st3ph3n
@st3ph3n@midwest.social
Fleddit in June 2023. Was on kbin for a while but it’s been broken and janky lately, so I’m giving midwest.social a try now.
- Comment on MAGA trolls outed as foreigners vanish from X after brutal update 1 week ago:
They’ll soon be back… and in greater numbers.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
My condolences
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
I finally committed to the switch last weekend. My desktop PC was the last holdout still on Windows in my fleet, because of Adobe Lightroom. I decided to just force myself to learn Darktable, and nuked the Win 11 install and replaced it with Fedora 43.
Fun side note, some of my games run way better than they did on Windows, despite not having native Linux builds. lol.
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 4 weeks ago:
2004 has my vote. It was a golden age for PC gaming.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 4 weeks ago:
Reddit is trash these days
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 5 weeks ago:
Not a good look.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 1 month ago:
Dude, you should review everything. 10/10.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 months ago:
Canceled my subscription. Fuck you, Microsoft.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 months ago:
It still is, if you’re a piece of rail freight.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 months ago:
The Blue Brother
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 4 months ago:
Turn based RPGs. I played through Persona 3, 4, and 5 on an elliptical machine in the past few months, and am now on Metaphor Refantazio. Atlus games seem perfect for this, heh. Not your pre-2005 style, but there’s plenty of old RPGs out there.
I also played through most of the Yakuzas on the elliptical too, although on easy since they didn’t become turn based until very recently.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 months ago:
Seems insane to run multiple machines for something like this. I wonder if maybe it is virtualized under the hood and one VM went kaput or something?
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 months ago:
Amazon Alexa has followed the same trajectory.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Eat shit, Ubisoft.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 months ago:
They’re notorious book burners, so I imagine not.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 months ago:
Easier to stomp on one individual than to crack down on the businesses importing this stuff. They’re probably also collecting some kind of import duty on them too.
- Comment on Sign me up 5 months ago:
Remember, anyone to the left of Hitler is a card-carrying communist now.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 6 months ago:
I’d like something that can replace my dinky little unmanaged 16-port gigabit switch for less than $300. Right now The only things I can find in that price bracket have maybe 5 ports. I’d settle for something that can just do 2.5/5Gb on all ports.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 6 months ago:
Can we finally get some affordable 10GbE switches too?
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 6 months ago:
Glad I ditched them a couple of months ago.
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 6 months ago:
Their asses are so very chapped by this whole situation and I love it. I hope the EU slaps them again for this move.
- Comment on Kneecap concert footage assessed by police over alleged ‘kill your MP’ call 7 months ago:
Check out their 2024 movie if you want more, it’s a banger.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 7 months ago:
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
- Comment on Based on a true story 8 months ago:
Wild. I bought a car from Carvana in 2022 and the interest rate back then was 6% on a 3-year loan, which was on the high side of normal for the time period.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 9 months ago:
100% this
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 9 months ago:
I have a Boox Palma 2 - their cellphone-sized thing that doesn’t have a cellular radio. I love it. They’re more expensive than kindles, though, since they’re not subsidizing their cost with ebook sales. I haven’t actually tried jailbreaking a kindle so I can’t say how good an experience that would be, but you could probably pick up a kindle of some description on the used market for dirt cheap to try it out.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 9 months ago:
Run software they don’t approve of. Like alternate reading apps that don’t need you to pipe everything through an Amazon account, read formats they don’t support, etc.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 9 months ago:
This is why I have an Android e-ink device. I can put the kindle app on it for anything from their shitty walled garden, but I also can put pretty much anything else I want on it too.
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 9 months ago:
Honda is better off without them.