theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lemon wine and orange wine 4 days ago:
I’m a big limoncello fan, I wonder if it will turn out similar
- Comment on Lemon wine and orange wine 4 days ago:
Love to see it
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 weeks ago:
I think he is wrong because being informed and aware of what has happened in the world does not equate to “mentally masturbating to disaster porn”. We do have a real problem with sensationalized media, but the solution is not to just be uninformed…
I sometimes hear similar logic as an argument against things like funding science research: “Why spend money and time on a deep space observatory? We can never get to those places in space anyway”
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 weeks ago:
It didn’t happen to me personally, so it’s fine! Stop paying attention!!
😬
- Comment on New year new brew 4 weeks ago:
Lol I think that was me that said it! Best of luck and prove me wrong (or right lol, we’ll see!). It’s all good fun and I’m excited to see the process and result
- Comment on 84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise? 4 weeks ago:
I mean… they are more than 35% of the world’s population. And in order to grant visas, people must seek them. With cultural and socioeconomic factors, there is no reason to expect population from all countries to seek and be granted visas equally?
I wonder what the distribution looks like for the equivalent visas in europe and other countries besides the USA.
- Comment on My custom made 13 spike watchband, just finished today 1 month ago:
That’s pretty rad
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 2 months ago:
Electricity is a total dice roll. I’m glad you were uninjured! I’ve been lucky enough to feel both 120V and 240V AC with no injury, but it was total luck. The 240V should have been my end, bery scary stuff.
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 2 months ago:
“Electrocuted” specifically involves death, so in extreme, annoying pedantry, if you lived to tell the tale, technically you were only shocked and not electrocuted
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
Team Fortress 2
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
Well… I definitely wouldn’t say “always”, as he has taken some pretty gross stances on non-technical subjects wired.com/…/richard-stallmans-exit-heralds-a-new-…
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
Stallman was right?
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 months ago:
Pretty sure it’s still just twitter
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- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 months ago:
It is not only more Rubles than currently exist, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 2 months ago:
Heat and time on the stove.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
I definitely understand where you’re coming from, but at this point I’ve had so many JustWorks™️ Linux systems, including set up on my parents’ PC for well over 5 years without one single problem or breaking update, and they certainly are never opening up the terminal.
I’ll stick with my suggestion that Linux is not for anyone with a strong aversion to terminals.
My experience tells me that this is just objectively wrong, or I’d be getting calls from my parents, HOWEVER, I will concede that maybe this is only wrong if you just want a bulletproof system that works without messing around much.
If OP wants to mess around and get dirty in settings, then I’ll give it to you that they might need to be a bit more open minded about the terminal. I haven’t really tried much GUI configs or settings besides really common, typical stuff, like network config or power saving modes/settings, because I just go right to the terminal regardless.
But its just wrong to claim that someone who doesn’t want to use a terminal will have a problem on Linux, it just depends heavily on what you are trying to do. For the tasks that most people use a personal computer for, there won’t be anything holding you back.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
Dude, reading comprehension
Mint isn’t based on Fedora either
Lol ironic. Where did you “comprehend” that I claimed it was?
So which GPU, and I’ll give you a leg up, don’t say “5700XT” because that one is notoriously broken for drivers, including on Windows…
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
Now I just want to know what commands you thought you needed to run that you found randomly on the internet lmao, like what, you had to
chmod +xthe installer??It makes me sad that you’re totally soured on Linux now because you didn’t realize you could update your graphics driver or that it is officially written by AMD…
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
I hate to say it, but… you sure about that? The Wikipedia article addresses this exact issue:
As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.
Yes, a version of the driver is included in the Linux kernel as part of Fedora, but it is likely slightly old and you can download the latest version from AMD.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
OMG you’re not even talking about NVIDIA… 🤦
My friend, AMD, the manufacturer that you trust, are the ones that maintain the open source drivers for Linux…
You spent 2 whole days, yet never found that you can download directly from the AMD website? What exactly were you doing for those 2 days??? www.amd.com/en/support/…/linux-drivers.html
…m.wikipedia.org/…/AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)
AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
“Who the fuck knows what I just installed?”
This is honestly a great question; you’re on the right track here.
With closed source, the person that wrote the program decided that it should be impossible for you to answer that question.
With open source, the person that wrote the program wanted to make sure it is possible for you to answer that question.
Which of those 2 options is better and safer? I’ll stick with open source, personally, but install whatever you like on your own machine.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
and on Mint
So it runs perfectly fine on Linux! That’s great news
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
Are we going to pretend that stuff being closed source prevents people from inserting bad shit in their code?
downloading home made drivers on GitHub 🙄 lol wut.
Open source isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be because it is better than it’s only alternative.
There are literally only 2 options: open source or closed source. One option offers you and anyone the ability to see the code that you are running for yourself, the other option is “trust me bro, nothing bad is in here”. Which of those do you prefer? Which do you think ends up with more malware? You think computer viruses include a link to the code on GitHub? Lol
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
Was this within the last decade? Sounds like a faulty GPU.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
You also have no idea what that file you downloaded from a website is doing, too. And we have AppImage now, so you CAN still download a file from a website on Linux!
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
There’s a reason people have been “fighting” for, like, 40 years over which terminal text editor is the superior one…
There is no contest or fight. The best is vim, obviously! 😝
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
I second the point to avoid dual-booting from a single hard drive. If you want both Windows and Linux, just get a 2nd hard drive and save yourself the inevitable headache. Windows doesn’t know how to share.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 2 months ago:
I think this reply was mostly true ~10 years ago, but is not accurate today. Not using the terminal is not a deal breaker anymore.
But you’re not going to be doing anything you’re going to consider interesting from the GUI.
They’re going to be able to do just as interesting stuff from a Linux GUI as they are already doing from the Windows GUI, so I’d say this is just not valid.