riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason 4 hours ago:
3rd party, universal cable != Circuit boards/connectors designed for very specific hardware (used internally)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 hours ago:
No cap!
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 3 days ago:
Because that would be a cattasrophe!
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
Donut transform the soccer ball!
- Comment on GPT-5 upgrade sparks backlash from ChatGPT Plus users over new usage limits 1 week ago:
Seems a bit early in the game to start nickel and diming their customers. Especially when Claude Pro is cheaper and is actually better in many respects.
Technically, 80 messages every three hours is better than Claude Pro’s ~45 messages in five hours but that’s only during peak times. If you’re mostly using Claude at night you’re basically never going to run out (with casual/human-speed chat usage).
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 week ago:
They’re a pain, yeah but no worse than Windows. I want to point out that with Intel/AMD your drivers update in the background (like everything else) and you experience no issues at all. With Nvidia, the drivers will update in the background and—until you reboot—some apps can get a bit glitchy. The same shit happens with Windows even though Nvidia claims they can update the drivers without requiring a reboot. My father-in-law’s brand new Windows 11 PC has the exact same sort of glitching/crashes that I experience in Linux with games (when the Nvidia driver updates; if you haven’t rebooted).
The only reason why Windows users don’t experience it as much is because Windows forces you to reboot all the fucking time. Windows users have just accepted this as a natural part of using a PC.
That is the pain of the Nvidia drivers. It’s not a huge deal—just annoying.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 week ago:
This screenshot is just an FYI at some of your options. I’ve got bottles, PortProton, and the ProtonTricks launcher as options for any given EXE/MSI installer. Bottles is usually all that’s necessary but I have the others for super tricky stuff like embedded software development BS that would never be encountered by a normal person (haha).
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 week ago:
FANTASTIC! I love that 100% of the games I want to play work great without issue but what I love even more is the conveniences that Linux provides over Windows:
- It is trivially easy to sync my configs/saves/game data across my network to different PCs with
rsync -ave ssh(i.e. if I want to play on the big screen via the HTPC). - I can do the same with my phone using the FolderSync Android app (which supports sync over SSH just like rsync).
- I can script stuff! Example: A lot of games (especially those with 3rd party mods) can be buggy AF and as a result of that, increase the possibility of corrupting my saves/game/world data. For these games I use
rdiff-backupright there in the save/game/world directory every 10 minutes with say, 100 backups. Put that in a cron job and the worst that happens is I lose 10 minutes. - If the game has a server, chances are there’s already a native Linux version which means I can run it locally on my PC in the background or just sync my whole game over to another of my Linux PCs and run it there. No need for complicated setups where you have to manage things across two completely different operating systems (like Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ahahaha; that’s a joke poking fun at the Windows ecosystem if you don’t get it 🤣).
- I actually have the power to control where my sound goes on the fly and it actually fucking works (unlike Windows where you get to pick one device at a time and good luck keeping that one active if you have a Bluetooth audio device that likes to lose its connection from time to time… Ugh). You can actually do weird shit like send your audio over the network to a whole home’s worth of PCs (or stream it over the Internet I guess) but I only ever did that once and man was it cool, haha. Still, it’s nice to have the option (some open source dev worked really hard to make sure that works; and fantastically well too).
- Multiple applications can use the GPU at the same time (if you’re using Wayland) and that actually works properly. Unlike in Windows—where if you enable “hardware acceleration” in an app like Discord it can suddenly become slow AF scrolling when you’ve got a game open in the background.
- You have vastly more control over gamepad/controllers in Linux than you do in Windows. In Windows—if your controller is detected properly (which hopefully doesn’t require that you download a ~4GB of driver/bloat app bullshit)—you can test the buttons in the Settings/Control Panel. But that’s all you can do. The X button is the X button is the X button. You want that button to send something else? You need sketchy proprietary 3rd party software for that! In Linux, you can do whatever TF you want with that button and there’s several ways to do it (qjoypad gives you a nice GUI—right there in your distro’s repositories for quick install).
- No “You need to reboot your computer” popups in the middle of gaming/streaming!
- You don’t need sixteen bloated system tray/processes running at all times (slowing down your PC) to keep all your stuff working! If you use a Linux desktop for a few weeks then go back to Windows you’ll get annoyed AF pretty fast at all those pop-ups, “Why did I put up with this BS?” 🤣
- Privacy by default: HP, Nvidia, Dell, Logitech, Razer, and Microsoft can’t see that you’re playing that game that just got banned by MasterCard/Visa 🤣
Also—generally speaking—Linux is just more fun to use! Customize TF out of your desktop experience. The only thing stopping you is… you.
