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   Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 20:50:06 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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   • not good osdev 🏳️‍⚧️

   @mothcompute Come to think of it, the term "software rendering" has been a bit outdated for the past couple decades as GPUs have moved a lot of things from fixed-function hardware to shaders. Which are, you know, software.

   If your GPU supports shaders, you're using software rendering.

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     not good osdev 🏳️‍⚧️ (mothcompute@vixen.zone)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 20:50:08 JST not good osdev 🏳️‍⚧️

     and its called software rendering despite the fact that it runs on the cpu. which is hardware