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10-year-old Nvidia GPU is still receiving love from vendors — Asus debuts GeForce GT 710 EVO with 2GB GDDR5 memory
  • You'll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don't care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don't care about performance.

    In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.

  • 7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing
  • I would argue that NixOS absolutely is the OS you get if your time is worthless, but not every distro is the same. I'd argue that if you need something that doesn't have so many issues a stabler or easier to use distro (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and even Fedora or openSUSE) is going to be a better option than trying to bend specifically NixOS to do what you want.

    I personally use a mix of Pop, Debian, and Fedora, not because they're particularly powerful, but because they tend to be more straightforward for what I want to do than NixOS, Gentoo, or Arch. I don't mind tinkering, but for my main machines I don't want to tinker much.

    Edit: I should clarify that there are plenty of reasonable uses of Windows and I don't fault anyone for using it especially if their familiarity is keeping them from understanding Linux as well as they want to. But I also would make the case that there are a lot of distros out there.

  • [Forever-Free Friday] NOTTOLOT
  • I like this one, it's pretty cute and has a neat gameplay concept involving "hacking" other robots to get to places you can't get to with your regular ball form. It's rather short; I have 45 minutes clocked in it on Steam and have gone through the whole game and gotten all its collectibles.

    If you're using Linux, use Proton 9.0 or Experimental; earlier versions will play the game without any audio.

  • What is your favourite game console?
  • You and I would have been enemies in the 16-bit era, but I adore the Sega Genesis. (However, I'm also a sleepy bisexual, so I'm gonna say we're probably nowhere close to enemies.)

    It was an arcade monster and got a ton of amazing games from the arcades and purpose-built for the machine — many the SNES also got, but some exclusives that really took advantage of what the Genesis could do well. I'd argue that the gritty FM sound chip was better for certain types of game music as well, though that's not to say that the SNES wasn't largely superior on that front.

    At the end of the day… yeah 16 bit stuff looks amazing

  • Green search engine Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser
  • I hope I'm not the only one who finds these endless Chromium forks extremely yawn-inducing. I realize that rolling your own rendering and JavaScript engines from scratch isn't totally feasible, but Firefox is right there.

  • Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024
  • The info from the Steam Hardware Survey is collected on an opt-in basis. I'm sure Valve has plenty of ways to get this information otherwise, but this specific data set requires acceptance of the terms of the survey.

  • Let's discuss: Tetris
  • Tetris Worlds on PC was one of my favorites — A surreal, story-based Tetris with interesting twists on the gameplay, and the first Guideline Tetris game, setting in stone what "official" Tetris would look and act like even now. (Some love that, some hate it, I'm nowhere near a high enough level player to care either way and just like a cool looking Tetris game.)

  • Let's discuss: Tetris
  • This, 100%. While GB Tetris and NES Tetris were some of the first games I remember playing, Tetris DS was one of the first Tetris games I loved. And you've absolutely got a point that the original DS does best; the mushy D-pad on the DS Lite just plays it so much worse in my experience. (I feel good about it on my New 2DS XL though other than the either very soft image or very small image I get from it though)

  • SN30 Pro+ connection issues
  • I've also had this issue with both of my SN30 Pro+ controllers but haven't really found a reliable fix. Sometimes it works if I connect it undocked, and then plug the Deck into the dock, but that doesn't always work. It's a shame because it used to work great!

  • Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
  • This is a common myth brought up primarily by people who don't know what they're talking about.

    In actuality, we can pretend trans people don't exist and turn our attention to the other group of kids puberty blockers assist with: those undergoing precocious puberty. The studies that were done to prove their safety and efficacy in that case happened back in the 70s, but more recent studies have indicated similar things; there are known side effects that can be longer-term as far as bone density is concerned, but this is definitely a medication that needs periodic check-ups with a doctor regardless, and it's far from the only such medicine.

  • The Impact of Direct File—by the Numbers
  • The 1040EZ has been discontinued for several years now, but I'm with you that most free file tax software needs a simple return. Unfortunately, Direct File is one of those at the moment, though I hope it expands soon to at least slightly more complex returns that some other free tools (like FreeTaxUSA) can handle.

  • best supported emulator for sega consoles on ubuntu 23.10
  • Ares as a project has a goal of accuracy at any cost, so tends to need a lot more resources than most other emulators. Before the tragic loss of Near, they wrote an absolutely exceptional article about the development of bsnes/higan and how much power it required for cycle-accuracy of SNES hardware, and it's way more than you would think is feasibly necessary given that emulators like ZSNES (or Gens, as was my Sega emulator of choice at the time) ran under a crappy Celeron in the 90s.

    I will say your CPU will likely throttle back well before it'll shut down due to overheating. It might affect emulation performance some, but your PC shouldn't shut down or anything.

  • Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [The Register]
  • This is my real problem with this (and also broadly pointing the finger to the "Unix philosophy" whenever a project like systemd or Wayland exists, ignoring that the large, complex, multifaceted, and monolithic Linux kernel itself flies in the face of that philosophy). Linux may have originally been built to be Unix-like but has become its own thing that shares a few similarities with Unix.

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