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1. CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 08:01:55 JST CrunkLord420
   Chromium 118 still doesn't have functioning WebGPU by default on Linux. Google has been dragging this along for months. We're closing in on universal by default WebGPU support and this is one of the last things.
   
   https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1411745
   • waff (waffle@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:23:30 JST waff

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     @crunklord420 why do you want to subject a browser made by google to your gpu...think of how much bloat theyd add to the browser if they got too comfortable with the gpu's ability
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   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:24:37 JST CrunkLord420

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     • waff
     @waffle I use both ungoogled chromium and firefox for different things. It doesn't matter, by-default WebGPU support is important if im going to distribute WebGPU based programs to people who aren't me.
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   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 09:10:38 JST CrunkLord420

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     • waff
     @waffle I do gamedev and C/C++ programming. I can distribute desktop programs in the web browser. I released CyberChud in WASM: https://cyberchud.kiwifarms.gg/cyberchud-bin.html
     
     Note that CyberChud is actually software rendered so it doesn't actually need WASM (Canvas would actually work in this case), but most of my stuff is hardware accelerated.
     
     I used to have CrunkSort69 online but I have to re-upload it.
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   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 09:12:29 JST CrunkLord420

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     • waff
     @waffle sorry I mean WebGL, it needs WASM. WebGPU will provide many new features as compared to WebGL2, which is essentially OpenGL ES2. No geometry shaders, no compute shaders.
   • waff (waffle@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 21:58:10 JST waff

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     This makes sense. I covered your cyberchud game and I still remember when Josh covered it as well and couldnt figure out how to run the binary...so I see how, in your perspective this helps raise the reach of your program. It seems from what you are mentioning too it uses pre-existing libraries on computers which is far more relieving compared to if google created a rendering engine from scratch.