dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
Mixing sodium bicarbonate into water, even with just a teaspoon of acid like vinegar or lemon juice added, is still a good antacid.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
It’s not dumb in the sense that water that is not alkaline is not the same as water that is alkaline with some added acid.
In Eastern Europe the soft drink created by mixing sodium bicarbonate into water and then adding a tea spoon of lemon juice or vinegar to it was an oft used refreshment before the 80s.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 4 days ago:
This model does not seem to be trained for recipes.
- Comment on Germany seeks deal with the Taliban to expedite expulsion of Afghan migrants 5 days ago:
Afghanis are not Arabs though.
- Comment on Germany seeks deal with the Taliban to expedite expulsion of Afghan migrants 5 days ago:
Any overrepræsentation of immigrants, racial minorities etc in crime statistics tend to be due to prejudiced and otherwise abusive enforcement and targeting by cops and politicians, and Germany is no exception.
It’s like you skipped over a whole paragraph.
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 5 days ago:
Dead people make short term profit. Alive people make long term profit.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 6 days ago:
Yes. Instead we should have micro-timezones. And hopefully our clocks auto adjust based on gps or township/city longitude.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
They are saying that they are technically right.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 1 week ago:
This is true. For EAC specific issues there is areweanticheatyet.com
Apex Legends is silver because it had 3k+ positive reviews before, but about a year ago EA decided to flip the switch on Linux within EAC. Likely to fuck with steam deck, or maybe to do some handwaving of dealing with cheaters.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry.
Medals are probably the best metric. Besides red for broken, they go
- bronze for barely playable with lots of tinkering
- silver for playable with tinkering
- gold for working great with some tinkering
- platinum for works out of the box with no tinkering
And above that “native”, which I think is not included in the charts. Even native games you can still opt to play through proton though. I had better performance playing Slay the Spire and Project Zomboid on older gfx with Proton than native for example.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 1 week ago:
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 1 week ago:
It definitely is. I’m not sure how to overcome this. The app offers the option to use it without an online account, but nothing guarantees that it won’t phone home every second anyway.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 1 week ago:
I’ve dealt with it by using SwiftKey instead.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 week ago:
They’ve been featuring projects on their page that they display their donations on, projects that did not know or outright refused, without their consent or understanding.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 week ago:
So wait, we hate FUTO but love Immich?
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 1 week ago:
You seem to be knowledgeable. What camera can I use to plug in into a light bulb socket and have it use powerline communication? Wi-Fi is fine too, but would prefer PLC.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, now on GOG 1 week ago:
And this is why I got hooked on roguelites. Hades, Spelunky, FTL, Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire, Crypt of the Necro Dancer, Rogue Legacy, Dome Keeper, Runestone Keeper. There’s probably so much more out there.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I wanted to avoid recommending that exactly due to the period substitution.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 week ago:
Try an additional line feed after every line, or an asterisk before them
* like * this or like this
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 1 week ago:
What?
- 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 1 week ago:
You will likely have to enter the bios/uefi setup with Del, F12 or something similar during boot and then search for the secure boot option and turn it off. Alternatively you may need to just properly set up the boot sequence and target the drive you want to actually boot from as the first boot option in the list.
Did you already install Linux Mint on a drive and your computer is now refusing to boot from it? Or are you actually at the step where you’ve made a bootable usb with the live iso and that’s what is not booting?
Balena Etcher work pretty well on windows to create a bootable USB live iso.
- 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 1 week ago:
Tbh it actually doesn’t matter that much. There’s like a million different distros, but really there’s like 3 base distros (yes Linux nuts, this is an oversimplification) of Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Ubuntu has gotten a lot of hate lately for their choice of forced package manager, but it’s probably fine. It’ll matter way more to you what desktop environment you select. I’d recommend looking into Bazzite for gaming. It’s based on fedora and it has a bunch of gaming stuff built in, but also does great for anything else. It’s made to be the steamOS for anything not a steam deck. Go with KDE for a windows-like desktop experience.
The three base distros mentioned are ones that other distros use as their base
E.g.
Debian -> Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS!
Fedora -> Bazzite, Nobara
Arch -> EndeavourOS, Manjaro, CachyOS
While you can customize the base distros however you want, think of these derivate distros as various prebuilts.
Most distros come with a package manager that allows you to download (software) packages from a centralized repository. Similar to say Microsoft store. Ubuntu was dissed for Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu) forcing their own package manager into it, which had various issues, while there were already well established package managers available.
Desktop Environment (DE) is what you see on your screen. Various elements control how the task bar or app bar behaves or what it looks like, what windows are stylized like, and how they behave etc. For someone coming from Windows, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon DE or any distro with KDE will likely be most familiar experience, while those switching from MacOS, Gnome DE as the Fedora default is very similar.
Bazzite is a gaming focused distro based on Fedora.
- 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 1 week ago:
Those are likely shit games.
- 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 1 week ago:
There’s some information missing. What is saying “not bootable drive”? You should make a primary partition on the target drive.
Also, even if you don’t have tpm, you may have some sort of secure boot preventing non-windows drives from booting.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 week ago:
Figure 17
Loving dad. And what if you suddenly had a twin.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 1 week ago:
That’s good though. It means half the internet wouldn’t fail.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 1 week ago:
That work is still being done by someone in a data centre. But all these jobs went from in-house positions to the centres.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 weeks ago:
Or even fed false information by not AI.
- Comment on Does it get windy in New York City? 2 weeks ago:
This made me wonder why wind is never a factor in any of the Spider-Man stories. Even though it’s actually a spider’s main method of transportation.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 weeks ago:
Gotta ask the King of England to ask the Canadians politely to do the deed.
