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- Comment on Nine-Tails Kurama 3 days ago:
- Comment on Google Messages is rethinking how link previews work, but we're not sure it's for the best 3 days ago:
Correct
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 5 days ago:
No additional software necessary
sudo dd status=progress if=Windows.iso of=/dev/sdXX is the letter assigned to your USB device, visible in
lsblk - Comment on Google Messages is rethinking how link previews work, but we're not sure it's for the best 5 days ago:
TL;DR
This beta version of the app makes it so that when you send just a URL, the recipient only sees the preview (primary image, page title, primary domain of web address)
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 5 days ago:
Windows’ installation assistant only runs on Windows
Well, yes, but all that is a GUI to simplify downloading and writing the Windows installation ISO to USB media. You can download the ISO image to Linux and write it to USB yourself. The option to download the ISO is on the same page you’ve been getting Media Creation Tool.
You could get Bedrock edition from the Google Play store and run it via an Android emulator.
Otherwise, based on your other comments, it seems like you’re trying to trudge through manually trimming down a preexisting OEM install of Windows. For such a minimal use case, you would probably benefit from a clean reinstall and should consider exploring something like Tiny11, ReviOS, or AtlasOS
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 1 week ago:
Ever had someone looking over your shoulder providing feedback to something that you’re in the middle of writing the first draft of?
- Comment on Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police 2 weeks ago:
Article doesn’t make this clear, but there’s a next fest demo you can check out right now if you want
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Don’t Kindles have multiple tiers though? Ad-subsidized or pay more for an ad-free model
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
I don’t feel like it’s fair to compare the newer DOOM games to one another. They’re more like different games than sequels.
DOOM 2016 is an excellent reboot, fairly grounded.
DOOM Eternal is a movement shooter / platformer with a ton of verticality in the areas.
I haven’t played it yet, but I get the impression Dark Ages is even more grounded and geared towards wide open arenas. Almost gives me Serious Sam vibes.
I’ve had a ton of fun with Eternal and I’m sure you’ll get more than your $4 worth!
- Comment on Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great) 4 weeks ago:
What’s your threshold for “old”?
Couple more demanding games that come to mind for me:
Cyberpunk 2077 is about to be 5 years old (2020)
Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC Port is about to be 6 years old (late 2019)
Metro Exodus is coming up on 7 (early 2019)
If this is your first foray into Ray Tracing capable cards, Control makes good use if that feature (Mid 2019)
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider was used as a benchmark for years (2018)
As you start going older than that, even the Steam Deck ends up being very capable.
People had a rough time with Batman Arkham Knight, still looks pretty IMO
If you’re looking for games that are coming up on 15-20 years old, like Crysis:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Metro 2033 Rage Doom 3 Elder Scrolls Oblivion
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 weeks ago:
Most of Gen Z are in their twenties and capable of thinking for themselves. Generally speaking, they’ve grown up accustomed to and accepting of neurodivergence, gender fluidity, and the spectrum of sexualities.
It’s the younger and older generations I’m more worried about.
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 5 weeks ago:
Opening scene is the battle of Serenity Valley, it cuts away to the crew collecting illegal salvage and having a close call with the Alliance, they pick up Shephard and Simon as passengers / commuters on Persephone which I think is the scene you’re referring to.
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 5 weeks ago:
The original pilot / first episode, Serenity (not to be confused as the movie of the same name), is an hour and a half long and sets up a ton of context for the rest of the show.
Instead, Fox aired the second episode, The Train Job, as a pilot.
Serenity was ultimately aired as a series finale / 11th episode, the show was cancelled before he three remaining episodes were aired.
If you haven’t seen Firefly, I strongly recommend that you start with the Serenity Episode. You’ll know by the end whether or not this show is for you.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 1 month ago:
At launch, the original Switch was incredibly difficult to get. I had to use BrickSeek and out in a fair amount of effort to get one, calling in late to work and going out if my way to pick one up.
In the first two weeks after Switch 2 launched, I had multiple opportunities to buy one off the shelf and I wasn’t even looking for them.
The strong launch supply is the key contributing factor to the sales figures here, I’ll be curious to see how the sales compared after a longer period like one year.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Quite a few of the folks I know consider BC just as big / important a part of the PNW as Bellingham, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, etc.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
Why not enroll a key for your second OS?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
There a particular reason you wanted Legacy / BIOS mode?
MBR2GPT makes the conversion easy and can even be run from the OS while it’s running. We get an image backup first, but we’ve never had to use it. There are occasionally complications getting it to actually run, but those are usually when the disk is full when folks have a really weird nonstandard partition arrangement.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools 1 month ago:
I really don’t understand the aversion to Secure Boot, can somebody share some perspective?
It’s a setting that you toggle in BIOS and is found on virtually every motherboard from the last 12 years. Some platforms are slightly counterintuitive, requiring you the manually switch to custom keys and then back to factory key in order for it to install/activate. For booting alternative OSes, enrolling a custom key takes 5 seconds.
It hardens security of the boot process, and It’s already a requirement for Windows 11, the primary OS that most PC Gamers are already going to be choosing.
I feel like there’s a ton of bitching going on over the most minor of inconveniences that will actually prove to be a net benefit overall.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 2 months ago:
Been using a Blackwidow keyboard since 2017
Had a Mamba mouse purchased in 2019 start to have issues registering clicks in 2023, but I see that as a failure of the ALPS micro switch. Bought the same mouse because nothing else fills out my hand quite the same way.