- It is trivially easy to sync my configs/saves/game data across my network to different PCs with
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 weeks ago:
Person drives up and starts bitching at this guy.
His response?
“I have no words.” [Throws his hands up]
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Is there any social media without memes and US politics? 3 weeks ago:
Without memes? 😭
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.
- Comment on Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community garden 5 weeks ago:
Turning people’s homes into “gardens” is not positive news. It’s just one step away from Soylent Green.
- Comment on What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti? 5 weeks ago:
Depends on your CPU and whatever else you have in your PC (e.g. is your cooler a beast too? Do you have six spinning disks? etc).
Generally speaking, 750W should be fine if you’re using a boring air cooling setup with an SSD or two.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 5 weeks ago:
I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where you’re animated waifu sings, “That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy hai hai hai!”
- Comment on Texas Floods Timeline: See When Officials Issued Weather Warnings 5 weeks ago:
Did the camp have a, “no cell phones” policy? Because that would explain a lot.
…which is why solely relying on cell phones for emergency alerts isn’t a great plan.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 5 weeks ago:
Those schools are heartless!
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 month ago:
Because they probably just took the first image that was generated without even checking it. For today’s generative image AI you usually want to generate great big batches then pick the best ones.
Then if you’re looking for high quality in your meme you’ll also use inpainting and pull the result into Krita or the GIMP to make further improvements (e.g. add text with a proper outline/drop shadow). Then when you’re done you’ll use AI to upscale the image to a great big size so that it’ll look nice when you print it out and hang it on the wall in your cubicle or the stick it to the office fridge or some filing cabinet 😁
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 month ago:
The truth is, anything but saccharin.
- Comment on CRISPR-Cas9 1 month ago:
Your
spoilertranscription suppressor failedFTFY 👍
- Comment on CRISPR-Cas9 1 month ago:
I dunno. For hundreds of thousands of years we’ve been selectively breeding puppies.
Puppies
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 month ago:
Microsoft is trying to make Xbox into Windows: Where 3rd parties make the hardware and then license the platform from Microsoft. It’s a vastly more profitable model. Especially if they get all those end users signed up for a subscription service.
The problem is that the world thinks of “Xbox” as a console (and a specific kind of controller). To pull this off Microsoft is going to have to re-brand Xbox entirely by making people think of it more like a game-specific app store that runs on Windows and special handheld hardware. It won’t be easy.
There’s a bigger problem with this plan though: No real coordination with the Windows OS team. Windows on handhelds sucks. The past twenty fucking years of Windows development has been almost entirely focused on improving enterprise features with very little attention paid to end users or gaming.
Growth in Windows gaming has come despite Microsoft’s investments. Not because of them. In fact, I’d argue that if it weren’t for Steam, Windows—as a gaming platform—would be a fraction of what it is today.
Don’t get me wrong, though! I love this new Xbox roadmap! Windows gaming has been holding back Linux desktop adoption for far too long. The latest benchmarks that show games on SteamOS vastly outperforming the new Xbox-branded handhelds pretty clearly demonstrates all that bashing of Windows by Linux nerds was deeply accurate.
It turns out that Linux on the desktop really is superior! 🤣
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Ma!”
Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over Fox News with the volume up way too loud.
This is the way.
- Comment on Not POV: your the only boy at the slumber party 1 month ago:
Trust me when I say that if you do this with that many girls in the bed… Urine trouble!
- Comment on Prairie Beast 1 month ago:
Underneath that mask is a sheepish grin
- Comment on Crikey 1 month ago:
Missing:
- A game console
- All the maps in the world + compass
- Gigantic notepad
- Calendar
- Entire stack of catalogs
- Newspapers
- Thermostat
- A whole fucking supercomputer
- An entire building-sized stack of photo albums
- Flashlight
- An sycophant assistant who makes shit up just to keep you happy.
- Comment on Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs 1 month ago:
To summarize: Requiring installation by electricians means that people will still DIY… They just won’t bother to get a permit/get it inspected.
Whereas allowing DIY encourages permits and inspection.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 2 months ago:
Mods on Xbox only exist for games where the game itself officially added mod support. I mean, sure it’s great when a game maker does that but usually it’s not as good as community-made mod support because community mods don’t require approval and can’t get censored/removed because the vendor doesn’t like it.
Remember: Microsoft’s vision of mods is what you get with the Bedrock version of Minecraft. Yet the mods available in the Java version are so vastly superior the difference is like night and day.
Console players—that are used to living without mods—don’t understand. Once mods become a regular thing that you expect in popular games going without them feels like going back into the dark ages.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 2 months ago:
All the fun of Windows gaming with the locked-down ecosystem of a console (no mods). What could go wrong?
It’s Windows Mobile all over again.
