The worst part about Windows Update is when it functions as intended. They’re going to re-install Edge, turn OneDrive back on, and shove Copilot into Explorer, Notepad, and Paint.

This is all for your security.

Even in my head, the name Bobby Kotick is spoken in the voice of Stephanie Sterling.

If you’re a good Linux user and keep your packages up to date; always say GuhNome; and trash M$ every chance you get, you’ll be given an .iso in the afterlife with the perfect distro. But not before.

Simi-related fun fact.

The biggest contributor to TOR is the CIA. They funded it’s creation and are primarily responsible for maintaining it to this day.

The CIA maintains TOR as a way for spies to pass information over the internet. They make it public because if only spies used TOR it would be trivial to catch them. So it’s in their interest that it be public and secure. It’s open source and security experts agree you can trust it.

I’ve got a low-energy Intel Atom server. The CPU is technically 64 bit, but some of the other hardware is still 32bit, limiting you to that.

I’ve been running Debian on it (and several predecessors). I’m stuck on Debian12 because they’re dropping 32bit support after that.

I don’t really use it to “self-host” other than as a file server for backups and Pihole.

only responds to their investors…

Did you know this is legally enforceable? The shareholders can sue a publicly company if it doesn’t prioritize ‘shareholder value’. For example a company that cut profit instead of doing layoffs.

It’s not spoiled leadership, but a rotten ecosystem that breeds amphibian avarice as the dominant culture.

Look to the wiki link in my previous post for details, but the basic procedure was to uninstall the Nvidia drivers, shut down, install the new card, boot up and install the AMD drivers (there is a command to automatically detect your card and select the appropriate driver from the repos), and update the bootloader. I ended up having to do the second half through SSH, but otherwise a pretty painless process.

I switched from an Nvidia to AMD on catchy. There are instructions in the Wiki. https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/chwd/gpu_migration/

It worked for me with only one issue. When I booted up the first time, I had no signal to the monitor. No big deal, I just used SSH from another computer to install the AMD drivers and update the bootloader.

I will not pay more than $30 for a game. That means I wait for AAA games, usually about 5 years. By then they’ll be optimized, patched, and all the DLC will be included.

I’ve never played the two original expansions. I pirated them, but never played. I purchased the “complete” edition from GOG, but still haven’t gotten around to it. What is wrong with me?

4K textures are a scam. With upscaling, even the people who run games in 4K don’t use the 4K textures.

I found the motorcycle driving in this game to be painful. Your ride is one of the things that you upgrade, so at the beginning, your bike is slow, can’t turn, and runs out of gas after a mile. It does get better, but early game is frustrating.

I heard he was flying around looking for collectibles.

I think the proposition of avoiding American tech in general will become more and more attractive in the coming years. Governments are already trying to move away from Microsoft for national security reasons. That’ll have the knock-on effect of putting Linux and Libra Office in front of more people at work and school.

In combination with the advances in Linux gaming, This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

The command pacman -Qm will display every package from the AUR on your system. You can then search the list of compromised packages.

I’ve used SAMBA shares for years, and it’s dead simple to map a network drive in Explorer. And mounting that drive on boot is a matter of a checkbox in a dialog.

The problem is that knowing how to do something in Windows teaches you Windows and learning it in Linux teaches you computers. For example if you know how to connect to a remote host through the command line, you already know how to connect to one in Nautilus, and vise versa. (via the command ssh://user@host)

I think this cross-pollination approach is going to be a learning curve for Windows users. It is for me. But taking the time has not only helped me understand Linux, I understand how to use Windows better, despite barely logging in for over a year.

Can I see it?

I strongly prefer games with fixed character(s). The biggest problem with open character creation is that it necessitates a narritive full of generic dialogue and events to accommodate every possibility the player might choose. Fixed characters live in a world where they belong, and that world regards them as developed and known individuals, rather than rudimentary flavor dialogue that may account for species, gender, faction, or class.

Roleplaying Geralt, Aloy, Arthur Morgan, and Cal Kestis means pathos, story, and character development. Vault dweller, Dragon-born, and the Tarnished One are coat-racks that you hang armor sets on.

It’s unenforceable on Linux. A Linux user can simply remove or modify any code running on their machine. Fedora, Debian, and Arch can’t make a user verify their age any more than they can force you to use Gnome. It’s kinda the whole point of FOSS.