BremboTheFourth
@BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca
- Comment on Looking sharp as ever 4 days ago:
Being a fascist will do that to you. (That’s Giorgia Meloni, not Philomena)
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 6 days ago:
I mean, it’s a AAA game. I’m sure that was the plan, and then it was lost in the eternal crunch to meet the launch date.
There’s a reason AAA games all have that same shitty stank, and it’s not because the companies making them don’t have access to talented people.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
Oh, I didn’t realize how unclear that was. The disk is a 2TB NVME SSD. I searched and searched, even booted into Mint on another disk and tried to search from there, and could only find a few hundred GB worth of files (probably about 600GB if I had to guess, lol). I genuinely have no idea what could have been taking up nearly 1.4TB of space, so that’s all I meant when I said “only.”
My suspicion is that something was going wrong whenever I deleted anything. Maybe for some reason the data just weren’t going anywhere, even though the trash was empty and they were no longer showing up in their old locations. Hence the term “clogged.” No similar issues with Cachy just yet, though.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 1 week ago:
Star Wars Battlefront!
- Comment on Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations 1 week ago:
More like they saw the potential to ruin most plebs’ already limited abilities to figure out wtf is happening in the world, thought they would be too smart to fall for that shit, and decided they should open Pandora’s box and sell it like it’s Prometheus’s fire
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
I know, I just like to see the “up to date” symbol in the toolbar, especially on a fresh install. Like I said, I get that it’s rolling release; the problem isn’t the frequency of updates, it’s that this most recent update keeps failing when I try to install it.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
I just switched from Bazzite to Cachy today. For some reason my disk space got… clogged, with Bazzite? Filelight was no help so I backed everything up, wiped the disk, installed Cachy, replaced my files, and the disk went from being nearly full to only using 600GB. Still not sure what happened there.
Cachy, meanwhile, has asked me to update 4 times in the 4 hours I’ve been using it. Which is fine, I get that Arch is rolling release, but now on the 4th update it keep failing for some reason. Also I can’t have my headphones and speakers plugged in at the same time or my speakers don’t work.
Sigh. All this KDE stuff is nice and flashy, and my games have worked with both Bazzite and Cachy, so I appreciate that, but damn is it tough for me to make a Linux recommendation to anyone else that isn’t just “use Mint, it’s stable.” Anything more in depth turns into a mini essay (see above!)
- Comment on When does it start to feel good? 1 week ago:
ara ara…
- Comment on Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab) 2 weeks ago:
Having a GPU is nice if you start letting other people access your Jellyfin server; encoding for some video files can be tough on the CPU, and if it’s trying to do more than one at a time, stuff can get laggy. But unfortunately, trying to get my ancient GPUs to do anything has been a nightmare! Besides the architecture itself being old, it seemed as though Nvidia deprecated some of the features I needed on the official drivers, and the Nouveau docs have been a headache to sort through. I think, maybe, probably, it’s technically possible, but I’m burned out on messing with it at the moment.
That 970 might be recent enough to work with a little less hassle though!
- Comment on Goodbye Google - I self-host everything now on 4 tiny PCs in a 3D printed rack (CaptainRedsLab) 2 weeks ago:
100%.The strongest PC in my homelab right now is my old gaming PC featuring an i7-4790k, 16gb RAM, and sometimes it has a GTX 680 and others a 730 (neither right now though, for Reasons). 2nd place goes to a dual-core, 4-thread laptop from 2012 with hinges so broken I have to lean the screen back against the wall behind it. And before I retired that old gaming PC last year, that laptop ran my personal Jellyfin server for well over a year with no major issues!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No but he’s only famous for playing games and talking shit, so people have to talk shit about him in turn. And he’s bald. So now he’s famously bald.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
“Victimless crime” has always been kind of a grey term anyway. There are two sides to the types of things that refers to.
Doing drugs? Being a prostitute? Gambling your money away? Victimless crimes.
Manufacturing drugs? Being a pimp? Running a casino? I’m not so sure.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are plenty of Jedi who can beat Anakin, but I think if you normalize for experience, he was easily the strongest of any of his peers. He should have seen being allowed to sit in on the council at his age as an enormous honor. But of course, he’s the egotist supreme, and he had unwise words being whispered in his ear.
