massivefailure

@massivefailure@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really want to improve N64 games, particularly the Zelda games? CUTSCENE SKIP.

  Get to the game. Why we have put so much emphasis on telling a story for 90% of a game, I will never understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another example of why if you can’t download DRM-free files of your media, it’s not worth having. Spotify is absolute trash and I have no idea why it’s as popular as it is. Get you some damn MP3s/Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/whatever DRMless copies of your audiobooks and music and to hell with this streaming shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-C is a shitshow, period. Whoever invented that garbage needs to be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

  Depending on just the cable I plug in, I get fast speed (from PC) and charging (from a power outlet) on one device and slow speed and charging on the other, and another cable gets me exactly the opposite.

  This is not the behavior of a fucking “standard”. Meanwhile, microUSB just fucking worked regardless of which of the tons of cables I used, all exactly the same.

  USB-C needs to fucking die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows 11 problem⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering what a wide variety of hardware I use and all of it exhibits the same behavior, maybe it’s just you that is ignoring obvious issues to push your agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows 11 problem⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the old initd. It was fast, efficient, didn’t hang up for 10+ minutes when it got confused about what needed to shut down when, and just worked until a bunch of impatient new Linux users wanted to get to the desktop in 0.00007 seconds and couldn’t patiently wait for a proper init boot order so they created this bloated monstrosity. But those aren’t even the worst part of NuLinux: to this day Wayland is absolute unstable garbage not worth using. Visual glitches, UI glitches, instability, slowdowns, and outright crashes that even REISUB can’t recover from. Meanwhile, Xorg still Just Works.

  Modern Linux is garbage and needs to be either fixed or thrown away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows 11 problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not using Linux at this point you’re just being lazy

  I used Linux for over twenty years and stopped about two years ago due to Linux invariably moving to lazy, poor development and design all the way from the kernel up. Rapid kernel development with tons of random new patches and ideas instead of the old way of maintaining a stable kernel and doing random patches and ideas on a separate branch (the odd minor versions vs. the stable even ones), systemd being more of a problem than a solution, the push for everything to move to Wayland forcing every single thing that has to do with lower level desktop interfaces, including all of the lightweight window managers, to completely rewrite themselves with tons of bloat that replaces everything X.org did by default as well as Wayland’s devs taking a “it works on my computer” approach to bugs and dismissing tons of major issues people have found, pipewire still not being a stable, reliable audio system (Linux has never had one, but using ALSA with the right hardware back in the day where everything would mix via hardware was a decent solution), distros becoming more and more unreliable and buggy (even “stable” and “long term support” ones), distros and developers giving up on native and running bare metal applications and substituting things like flatpak to run things natively with any sort of cross-platform reliability and fucking wine – essentially a new version of Windows running in Linux, which is an admission of failure to make a successful game platform if I’ve ever heard one – to run games, and on and on.

  I’ve been able to use Linux very well until a few years back. I used to be one of its biggest advocates and wouldn’t dare run Windows.

  No more. People bitch, moan, and complain about Windows 11 so much but for me, it just works. Simply, easily, no problem. Do I wish I still used Linux? Hell, yes. But am I given how bad it’s become? Nope. I’ve even tried going back here and there and quickly ran into the same huge list of problems and aches that were never there before and back to Windows I go.

  Sorry, Linux is a pain and it’s not about being lazy, it’s about wanting to use a decent OS that just works as well as Linux used to.