captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 2 hours ago:
Having played with it for a little while now that I’ve got it installed…I think it’s alright for a mostly or entirely gaming machine. I wouldn’t want to use it, or any immutable distro, as my main computer.
I’ve attempted to stay out of the trendy distro of the month club, remember Garuda? Remember Peppermint? Remember Endeavour?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 3 hours ago:
Bazzite offers KDE or GNOME, and in the menu mentions KDE is what is used in SteamOS.
I installed Bazzite on my HTPC recently. It was the worst install process I’ve seen in over ten years of using Linux. I shall enumerate the problems I had:
- The image is weirdly large, it’s like 9GB in size. It takes awhile to download and a weirdly long time to write to a USB stick.
- Once written, you boot the image, and GRUB has the options to Install Bazzite or Test Media And Install Bazzite. By default, Test Media is selected. It always fails this test.
- If you use the typical non-live environment image, the scaling is tiny on a 4k monitor, and there’s no way to adjust this.
- If you use the live environment image (in beta at time of writing), it might just lock up. I had that happen twice just while clicking through the Anaconda installer.
- The Anaconda installer, which I think they inherited from Fedora, was I think designed by one of the contrarian idiots who work for Gnome. There’s a DONE button up in the far upper left hand corner of the screen that sometimes acts as a back button, sometimes acts as a forward button. You have to move the mouse from the top corner of the screen to the center of the screen a lot, for no reason. The top-left corner of the screen is a dumb place to put a DONE button because most languages read top to bottom, left to right, the DONE button is where a START button should go.
- There isn’t a simple way to tell it “put / on this drive, put /home on that drive.” There’s an automatic installer which will do god knows what…fail, most likely. There’s a “custom” partition dialog which I couldn’t make heads or tails of, and then there’s a “custom advanced” one that lets you set the size and position of each partition to the byte. Doing it this way apparently REQUIRES you to not only set up a /boot/efi partition, but also a /boot partition separate from /root.
- If you’re in the habit of putting /, you know, operating system and software, on one drive, and /home on another drive, you have to learn from osmosis that part of Bazzite’s immutableness means that there is no /home, there’s a /var/home symlinked to /home.
And if it doesn’t randomly lock up, you’ve got Bazzite installed!
Bazzite markets itself as a newbie friendly Linux. They’ve got that configurator on their website that gives you a little Cosmo quiz about what system you have, what desktop you want etc. which is good! That is good user friendly design. But the actual software you get rattles like a Chrysler. How many noobs are going to bounce right off that?
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 day ago:
Precisely.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 days ago:
Things like Minetest exist.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 days ago:
By definition.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 days ago:
I always appreciate the girls who go to conventions cosplaying as PS1 era Lara. It’s not a difficult costume to source, you need a pale blue tank top, brown shorts, brown boots, fingerless gloves, a little backpack, the pistol belt with the huge square buckle, and half a shoebox.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 days ago:
Mechanical/civil engineering software, music production, and digital art. Those are the big ones.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 days ago:
I mean, I’m going to invite everyone of every age to strip bottomless, take any “back in my day we didn’t have your fancy [whatever]” bitching an moaning you have to do, dip it in honey, roll it in sand, and cram it up your exposed ass.
I’m 38. In my mid-20s, I taught flight school, mainly to people twice my age, and this included a fairly large section on reading Sectional Aeronautical Charts. I’ve got zero fucks to give for someone 7 years my senior pulling “back in my day we had maps” shit.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 5 days ago:
I’ve been looking into robotic lawnmowers, and they’re basically the same. The more primitive ones have a hall effect sensor under their snout feeling for a wire you bury around the edge of your yard, and do the “go until you hit something, turn a random amount, repeat until low battery, follow perimeter to dock” or they require phoning home in some way, shape or form.
Meanwhile, some guy’s got an open source system that runs on a Raspberry Pi on the mower itself.
