silent_clash @ silent_clash @lemmygrad.ml

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It's about 10% more efficient than jpeg compression.

Yes, I meant individual posters making the adjustment.

Choosing a more compressed file format like jpeg/webp is probably also helpful. Converting that png online or in gimp can reduce the file size by up to 75%.

Linux is way safer than Windows because barely anyone targets it with malware. As far as safety goes, the main thing is to try and understand what each copy/pasted "sudo" command does before running it. Sudo means "super user do" which gives admin privileges to the commands you are running in command line.

I have never had any malware on any Linux machine I have run. If you're worried because of your threat model (government, hackers, etc), staying within the main built-in repositories will keep you safer.

Things that are community or user-run (RPMfusion, Ubuntu PPA's/Personal Package Archives, AUR/Arch User Repository) are slightly more vulnerable to malicious activity of the kind you're describing, although I have never had a problem trusting them.

Just look at what Spotify has done to the music industry. There was a massive contraction in the music buying market and music streaming services now are fully dominant. And Spotify + Apple have used their oligopoly status to fuck over artists and even record labels, forcing them to accept a fraction of a penny per stream.

It's not a one to one comparison, but I could see subscription-based game licensing crowding out buy to own games eventually if Microsoft keeps consolidating the market as it has been. And then, once consumers are used to never paying for games individually, Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, etc will be able to dictate whatever terms they want to game developers.

Yes, with the caveat that it could overwrite the Grub menu/boot partitions of other Linux installs on the device. I'd disconnect all disks with working Linux partitions and possibly all Windows ones too while installing to USB from a Live USB.

I've never used chatgpt like that, but it's probably okay to do so. One benefit is that you don't have to keep track of the details yourself or juggle a game system because the LLM does it for you. Here is a hackathon full of gpt prompts that might raise your game: https://flowgpt.com/bounty/PEeCw9RxAzmqEC7xt4KM4?promptId=FMEKZxl7wKLFlEwguqDY9

Keep in mind though that there is an entire cottage industry of very fun solo tabletop rpgs that you can play yourself. Here is a blog describing some different categories to help you search for one. There are also many top ten lists to point you in a good direction.

Itch.io has tons of them. Here is a tag cloud that will make you feel like a kid in a candy store: https://itch.io/physical-games/tag-solo-rpg/tag-ttrpg

I highly doubt it will be in the format of a flash portal. It sounds closer to the Netflix model of producing and licensing games for subscribers.

Stadia was basically a game console as a service, assuming you had good enough internet. You had to pay for the subscription for access, then pay for each game individually. The one benefit of that was very little initial barrier to entry, as you just needed chromecast and a stadia controller.

Youtube playables appears to be just lightweight html5 web app games that run locally in your browser, similar to what flash player was like.

Taken from the linked announcement, it appears not:

The GNU Linux-libre project takes a minimal-changes approach to cleaning up Linux, making no effort to substitute components that need to be removed with functionally equivalent Free ones. Nevertheless, we encourage and support efforts towards doing so.

So basically it's the user's or maintainer group's job to select replacement code/libraries/drivers and how they do that is up to them.

The only workable discreet GPUs with open source drivers that work right now are on Team Red (AMD) edit: and Intel.

There are good people working on Nvidia foss drivers but they have a long way to go.

Oh and lastly, here is a link to a thread of Linux beginner advice that I think is good. I have a nice response there that is pretty detailed. It's in the Marxist lemmy though. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/735631

Don't use regular Arch if you're struggling. There are some arch-based distros that are more user friendly, though. Like EndeavourOS or ArchMan. Manjaro can be good too but there are legitimate problems with how the project is run.

I was having graphics driver problems in Ubuntu-based distros until I tried Linux Mint.

If you get crashes right before or after login, it's often a (Nvidia) graphics issue. To get around this, you could use nomodeset in the Grub menu to get a successful first boot where you can then install the proprietary drivers.

Look at sections 4 and especially 5 on this page
Also, here is that info in a tutorial format

Also, you may want to set the Desktop Environment to Xorg or X11 (same thing) if Wayland is causing you problems. It's older, but in some cases more efficient and less experimental. Check out the section: Switching desktop environments using a graphical user interface. It should look similar to the pictures. And notice that the "gear" icon may not appear until you select a user.

If your problem is different than this, open a support ticket in the discord or forums of the distro you're using. Linux Mint has a great system for this on Discord.

Thank you for putting some actual student-budget options.

Yeah, Framework seems like a premium product for sure. I want one but I definitely can't afford it anytime soon. Also worth noting that a new framework mainboard rivals the price of some entire laptops. So while it is definitely upgradable and one of the most repairable laptops in the world, it is still a pricy ecosystem to be in.

This was his first reaction, just as satisfying to read: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/dear-red-hat-are-you-dumb

S tier phone, my only complaint is that the bootloader is locked down and downward facing speaker. Next phone I buy will be able to be de-googled.

The battery life is head and shoulders above 99% of the market, oled is a killer feature, so is 120 hz.

Watching flash animations and playing flash games on Newgrounds.

Here is the original interview: https://newrepublic.com/article/173662/black-history-absolute-necessity-colin-kaepernick-book-interview

The hill is generally a reactionary publication.