themoonisacheese
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Human rice cooker 1 day ago:
What a thing to read at 10 am
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
He certainly will have an interesting July 2028.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
The other day I read a post by someone who was wondering, and yes, the IC in a standard usb-c cable is (marginally) more powerful than the computers we used to go to the moon.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 2 weeks ago:
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yes you do. A good distro I recommend newbies is Linux Mint, because it’s visually similar to windows. Another great option for beginners is Pop!OS, because the developers take more care to automate things that you might encounter when first starting to use Linux. Overall, it doesn’t really matter that much what distribution you choose in terms of what software is available, it all comes down to design choices that change how hard things are to do (but reward you with more customization, of course)
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you will not be able to play some games that have an anticheat that forbids linux. The main culprit is EasyAntiCheat (while it does support linux, enabling that support is a choice by the game’s developer). The main games I have noticed can’t work are Fortnite (EAC), Hunt: showdown (EAC), league of legends & Valorant (Vanguard), R6 Siege (EAC) and PUBG (EAC). You can use protondb to learn what games in your steam library are known to simply not work.
Don’t expect games that you own on the windows store to work at all (this includes Xbox game pass). Most of them are available on steam, but that requires buying them again.
Most of the other stuff works, generally. Valve’s Proton supports a very large part of most games today, and unless the game you want to launch is very old or specifically doesn’t want you to use Linux, chances are the game will work first try, especially indies. Protondb is a great help to see what parameters one needs to use to make it work if it doesn’t first try. Make sure to “enable proton compatibility for all games” in steam’s main options, otherwise it won’t let you download game.
For tools that aren’t on steam but target steam games (for example mod managers), you should use protontricks (it’s most likely in your distro’s package manager, you don’t need to download it from GitHub) to launch the tool’s exe inside of the proton context of that game (steam maintains a separate pseudo-windows install (a “wine prefix”) for each game that uses proton). From there, the tool will behave as if you launched it on windows.
For tools that stand alone, you can add them to steam as a non-steam game and in it’s properties, force it to use proton, which allows you to launch e.g. cracked games. I also recommend using Bottles to manage your third-party launchers.
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most likely you’ll be fine. You’re unlikely to encounter any issues that haven’t been encountered by anyone before, so don’t hesitate to Google and to ask for help on various forums. You don’t need to know how to program to use Linux, though it does unlock some pretty nice things (it also does on windows for that matter)
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windows 10 LTSC will continue being available for a few years. If you need a windows partition (imo you only do need it if you want to play games that have restrictive anticheat), I suggest installing it on a separate disk altogether, because windows tends to not play nice with other partitions on the same disk, and will create headaches you could have avoided.
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welcome! I hope you’ll enjoy your time away from ads in the start menu.
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- Comment on Google is excited about money! 3 weeks ago:
Ceo of company is a capitalist pig who doesn’t mind associating with fascists, womp womp
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 4 weeks ago:
Team fortress 2 lobby
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 4 weeks ago:
XY problem: you’d spend more efforts and resources sourcing and installing this thing (that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist) rather than fix the existing sensor that’s already in the mouse. Fix the existing sensor that’s in the mouse.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 4 weeks ago:
Gaspacho perhaps? Frozen soup is just fancy ice cubes :D
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 4 weeks ago:
Very hot!
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 2 months ago:
In a chat I ma in someone made the same point with “having sex with your coworkers is bad: a novel hash weakening technique”
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 2 months ago:
I agree with the overall sentiment, however:
Lootboxes are at least a conscious action you must take. They definitely have the same problems as gambling (because that’s what they are), but you can also choose not to engage with them. Ads however, are forced upon you, and do things that you cannot see (track you) and cannot turn off.
- Comment on Looking to build a new htpc. This is all that ever comes up. 2 months ago:
Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
My current daily driver is a 13€ blue switches thing for AliExpress with 20€ DSA keycaps also from AliExpress. Both are fine.
- Comment on Anon thinks the Spiderman script went too far 3 months ago:
The interactive betting minigame was also a bit much
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 3 months ago:
Modern switches are all jailbreak able through mod chips.
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 3 months ago:
You know, the timeline makes sense but I’ll leave this here anyway: 🤡
- Comment on The lost days 3 months ago:
Also, Jesus probably wasn’t born in 1AD. as a matter of fact is 1AD the year after Christmas where Jesus was born (so he was born in 1BC) or was Jesus not born for the vast majority of 1AD until a week before the end of year?
Crazy what assimilating pagan holidays will do to a religion
- Comment on Day 175 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
I suggest Titanfall 2 next
- Comment on Hurry 4 months ago:
Dunno I stole it for !femcelmemes
- Comment on Hurry 4 months ago:
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 months ago:
“sure our game has gambling elements, but we’re Nintendo so shut the fuck up and give us a better rating because you’re a private company in the business of giving ratings”
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 4 months ago:
Also: brand shield says they only wanted the url gone but you don’t get that when talking to the registrar. Registrar are all or nothing, so clearly they knew they were doing this
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 4 months ago:
The statute of limitations may have passed, or the prosecutor may be uninterested
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 5 months ago:
Number for number, sure, if it’s actually available at that price.
The problem is that Intel’s drivers sucked in the past, so they definitely have to prove themselves with this launch. I definitely wouldn’t be buying it release day if I needed a GPU.
- Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal? 5 months ago:
It’s… Not great. It’s on par with other $300 laptops, which isn’t saying much. 8Gb of RAM in current year isn’t really enough anymore, and the screen is basically the cheapest possible. You’re looking for a laptop with a screen resolution near 1920x1080, and ideally 16 Gb of RAM.
It’s gotten very hard to recommend laptops based on the brand name, since pretty much every brand has started pumping out crappy laptops to capitalize on the brand.
Like others said, try looking at business laptops, either surplus or liquidation sales. They’re not great either but at least you’re ideally not getting fleeced.
If you’re feeling adventurous (and I’m mincing my words, this won’t be a breeze if you don’t know much but you’ll learn a ton), the best bang for buck you can get in a portable format is a Steam Deck with USB hub + mouse and keyboard (could be travel size if you want). Can be had for less than $500, if you have the budget portable screens also exist, and for that price it beats any modern laptop under $1000. I understand that it’s not exactly for everyone though.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 5 months ago:
Ready gaming fires away in this Kraber g200 montage!
- Comment on Claim Now! 5 months ago:
YES
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 5 months ago:
That’s nice, be sure to tell us how it goes when HSTS is enabled
