dinckelman

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dinckelman,

Definitely fish. It does everything i need out of the box. To achieve the same with zsh, i needed a dozen plugins on top of a plugin manager. Here, in satisfied with just Starship as custom prompt.

That said, i’ve been trying nushell recently. Don’t really think it’s for me, but it is pretty interesting

dinckelman,

Yet another victim to pointless capitalism. Embracer are still no more than a cancer on the industry, trying to leech as much money as possible, while they still can

dinckelman, (edited )

Every time I see a post with this specific claim, targeted at Valve, i just can’t help but laugh.

Yes. They take a cut.

Yes. Everyone else takes the same cut, so you’re biased, if you don’t understand this.

Yes. They are an undisputed leader in the market, but no, that’s not called a monopoly.

The difference is that Valve, while taking this cut, and being as big as they are, are consistently investing that money into improvement of the platform, AND also paying people to directly contribute to OSS, that affects everyone else in the market too.

Not to even mention the regular, very considerable discounts, practically platform-wide. Show me a time when Nintendo have done the same. A 10 year old copy of MK8 is still 50$

This isn’t even a bogus claim, but just a waste of everyone’s time

dinckelman,

What he does with his money is none of my concern. Unlike the vast majority of other CEOs in his market cap tier, he’s actually paid fairly, compared to an average worker at Valve

dinckelman, (edited )

Depends on your distribution. Arch packages some electron apps in a way, where they can accept their own flags through a dedicated file. For others, it’s just a plain electron-flags.conf in your ~/.config

I would recommend visiting either the arch wiki, or tour distributions equivalent for details

Keep in mind that this does not apply to CEF apps, as that’s an entirely different framework

dinckelman,

Define bad.

If you can run native in wayland, run in native wayland. Your performance will be better, and if you need scaling, scaling is considerably better too

dinckelman,

Normally, I would say that I don’t care when a game comes out, as long as it’s a genuinely good, complete experience. But knowing Bethesda, it’ll be another 5 years before we see anything, and then we’ll get an embarrassingly buggy title, that hasn’t innovated on anything since Fallout 3 came out.

I used to forgive them for anything, knowing that the modding community would just patch things anyway, but we’ve seen how Starfield was rejected by a ton of people with skills.

dinckelman,

That really is a pretty substantial part of it too. Modding at its core requires a good game, and everything else comes from people wanting to change parts of it, that aren’t necessarily to their liking. Bethesda somehow assumed that people would be willing to reimplement half of the game at launch. That just won’t slide anymore, for 70$

dinckelman,

Their announcement for the 30th anniversary implies that it is in early pre-alpha right now. Chances of it running on the same exact engine as Starfield are practically 100%

dinckelman,

Who knows, honestly. I’m not holding my breath for this game anymore. When it comes out, i’ll check it out, but if it’s in the same pitiful state as Starfield, then idk

dinckelman,

That’s the difference. I would wait a decade for a follow-up to Elden Ring. It was a genuinely incredible game in every way.

dinckelman,

I’ll be honest with y’all. If your decision to not buy something from a hardware manufacturer is based on that they’ve modified their optional Ubuntu install, this hardware wasn’t for you to begin with

dinckelman,

Are the dlcs worth getting? I only have Rise and Fall. With the current bundle, I could snag the rest of them, for the price of New Frontiers alone. I can’t really say i’m huge into Civ, or knowledgeable about individual leaders though

dinckelman,

Ended up buying everything. Comes down to 19 Euro for just about everything, minus the game, and the dlc i already owned, so if I end up playing with friends, it’s not a bad deal at all

dinckelman,

No surprise it feels a lot snappier. You only run the shit you have purposefully installed, and not endless layers of telemetry, candy crush silent installs, game bars that somehow make the performance worse, and mandatory online service accounts

dinckelman,

I’ll reserve my judgement until I experience the new content, but it felt like a player-made machinima at best. I’m incredibly excited about the new raid

dinckelman,

Even besides the corporate issues, I just can’t help but not like this handheld.

It looks like a cheaply built gamer device, and it feels like a cheaply built gamer device in the hand too. Between them and MSI, it’s almost as if they’ve put literally no effort into engineering anything, and just threw together a whatever they could, on the basis of a generic shell.

Not to mention that having ArmoryCrate is literally a downside in every way, and having 2 years of warranty NOW, after they showed up on FTCs radar, is laughable

dinckelman,

That’s quite huge. Now to see if it works as intended

dinckelman,

Every single time i’ve checked it out, it felt like a cheap eastern Diablo clone, except it had horrible networking issues, and a never-ending development cycle, that somehow never delivered any real content.

