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- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 2 days ago:
yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:
After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:
It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 3 days ago:
funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.
I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 4 days ago:
I buy mainly physical games.
Will I preorder a AAA game that will have 18,000,000 copies sitting around after 6 months? Hell no.
Will I preorder a physical title from a small-medium dev/publisher that I will never see again? If they have a track record of making stuff I like.
- Comment on The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast 1 week ago:
I swear 95% of the stuff Steam recommended is reasoned with because it is popular and not because it’s something I would play.
Even when they say it’s related to a library item, it’s not even tangential. Like… Escape the Backrooms is not like Terraria. In any sense. They put that there because Youtubers are selling it.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 1 week ago:
Yeah, for me it was Technos Collection 1. :(
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 1 week ago:
I’d like to add two more things:
It was the generation of HD remasters, so a lot of older (high quality) titles are available on the platform, such as the Dead Rising games, the Mega Man collections, almost all the Resident Evil titles, Devil May Cry collection, Bioshock collection, Final Fantasty X/X-2.
And most importantly, since they are last gen, they are not stupidly hard to find yet.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 1 week ago:
Might be an unpopular opinion (but that’s what makes it cheap): An Xbox One.
It’s got a fairly sizeable library at 3,067 titles and a backwards compatible list with 632 games from Xbox 360 and 63 original Xbox titles. So you have plenty of choice depending on your gaming tastes.
It’s the last generation, so many stores will be clearing out the old inventory at a discount. Popular titles like Mass Effect Trilogy or Borderlands Handsome Collection will be a great value for the money. If those are your style.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 1 week ago:
ooh, that’s a tough sell. I absolutely love my Evercade, but the library is hard to get. If you don’t snap up a popular new release, it’s likely to vanish forever. Major FOMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yup, 60W.
More than enough to power one or two drives but when 3+ were writing I’d have a random disconnect.
Tried different hubs, of increasing power. Same thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How do you keep it properly powered? When I tried something similar, some drives would randomly vanish because the peak power demand exceeded the supply of the hub.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 1 week ago:
and of course, this will be misconstrued. The executives will shout “look! people don’t want physical ownership!” and the push to digital rentals will continue… and result in even higher prices when they pull a Netflix.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 2 weeks ago:
It was wild seeing fair-use Mickey Mouse in a divorce lawyer’s commercial.
- Comment on 'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO 1 month ago:
I’m really curious if it’ll stick around even longer given how slow tech advancement has become.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 month ago:
One of my favorite remotes had the sources split across the top. Composite, Component, VGA, HDMI. And if you hit the button twice it’d cycle through the different ports of that type.
Never found a remote like that again. Now they just throw a menu to slowly browse through.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 month ago:
Reminds me of: Image
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 1 month ago:
I saw these guys at Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I played the demo a tiny bit, and while it was interesting in a way… it felt a bit too early to be showing to people. Maybe it was the 3D printed stuff that made it amateurish.
That said, if I am recalling correctly, the was open-source (oh I found the site and it is) so maybe that whole booth was to demonstrate how someone could build their own unit.
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 1 month ago:
I mean, we have Evercade and it’s not failed yet.
- Comment on Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series 1 month ago:
28 years and there is still nothing close to it. Either they focus too much on flight like Zone of Enders and Daemon X Machina, or they ground it too hard like Front Mission Evolved. No happy middleground.
I really thought with the success of Fires of Rubicon that we’d get a decent attempt at a clone.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 months ago:
It’s not drama, I’m just surprised is all. He’s usually very good about his accuracy, so when the entire premise is wrong I would have expected him to retract the video instead of leaving a comment someone can miss.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 months ago:
It’s a pretty big mistake, though given it’s his second (casual) channel it is very low stakes.
He can’t posit that re-releases are being done on single layer DVDs to save money, but use bootlegs as proof. Bootlegs aren’t a DVD release done by the distributor. That’s a pretty fatal flaw in logic.
It’s the equivalent of “Steam games are getting re-released in a weird way” and linking to Pirate Bay torrents, and the entire video is about how cheap games have gotten since they don’t have Steam features like achievements and cloud-save.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 months ago:
I’m surprised this video is still up, since the entire premise is false. They are bootlegs he bought off ebay, not official releases.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 months ago:
Not sure if it’s the one you are referring to, but AI gave discounts on flights.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 2 months ago:
I think in this case “confirm” just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 2 months ago:
Back when I had my Intel 3GHz Prescott working in tandem with the dustbuster Nvidia 5900XT, I honestly didn’t need to turn on the heat during winter.
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 2 months ago:
There was an /s missing.
Basically, xxce2AAb is asking why Microsoft PR is not trying to spin this as a good thing.
- Comment on SSDs for long term storage 2 months ago:
Burned optical media shelf life can be as little as 5 years, so I don’t think it should be recommended for long-term storage.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 months ago:
Don’t want to ruin the fun but he missed an apostrophe in the sentence. His stuff is in the back of the garage. “mine’s at the back of the garage”
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 months ago:
Easily defeated by those who play Minesweeper.
- Comment on [Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough 2 months ago:
If somebody told me these graphics are 16 years old, I wouldn’t believe them.
- Comment on [Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough 2 months ago:
I recently played Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox Series X. I was amazed at how great it looked when output at modern 4K with 60fps and 16x anisotropic filtering. The gameplay was still crap, but amazing to look at given it was on 360 originally.
Because of that experience, I am a little more forgiving for 360/PS3 generation. Those games were mostly running 720p frame buffers (or worse) and seriously gain a lot when given some shine.
(This completely ignores the fact that PC would naturally have these abilities without an additional purchase)