I guess I’m willing to believe that some of the LIDAR or camera-only guided mowers need some serious processing power to create the maps they use for guidance around the yard, and that’s more practical to do on the company’s servers than on the device itself…except not really; we’ve got decently powerful ARM SoCs that don’t cost much, don’t take a lot of power to run, and can do that job. The reality is, you can’t get a pedometer app for a smart phone that doesn’t broadcast sensor telemetry to two continents these days.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Steam is honestly your best shot for getting a game to run, they’ve worked pretty hard on their compatibility layer.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
Python is interpreted.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
and the one in the picture can, that’s a gamecube controller plugged in.
- Comment on Traditions are just a society having OCD 1 week ago:
Traditions are peer pressure from dead people.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 week ago:
You sure the official name wasn’t spelled in Cyrillic instead of Latin With Dumb Shit Over It?
- Comment on Futurama Hit & Run Demo Out Today 1 week ago:
I was about to say, I loved Futurama, It’s run it’s course, I’m fine with Meanwhile being the series finale (especially since as broadcast it ended with them pushing the time loop button, and they aired the first episode after that) and I’m ready to move on.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
Python is my “native” programming language, it’s the first I learned, and many of my leaps in understanding of the language have resulted from thinking “Wait, Python is a smart ass. I bet it can do…”
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
I’m almost 40 and I’ve spent about 9 months during which there was public transport between me and my job, and I probably could have walked from Holt ave to Lewis street faster than the GTA bus.
- Comment on coping 1 week ago:
Everyone driving slower than me is a moron, everyone driving faster than me is a maniac.
- Comment on coping 1 week ago:
If he’s bigger than me: Yeah probably. I get off my ass to rake the yard or build furniture, I don’t work out.
If he’s richer than me: Yeah it’s almost certainly via white collar crime. I live below my means, I’m the son of an IT professional, I went to college on a grant and I taught flight school before I worked in a rapid prototyping lab. I’ve worn blue and white collars. I’ve written C++ and run a lathe for my pay.
If he’s smarter than me: That’s easy to believe with my 3.3 GPA. I was an honor’s student looked down upon by the AP and IB kids.
The man who looks better than me probably owns a mirror. I wear navy blue T-shirts and black gym shorts as a daily uniform because they’re easy to launder and I shave my neck because a neckbeard bothers me when I’m trying to sleep. Do you want your Lycoming overhauled or not, because I went to mechanic school and you didn’t. Thought so, that’ll be $30 grand.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 1 week ago:
A bit like how we used to call the CCCP the USSR?
- Comment on Trump Administration Buys 2 New Private Jets for Kristi Noem To Use 1 week ago:
Quoth the Wikipedia article, “It’s gender-affirming care the right can get behind.”
I wonder how many Hitler Youth bleached their hair?
- Comment on Trump Administration Buys 2 New Private Jets for Kristi Noem To Use 1 week ago:
Yeah. That question had an answer with a References section.
- Comment on Trump Administration Buys 2 New Private Jets for Kristi Noem To Use 1 week ago:
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 2 weeks ago:
It’s like getting emails from Amazon advertising products you’ve already bought. It’s like it’s running on the same algorithm that Youtube is. This guy just watched a video about neutron stars. I’ll recommend another video about neutron stars. That makes sense with video content, but not really with a lot of consumer goods. Sure Amazon, the first toilet seat was delicious, I think I’ll eat another.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
There weren’t any nuclear weapons on earth in 1930.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 2 weeks ago:
What? For my third once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis? There’s no way this isn’t going to suck. We’re all doomed no matter what.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 2 weeks ago:
I’m speaking of my experiences in the United States. Here, phone books tend to be separated into white pages and yellow pages. The white pages listed names, addresses and phone numbers of private lines, usually homes, and the yellow pages listed businesses. Taking out a listing in the yellow pages was the SEO of its day.
When the internet happened, the one thing that never really happened was a freely searchable database of the white pages. One thing the internet was never useful for as an upstanding citizen was looking up personal phone numbers.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 2 weeks ago:
One thing that never got digitized and put on the internet was the phone book. And for damn good reason.
- Comment on Just an FYI 2 weeks ago:
haiku aren’t that hard
It’s five, then seven, then five.
You’ll get used to it.
- Comment on Is it possible to 3D scan a motorcycle helmet and make smaller replicas? 2 weeks ago:
That is my understanding.