Quite a big shame that this doesn’t even have LAN

Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

dinckelman,

Why are we monetizing a kernel flag?

dinckelman, (edited )

Things like these prove to us, that they’ve learned nothing, after a decade of Siege

dinckelman,

So much to unpack in the trailer. Not to mention that they’re intentionally trying to gaslight us with possible theories. Really well done. Now we just gotta see if the content lives up to the expectations

dinckelman,

I’ve switched to kde-unstable as soon as it was updated, and am quite happy to say, it’s been really damn solid. The only issue I’ve experienced was that Firefox somehow does not support explicit sync, and crashes the parent process of the broken tab near instantly

dinckelman,

The amount of awesome new stuff being developed for Plasma lately is an absolute blessing. What a great time to be enjoying it

dinckelman,

Correct

dinckelman,

Updated through nvidia-tkg. Smooth sailing so far

dinckelman,

Not outside of what was expected. Worth noting that i am using Kwin on Wayland, so out of order frames, and flickering of CEF and Electron on XWayland apps was an issue. I’m not sure about the latter, but the former will be gone once Plasma 6.1 releases in about 3 weeks. Or if you’re using a different compositor, it could be gone already

dinckelman,

Okay that actually looks incredible

dinckelman,

They want to ensure their business is working well, so they shutdown the parts that were working well, and left those that are failing miserably. Logic checks out

dinckelman,

The Switch Pro controller has been my favorite, however it has two issues. The trigger buttons are just a switch, so if you’re into arcade racing games, that’ll be rough. The other is that the rubber pads on the thumbsticks are questionable quality, and can also become quite slippery from the oils in your skin

dinckelman,

I’m considering changing to it, but i’d like to try it out somewhere first. Quite a pricetag for something that might be less comfortable

dinckelman, (edited )

Microsoft and Google really aren’t too dissimilar, in a lot of ways. The only reason why Xbox still exists isn’t because they’re so incredibly passionate about it. There was a niche for them to make money, and they’ve created a product in it, that has the minimum viable qualities to complete. Issue is that just as Google does, they stopped caring about it entirely, after the initial pitch

dinckelman,

While I’m really enjoying this too, it’s worth noting that a lot of the recording features only work on Wayland

Help me choose a distro/stay on NixOS

Disclaimer: I know there’s a lot of questions and posts like this but generally they’re aimed at noobs. I consider myself an intermediate user, and I know generally distros don’t matter much and you can have anything another distro has on any distro but I’m looking for something a little “specific” that better suits...

dinckelman,

Swap your channel to unstable, and see how you like it. From what i’m reading, you’ve already pretty much found what you want

dinckelman,

Because being received well isn’t what Microsoft are after. They’re after making as much money, as (un-)realistically possible, even if it means shutting down things. This isn’t the first, and definitely not the last time. They’ve had more than a handful of studios with iconic IPs, that got absolutely annihilated after acquisition

dinckelman,

That’s incredibly scummy. If it were huge corporations, it would be a rounding error no one would care about, but this is OSS community members we’re talking about

dinckelman,

I’ve had periods where I was switching back and forth, but your entire shell having breaking issues on every minor patch is unacceptable. If they’re also going to break other apps with that, i don’t know how i would recommend it

dinckelman,

I disagree with this, personally. There’s a lot more to initial usability/discoverability, than Windows-compatible visuals. If anything, when i’ve switched a couple of my family members off Windows, they asked me for something that doesn’t look like it, because they could never navigate through the desktop properly

dinckelman,

Someone has compiled a portion of the issues here. There has also been some recent community drama, not covered in the thread, which is also quite closely related to what is described there. tl:dr is basically project management politics

dinckelman,

OSS is only good when they can save money with it, apparently

dinckelman,

Good that it’s reversed, but the mood is already set. They practically said that they consider everyone who’s been supporting them for the past 7 years a cash cow, and expect them to pay up more, regardless of how much they already paid

dinckelman,

Pretty much. Sadly that’s just how things work today. You either do things right, at a cost, or you become the villain

dinckelman,

Who knows. We’ve had games flop the exact same way many times before, and they’ve learned nothing from it

dinckelman,

Just because a signal is sent, it doesn’t mean it’ll be received. We all know that practically any other major brand will still pump and dump e-waste, filled to the brim with mtx

dinckelman,

I don’t have an Android device anymore, but I’ve been a fan of Smart Launcher ever since Nova turned into a steaming pile

dinckelman,

Truth be told, i don’t have an ounce of care in me about this community council. I want them to make a product that was advertised, because so far it’s just a scam of colossal orders of magnitude (ha)

dinckelman,

The way how Nintendo has a complete inability to understand modern, usually online, entertainment services, is truly an achievement. Just creating an NNID for your console is already a colossal pain in the ass, but it doesn’t begin or stop there. The way how fairly modern games got their entire service lineup completely shutdown is just unacceptable

dinckelman,

Why can’t we ever have anything nice

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