up their Linux testing suite. Long term this is a great boon to Linux gamers for deciding what hardware to purchase for their needs.

I'm not sure what advantage a summary of benchmarks across multiple games would bring, or how that amount of data could be summarized.

If you skipped Andor because of that, I'd highly recommend at least considering that one. I thought it was an incredible short series with fantastic writing, and that's coming from someone who basically hates anything other than the OG trilogy.

The average American reads below a 6th grade level.

Here's a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.