My new steam deck will compliment my Linux desktop nicely!
It's so hard to find populated hashtags though. I wish there was more discourse on mastodon but it's just people shouting into the void.
I love the enthusiasm but it's funny to say posting to a platform that makes copies on other servers and opens up APIs that make it very easy to scrape and build a profile with a little scripting has any privacy.
It's still better than meta or Twitter but your not private on these platforms. The companies that might make accounts to advertise from can easily be blocked and need to try harder to actually get your attention.
Just be weary AI and ad companies are probably already scraping these platforms and it's thanks to the open nature and the inherent flaws of modern monolithic social media design.
Weren't are nukes controlled by IBM series/1 systems and floppy discs until 2019. They said they upgraded to a highly secure solid state system. They might be still using those computers for some parts of the system because “You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. It's a very unique system — it is old and it is very good.”
Get a used /cheap phone or tablet, only turn it on or enable wifi when you need the app. Don't use it for anything else. I think that covers all the bases.
It's fun playing with local AI stuff. I've been playing with piper-tts and it's fast on a modern system.
It's not gonna fix my 5900x taking off like a jet engine when I launch 100 JavaScript heavy web apps.
Isn't that that thing that always broke and made me feel like Linux wasn't very good for personal computers. I remember playing a game that took me hours to get running just for my computer to lock the screen and soft lock the whole computer. The lock screen captured the input after the game already captured the inputs and neither one of them worked.
Also as a kid running a script to fix screen tearing from online that happens to break the whole desktop or the weird things happening when you plugged in a second monitor.
Don't ask me how xorg works I've tried. I say good riddance, the king is dead long live the king.
That sounds like an interesting read. Before I switched to Linux I thought of making an app that watches driver websites and either notifies or pulls updates for you to install.
Short of some sort of user maintained database of download links and support page links/product number (for database lookup), I don't think I could have scaled it at any real capacity. I wonder if GitHub frowns on a project using it as a big database of yaml or json files.
There's winget but it has almost nothing on it and no matter how new the iso it typically doesn't work out of the box and you need to update it through Microsoft store. Tried using it instead of downloading stuff off the Internet. Only the most popular apps and not even all of them are there which is pretty annoying. It's also so much slower that most package managers and tries the Microsoft store first unless you specify.
It's an improvement but it's not fixing any of the real issues with modern windows.
I try to help an be supportive to newcomers. There's always someone who thinks shaming someone for using non free software or something like an Nvidia GPU will change their mind. There's also people who disagree with you and respond to every comment but don't offer a real solution in return. I love the people who say it works on mine without explaining what they did to make it work on their system.
It's tough man, It just doesn't feel good.
I finally picked up a steam deck so I can find more time to enjoy my library. It's weird how your attitude changes when you start using your gaming PC for studying or work. I just don't want to sit there for a few more hours after spending three or four working on something.
And I use arch because it was the first one that worked well on my hardware. Being into software development it's probably not surprising to say I'm attracted to shiny new technologies.
I love the fact your using Linux for your digital art. It validates the notion I've had about potentially using Linux for learning how to create illustrations and potentially small animations. I've used tools like gimp for Photoshop like stuff and davinchi resolve (a tool I've used) works on Linux. I might pick up a cheap little waycom eventually and see what happens.
It would be fun to have a stream where software I wrote allows people to shout over each other (running completely locally) while I fail at drawing or making more janky code to do useful/silly stuff.
At least he tried it. Maybe he'll pick up a second drive and dualboot. Regardless I have mad respect for someone who doesn't just assume things but puts the effort into finding out for themselves.
I remember when I was testing the water. I accidentally nuked my drive and something about that felt so final. At least after I found the USB drive I kept my backed up files, that was a real nightmare. I thought I lost my receipts for tax sure but all those photos and videos.
My switch collects dust because I've grown a custom to picking up 10-15 games for the same price as a three year old title on the switch.
Unless you use an Nvidia graphics card. Every little update seems to improve stability and support. I'm on hyprland because plasma 5 had pretty annoying bug they neglected to fix on Nvidia but plasma 6 is starting to look stable so I might switch to it or wait for cosmic. I'm not sure if I could live without tiling and the way virtual desktops work on it now.
I find myself hitting hotkeys that simple aren't possible on kde. I simply couldn't use an lts distro with the ever growing gap between the improvements then and where we are at now.
Also x11 sucks and has made my experience miserable Everytime I've tried to use it. Anything from horrible screen tearing(from scaling) on Intel integrated to consistent lag and stutter on Nvidia, I'm glad it's dying.
