Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

Metju

@ Metju @lemmy.world

Posts
0
Comments
39
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • How much do you care about music?

    Jump
    • Equipment: yeah, I have a decent set of speakers at home and headphones to listen while on the move. Sound quality matters, so a decent set is worth it for me.
    • Albums vs random: I got used to listening stuff album-wise (with some albums not doing listening to their entirety takes away from the experience). As for favorites:
      • "Feathers & Flesh" and "Dance Devil Dance" by Avatar,
      • "Dead & Alive" by Parasite Inc.,
      • "Faceless" and "The Oracle" - Godsmack.
      • "Mezmerize" - SOAD
    • Listening as the only activity: yeah, though more often than not I listen to music to drown out the world.
    • Talk with others about it: too often. Though I'm afraid there's very little ppl in my immediate surroundings that can dig into what I listen to 😅
    • Spending time searching for music: not anymore, have a base I enjoy.
    • Art or content: art. The feeling of chills going down my spine on a particularily well-constructed chorus / instrumental part is like no other feeling for me.

  • Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically.

    Jump

  • From your list I ran the following:

    • Bazzite: worked AMAZINGLY (to the point of me double-checking whether I'm getting any updates 😆) until some image screwed up the boot process (some versions I could boot into, some were crapping out right after GRUB). Can recommend if you have a relatively normal hardware configuration (so, as long as your machine is not a Clevo-reseller laptop with NVIDIA GPU and Intel CPU, you should be fine).
      • Addendum: some binaries might not be available for you OOTB due to Bazzite's root filesystem being immutable. Read their docs on how to run packages / binaries that do require root access (or learn basics of self-hosting, I guess..?).
    • Nobara: FUBAR'd it myself through... Well, being an idiot (had SOME regrets about that 😅); ran into some small issues with GPG keys, but otherwise used it w/o any major problems (see above) for... I think a year with some change? Can wholeheartedly recommend it, as long as you're somewhat familiar with what RPM packages are and how to work around issues with their signatures (usually - a trivial matter); updates are not as smooth as on Bazzite.
    • CachyOS: my current daily driver. Barring some extremely minor issues in some games (usually solvable through Proton options- and versions fiddling), as was the case with Nobara - can wholeheartedly recommend it (this time, without caveats; despite the memery around Arch, it feels stable; the updates by default are a bit more annoying than on Bazzite though, similar in nature to Nobara: you get a notification "X packages have updates").

  • Well well well.

    Jump

  • Ah, the classical "just introduce tests in a legacy codebase", what can go wrong?

    My condolences, it's always a BITCH to handle

  • Steam Hardware & Software Survey (Linux, September 2025)

    Jump

  • I distro-hopped from Bazzite to CachyOS recently, and frankly - I'm not surprised it's up there in terms of popularity. While Bazzite was much less obtrusive with updates (hell, I had to check whether I was getting amy 😆), CachyOS makes due with a lot less resources (Bazzite's 6 vs Cachy's 3.5GBs of RAM on stand-by, don't remember the installation size, tbh) than Bazzite.

    It also has a relatively sensible default when it comes to updates, as it automatically performs BTRFS snapshots through snapper, Tumbleweed-style.

    Time will tell if it's as stable as Bazzite was (though frankly, I distro-hopped because 3 or 4 straight updates were not booting for me 😅).

    Tl;dr: Arch base + sensible defaults make for good selling points on gaming rigs.

  • Valve registers a "STEAM FRAME" trademark for new computer hardware

    Jump

  • uses WinForms for it's UI

    Sounds like a project I wouldn't want to contribute to 😆

    Source: spent a couple years maintaining a product written in that PoS framework

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

    Jump

  • So basically, this..?

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

    Jump

  • What was that?

    That means your baby is STILL ALIVE!

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

    Jump

  • 'Czkawka' = 'Hiccup' in Polish. As to why he's there - iunno, ask the devs 😅

  • The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic leaders with the help of european allies

    Jump

  • (...) Yes, these two did lose, but not by much

    I might be wrong on this one, but didn't Labor in Australia secure the biggest margin in recent times during last elections? Dutton lost there by A LOT.

    But yeah, can't deny that otherwise, you're making good points. Right-wing is on the rise throughout the world, with populists leading the charge, selling simple solutions for complex problems

  • What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?

    Jump

  • Kinda cheating, since this game (hell, entire series; linking my fave entry) has kind of a cult following in Central/Eastern Europe.

    Gothic II

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I think not. Iirc, blocks have to be set perpendicularily on each floor. It's not the case here.

    There might be some other rules being violated, but I haven't played Jenga for... A very long time 😄

  • Catchiest video game song?

    Jump

  • Do it

    Jump

  • Gun in my ass

  • What's a great minigame within another game?

    Jump

  • Never bothered with Queen of Cards quest, as the walkthrough of that is... Sizable, to say the least. Also, there's only one relatively decent reward out of it (Doomtrain).

    As for CC: they are a source of all rare cards besides the ones Queen has. Thus, if you want to have Vit/Str/HP Ups - they're your best bet (also, getting enough of those makes Omega Weapon fight a breeze, you can reliably kill it without ever reaching Megido Flame and foregoing Holy War usage).

    But yeah... Triple Triad is fun, especially since it translates to sth that will impact your game.

    EDIT: also, you can get 3x100 Flare on your entire party on the first disc, but it's a major PITA to get (iirc, 300 Red Dragon cards, so good fuckin' luck). So yeah... Triple Triad brekas the game if you have the patience for it 😄

    EDIT 2: also also, Queen of Cards is available at the crash site on Disc 3 as well

  • Clearly high as a kite

    Jump

  • Daily-driving Nobara with NVIDIA, (almost) no issues whatsoever here.

    Granted, I ain't the person you responded to and it's anecdotal, but... Yeah 😅

  • How are you feeling?

    Jump

  • Weird. On one hand, everything is dandy. On the other... Self-hatred is simply weighing down on me and while I know I have to work on it, it's been 2-steps-forward-1.5-steps-back type of deal.

    Human psyche is fucked up. You can have everything you might need, be as successful as you can be, but if there's anything gnawing at you, no matter how small it might be, it will murderfuck you to the deepest pits of mental hell

  • I see these MFs on a daily basis

    Jump

  • Well, technically, they're 3rd party problems. But I get your point about seeing this from the end-user perspective.

    And yeah, it's DEFINITELY not fair

  • France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)

    Jump

  • Seconding k3d (and, by extension, k3s). If you're in a market for sth suitable for more upstream-compliant clustering solution (k3s uses SQLite instead of etcd, iirc), RKE2 is also a great choice

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

    Jump

  • I struggled to find things to learn because I installed it and had an out-of-the-box windows experience

    And that's a good thing! Non-technically-inclined ppl are wary of instability issues and having to work with the terminal to fix their daily driver. If the OOTB experience is good and the UX is comparable or better than Windows - they will be more likely to stay.

    If someone is accepting the fact that shit might go sideways, is willing to learn through experiencing issues first-hand or simply likes to spend time fiddling with their OS to find the perfect setup for them - that should be the Arch- and Arch-derivatives audience.