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[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

English-speaking countries try not to police other English-speaking countries' dialects challenge (impossible)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Respectfully, this is unhelpful. This is talking about Unplugged, a completely different company, in reply to Phi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yup, addressed in my original reply.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You'll have substantially better results from modern integrated graphics (even on the low-end Intel UHD side). This is genuinely the card you get if you just need the extra outputs and don't care about performance, or you have a CPU lacking integrated graphics and don't care about performance.

In other words, there are use cases for it, but I absolutely agree that a gaming card this is not and it has a very specific niche.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I would argue that NixOS absolutely is the OS you get if your time is worthless, but not every distro is the same. I'd argue that if you need something that doesn't have so many issues a stabler or easier to use distro (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and even Fedora or openSUSE) is going to be a better option than trying to bend specifically NixOS to do what you want.

I personally use a mix of Pop, Debian, and Fedora, not because they're particularly powerful, but because they tend to be more straightforward for what I want to do than NixOS, Gentoo, or Arch. I don't mind tinkering, but for my main machines I don't want to tinker much.

Edit: I should clarify that there are plenty of reasonable uses of Windows and I don't fault anyone for using it especially if their familiarity is keeping them from understanding Linux as well as they want to. But I also would make the case that there are a lot of distros out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I like this one, it's pretty cute and has a neat gameplay concept involving "hacking" other robots to get to places you can't get to with your regular ball form. It's rather short; I have 45 minutes clocked in it on Steam and have gone through the whole game and gotten all its collectibles.

If you're using Linux, use Proton 9.0 or Experimental; earlier versions will play the game without any audio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What type of connection do you use for your monitor? My first thought is just that you might be using something that can't do better than 60 Hz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That seems like the same ballpark as a 7800 XT for any PC gamers paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You and I would have been enemies in the 16-bit era, but I adore the Sega Genesis. (However, I'm also a sleepy bisexual, so I'm gonna say we're probably nowhere close to enemies.)

It was an arcade monster and got a ton of amazing games from the arcades and purpose-built for the machine — many the SNES also got, but some exclusives that really took advantage of what the Genesis could do well. I'd argue that the gritty FM sound chip was better for certain types of game music as well, though that's not to say that the SNES wasn't largely superior on that front.

At the end of the day… yeah 16 bit stuff looks amazing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I hope I'm not the only one who finds these endless Chromium forks extremely yawn-inducing. I realize that rolling your own rendering and JavaScript engines from scratch isn't totally feasible, but Firefox is right there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The info from the Steam Hardware Survey is collected on an opt-in basis. I'm sure Valve has plenty of ways to get this information otherwise, but this specific data set requires acceptance of the terms of the survey.

 
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