themoonisacheese

@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1. yes you do. A good distro I recommend newbies is Linux Mint, because it’s visually similar to windows. Another great option for beginners is Pop!OS, because the developers take more care to automate things that you might encounter when first starting to use Linux. Overall, it doesn’t really matter that much what distribution you choose in terms of what software is available, it all comes down to design choices that change how hard things are to do (but reward you with more customization, of course)

  2. you will not be able to play some games that have an anticheat that forbids linux. The main culprit is EasyAntiCheat (while it does support linux, enabling that support is a choice by the game’s developer). The main games I have noticed can’t work are Fortnite (EAC), Hunt: showdown (EAC), league of legends & Valorant (Vanguard), R6 Siege (EAC) and PUBG (EAC). You can use protondb to learn what games in your steam library are known to simply not work.

  Don’t expect games that you own on the windows store to work at all (this includes Xbox game pass). Most of them are available on steam, but that requires buying them again.

  Most of the other stuff works, generally. Valve’s Proton supports a very large part of most games today, and unless the game you want to launch is very old or specifically doesn’t want you to use Linux, chances are the game will work first try, especially indies. Protondb is a great help to see what parameters one needs to use to make it work if it doesn’t first try. Make sure to “enable proton compatibility for all games” in steam’s main options, otherwise it won’t let you download game.

  For tools that aren’t on steam but target steam games (for example mod managers), you should use protontricks (it’s most likely in your distro’s package manager, you don’t need to download it from GitHub) to launch the tool’s exe inside of the proton context of that game (steam maintains a separate pseudo-windows install (a “wine prefix”) for each game that uses proton). From there, the tool will behave as if you launched it on windows.

  For tools that stand alone, you can add them to steam as a non-steam game and in it’s properties, force it to use proton, which allows you to launch e.g. cracked games. I also recommend using Bottles to manage your third-party launchers.

  3. most likely you’ll be fine. You’re unlikely to encounter any issues that haven’t been encountered by anyone before, so don’t hesitate to Google and to ask for help on various forums. You don’t need to know how to program to use Linux, though it does unlock some pretty nice things (it also does on windows for that matter)

  4. windows 10 LTSC will continue being available for a few years. If you need a windows partition (imo you only do need it if you want to play games that have restrictive anticheat), I suggest installing it on a separate disk altogether, because windows tends to not play nice with other partitions on the same disk, and will create headaches you could have avoided.

  5. welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy your time away from ads in the start menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is excited about money!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ceo of company is a capitalist pig who doesn’t mind associating with fascists, womp womp

  theintercept.com/…/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-rep…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Testing vs Prod⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode’s ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.

  So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.

  Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren’t stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they’re stable).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  XY problem: you’d spend more efforts and resources sourcing and installing this thing (that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist) rather than fix the existing sensor that’s already in the mouse. Fix the existing sensor that’s in the mouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy mistake to make⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaspacho perhaps? Frozen soup is just fancy ice cubes :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy mistake to make⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very hot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can this be charged⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if that worked, these cells will never be able to hold a significant charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In a chat I ma in someone made the same point with “having sex with your coworkers is bad: a novel hash weakening technique”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the overall sentiment, however:

  Lootboxes are at least a conscious action you must take. They definitely have the same problems as gambling (because that’s what they are), but you can also choose not to engage with them. Ads however, are forced upon you, and do things that you cannot see (track you) and cannot turn off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My current daily driver is a 13€ blue switches thing for AliExpress with 20€ DSA keycaps also from AliExpress. Both are fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defense of the internet (from billionaires) according to Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctorow has never been a practical thinker. That’s just not what he does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but you have to lobotomize the frogs first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was already a weirdo before the money, well adjusted people don’t create face match or whatever he called it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way veritasium isn’t really good. I have some issues with the ways he oversimplifies but at some point you gotta and I respect that, but much worse is his inability to actually cover truth, instead choosing to only parrot what the company “graciously” hosting him told him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool, I’m glad you are making something you enjoy. The point stands that the average Joe doesn’t actually seek out poetry, be it man or machine-made, and will therefore be an exceptionally poor judge of a poems quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll raise you one better: who the fuck wants poetry?

  Like I know I sound like a fucking mongrel who can’t appreciate art or whatever, but how many poems do you think the average person reads in their entire life? Maybe 2, for school? Poetry is just not that popular of an art form, so of course people aren’t going to be good at distinguishing good from bad. Compare it to visual arts, where people have seen multiple examples, at least more than 3 times a year for their entire life, of good visual art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice, be sure to tell us how it goes when HSTS is enabled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea - NotebookCheck.net News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This almost reads like an onion article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I’m vaguely looking at a PS5 is to play Astro bot. And it can wait like a decade to be available on emulators

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a researcher and publisher withholds information then ignores requests -- what’s the recourse? How can science have integrity?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a contact at cmu’s student journal (for what that’s worth). They might be interested in this, maybe if they start prodding around the researchers will realize the mistake. What’s the publication?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smarttubenext

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to racing games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you liked art of rally, I suggest Parking Garage Rally Circuit. Much of the same vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you could. The problem becomes “do you have more money and lawyers than McDonald’s” to keep pretending it has nothing to do with it in court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have these issues and I’m sorry to say you are, in fact, using it wrong.

  If you find your coils burning out regularly when the tank is not empty, it’s most likely because you haven’t properly set the power on your vape. My coils have the appropriate power printed on them, and they only ever burn out when I forget to fill the tank. My current coil has been in operation for 7 months, I have 25785 puffs on it (the vape counts them). Before this vape, I didn’t care about setting the power and my coils would constantly burn out and I had the same frustration as you.

  My current vape also does not leak, despite the fact that I manually replaced the seals when I broke the glass tank (so it’s not just that the factory made it well).

  As for the liquide, yeah. Personally I buy base and flavor in the mail and mix them myself, but that’s probably also illegal for you.

  Be careful with disposables. Their nicotine levels are way higher than advertised, because they want to build the addiction to their product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The button already exists and it’s the install button on unlock origins page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously prohibition doesn’t work, but banning disposables specifically should be mandated everywhere. It is insane that a product that contains rechargeable lithium batteries is not rechargeable, or if it is it must be thrown away after less than a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, not connecting machines to the internet is entirely reasonable (though in my opinion having them at all is insane).

  That’s really interesting though, because your model creates a system where fraud can exist but can be checked (and thus it will, not doing it would be insane), whereas ours removes the problem entirely. I know that you personally don’t have the power to change it, of courses I’m just fascinated by the ways society manages to create deeply flawed systems and prop them up like we can’t do any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes here too, but we’re still assigned a specific place. My voting location is booth 6 at my local primary school, and someone else in my city might get one of the booths at their closest location despite both of us being in the same district.

  Even at that primary school, I’m only on the ledger at booth 6, if I tried voting at booth 5 they wouldn’t let me (though they would point me to the booth right next to them of course)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do people vote at different locations? Here we are only registered to vote in a single location, if we’re away then we have to go to the police station and sign a delegation form to allow a trusted person to vote for us in the original location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 early access should last "2 to 3 years" - it'll launch with "several biomes" and "some narrative"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wanting to play it with friends but I’m just gonna have to wait for release. Subnautica on EA release was garbage compared to 1.0.