pfjarschel

@pfjarschel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made the jump recently, and although there are clear issues, I don’t see any reason to use windows as my primary gaming OS anymore. Some games still require some fiddling with proton versions, extra command line arguments, environment variables, etc. That is bad for the average user that just wants to click play and play. Also, I noticed that at least on my setup (alienware laptop with nvidia gpu), some games have clear performance issues compared to windows, mainly some UE games. But it’s not so bad to make me want to boot windows again.

  And just some extra two cents: I’m still keeping a windows partition for those games that simply cannot run on linux, and it’s possible to keep your main library on the linux partition (I’m using btreefs) and use that same library on windows. You just have to install a driver on windows, and it works beautifully. Haven’t had any issues so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming has a polarization problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sorry, but it seems your Avowed is different from the one I am playing. I agree with your comment, but I am enjoying Avowed like I haven’t enjoyed any game in years! And barely any choices? Really? I just finished the first area (not the tutorial), and there were LOTS of meaningful choices! But speaking of the tutorial, there was a choice there that impacted certain future interactions. The R is definitely there in this RPG. I haven’t played a game where even the little choices matter as much as in this game!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes some fiddling, but it works, and is fantastic!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your description got my attention, so I opened the steam link to consider buying it and… Hey, it was already in my library!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How common of a name is Ghislaine?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very common in Brazil, but without the ‘h’. I was surprised when I learned about “that” Ghislaine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨military industrial publishing complex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Peer reviews. For the results to be acceptable around the scientific community, their methods and conclusions need to be validated by at least 2 other scientists familiar with that subject. Like someone said, there is axiv.org, that lets you upload your paper without this review, but it’s more of a method to claim precedence if someone else publishes a similar work. It’s usually not a scitation source that is taken seriously. This could, of course, be improved! There are open access journals that charge the scientists instead of the readers, but there are several scam journals popping up every day that will usually publish anything without reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Brazil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if you drank bleach, and then drank ammonia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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