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Quazatron

@ Quazatron @lemmy.world

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A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • I had the same experience.

    I kept comparing it with the absolute masterpiece that is Half-Life and it felt boring.

    The story doesn't pull you, no characters are memorable, in some areas I felt like I was cleaning the exact same room over and over.

    Even compared to something like Doom II, which lacks any real story and is all about playability and fun, it felt lacking.

    I guess it's just not for me.

  • Crafting a retro desktop for old computers (~1GB RAM) the right way

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  • I have a machine with specs like those where I installed Haiku.

    I don't daily drive it, but it's fun to use and it's quite snappy.

  • PSA: Flatpak likes to mess with GPU drivers. If you experience terrible performance with Flatpak Heroic, try this

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  • It's (almost) always Nvidia.

  • The longer you live, the harder it becomes.

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  • Think of it as leveling up.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • I use Flatpaks for a lot of stuff (Steam, Firefox, and some other stuff that I feel should not have access to my tax returns in the Documents directory). It's not just for beginners, Flatpaks are useful for other reasons.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • Good advices.

    A bit of research goes a long way. If you get a solid understanding of the basics, you can then build on it.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • Don't feel bad, I've used Linux since 1995 and don't have enough skills to use Bottles.

    I do however game a lot, using mainly Steam and Heroic. You can try to start there.

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    Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end | Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux

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  • You are right, it is not the case. She comes across as a very focused and motivated person that sets goals and achieves them, benefiting the community in the process. I wish I was like that. 😅

    I just expressed my own feelings towards people that don't recognize all the free hard work that developers like her have given them, and blame all the community for not supporting the piece of hardware that the vendor saw fit not to support.

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    Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end | Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux

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  • This is the kind of selfless, talented, focused person that I am thankful for when I look at the FOSS ecosystem and how far it has come.

    An it really deeply annoys me when these talented persons, who've spent countless hours reverse engineering crap, undocumented, proprietary technologies that the original vendor didn't care enough for its' users to document or open source, get blasted online by entitled brats that say "Linux sux, my AAA game don't work!".

    My thank you to all of them that made all the great tools that I use and love today.

  • AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

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  • That's my point.

    Unlimited human stupidity fueled by unending greed.

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  • Why do you have to have this xor that? Why can't I like both? I'm sure both have use cases where they work best.

    Drop the hate already.

  • AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

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  • Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?

  • Give me a ten-word poem?

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  • Qwen 2.5, running on my laptop, had this to say:

    "Moon shines bright, stars dance in the sky."

    Not very poetic if you ask me. I guess you used a similar LLM.

  • Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

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  • Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

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  • I use Jellyfin also.

    My workflow is like this: buy CDs from Discogs, rip them to FLAC, adjust filenames, covers and metadata with Picard, push the files to Jellyfin that promptly detects the new files.

    I also use Soundconverter in Linux to generate MP3s files for devices that don't support FLAC.

    I'm very happy with this setup and my collection has never been so organized.

  • Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

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  • You'll find that MusicBrainz Picard is a heaven sent tool to properly tag your files, with optional proper renaming.

    It takes some getting used to, and I find it works best in whole albums, but produces a much more professional library.

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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  • I've always been fascinated by the lengths puritans will go to prevent kids from seeing mammary glands, while simultaneously being ok with them watching blood and violence.

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  • We do what we must because we can.

  • UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

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