chronicledmonocle
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 days ago:
Cheers mate
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.
Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I’ve considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
You installed KDE on Mint? Why not just install Debian with KDE?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to “try before you buy”.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
Cough MassGavel Activation Scripts Cough
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
Valve made a compatibility layer for the Steam Deck and Linux called Proton. It uses a lot of technologies, including WINE, dxvk, and more to make Windows games run well on Linux. It basically takes Windows API calls and translates them to Linux with little to no performance penalty.
Steam also has native builds for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux how, so you can just install it. Most Linux distros have Steam right in their software manager now.
Typically, unless the game has blocked Linux with something like kernel-level anticheat, it’ll “just work” on Linux now. There is a community database called ProtonDB that has a list of games and how well they do or don’t work.
Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
Check Proton DB. If the games you enjoy work fine on Linux, which is the case for most games these days thanks to Proton, you should be good. The big exception is games with kernel-level anticheat.
If not, you can always dual boot for the few games that don’t.
I made the switch to pure Linux gaming when I got my Steam Deck two years ago. Been loving it ever since. Even SteamVR games work great streaming to my Quest headset.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
Amen. Not a non-Android one, at least.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
The future is bright on Linux
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 1 week ago:
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
Wow never heard of this application. I’ll have to give it a try.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 weeks ago:
If you have a Quest headset, ALVR allows you to stream SteamVR to it.
I believe the Valve Index allows for Linux usage, but I’ve never owned one.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Indirect Playback goes through them first. Also, they host DynDNS for the Plex media server to make accessing it remotely from apps easier.
The second thing is a joke to host and requires no resources. The first one can be a significant resource usage item.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 3 weeks ago:
Man I might have to get one of these…I don’t mind my FitBit, but since being gobbled by Google, I don’t need another data point for Google to feed off.
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 5 weeks ago:
Emulation isn’t piracy and you’re allowed to back up physical games you own. That’s legally your right.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 weeks ago:
This firmware update applies to laserjets. Not inkjets.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 5 weeks ago:
I used to just use Firefox for Google Meet, but it seems they broke it somewhere along the way. Probably on purpose.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 month ago:
Please no. Look…I am glad you played Kirk, man…but your story is DONE. Picard’s story didn’t need its own show either.
Stop making rehashes FFS. Stop leveraging nostalgia and then disappointing us.
Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds: Do more of that (I know SNW is a prequel, but it explores characters that barely saw the light of day).
Fucking Orville did Star Trek better than modern Star Trek.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 1 month ago:
Cool story. I don’t care if they know I fucking hate them.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 1 month ago:
I’m using a Ryzen Mini PC running Debian and Flex Launcher.
Works well as both a media consumption machine and light gaming rig.
- Comment on Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways' 2 months ago:
new and interesting ways
$80 and more micro transactions.
- Comment on How long does it take for a quantum torpedo to cover a distance of 12 parsecs? 2 months ago:
Me, as a fan of both: “I’m a turbo nerd, aren’t I?”
- Comment on Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps 2 months ago:
You’re probably a better candidate for a plug-in hybrid.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 months ago:
Would have been fine if it didn’t cost a kidney and they’d invested in app development more.
Too closed off. Too expensive.
- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 4 months ago:
Didn’t know there was to be a comic series. This is exciting.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 5 months ago:
Look…it’s a shit mouse, but all you had to do is press on the right-front corner for right click after you configured it to do so.
I hated the thing and would never get one again, but if you’re going to criticize it, at least point out things that are actually a problem.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 5 months ago:
I had a first gen Magic Mouse and you could definitely add right click to it.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 5 months ago:
And they still put the port on the bottom where you can’t charge and use it at the same time. Garbage.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 5 months ago:
Don’t forget accounting software.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 6 months ago:
I’m all for Sodium batts in cars, but my understanding is this battery tech is a different chemical composition than other Sodium Ion batteries.