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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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fucking hell is "hardware mouse cursor"
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Tóth Gábor Baltazár @tthbaltazar@chaos.social
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so, it used to be that computers were slow and limited in memory

overwriting whatever is on screen in RAM would mean that if you move the cursed we would have to draw what was behind the cursor again

the solution was that as the image is being sent to the display, the hardware overlays the cursor image in the right place, as the image is being read from memory
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StarkRG @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
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@jeder GPUs have hardware for rendering the cursor. This setting enables/disables that
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