dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People keep saying Bazzite now for distro. But as a relatively new linux user (since last summer) I’ve managed to make things work with Linux Mint, arch and Fedora no hassle.

  Heroic launcher (GOG, Epic) or Steam will handle proton&wine for you. Just need to check a check-box in the game’s config on whether you want to run native or proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to what the others were saying, proton has an unaffiliated website for reporting purposes, protondb.com. It tallies user reports of the games working or not. The data is associated mostly with steam libraries.

  I don’t have a lot of games in my steam library, relatively speaking, barely over 100. But there are zero games that would not work on Linux for me:

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  In this context Platinum means it works out of the box, Gold means some users experienced minor issues (mostly older reports by nvidia users) that required some tinkering with launch options, such as setting an environment variable. Silver and Bronze mean gradually more tinkering required but still works. This excludes native apps (which do not use wine/proton) and borked apps (of which I own zero).

  Note, that this is a translation layer, not emulation, and often games can have better performance under Linux thanks to the system not getting bogged down by the OS itself.

  Also note, that 99% borked games are due to kernel level anticheat and DRM being implemented by the game developer, which proton can’t handle. You can still make it work under Linux, but you’d actually require emulation for that, instead of proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn what? They’ve been relativly silent throughout the 12 years from announcement to release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It was only for us nerds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was he?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been redeemed because they’ve opened such a rich world in the form of the TV shows and books. TCW and Rebels expanded on lore greatly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this is London.

  And that’s fine, the train commutes were not for your specific needs. Weird that you had to switch three times to get to your destination, including the walks.

  But this is hardly the norm.

  If you want to have counter-anecdotal evidence presented, my daily commute used to be 5 metro stops worth 9 minutes of ride and 5 minutes of walking (in total). By car it was about the same, except for the added inconvenience of finding and paying for parking. This was Budapest.

  Then there was 15 minutes of train coupled with 25 minutes of walking, 20 to the train station at a brisk pace and then another 5 to the office through the underground maze. By car it’d have been 15 minutes, not counting traffic. Which there always was. Because this was Toronto, the home of “just one more lane, bro”. So in total it was more like 40.

  My current commute is 20-40 minutes by a single bus. Only ~2.5km. It’d be the same by car, because the route is entirely at the whims of the traffic.

  However it doesn’t matter, because I also bike, and it’s my preferred mode of transportation. Biking in cities that do have minimal infra (such as well placed arteries) and culture for it, as in driving lessons focus on awareness and there is no us vs them mentality, is like IRL cheat code to commuting. You are faster than transit and traffic, you get some well needed exercise and de-stress time. And you get to exactly from where you leave from to where you want to go to, all while saving a dime.

  Obviously biking is not for everyone. But if a fat dude with asthma in his late forties with two young children can do it, the barrier for entry doesn’t seem that steep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its gotta suck to be the guy who has to text out all the two-factor authentication codes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse you. This is shit posting from the loo. Not a shower thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is the cooling part is required for compute, not for the energy uptake.

  However they have a pretty big sea there right next door, which I assume they can endlessly circulate with pumps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.

  I don’t know much about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.

  The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.

  The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is playing the long game (or long-con). Changing laws about presidential reelection is next. And then he may die next term, but the Pope-killer will take over his reins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2025, Apple still makes it hard to play your own MP3s, so I wrote my own app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  foobar2k has been a thing for a couple decades.

  Or deadbeef on linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No one will care, and the non-critical echochamber will keep truckin’ on for the wrong reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this experience with both Gungeon and Slay The Spire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The feedback loop is everywhere in tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just go by protondb.com and most what I want to play is either gold or platinum rated, or even native.

  I only have 106 games in my library, and out of those 66 are native, 43 are gold or platinum and 1 is unrated. I’ve bought nearly all of then before even switching from Windows to Linux about nine months ago.

  Using arch btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening my eyes slightly more evokes an emotional response.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it’s called Mr Inbetween. Never heard of it before either, but this is what yandex reverse image search told me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which operating system is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang. Quite a multitool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just slow walk while bobbing the view up and down, left and right, to emulate grooving to the tunes on the radio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could just use a leaf rake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shuts down email account of International Criminal Court chief prosecutor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bayern is truly the Texas/Alberta of Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You take a single sheet to dab water / double-check cleanliness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like Japanese boomers keep maintaining the status quo at the expense of younger generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the chainsaw drone, the bomb drone, the control drone…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you think about it The Sun is actually at the very bottom.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bad analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey for curiosity: How many readers are in a library network that holds video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine does. Some games are non stop booked. Others, mostly the sports games titles, are always available on the shelves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… wait… So your average Facebook mom who has a laptop lying around that they use to watch their series in the evening, but will have to chuck it due to EOL of win10 and no win11 support, will not be able to adopt mint after she has someone install it for her, because you couldn’t get a hyperypecific app to run on it? (Steam is hyperypecific in the grand scheme of things).

  What a hyperbole.