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- Comment on How could you do this to me? 37 minutes ago:
I have 1065 Ti without any issues. The nvidia not compatible is outdated and they started playing ball recently by working on open source drivers. Nvidia is huge in the AI space and AI computing is pretty much 100% Linux.
There are gaming issues though on Linux in the form of anti-cheat systems, but other than that running things with Steam Proton just works although specific games that use obscure windows APIs might not be as performant.
Dirt 3 used the NTsynch for the NTFS filesystem and once it got fixed the frame rate saw a massive jump for example.
Long term people are supporting Linux gaming a lot more since it’s already 3% of the playerbase and requires pretty minimal effort for added 3% audience to make Steam Proton play work. Also with the release of the Steam Machine 2026 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop™
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 3 days ago:
It’s a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they’ll reach the same situation as in the picture.
To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow “Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time”. A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 5 days ago:
They’re used differently, which trumps historical meanings.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 6 days ago:
It’s based on usage. R word is tainted now, this might change in the future or not. Language doesn’t care about etymology, only about usage. If the usage is generally negative and implies inferiority of a minority it’s a slur.
Calling someone an idiot doesn’t imply that disabled people are inferior, which makes it ok to use.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 6 days ago:
Wikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 week ago:
One potential organisation type to do this would be a labor union. If multiple unions pool their resources they could make a super PAC and lobby hard.
- Comment on Well that showed them 1 week ago:
Ah, the power bottom.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Fuck it, just make them work like Flatpaks or snaps and run a minimal android session on top of virtual hardware and install like normal.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 weeks ago:
I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and once you get going it’s easier to keep going because of momentum
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 3 weeks ago:
When it goes on sale 5 years later probably
- Comment on There's a trick to it... 3 weeks ago:
Also that he’s just blindly following a false emperor so easily while never having even seen his rotting carcass
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 3 weeks ago:
I really liked the first AC game but when I played Odyssey I was disappointed. Beautiful game, fun mini-games, nice subsystems like upgrading the ship and whatnot. After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.
Need a map? No way to buy, you have to run/ride and climb the chore tower.
Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.
Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP
Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.
Just please, give me a starting weapon that’s good enough and I can just stealth kill my way through the main quest. Also, just allow me to buy the map.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 3 weeks ago:
It’s a writing thing they did so they didn’t have to swap actors all the time. The first book spans several generations after all.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Anything Warhammer 40k. The universe and the lore are amazing because they absorbed a lot of SciFi elements from literature. The games have often been underwhelming but when they’re good they’re really good.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 4 weeks ago:
Yepowertrippingbastards I think
- Comment on You're so predictable 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my first thought was it’s a, um, yeah, 4.8T. Then I realised my autism ruined the joke.
- Comment on #environmentalist 5 weeks ago:
Don’t you need to use the metal straws some ridiculous amount of times before it saves more carbon than the plastic single use?
Also, plastic multi use is probably better.
- Comment on true love is rare 5 weeks ago:
Screw the size, tell me the girth
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 5 weeks ago:
Also possible to hide them from the feed.
- Comment on Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close 5 weeks ago:
ffmpeg is the best file converter
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Americans are not any better. Poll from 2022 …yougov.com/…/41556-americans-misestimate-small-s…
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 5 weeks ago:
“Big enough to fill most” then after say “we’re talking about shoes right?”
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah, you should shake off the water first (12 times is a good number), then rub your hands to spread the water over your hands so your evaporating water on all parts of your hands.
Takes less than a minute and gives you completely dry hands. This works with type 1 and 3 mentioned by you. Type 2 like the Dyson Airblade work if you pull your hands through slowly but then they will take a couple of minutes to dry on their own. With type 2 shaking the water off is not important since the machine does it for you.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 1 month ago:
I’d like to dispute that. My current routine is:
- Shake hands around 12 times
- Rub hands under the dryer.
Step 1 removes majority of the water and Step 2 spreads it evenly over your hands so you use all the surface area to dry. I get my hands completely dry within a minute.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 month ago:
Now do Black and White
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 month ago:
It’s a fair point but it’s not as egregious as most other headlines. I personally give this one a pass since clickbaits are meta in the article space. It shows that GOG has this in their toolbox.
