JustARegularNerd @ JustARegularNerd @aussie.zone

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I'm in Queensland, Australia, and it seems to say there's no chance of rain at all, as there's thick clouds above my head seconds from drenching me, and sure enough, I start getting drenched.

Yeah, it was nicknamed the F6 floppy because Windows XP setup would say "Press F6 to load a SCSI driver" and you would hit that, select the driver from your floppy, and continue setup.

I've even seen vendor's websites call it F6 Driver because the unofficial name was so ubiquitous

My dad always tells me about how it drove him insane for days that Windows XP couldn't detect the HDD, but it showed up totally fine in BIOS. He ended up taking it to a computer shop, and the bastards didn't even tell him about the F6 floppy (instead they charged him double what was quoted because their techs had to 'learn how to do it').

It was only because they somehow even screwed that up, what should have been a simple setup of Windows XP, and he had to reinstall, that he finally learned from the internet that he needed the F6 floppy.

Well, hang on a second. I haven't used Steam in about 2 months now just as I'm studying, so maybe I'm missing some recent development, but Steam has worked for me near flawlessly on various Linux distros, from Ubuntu to Arch to openSUSE.

I'd say take a step back, I presume you're on Linux, and just make sure this isn't something your own PC that's causing Steam not to work. Checking logs and whatnot to at least begin with, checking how it's installed and if installing it in a different manner fixes it, basic troubleshooting steps.

Maybe Steam is absolutely borked, but usually, the way I see it is that realistically, if Steam works on popular distros like Ubuntu (which I imagine is the main one they would check against as well as whatever SteamOS is based on), then it's actually something wrong with my setup, and it's on me to fix or workaround. If its clearly something wrong with Steam, lodge a bug report. If they don't respond to you then I think sure you're justified to say they don't want your money.

Until then I don't think it's entirely fair to seemingly come out of nowhere, and instead of doing what most other people do and say "Hey, Steam's crashing and unusable, here's the info I have, help?" you look like you're just accusing Valve of not supporting your likely niche distro on your specific hardware.

Maybe I'm wrong about all the assumptions I'm making here but you're not exactly giving a lot of info here, and to me this just looks like an unproductive bitchfest about a program, and I think that's why people are down voting your post.

I want you to just make a house! Well, obviously not a house like this brick house, but something like it..

What sort of stuff do you make?

I think being unreliable is not accurate. I'm doing the whole password manager thing in what can be only described as the most unreliable way, by self hosting it, and so far I literally haven't had any downtime (touch wood).

Even with LastPass being compromised, the database itself was still encrypted and the only way in would be to guess your master password. If you have even a half decent master password, that should be plenty of time for you to have both changed your passwords, and ideally changed password managers at that point.

I really don't agree with recommending just remembering passwords in your head, because we're all human and we're bound to be lazy and start reusing passwords for certain services. And sometimes, you might have no choice but to be signed up to all different things. Even just the bare essentials for me would be email, my bank account, my superannuation, my local government account, my work password, my laptop password. That's too many passwords for me to keep track of and I know that.

If I were you, based on what you're saying, I'd probably recommend to you a local password manager that just uses a local vault, like KeePass-compatible managers, because you're entirely managing where your passwords are and how securely they're stored, and they're not open to the internet. I used to have this setup, but found it ultimately difficult to keep the database in sync on all my different devices (2 laptops, desktop, 2 phones, and tablet).

I do self host and it's worth it. I just have a Raspberry Pi in the corner next to the router running all the time and I've had no issues for about a month of doing it now.

I definitely was disappointed to see the new Outlook just mirrored the web version's mail rules. I had custom mail rules that would play a sound when triggered, that isn't possible in the new Outlook now (that I could find).

This is what stopped me from doing it. I always feel like if I've helped make one person's day a little bit better, then I've done my bit as a human.

I know how good it is when you have a really complex, niche, problem and someone gives the answer you exactly needed, and I don't want to take that away from the public, even though a company I don't support is profiting off my comments and submissions.

At least on PC, middle mouse click for the win

(But absolute pain when I'm on my laptop)

I want to comment and submit content, I just feel like I don't have anything of value to share. That tends to be why I lurk. Not sure if that's the case for most other lurkers.

The thing that gets me with this, is that Windows 11 is genuinely good in my opinion, and now that a lot of the launch day bugs have been ironed out, it's much nicer to use than Windows 10 from a UX and usability standpoint.

I feel similar with Edge. Vertical tabs, the good Microsoft integration (in my case for work), good performance, it's a totally usable web browser.

And then Microsoft squanders all of that with these invasive marketing decisions. I hate every time I start Microsoft Edge for the first time, there's these undismissable full window prompts to sign into my Microsoft account, obviously this crap that's been posted, the way Windows 10 was aggressively marketed onto Windows 7/8 users, it all leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

Working in help desk and PC repairs, I'm not looking forward to the amount of tickets and retail customers coming in confused about all this, think it's a virus, think that they must upgrade or else, that they did accidentally hit yes on this and now their machine isn't familiar to them anymore.

Greed really does ruin everything.

Ah yes, Lemmy mirrors Reddit well. It even replicates those times when it looks like your comment didn't go through so you hit submit a couple more times and your comment comes through 3 times.

Just my 2c on the browser, I tend to prefer setups that I do or make as part of a guide so that I feel more in control and more aware of what's running on my PC, so I much prefer taking the time to install LibreWolf and then add a dozen extensions to it.

However, Brave is still a browser I recommend to the casual who wants more privacy for how convenient it is. And I do daily drive it on iOS too for the built in adblocking, which (to my knowledge) can't be done on the iOS build of Firefox.

Thanks. On the manufacturer's website there's no drivers available but it does outright mention it is compatible with Macbooks (doesn't go into any further detail). I've already submitted a question to the product page and am awaiting an answer from them, hopefully they might give me something like a driver for macOS.

I want to abandon the shit platform but its just so nice like in my lunch breaks at work or just after work, whack on some YouTube, and I can watch gaming, I can watch tech, I can watch really niche tech, I can watch people fixing cars, I can watch an Aussie dude fuck around with his nuggets, like these people are genuinely interesting and make genuinely good content, but there's no decentralized or otherwise separate YouTube-like platform they upload to elsewhere.

Sure, Nebula has thought provoking videos, Floatplane has a few, Odysee has a few more but there'll be that niche YouTuber who does videos on vintage Macs that I'm in the mood for, and back onto YouTube I go.

It's scarily difficult to get off it. I want to, and maybe I will if things get so shit it's borderline unusable, but I think Google knows how to boil the frog and unfortunately that's the reality of it all.

I envy you not having YouTube as something you don't use often. YouTube was genuinely at least a decent platform over 10 years ago when I joined it, and I've been hooked on it since, every single shit change they make.

It's technically true, but I too initially thought that the whole subreddit's moderators were moving to somewhere else like the Fediverse.

I can't follow this logic of Reddit's. Ohh, a community hasn't been reviewed to ensure it's safe? Oh, a community is NSFW? Gee golly, if you're on a mobile phone you'll have to use our app to look at it! We can't have that open to the internet (unless you're on desktop then you're all good, until we make an official desktop app)

I watched the entirety of ilmango's Skyblock series, 1000% worth it and would recommend watching to anyone else if they like calm, technical Minecraft with a bit of dry humour