cyanarchy @ cyanarchy @sh.itjust.works

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I have 64GB as future proofing (ITX board, two slots, can't address any more). Normally I probably use 8 to 10 of those doing things like gaming and hoarding internet tabs like they're a nonrenewable resource. I actually managed to crash my machine with an out of memory condition compiling something a while back. I don't remember what and I'm sure it doesn't count as regular use but I installed ZRAM to prevent it from happening again.

Because people with no interest in anime see it as a monolithic genre defined by the unbelievable wasterfall of fanservice isekai drivel. Pretty much all forms of animation still bear the burden of being seen as a genre within a medium rather than a medium themselves.

I do appreciate the self awareness of Tox being an unbridled agent of chaos, gives me big goose vibes.

Got a old piece of hardware that I want to breathe new life into as an NAS. Going to learn me some more about file systems and networks.

I appreciate their "barely surviving the mines" shtick a lot better now that they're independent.

I enjoy retrogaming as much as the next guy but it makes the Linux community look detached from reality to suggest that video games are a commodity. People want to play specific games. If pleading with people to be satisfied with native offerings was a winning argument it would have won twenty years ago. Emulation is an incredible experience on Linux but to do it legally requires you to already own the proprietary rom and bios almost without exception, which I notice is conveniently omitted from the discussion.

Thanks Steve!

I second this. Ranger mode is also my gold standard for how FPS gameplay should feel. Anybody is going down after a couple rifle rounds to the chest, plates or no, and that includes you.

I was a couple weeks into using Linux before this was made clear to me and the world made a lot more sense.

I don't think you actually could put the OS on NTFS, it literally cannot store Linux file permissions and I have no idea how badly that's going to break the system.

You certainly can use an NTFS drive for data storage in Linux but Windows has some default behaviors that make it hard to share that drive.

Have some respect for the classics

You clearly don't have much experience with the full bell curve of people's ability with computers.

A jack of all trades and a master of none?

FWIW the 90s ended over 20 years ago. A lot of people were not alive yet, or were only children at the height of Microsofts tomfuckery.

Yeah there's a person for whom this is great but I don't play RPGs to experience less-authentic renditions of myself.

I currently use a combo of btop and radeontop for this. For GPU monitoring I've also used nvtop.

Ride a corporation's meat a little harder, pal.

That is not a winning elevator pitch, that sounds like a dumpster fire of elements in an always online package.

Fallout 4 is fun to explore. I can still get lost in its world. There's nothing interesting to find in starfield and it's all locked behind the same sequence of jump drives, loading screens, and barren landscapes.

I would point out, by comparison, that piston engines are effectively obsolete for certain applications. Most aircraft operate on some type of jet engine, which involves the same core concepts of thermodynamics and aeronautics, but are still fundamentally different. They also optimize for different criteria, which is why neither jet engines nor piston engines hold a monopoly on any class of vehicle.

This is really stretching the computer metaphor. I think my point is that there will be room for rethinking paradigms as our applications of computers grow to include things that weren't originally planned for. But in a mature technology there's a lot of established precedent, and that's not easily overcome. It takes something that can improve the field like jet engines made new aircraft possible.