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Wish me luck as I install Arch on an old netbook
  • Unfortunately some old tech does just start becoming obsolete at some point. sure you can force old software on to it but unless its designed to just interact on its own or with some other equipment thats stuck in time, it usually ends up not being worth the trouble or time, especially when you can get pretty powerful (comparison wise) equipment for cheap. chrome books for example are dirt ass cheap and some times a better solution than trying to get a super old system running again.

  • oh. OH NO
  • only potential issue I see trying to stress that 430watt psu with whatever that gpu is.

  • rule
  • while I agree... i dont see what this has to do with programming

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  • feel'n a bit called out rn

  • Steam Summer Sale Steam Deck recommendations
  • I was thinking of picking up FF 7 remake cuz.. idk, big sword look cool? also soul caliber 6 cuz its $8

    uh, yeah probably just those I think. still dont know if I will commit to it cuz i already have such a back log.

  • Jerboa currently unusable for other people?
  • I had to reset the whole app

  • What are you watching for Summer 2023?
  • idk. i have a huge list of links i've just been storing away but think im gonna finish reading Hells Paradise before starting any new series.

    not to mention there are an ass load of games in my backlog.

  • If we call reddit users redditors, what do we call lemmy users
  • lemmytards.. i mean lemmitors. lemmyteirs? Lemmiknights?

    i kinda like Lemmiknights.

  • US Supreme Court blocks student loan forgiveness plan
  • Thats not what communism is and even if it was, you literally just tried to say caring about other people is bad regardless of what its called. This is part of the problem.

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  • Imma be real.. Arch has been the most consistent system I've used to date.

    I've been using linux off and on since like 2008. I jumped around from ubuntu, fedora, opensus, popOS, centOS, etc.. I've had manjaro and now arch as my daily driver for probably 4 or more years now and Arch updates have only ever broke one thing, one time, and it was more of a audio pipewire issue than it was really archs fault.

    arch updates do not deserve this slander, its been very reliable for me, more than probably any system i've ever used.

  • The First Images of the Titan Submersible bein bought ashore
  • yeah, does seem a bit excessive. unless the goal was to retrieve like a black box for info, there is an entire ship down there, hardly seems like leaving one small tube makes a difference

  • The First Images of the Titan Submersible bein bought ashore
  • I just dont get the point of putting your body down there. if most of what you're seeing is through the digital displays anyway, why not just send a drone and watch remotely? seems like an awful massive risk and expense to try and actually dive down there for nothing more than looking out a window

  • y u no hear me
  • Unfortunately, 100% parity will likely never happen, especially if people wont just use it regardless of less than perfect compatibility. Devs keep making games with functions that refuse to work on linux and/or refusing to support it or provided compatibility layers, and windows keeps breaking shit that old games rely on to work making linux compatibility with old titles better than windows.

    just depends on what you're trying to playing. personally I almost never play any multiplayer games any more and I dont feel like im missing out on anything. i've been daily driving linux for a few years now and leaving my reliace on windows in the past has been very nice.

    just comes down to your priority, I suppose. my priority is my system first, games seconds. If your system is games first, system second, then linux may not be for you yet.. but I would still recommend learning to use it, be familiar with it should the time come that microsoft does something that is an absolute deal breaker for you.

  • What's everyone playing right now?
  • Legend of Heroes Trail in the Sky SC

    its been a nice little game so far. its a pretty simple jrpg with a focus on story and characters. its fantasy of sorts but isnt quite so goofy or convoluted as square enix games like to be. I've been good so far

  • What's something that was dismissed as a gimmick but you liked?
  • Rear power and volume buttons.

    To this day my favorite phone remains the LG v10. It has nice metal rails on the side, a rubber removable back, sd card slot, aux port with a high end dac, wide(er) screen, and buttons on the back of the phones right where your indexed finger would rest when holding it.

    Figure print sensor on the button didn't work all that well, but worked better than this shit on screen reader. The buttons being on the back meant your could just grab the phone in anyway with out worrying if you're gonna Power the phone off, turn the vol down, take a screenshot, etc. This also meant getting it knot phone holders was almost never an issue.

    That was the closest an android phone got to perfection. After that they started trying to follow tends and phase out the good parts to the point of leaving the Android market entirely.

  • DDoS attack on Blizzard leads to more calls for a Diablo 4 offline mode
  • Doesn't matter. You can rape children and murder an entire bus of puppies. If you're releasing a new version of everyone's favorite thing, you're immediately forgiven.

    That's the society we live in. "my entertainment and desires above all else!"

  • Americans Hate ISPs Almost As Much As They Hate Gas Stations, Survey Finds
  • who.. what?

    I've never heard any one really complain about gas stations. is the questioned and response worded poorly? I think people hate paying high prices for gas but I've never heard any one say they hate gas stations before.

    ISP's tho, every one can agree that they can go gargle an entire warehouses of unwashed dicks

  • People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?
  • no and no. The tap where I live taste nasy, i think its safe to drink but its not very good so I dont use it.

  • Will do!
  • Gnu Linux does have an actual lengthy license agreement.

    It's that license agreement that keeps it free and open and also ensures that people can't just steal it, claim it as their own, and then open legal disputes against anyone who who tries to use it them selves (among other legal things in sure).

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