sparky
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Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 days ago:
decrepit boomer voice Whoa there sonny! Lots of stuff sharing just one computer? Sounds like communism to me!
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
Huh, pardon my male ignorance but, does one not take them out regularly, particularly to sleep? I was under the impression that women generally take earrings, etc out to sleep, I guess I assumed that logic applied to all piercings generally.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 weeks ago:
I blew away my Windows install in favour of Fedora about a year ago. There are only two games in my entire library that don’t work - Call of Duty and Battlefield, both of them because of anti-cheat fuckery. The other 300+ that I’ve tried playing have just worked. Basically tinkering required.
Times have really changed. The life hack you should know is to use ProtonPlus to install Proton-GE which is a customised version that has a bunch of fixes for different games. You just set Steam to use this one over Valve’s default version for all games and you’re pretty much done. They’ve integrated tweaks and fixes for thousands of games, on a per-game basis, so if you’re using this build of Proton then you have nothing else to do. No fiddling, no command line monkeying, just launch and play, same as Windows.
It’s honestly very impressive these days.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sure, Jan 3 weeks ago:
This comment is a goddamn masterpiece
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 5 weeks ago:
We have a winner
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 month ago:
Indeed, article makes it sound like both brands are putting their TV business into a new joint venture. Hardly the same as exiting the market.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 month ago:
Man, this comment made me feel old :)
So much fun anti-nostalgia for trying to game on Debian fifteen years ago. This game doesn’t really run in WINE, but if you feed the Konami code into launch arguments then you might get working except upside down and in black and white. Oh, you wanted sound with that? Let me introduce you to my main man, ALSA. He’s a dick.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 months ago:
Care to share?
- Comment on App devs ask the EU to fight unfair Apple app store fees 2 months ago:
Are you French or Italian perhaps? In this context, if you meant attendre / attendere, the word in English is expect. 😊
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 months ago:
Weird how every show / movie shows up in a full 4K rip on usenet the next day still. It’s almost like DRM doesn’t stop piracy.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
That’s actually a really good idea. I’m not the person you replied to, but I’m taking notes.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 3 months ago:
since OP appears to be one of Ze Germans, i’m going to take the charitable interpretation that they were probably not aware of the connotation
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 months ago:
As an Apple shareholder, I’d just like to thank Microsoft for their outstanding contribution to selling more Macs.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 months ago:
But most users never need to open it because Apple at least tests their OS before yeeting it into prod, unlike this hot mess.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
If the performance and price is comparable to rolling your own mini-ITX rig then why not?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 3 months ago:
I think the “friendly” distros like Linux Mint with built-in driver detection/management and pretty broad package repositories (surfaced as an “App Store”) are probably to the point where many normal people could use them, without significantly more technical chops than Windows. Particularly as a gaming rig where you basically just need Firefox, LibreOffice and Steam.
- Comment on I am always prepared to move into this version of life 4 months ago:
That’s enough internet for me today
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 months ago:
Windows is becoming so trash that a bunch of my not-that-tech-savvy friends have been hitting me up asking about gaming on various Linux distros. (Just a few years ago it was all “Linux? Haha nerd”.) And the non gamers are switching to Mac at a remarkable rate.
And things have progressed so well that even for them, after installing Mint and showing them how to use ProtonPlus to install and select Proton-GE, they’re pretty much off to the races without much further hand holding.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 months ago:
Seconding Kagi, it’s worth every penny.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 months ago:
Yes, on the one hand, this is a chilling precedent that can only lead to long term despair and national ruination. But on the other hand, line go up next quarter. I think we all know which one Tim Apple will choose.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 months ago:
The roll of paper is an interesting idea but where would one actually buy those? Are they a standard thing?
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 5 months ago:
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 5 months ago:
Republican thought experiment: if Trump is the sworn enemy of anti fascists, then what does that make him?
- Comment on Super Mario Bros Remastered 5 months ago:
This is gonna get DMCA’d / Cease and Desist -ed so fast. Download it now if you want it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 months ago:
It’s largely an age gap I think. The first generation of FPS games on N64, PS1, etc used inverted controls, so if you’re an old man millennial like me, that’s how you learned to play.
Then in later generations (PS2/3 and on) this changed and inverted became an option, rather than the default (or in some games, only!).
Thus younger gamers are used to “standard” and older gamers used to inverted.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 5 months ago:
I’m an American living in the EU, and I’m surprised by that. All the other American immigrants I’ve met so far have been opposed to Trump and Republicans generally. I always figured the conservatives were likely to be buying into AmErIcA iS tHe BeSt propaganda and would thus be uninterested in moving to another country.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 5 months ago:
b…but…but that would be SOCIALISM!
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 5 months ago:
because it’s shit
