I feel like a modern IRC client would cover it wouldn’t it? What am I missing?

RIP Sun

Hopefully sodium batteries will help alleviate some of the rare earth dependencies since sodium is quite readily available in large quantities

“Please leave Minneapolis”

America WTF are you doing

Windows 10 refugee also. Had some initial difficulties with nvidia driver binaries. Turns out my older GPU driver is unsupported on newer Linux kernels which left me with 2 choices:

1. Run open source nvidia drivers (nouveau)
2. Replace my old GPU (GTX760)

I went with option 2 and bought AMD because their drivers are open source. Apart from that I’ve been very happy on CachyOS, other than the repeated crisis of confidence because I don’t know the best - or ‘right’ - way to do things like installing applications given the multitude of different ways to do so.

It’s different, but I’m enjoying the learning experience and there’s no way I’m going back. Everything else off so much better, it’s like how computers are supposed to be - and used to be before enshittification.

Emulators are emulating N64hardware running a game pak, this is a native port of the game to Linux and unlocks several benefits. Off the top of my head:

• Improved performance due to running natively on the hardware (not emulating an N64 with 4MB RAM)
• Ability to set custom resolutions (widescreen), apply aliasing, filtering or other graphical tweaks
• Easier to replace textures, models, audio files and otherwise tweak the codebase
• Native controller support

I swear by Heroic for the other launchers now I’m on Linux

I’ve jumped. My old Win10 PC doesn’t have a modern enough CPU to support Windows11, and after having seen what MS are doing with it I wasn’t interested in upgrading anyway. I used to use Ubuntu back in my younger days at school so I’m not completely alien to Linux, but I’d turned my back on it in favour of Microsoft productivity suites after moving into the full time work arena. Once support ended for Win10 I flattened my hard disks and made the move.

While I do have Ubuntu/Debian experience, I ultimately decided against going down that path because I’m not too happy with the recent decisions Canonical has made. Plus, I’m a gamer deep down and was interested to see what gaming on Linux looks like nowadays (my last attempt was a half-assed install of Left4Dead 2 when Valve were just figuring things out), so I ultimately settled on CachyOS. Going from Ubuntu and Gnome through 10 years of Windows to land at Arch and KDE has been one hell of a journey and I’m surprised by how little I know in this environment. It is NOT like riding a bike, a few years away really feels like learning from scratch again!

Things are going well though. I’m running Steam/Heroic with a bunch of games installed (Proton 😍), I’m back with LibreOffice and GIMP (though I never really stopped using GIMP), and I’m learning a bunch of new terminology and apps. It doesn’t matter that because of forced obsolescence there’s no way back to MS, I’m only interested in going forward anyway.

Join us. It’s not as scary as you think.

It’s not 1 specific game but 1 genre - competitive online multiplayer titles. OP lists 2 such games. They’re not what I play but to each their own.

Enjoying a particular genre of games together as a group doesn’t make make for a weak relationship. The fact OP plays a range of titles regularly with a group of friends suggests the opposite to me.

Same here! Although so far my experience has been dominated by 3 little words: Processing Vulkan Shaders

Saving Private Ryan - Matt Damon

Shawshank Redemption - Bob Gunton (the warden). I like the idea of a man overseeing the incarceration of a bunch of muppets

Micron, Samsung, Nvidia.

Soon there will be no new computer components at all

PS5 or Switch 2? Which version do you all think is best?

It’s the landmass Lex Luthor created in Superman Returns isn’t it? Can’t remember the name though

Most accurate comment I ever read

To be fair to Remedy they only partnered with Epic to get them to fund AW2, it was either a GameStore exclusive or no game to release.

Glad to see this on steam though.

Act like one by showing compassion for your workforce?

It’s OK we can just rename hockey to IceStick or something