dosse91 @ dosse91 @lemmy.trippy.pizza

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It was a GeForce 2 Ultra, a rare high end graphics card from 1999-2000.

Sometimes a listing pops up, usually with an insane price, this time the price was almost reasonable but I couldn't bid on it thanks to ebay.

Various reasons over the years:

• Don't want to risk making the workplace unpleasant (twice)
• Wrong race that would upset my parents (twice)
• Lives too far away (twice)
• Age gap (once)
• Me being exposed to porn at a very young age (first time I was 3 or 4, and I grew up with unsupervised internet access) gave me a completely broken sexuality and I don't want to bring other people into this mess
• Feeling inadequate, ugly or uninteresting (I used to be very fat so you can imagine how I grew up)
• Feeling that my interest in the other person is not genuine and that I only see her as a sexual object

In the end, I'm 32 and single, my friends are getting married and starting their own families and I have this dreadful feeling that I missed out on something important in life, I drown this feeling in work, video games and all sorts of projects, but when I'm alone and I can't think of anything to do and I start thinking about the future, I want to kill myself.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Ebay, by far!

In 2020 my account got locked for suspicious activities, I got it unblocked and it got blocked again after 1 login. I called them again and told them what happened. Basically, they said that if you log in with literally any privacy respecting browser (Librewolf in my case), your account gets immediately locked and you have to call them, you must use Chrome, Firefox (without antifingerprinting) or any other "normal" browser. So I stopped using ebay (their loss really) but I didn't close the account since I couldn't log in.

In September 2021 the account got hacked (I used the same password on multiple sites, one of them got hacked and the password ended up in a public database), it was used to pull some GPU scam and I ended up getting billed for 135€. Obviously I called the bank and blocked the transaction, then I called ebay to explain the situation. They said they would lock the account and mark it as hacked and not to worry about the 135€.

A few months later I get a call from a debt collecting company! They want the 135€. I explained the situation again, and they said to call ebay. So I call these idiots again and they said they would contact the collectors to explain that the account was hacked and not to bother me again. A few weeks later, the collectors call me again! Ebay did not provide any evidence that the account was hacked. So once again, I called ebay and this time I finally had the "debt" cancelled and the account closed.

Fast forward to June 2023, and I really need to buy something from ebay (old and rare PC part). Thinking that by now they would have improved their detection systems, I create an account and log in. Motherfuck. It gets locked immediately.

This time, the experience is even worse. The support page keeps redirecting me infinitely between the italian and english versions instead of giving me a phone number. Eventually I find it on google and call them. I ask them to unlock the goddamn account and they say they can't because they can't verify my identity since. At this point, I'm feeling Karen's wrath running through my body and ask to speak to a manager. They transfer me to some guy who doesn't even speak italian. I explain the situation and after nearly a hour of wasted time he unlocks the account and I can buy the item. I don't dare try to log in with that account again.

Never again, fuck you ebay.

Italy - 35€/mo, 1Gbps down, 300Mbps up, unlimited. Goes down at least once a month though, openfiber sucks

Crypto were a good idea on paper, they could have rid us of centralized banks and provide fully anonymous transactions, instead we got massive exchanges that require your identity to do anything, massive speculation, money laundry, ponzi schemes and GPU shortages.

At this point I don't even care anymore about what it could have been, fuck crypto.

In my opinion, get the Corsair.

That PC will pull about 300W at full load, maybe 500W if you take transients into account so both those PSUs are valid options in terms of power, in terms of quality they're both good, so unless you can get a very good deal on the be quiet, the Corsair is probably the best choice.

It depends on the distro and how you configure it.

For distros that just work out of the box like ubuntu or manjaro it should be about the same as windows unless there's something weird in your laptop, but in general there are 3 really useful tools that I recommend you check out are:

• TLPUI: a user interface for TLP, a power management tool that's used in most distros. With this you can configure your min/max clock speeds for your CPU and GPU when on battery vs plugged in, CPU governor, display brightness, automatic poweroff of drives and USB devices, and many other things
• throttled (https://github.com/erpalma/throttled): originally created to workaround a BIOS bug on some thinkpads, this can now set things like turbo duration, power limits and undervolting, all based on whether you're on battery or plugged in
• LACT: if you have an AMD GPU, you can use this to undervolt it or to set a better power limit

Setting these up properly on my thinkpad t480 with manjaro gave it a good 50-60% of extra battery life for what I use it for (I'm a teacher so mostly presentations and various IDEs). You should check them out.

unshare -nc followed by a command will run that program without network access. Very useful if you're running trash in Wine

Syncthing is one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever used. It just works, and it works well.

Well, it looks like shit even for 2008, the gameplay hasn't aged well, it's incredibly annoying when you fail a mission, it's full of bugs, but it has the best story in the series in my opinion, the characters feel very genuine, I don't want to spoil it but it will make you think, plus the brutal critique of american society shines through as much as the other games if not more.

AI is to computer science what black magic is to science.

Seriously, what do you get after you've spent days and days to train a model? An inscrutable blob that may as well be proprietary software written for an alien CPU; studying it is damn near impossible, understanding how it works would require several lifespans, and yet it works, and we trust these models and use them to get solutions to problems that would normally be impossible to handle by computers using "real" computer science. And one day, this trust will bite us in the ass, not in the form of an "AI rebellion" but with every system that uses AI becoming unreliable because of situations outside its training.

I played it twice on linux. It's actually one of those games that run better than they do on windows thanks to the large amount of fixes and workarounds specific to this game that are in DXVK. You don't even need to cap the framerate or limit the affinity to one core during the ending to prevent the helicopter bug. Personally, I would recommend playing a repack that already has all the community fixes for the game, but if you don't know how to do it, just play it on steam and you'll be fine.

I installed Manjaro to two of my friends that I'd say are mid-level and they've been using it without problems for years. Even if it's arch-based, it comes with everything it needs to be easy to use (most importantly a graphical package manager) and because it's arch-based it never lags behind with software updates and you got the AUR if you need it. Manjaro is to Arch what Ubuntu is to Debian basically. Yes, they have fucked up a few times in the past, most notably the certificate fiascos, but none of that affects its usability for a beginner, at worst they won't be able to update for a few days while they renew the expired certificates.

Edit: and I recommend you use Plasma, it will feel very familiar if they come from Windows

As far as I know this is no longer a problem if your system supports hardware video encoding for the video codec (vp8/9 or h264 based on server configuration and browser support).

That's completely false. The connection between users and the server is encrypted with HTTPS and you can even turn on end to end encryption if you want. Jitsi doesn't even work over unencrypted HTTP.

KOTOR. Bought it in 2012 for 2.24€ during a steam sale, not only I'm still playing it to this day, but its plethora of technical issues pushed me to learn new things about how linux works internally.

Arch with KDE on my desktop where I play games and fuck around, Manjaro KDE on my work laptop, Debian on my servers. Doesn't get much better than that.