captain_aggravated

@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. 3rd person shooter designed for controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  aww, Jacket man fall down go boom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  38 year old here:

  I’m gonna give it to the zoomers for coming up with some solid slang with Rizz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often compared Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon, and it usually boils down to KDE is often too complicated and busy, Gnome is often too simple and braindead, Cinnamon sits somewhere in the middle.

  Gnome’s settings menu is missing a lot of things you’d think should be there. They don’t want you changing things, so you end up installing separate packages like gnome-tweaks to actually render the OS usable. They’ve got this weird attitude that they’re going to out-Apple Apple with a millionth of Apple’s budget, and where Apple offers “Just Works”, Gnome offers “Barely Does Anything.”

  KDE has the opposite problem, they’ve got a setting for literally everything, if you can find it in their overgrown single settings menu. A basic applet will have several tabs crammed full of options and UI elements, making it probably the best tool for whatever mundane task it was meant for but you have to stop and figure out how it works, and it’s all rendered in janky misaligned QT so it looks like an amateur reskinned Windows 98.

  Cinnamon inherits a lot from Gnome, but puts back in the shit Gnome gouged out. I tend to find things where I think to look for them, it tends to provide the functionality I need out of the box without excessive clutter. But, it’s a bit behind the times with stuff like Wayland, so it’s not the best choice for very modern hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  truck doors have hinges. I have been known to fix those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There has been much speculation recently and I would like to make one thing clear. Donald Trump's head game is utter trash.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A little bit of Monica in my life

  A little bit of Donald by my side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a little ARM box running Android, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is EXACTLY the path I took. I started playing with a Raspberry Pi as part of my ham radio hobby, a Pi 1B in those days. Then my old laptop died, I bought a new one from Dell, which came with Win 8.1, and it kept dying. While going around and around with Dell’s tech support, I pretty much had to use that Pi for my normal work. I got a pretty good crash course in Linux, to the point it was more familiar to me than Win8.1. So I tried Ubuntu, it was okay, I tried Mint, and that was my home for the next ten years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still like Cinnamon better. To quote Jeremy Clarkson, “This is brilliant, but I like this.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YOu didn’t (fully) fix it. This is something I don’t see a lot of people talking about regarding Windows/Linux dual boot.

  Unix-like systems like Linux set the computer’s built-in real-time clock to UTC and then do any conversions to local time on the fly. I think that traces back to UNIX’s origins as a minicomputer OS; it needed to talk to other minicomputers across time zones from the beginning.

  Windows, like DOS before it, is designed to sit on a desk by itself plugged into nothing but power and accept data one, maybe two floppy disks at a time. Why would the user care about anything other than the local time? Hell the original IBM 5150 didn’t even have a built-in RTC.

  Either OS can be set to do it either way in the modern era; pick one to change so that they don’t fight. It’s done with a registry edit in Windows or a bash command in Linux. Do one, or the other, but not both. I recommend changing Windows, because Windows will reset the RTC every daylight savings time and on a mobile system every time it crosses a time zone, Linux doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Ubisoft and EA both still have business models, somehow. It’s kinda wild what people will put up with.

  There’s a whole bunch of academic shitware that doesn’t work on Linux. Last time I was in college the math textbook came with a code to a website that wanted to install some Wolfram thing, I dropped out again, shit like that.

  A lot of engineering software and CAD isn’t present. You just turn up to the town council with the bridge you’ve designed in FreeCAD. See how that works out.

  Business software is a wild ride. It’s some mishmash of Windows software, AS400 software, web portals and iPad apps. I genuinely don’t know if I could rent a storefront downtown, fill it with merchandise, and successfully run a business with nothing but x86 machines running Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you run into the system clock issue yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can learn how to use the terminal. You have demonstrated the ability to compose a coherent sentence, you can learn.

  Every terminal command is a program. Typing a “command” into the terminal is just typing the name of a program. If you type firefox, Firefox launches. If it’s installed, we’ll come back to that. Anything else in the “command” like if you see letters or words after a dash, something like ls -a is an option, it’s like ticking a box in a dialog window, but on the front end. I recommend spinning up a virtual machine or getting a Raspberry Pi or something you don’t care about, and following some tutorials. Learn how to move around the file system, install software, run some utilities.

  About that “if it’s installed” part. You mentioned you run Zorin. Zorin is what I call a Trendy Distro Of The Month. I’ve been using Linux for twelve years now, this hasn’t stopped yet. There’s the mainstays like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuSe, there’s the niche special purpose things like Kali and TAILS and Puppy and Tiny, and then there’s the hundreds of quadrillions of “We took Ubuntu, put Steam on it by default, swapped SystemD for whatever.rs, swapped Firefox for Chromium and did a half-assed job at theming and extending Gnome that’s going to break every time they push an update.”

  PeppermintOS, ZorinOS, ElementaryOS, Pop!_OS, Garuda, Nobara, Endeavor, Manjaro, Bazzite, Cachy, hundreds of others, are basically the same software in some slightly mutated permutation that most veterans aren’t familiar with. Invariably the veterans first hear about them from noobs who went looking for a distro that is “good for gaming” or “easy for beginners” and because SEO they find the Trendy Distro Of The Month. Which always offers some little gimmick that ultimately doesn’t matter. The process of getting a Bazzite ISO is taking a little Cosmo quiz about what you’re going to do, but then the installer is really borked compared to Mint or even Fedora.

  A lot of instructions are written with Ubuntu or sometimes Fedora in mind, and then you pick a distro that differs from those, and then bitch that instructions don’t work.