Also, in the fight with Dooku, it seems likely to me that Palpatine somehow invisibly sabotaged him once Obi-Wan was down. Palps wanted that to end with both Dooku AND Obi-Wan dead.
Tap for spoiler
I mean the truth is the movies are just poorly written and wildly inconsistent, but whatever lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard for me to explain precisely, but those are a very different style of hornyposting
- Comment on that's just science 4 weeks ago:
I mean, honestly, it actually might be. It’s certainly how evolution did it. We’re basically programmed to have genetic drifts if the population gets too low, making more likely for the reproducing population to find a new niche. So while it would be hilariously immoral, and also probably produce A LOT more of the worst minds, you produce enough genetic freaks and eventually one of em is gonna be a megagenius
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 weeks ago:
In a similar boat, I’ve thought about that but if I ever upgraded to a stronger real centralized PC I’d have to do a bunch of Docker setup and if anything breaks my whole system would go down. As it is, with piecemeal shitass laptops each running individual services I get lots of redundancy!
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad he does post, and it’s better than nothing, but I don’t see him interact on mastodon much. I think his posts are just mirrored from bluesky
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 month ago:
Obviously you solve this by eating handfuls at a time
- Comment on Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis 1 month ago:
Weren’t prices already spiking when they made the announcement? Not to mention tariffs change on a daily basis… I was surprised to hear Valve announce new hardware this year at all, less so that it’s being delayed. They’re either gonna have to walk back their “under $1000” claim, or delay it again. Or just take some losses, they do have the money for it, but I know they won’t.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Jarvis, show me that man’s balls please
- Comment on Day 543 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
The fun thing about the flood is that if you spun around and fired off the shitty little assault rifle for about one second, that whole crowd would pop into brown dust
- Comment on Hidding place 2 months ago:
La EEUU ha capturado una naranja madura? Que es significa?
- Comment on Wyoming ranchers want to transition to solar. The state stands in their way. 3 months ago:
Zero of those guys get taxed for that reason. How many billions of dollars are going untaxed into the hands of the wealthiest people so the government can cancel this solar project and deny healthcare to that worker?
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 months ago:
of course i know, or id have put my money where my mouth is, and ram alone is too pricey for that now. id have to get a new motherboard too. i love my op cpu, this pc rocks when it’s working (which is 99% of the time), but when training time comes it’s still frustrating that the new shit is so busted for me
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 months ago:
Honestly I think DDR4 is the right call for an everyday-use PC anyway. I might be showing my ignorance here, but when I upgraded my PC I got DDR5-6000 and the memory training times are INSANE. The first few times I tried to boot I wound up restarting because 5 mins after hitting the button it still hadn’t shown the manufacturer’s logo and I assumed it was busted. Once it finally does finish the training, it usually doesn’t have to do it again for a while… but sometimes it does! Totally randomly (as far as I can tell), I’ll go for a quick reboot, maybe swapping from my Linux install back over to Windows or something, and what should be a 15 second wait is now suddenly a full 5+ minutes.
Near as I can tell, DDR5 Just Does That Sometimes??? How is that an upgrade!? I guess I’m probably seeing some performance gains from the faster timing, but man, sometimes I think I’d trade it in exchange for never having to wait on a black screen for minutes at a time.
- Comment on Actual theft 3 months ago:
Man I just use ublock on Firefox, it works on all my devices including my phone, and I’ve never once had to play with it
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 months ago:
Easy, just switch the two. There’s no way we’d all spend years confused about which sport anyone is talking about!
Dang, I’m full of great ideas today!
- Comment on it's free psst 3 months ago:
I really wouldn’t make mind heavier traffic enforcement in residential areas. Seems like across the whole country, we have super low limits on highways, and a super high one in neighborhoods, where it actually matters. Not to mention the enforcement seems to only happens on highways as well; can’t remember ever seeing someone pulled over for speeding through a neighborhood, but I see it happen all the time.
And on top of all that, even though more neighborhood enforcement would be nice… Flock is clearly not the way to do it
- Comment on Clicks, Eyeballs, Engagement 4 months ago:
oh god oh fuck
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 4 months ago:
Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins