djdarren

@djdarren@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I ended up dropping 4Gb in that one. For some reason it could only see 3Gb, but it made it immensely more useful. It got me through a radio production degree and only got replaced because I happened to find myself in a position to be able to afford a 13” Pro a few years later. In fact, it’s still in a box somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never forget buying my first MacBook in ’07 and asking the guy how much it would cost to bump the RAM from 1Gb to 2Gb. He told me in no uncertain terms that I’d be better off looking online for a cheaper price.

  Well, in the intervening years they certainly have closed that loophole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Free on the NHS in the UK. In fact, diabetes is one of the conditions that qualifies people for free prescriptions across the board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started another play through of RDR2, while figuring out the settings on my old Linux gaming PC. I’d forgotten how long it is between save points during that oh-so-long first segment up in the mountains. Christ. Having to play for half an hour just to get to a point where I could save up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Voyager to access Lemmy, which is heavily based on Apollo for Reddit. And one of the very best things they kept in Voyager is the “New Account Highlightenator”, which adds a baby emoji next to a username, with how many days the account has been active. This disappears after a month (I think it is), but it’s really, really handy for quickly highlighting whether it’s worth paying attention to the shitty opinions being spouted.

  Chances are, if it’s a bot or a troll, they’ll be using a new account. If I see shitty opinion + baby emoji, I’ll block and move on.

  Other than that, I personally don’t really give a shit how long someone’s been on here. This is my third account on a third server since I first discovered Lemmy a couple of years ago, and I’ve only had this one for a couple of months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When cucumbers are so cheap, and re-usable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ouch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, Apple don’t seem to have an appetite for supporting gaming on macOS, beyond a few big name titles announced once a year to reig ite interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to go with Bazzite on my wife’s old PC. Fuck knows what happened, but I could not get it to recognise that I’d downloaded the image with the Nvidia drivers built in.

  Ended up giving up and rolling Kubuntu. I know Kubuntu and like it. And it works beautifully. Back in the world of RDR2 now, and loving it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its become abundantly clear to me over the past few years that Linux is in place where, to get significant share it needs to have a major figurehead. Imagine if all ThinkPads suddenly were only available with Lenovo’s own fork. That kind of thing.

  Unfortunateoy, that’s kinda the opposite of Linux ethos, and not necessarily likely to make Lenovo much money.

  So the best we can really hope for at this point is a company with the brand awareness of Valve pushing SteamOS into the mainstream. People who play games know and generally trust Valve, so people (like my wife) who are on the fence, or who just need their computer to work without needing too much faffing, could likely trust SteamOS in a way they wouldn’t necessarily trust Bazzite or CachyOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of thousands of Brits to have energy bill debt written off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t afford shares on account of the aforementioned grossly inflated bills.

  Besides, I shouldn’t have to be a shareholder to not be treated like shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of thousands of Brits to have energy bill debt written off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my problem with fining the companies: ultimately it’s us that pays the fines through grossly inflated bills, while the shareholders make out like bandits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an HTC Wizard that ran on Windows Phone 5.0. It really was a piece of shit, but I loved the slide out keyboard and the fact that I could stream internet radio with it (when I was on wifi).

  But I remember having to explain to someone that no, just because it ran ‘Windows’ it couldn’t run Limewire. That said, it’s entirely possible that someone wrote a version of Limewire that it could run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised no one’s mentioned Thank Goodness You’re Here yet.

  That game had me rolling from start to finish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a Kobo. Read the book, click the buttons that take you to another book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These days that’s not far off the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean there's a better way‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit! TIL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Dead Redemption 2

  …again

  I’ve just resurrected my partner’s old(ish) gaming PC. It’s got a reasonable GTX1060 GPU, so I’ve installed Kubuntu and am dipping my toes into the world of Linux gaming. So far it’s been pretty smooth.

  Difficult to know how well it’ll handle RDR2 properly until I’m out of that accursed opening section up in the mountains. Not for the first time I wish there was a way to skip straight to the train holdup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasagnaius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mintedlambchopius it is then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m forever looming for a game that’ll affect me emotionally as much as Arthur’s last ride in RDR2. I still can’t hear that Daniel Lanois track without feeling all of the feelings, and it’s been a good few years since I played it.

  Absolutely remarkable experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3152: Skateboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  skamtebord

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mobile gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds horrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The kind of high quality journalism we crave ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Buzzfeed saw the popularity of Clickhole and didn’t get the joke.