LainTrain @ LainTrain @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Posts

12

Comments

2,109

Joined

2 yr. ago

You can pirate on the deck. It's like two extra steps compared to PC, but you can.

If you're not a Linux weirdo there are subreddits and people have made it easy, though you do have to use desktop mode to download games afaik.

If you're already a big linux weirdo, just ssh in and look at htop while playing any steam game in deck mode and figure out how the magic works yourself, trust me it's a lot of fun and the thing is really nice to explore because it's not locked down at all.

OpenVPN

My best friend is still on 15Mb/s in central London 💀

I just moved to a new place with full fiber optic and it's the first place I lived in where that's a thing.

Steam deck. OLED. Linux. Not locked down to hell. Nuff said.

Lmao

I tried to get used to it but nah I just gave up and I just answer or ignore it outright.

It is still a shock to me that some genius aliased curl to Invoke-WebRequest and that curl.exe is what you actually want.

Mixing the two philosophies of coreutils and unix bins and whatever is happening in PowerShell seems even more unholy to me than the phrase "object oriented result", but different strokes.

I gave up on PowerShell on Windows as a plausible alternative to Bash on Linux the minute I realized there's no real equivalent tocat, there's type or if you hate yourself - Get-Content which is aliased as cat but doesn't really work the same way.

If I can't even very basically list a file irregardless of what's in it, it's just dead out of the gate.

On Linux, I once sent myself an MP3 from my server to my laptop with cat song.mp3 | base64 -w0 > /dev/tcp/10.10.10.2/9999 because I cba to send ssh keys.

I'll give modern windows a few points - the new terminal emulator application is sweet, and having ssh makes it easy to login to remotely.

PowerShell is a strange programming language that makes me wish I was just writing C#.

Bash is a shell language. At its heart it's a CLI, emphasis on the I, it's the primary way of interacting with a computer, not a way to write programs. Even awk is arguably better suited.

That's why it neither needs to be verbose nor readable for complete beginners, you memorize it the same way you memorize where buttons are on a keyboard or what items you can expect in a right click context menu on Windows.

Most bash scripts people write are far too complex for it and could stand a rewrite in perl or python or heck, what I think actually works amazing as a "scripting language" - C.

Pretty fun (and funny) sci-fi story, the open source katana bit gave me unix surrealism vibes but then again what doesn't these days.

What about ctrl+r to reverse search?

Versus:

man $commamd

PowerShell might be okay script syntax for people with uncorrected sight issues and the elderly who's heart might not handle bash without set -e but to be useful as a CLI shell prompt that is your primary way of interacting with the computer like it can be on Linux it needs to be so so so much shorter. I'll be dead by the time I type out half the shit it'd be like 4 key presses total on Linux.

And that's before you get to the issues of it being a whole object oriented and typed programming language with .NET whereas shell is nice universal text everywhere that can be piped around however you want.

There are even those absolute mad lads who unironically use PowerShell on Linux.

Learning the absolute basics of how to use tmux, vim, sed, awk and grep and pipes and redirects and the basics of handling stdin and stdout genuinely made me feel like all my life I was an NPC in the matrix and now I'm Neo just because passing around bits of text is so powerful when everything works on that basis.

And here I thought this curse was British brainrot. No, I will give you a detailed account of my day to day activities unless you can learn to say hi or hello there like a civilized person.

That assumes that like-minded people exist in sufficient quantities to do this. If they do, why haven't they voted already if they do? Why do they need to be told to do something or united at all when OP doesn't? What's different between them?

None of those have much real impact outside internet noise compared to people seeing their bank accounts drain.

I've been leaving corpo shit behind for years as a personal boycott, but even I found it much easier to invest time and effort moving off paid services than free ones because of a perceived material benefit beyond smug self-satisfaction.

What's one guy gonna do against 52% of Americans who came together in their communities and expressed the democratic will to choose Fascism?

Meow meow purr purr (in kittytongue this means I hope that fella touches grass and finds peace)

TIL you don't need Google photos to use lens, only Google translate

Thanks!

Meh, I'd rather play at lower settings than upscale. DLSS just looks like muck and the rest of them are indistinguishable from just turning down the resolution to like 480p for funsies but also with added artifacts.

I don't know any game my RTX 3090 can't crush GPU wise at 1440p at decent settings. I even turned off path tracing in 2077 because I didn't want to ever use DLSS until I found the mod that drops a few casts for enough performance to hit the mid 40 FPS mark.

But there is one situation where I support the brainrot and that's on portables. Steam Deck did the right thing by having a nice OLED 1280x800 16:10 screen instead of chasing resolution, it looks great, but if they do up it as most g*mers seem to want them to for mostly nonsensical reasons, FSR could work there, and something like DL DSR could help for games with small details if they go for an 800p screen again which I certainly hope they do.

One thing I won't miss for sure is TAA, fuck TAA so much all my homies hate that shit. DLAA is at least better but never forget they took SMAA and MSAA away from you for this absurd world where consoles advertise themselves as 4k, 8k while they run games at barely 720p via checkerboarding and what have you and have ray tracing comparisons that you'd swear are satire

What is an "Immich external library"? I'm a user of Immich but not sure what that means.