flashgnash

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flashgnash,

Honestly seeing the performance of the steam deck right now I’d probably buy a steam machine if a modern one came out

Though companies like system76 and tuxedo are already very tempting

flashgnash,

I feel like a lot of the uptick in Linux users is probably due to the steam deck, which is good in itself but not necessarily Linux desktop users

flashgnash,

For me there is no greater endorphin rush than listening to some really good bassey music and really pushing myself on a cardio machine

Rum & bass + rowing machine really got the adrenaline going for me, was actually comparable to being high for a period of time

Lifting weights is different but feels very good to see yourself in the mirror lifting something heavier than you’ve ever done before and you get addicted to chasing that feeling

I think part of the mindset is getting yourself to embrace the physical punishment and actively seek it out, couldn’t tell you exactly how to do that but for me a lot of the time knowing it’s going to be difficult will get me more excited now

flashgnash,

Hell yes we love the unstoppable chemical.

Try out the songs Rum and Bass and the ultimate Dirk theme from pesterquest next time you’ve got it, matches the vibe perfectly

flashgnash,

I absolutely jumped straight in lol it’s not too bad as long as you have some time to read the wiki and play around

Default configuration the installer generates is good to get you going

flashgnash,

I don’t get why everyone says it’s so bad, you get a decent starter config and to install stuff you just add one line to it

Installed it bare metal on a Friday and was up and running by Monday

By no means a master of it but the config is pretty intuitive generally speaking

flashgnash,

If nixos has been around this long how come it’s only now starting to pick up in popularity?

flashgnash,

Fair enough to be honest when I jumped in I dual booted with windows so always had a safety net (also was experimenting on my laptop before moving to my PC)

flashgnash,

I can’t imagine using anything else at this point tbh, it’s been the smoothest, cleanest experience I’ve ever had on Linux

It’s the one that finally made me abandon windows completely and stop distro hopping

flashgnash,

That’s more or less the same boat I’m in tbh. I’m just starting to play around with using shells for development environments

flashgnash,

That explains it, documentation is ok but not nearly as good as arch’s, feels like it takes a lot of googling

flashgnash,

And yet people still want to federate with meta for some reason

flashgnash,

It doesn’t even integrate with my smart kettle, what are they even spending their time on, silly things like stability and bugfixes?

flashgnash,

Using Turing complete Minecraft command blocks (probably with some plugins)

flashgnash,

Working with Microsoft’s APIs is akin to trying to navigate a maze of barbed wire with a blindfold on

flashgnash,

I would do that but I don’t get on with phone covers and cases

flashgnash,

I’ve never got what the point of Home Assistant is, seems to be it’ll talk to a load of smart devices and advertises you can control it with Alexa but at what point why not just have Alexa itsself control the devices?

flashgnash,

As far as I understand it currently people host their own Lemmy instances just for the hell of it or out of the goodness of their heart

But the larger instances will end up costing more money and I’m doubtful that will be sustainable with no income

flashgnash,

"powerless" just use Lemmy it's not like there's really anything meaningful to hold you on Reddit, afaik people don't really make friends on Reddit or anything

flashgnash,

This makes me suspicious though, surely if they've declassified this that means they want people to see it, so isn't there a very real chance it's intentionally misleading?

flashgnash,

Mood. When someone takes up 3 people's worth of space by walking smack bang in the middle of the pavement dawdling along on their merry way meandering left and right and then just randomly stopping for some reason, makes me unreasonably irritated

flashgnash,

Probably Mint or ElementaryOS are your safest bets. Personally I think being able to use the Linux terminal is an advantage though, way more reliable and consistent than windows' settings/control panel/powershell fiasco

flashgnash,

Previously making misinformation, propaganda, spam etc even if using Google was still a manual activity bound by human limitations, now you can have a fully autonomous scam bot that will relatively cheaply scale to infinity

Scam call centers right now are hugely successful unfortunately, and they're limited by human beings manning the phones, imagine a fleet of gpt agents scamming old ladies out of their life savings at record efficiency

flashgnash,

I'm using NixOS currently on both my gaming pc and my laptop, you should absolutely try it it's as good as it sounds

Takes a bit of learning if you want to use it to its fullest but it's great out of the box too provided you read the getting started guide

If you do make the switch I would highly recommend putting your NixOS configuration file(s) in source control of some kind, it'll let you revert to previous builds out of the box but afaik you can't revert the config file itsself

flashgnash,

Yep. Haven't tried heroic on my PC but I've heard great things about it and provided you enable it with programs.steam.enable = true; in your config steam and proton work a charm. Even better performance depending on the game

You didn't ask but the battle.net launcher also works pretty well under proton

flashgnash,

Spiders are awesome provided they aren't in my way/above my bed

Don't want to accidentally swallow them in the night like I hear happens a lot

flashgnash,

The problem is that'll be a very tempting offer, seeing as afaik there's not really any way to monetize lemmy instances and they're all running out of people's pockets

flashgnash,

The whole idea of it being decentralised is to stop companies like meta coming in and turning it into just another capitalism machine

Theoretically I'd hope the admins of all the bigger Lemmy instances would refuse to federate with them on account of the fact it would largely collapse the federated network into one big blob of everyone on the same server that is controlled by a corporation that's demonstrated time and time again not to have consumer rights at heart in the slightest

flashgnash,

I'm too young for floppies, never used em

I will however be personally offended if they change the universal save icon

flashgnash,

Arch doesn't come with an interface, the idea is you build it up from the bare minimum yourself

Wouldn't recommend if you just want a usable desktop os

As for gnome, gnome is gnome you can get it on any distro

flashgnash,

Honestly if you're ok with a little tinkering you can use Linux for gaming nowadays.

I fully switched about a week ago using NixOS, so far it's been pretty smooth sailing, and generally better performance than when it ran windows

Have run overwatch, diablo, modded Minecraft (with shaders) and a bunch of steam games so far.

Have yet to run epic games on it but I've heard it's pretty seamless with a launcher called heroic (which imo works better than epic's own one anyway)

Only games I've found that don't work are because of deliberate effort on the devs' part (Halo MCC, Roblox and dragon ball breakers)

flashgnash,

Oh yeah absolutely the only tinkering I've really needed to do is make sure I installed steam properly (NixOS) and a little bit of jiggery pokery for battle.net games (though battle.net is actually really good, you just give it a path to the game files and away you go)

flashgnash,

Never tried mint but weirdly enough NixOS has been the easiest distro for me so far, haven't run into any weird bugs in drivers or my touchpad not working after hibernation etc like I have in Ubuntu based distros

(Other than the bugs I caused myself that is)

flashgnash,

I can't be the only one who thinks having a bot to go round pestering people for saying things like barmen is a little ridiculous right?

flashgnash,

I don't think YouTube is possible peer to peer, Lemmy/Reddit and Mastodon/twitter are mostly text with some images, not too difficult to store and network. YouTube on the other hand has astronomically high costs to store and serve their videos, more hardware than people have to spare for free

flashgnash,

Literally just made an account and am just a Reddit pleb. What exactly are tankies and what is 196? Guessing it’s a Lemmy server but otherwise unsure

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