Partner’s using a Deathadder mouse I originally bought in 2015.
I still have an Orochi laptop mouse I bought way back in 2008, heavily used for a decade without issue.
One of their headsets has made it as a hand-me-down through two friends.
Their laptops are another story. Challenging to find parts for, and they’ve tried to copy Apple down to the flaws - “flexgate” is just as much an issue on Razer laptops as it is on MacBooks, except that the screens are harder to come by so they cost way more.
Finding and downloading drivers is an awkward and confusing process, and the they’re all years out of date anyways.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 months ago:
who needed only 1 USB-A and two lightning cable ports?
That MacBook has an additional USB-A port and an HDMI port on the other side
When was Mini-DVI relevant?
In the mid 2000s. DVI offered the advantage of digital signal and support for higher resolutions at a time when most other laptops still had a VGA port. Part of Apple’s option of “premium” technologies. HDMI didn’t really start to take hold until the late 2000s, and Apple eventually switched.
Apple have generally been willing to adopt the more novel / premium connections in their products. Consider the 2016 MacBook Pro - Apple went all-in on Thunderbolt / USB Type C at a time where that was a rather uncommon connection, but in the years that followed we got an awesome array of aftermarket hubs and adapters that also benefited ultrabook users as the rest of tech started to follow suit.
Don’t get me started on the iPhone USB-C port being limited to 500Mbps though.
- Comment on Chex Quest 2 months ago:
I was so disappointed by it. It’s not really an HD remake of the original, it’s a separate game that felt kind if bland by comparison
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 2 months ago:
Were they supposed to use their crystal ball to predict the 2008 grift and subsequent rebound?
In your list, nearly everything that comes after that is a symptom of trying to navigate financial hardship.l and being old enough to face age discrimination in the job market.
- Comment on Homophobia implies the existence of jumpscare Yaoi/Yuri 2 months ago:
Five nights at Kazuki-kun’s and Touko-chan playtime
- Comment on datacenter liquid cooling solution 2 months ago:
I don’t have a direct answer to your question, but expensive premixes aren’t really necessary outside of achieving a certain aesthetic.
Distilled water, biocide and corrosion inhibitors. Make sure your metals are all compatible.
- Comment on Alaska Airlines requests grounding of fleet citing 'IT outage' 3 months ago:
“This is brutal. We’ve been sitting at the airport for two hours,”
… lol
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 months ago:
For the majority of my clients who use this kind of system, it is totally dysfunctional.
Most of the records are incorrect, my guess is that they occasionally reset the password on mobile while the book is inaccessible and then don’t remember to update it in the book later.
Effective use relies on the user’s understanding of umbrella accounts. I’ve had users have separate written entries for “Office”, “Skype”, “Hotmail”, and “Windows” because they don’t understand those things are all one Microsoft Account.
As passwords get updated, it can become a mess of crossed out records with new ones squished into the margins. When a someone dies, anything written illegibly can be difficult for surviving family to discern. As the book gets filled out, it can get tricky to keep things alphabetized unless the user provisioned additional empty space between records.
This system can work great for someone who is meticulous, neat, and organized.
For your average person, I’ve had better luck solving the problem with a password manager synced to an online account that is protected by MFA and has recovery options that are also protected by MFA.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 3 months ago:
- for the tech inclined
Managing sync between mobile and desktop is a bit more complicated than average consumers have the patience for (it’s really not very complicated, average consumers are just impatient)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Those are all going to traumatize whoever finds you, and are otherwise uncomfortable ways to go.
Dignitas uses nitrous in their pods. Pretty chill way to drift off forever, so long as you ensure a means to get rid of the CO2 to prevent that ‘suffocating’ feeling.
- Comment on Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses 4 months ago:
Teamviewer is such a scummy company.
- If you sign up for a TeamViewer license, you have 7 days to cancel and get a refund. This does not apply to renewals.
- Licenses are only available in annual installments.
- TeamViewer’s license recommendation tool may suggest a license that is greater than your actual need. In my case, the cheaper license that best fit my business use case (one session at a time) was not presented during onboarding.
- TeamViewer does not offer mid-term downgrades, but does allow mid-term upgrades.
- You will get a renewal notice 30 days before renewal. TeamViewer requires written notice of cancellation 28 or more days before renewal.
- TeamViewer does not offer the option for mid-term cancellations and will not grant a prorated refund for the remainder of your unused license time. When you cancel, you are only cancelling the next renewal.
We got totally boned when our renewal notice went out just before a three day weekend. PayPal and our bank sided with TeamViewer. Apparently, someone tried to sue over this shady practice in California and the court also sided with TeamViewer. Probably would have dodged this bullet if I had thought to scroll through the TeamViewer subreddit, I went with them because I had positive experiences using the free version for personal use.
Been using RustDesk for years with great success. I especially appreciate the responsible disclosure banners on the main site and GitHub warning users that they might be on the phone with a scam artist.
IMO, all the proprietary remote access software (Teamviewer, Ultraviewer, Anydesk, Etc) companies are profiting from and therefore complicit in the use of their software to scam people.
- Comment on Old laptop died 🥲 4 months ago:
What beep?