  Also, you need to upgrade your backup hardware if it takes 20 hours to image a drive. That should take minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I played with it years ago, didn’t need it and haven’t really touched it until now.

  I use Syncthing for several things, especially syncing photos between my phone and desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  dammit I like Syncthing. does kdeconnect do a decent job at syncing files?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little hard to comment on high end 4 years ago with low end now because technology marches on, but no I don’t think it would.

  I also built a PC with similar specs for my cousin (we’ll call her Lila) to that in October of 2022, Ryzen 5600X/Radeon RX6800 (non-XT). Built that rig for my cousin. Socket AM4 B550 chipset, 16GB DDR4-3600 RAM. I had a budget of $1500, $500 alone went to the GPU. The 6800 was two years old at that point. Solid mid-range PC that can handle 1440p gaming with no questions asked…okay one question asked: “are you sure you want ray tracing enabled on an RDNA 2 platform?”

  You could go higher. 32 or even 64GB of RAM, a 5800X3D CPU, a Radeon 6950XT or RTX-3090 would provide much more solid 4k gaming with significantly better ray tracing…for a couple more grand.

  The machine I built last year, a Ryzen 7700X/Radeon 7900GRE for myself. I spent $2000, I got socket AM5, 32GB DDR5-6000, a 16 thread CPU, and the third-to-highest GPU in the range. This thing does 1440p ultrawide or reaches into 4k with aplomb and ray tracing is worth turning on. You can still go up from here; the 7900XT and XTX are even more powerful and again Nvidia offers even higher, and there’s several CPU SKUs above me. Mine is a mid-to-high end PC, I expect it to be relevant for 5 more years, then I’ll buy a Ryzen 11800X3D on clearance for it.

  Meanwhile, the PC I’m building now is for a 12 year old (Lila’s daughter, let’s call her Maggy). 16GB of DDR5-5600, a spec’d down 6-core without integrated graphics, the pack-in Wraith Stealth cooler, and a x600 tier GPU for a solid 1080p experience, more than enough for the hand-me-down 1080p60 monitor she’s gonna get with it. This computer is the same generation as mine, but less than half the price at $900 and change. And I honestly struggle to build much lower than that without resorting to used parts, new old stock, or jank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gilette gives away razor handles to men to encourage them to buy their blades.

  Inkjet printers are often cheaper than a change of ink cartridges.

  I think it was Standard Oil, gave away hurricane lanterns in order to sell kerosene.

  Most video game consoles are sold for less than they cost to make because the company expects to earn more in video game sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m right now in the process of building an “entry level PC” from components, here defining it as new currently produced off the rack parts, no used, no refurbished, and with a Ryzen 7500F and a Radeon RX7600 “AMD can’t decide whether their cards get an XT or not, so why should I?” I price it out right at $900. To go much below that, I’m gonna have to resort to some jank.

  Dumpster dive a core i5 10400F Optiplex, stick a GTX-980 in it, install Linux Mint and you’re making 120FPS in CS:GO for the price of a foot pic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see several different niches for it.

  • PC gamers who want an HTPC. Which isn’t really a niche that is served without building an ITX machine, with parts that are premium priced for no reason I can think of. If you want to play some of your PC games on a television, well, there aren’t a lot of great solutions.

  • Console gamers looking to convert. Consoles have come up in price significantly, the “turn on and play” aspects have eroded to the point a console is a slightly discounted mi-tier gaming PC that can’t spreadsheet. The Steam Machine will be at a little bit of a price premium, but you get a console-like user experience with all the benefits of the PC ecosystem, like mods, streaming, self-hosted multiplayer, etc.

  • IT professionals who just want to play games in their spare time. I’ve heard a lot of sysadmins and developers and folks rage at the idea of coming home from a long day at the IT mines only to futz around with PCIe lanes and EFI settings. The most hacker dude I know showed me his personal phone: a non-jailbroken iPhone.

  • Noobs that are sick of Microsoft. There’s people out there who would like a gaming PC without Windows, but for one reason or another can’t move past the need to buy a computer with an OS installed from a for-profit company.

  • Parents buying kids a gaming PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This honestly isn’t my experience.

  A couple years ago now, I went to install Windows 10 on a PC. It got partway through the install process, and then failed with an “Error 0x76A421B3E7291A” or something. Completely opaque, like the damn thing spat out a memory pointer as the only clue. Installing Linux Mint on the same machine threw an error, “Unable to complete installation due to BIOS TBS error. Check TBS BIOS settings and try again. For more information, see this wiki page” and it gave a clickable link, because this is running in a live environment and has a functioning copy of Firefox installed, and it gave a QR code so the page could be easily pulled up on a mobile device.

  Windows is not inherently more user friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 8.1 made me a Linux user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, even consoles aren’t as easy as they used to be. They require accounts with Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, they require updates for the console itself as well as individual games, most games have to be “installed,” you still have to think about internal storage…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about hate, but the entire Steam Machine thing happened because Microsoft was making noise circa Windows 8 that they were going to take the platform more closed and require sourcing software from the Windows Store, which would shut out things like Steam. So they said “Okay, we’ll make our own operating system with blackjack and hookers. We could take the PC gaming market with us, and we’ll even come for the living room console market and threaten Xbox while we’re at it.” And if anyone in the world is going to get that done, it’s Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then they’ll implement an AI detector detector deflector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning to drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why didn’t you fix the power steering? I’m pretty sure they were all built with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With or without the bowl itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She strongly disagrees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet it’s pretty much all they use it for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I said, LOOK at it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  5 feet off the ground and full of stuff that’s not hers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I said, LOOK at it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A booty like a long haul truck…so, rectangular and for hire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But what does he know? did he see anything?