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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

  • Should I switch to Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming?

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  • One more vote for Tidal. High quality and large catalog, I've been using it for years.

  • D7VK 1.2 released: improves Direct3D 6 front-end in its D3D7 to Vulkan translator, making D3D6 less experimental, enabling more legacy Windows games on Linux with excellent performance over WineD3D

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  • I have this broken game in my backlog for decades now, I wonder if this will make it run this time. Hexen II, according to Steam it was released back in 1998.

  • I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • That will most likely never happen, so stop lying to yourself.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I'm finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I'm a big fan of the original and I'm currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There's lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.

    If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • Bring back Geocities next.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • As they say in my county: "go and die far from here, so I can't smell you".

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.

    Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.

  • This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again

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  • Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.

  • X11 Secondary Selection

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  • I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I've never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

    I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

    But you're right, I did not read the fine article.

  • X11 Secondary Selection

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  • I've been using the "select copy + middle click paste" since the late 90s.

    I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you're just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

    It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

    I know I'm a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it's too confusing for the end users, man.

    Yes, I get it. But I'll miss it.

  • NVIDIA is preparing to add native Linux support to GeForce NOW according to VideoCardz.com

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  • These motherslapping sons of goats, that refused to support open drivers for their paying Linux customers will now generously allow said customers to rent the gaming experience instead? How nice of them.

  • The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever

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  • I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

    Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

    Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

  • A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025)

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  • That happens more frequently in closed source than in open source.

    I've had to dig through shady sites to download drivers for printers or scanners that are perfectly fine but the manufacturer decided not to support the latest Windows versions. The manufacturer wants you to buy a new printer, there's little incentive to support old hardware.

    Meanwhile my ancient Laserjet 1100 works out of the box in any Linux.

  • A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025)

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  • This is the magic of open source. It takes one focused and motivated developer to improve the status quo for every user.

  • China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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  • Should not have allowed them in the first place.

  • Spotify vs. Anna's Archive

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  • I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

    I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

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    US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

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  • True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

  • Dying Light

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  • Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

    Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.

  • The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

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  • I don't think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

    I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.