Ah, that’s completely understandable. Most people don’t realize that in a lot of companies, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it’s a bad idea.

Also it’s a big fucking company haha

Beat me to it!

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Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they’re Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won’t shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

It’s still kinda crazy to me that a seventh gen i5 (still very capable for general use) and i7 (still a very good processor for pretty much everything) are considered “incompatible” with Windows 11.

Good thing the OS is trash though. My laptop supports it but I’ll be damned if I upgrade. Just switched to Linux as my main OS with Windows running on a separate drive for shit anticheat games I can’t quit.

Real talk, “Linux is the only way you can be sure your porn viewing habits aren’t getting logged by some corpo in San Francisco” may be a good way to convert some people

Installing windows step 4 if you’re playing games not off the main stores, install:

• DirectX 9 Jun 2010
• Visual C++ Redistributables (2008 - whatever the latest is)
• .NET Framework 3.5 (if you wanna play older games. You have to do this from from programs and features)

Huh, this was definitely a fix I used on an older version that I just moved over to a new install with the new drivers so the drm modset line may not be necessary anymore yeah. I’ll check next time I connect to my monitor.

And yeah, it’s def gonna get better. I’ve already seen both wayland and nvidia improve significantly over the last 2-3 years so at this rate, things should “just work” pretty soon (insert meme about year of the Linux desktop).

I vividly remember struggling to get proprietary drivers working on Fedora 37 (or 38, it’s been a minute) only to have them break on the next version on my previous laptop. It was definitely much MUCH easier to install on Fedora 42 on my current one and updates haven’t broken anything for me since 40.

What gamepad are you using? If it’s Xbox One/S/X try out xpadneo

This is graat info. Didn’t know about Ventoy before, it sounds really cool.

Just wanted to add that if you’re running multiple monitors on an nvidia card, you may find that the second monitor has low fps/stutters on wayland (common on dual graphics laptops). The fix is as follows:

Add these 3 lines to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:

options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1 NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations=0 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

Add this line to /etc/environment:

KWIN_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:01\:00.0-card:/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:02.0-card"

You may have to modify the part that says pci-xxxx\:xx\:xx.x-card with the appropriate values for your graphics card.

Run lspci | egrep VGA to list installed PCI graphics cards and try to map the values from there

Disclaimer: I don’t know why this works but it does and it isn’t malicious as far as I can tell. If anyone knows what exactly it’s doing, I’d like to know please.

This looks like those gimmicky android launchers and themes from a decade ago

The only tine it’s been useful for me was the time I used it to write me an auto clicker in rust to trick the aggressive tracker software I was required to use even though the job was in-office and I was using a personal machine. Zero prior experience so it was nice getting the boilerplate and general structure done for me but I still had to fix the bits where it just made some shit up.

Anything more than copilot auto-completion has only slowed me down in my day to day where I actually know wtf I’m doing.

Holy fuck I just realized I can comission wallpapers 😃

Whether I can afford it is a different matter entirely

That just sounds like a race to the bottom to me

Oh look, I can see Norway from here

The “here’s how you keep doing this poorly but more efficiently” energy on display here is a refreshing change of pace from the usual “here’s how you do this correctly” crap peddled by normies (including me). You have my respect.

I’d like to second what priapus said - Helldivers is actually making fun of the type of blind patriotism you find obnoxious. It’s heavily inspired by Starship Troopers which is also a comedy movie making fun of that type of obnoxious patriotism. It’s all very tongue in cheek, devs aren’y actually pushing the patriotism.

I thought you were being serious as well. I’ve dealt with enough people who would genuinely make that argument so I assume nothing.

Effort or no, if an attacker can reasonably bypass it, it’s not secure. That’s why software gets security patches all the time, why encryption/hashing algorithms can fall out of favor, and why quantum computing can be pretty fucking scary.

No, of course not. I was being sarcastic. I usually add a /s but this seemed obvious