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Nibodhika , to games in Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'

Congratulations you essentially described what Stellaris devs did.

Nibodhika , to linux in Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use

Don’t use Wayland. I’ve had a very awful experience with Wayland and external monitors on an Nvidia with the proprietary driver. Because Wayland is the default in most modern distros it might be that all of the ones you tried used it. Try Linux Mint Cinnamon edition, it’s using X11 as the default and it’s Ubuntu based so it should be familiar grounds.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Does it seem odd to track my lifespan?

My grandpa used to do this way before smartphones, I remember his 30.000 days birthday when I was a kid.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction

Others have suggested Markdown formats, if you’re willing to do that you might want to look at Silverbullet.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Anytype Selfhosted

Not the user you’ve asked but I’m using Silverbullet and have been loving it, it ticks every box of what I was looking for:

  • Self hosted
  • Stores files in plain markdown text format
  • You can edit those files externally and Silverbullet picks up the changes
  • Allows customization and expansion easily
  • Provides queries that allow you to extend markdown to pull data from other files
  • These use an SQLite db to get these things to work fast, but if you delete them they get regenerated
  • Can be easily synchronized with multiple nodes by using synching to sync the markdown files
Nibodhika , to linux in I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

Yes, I use a swap file, but I don’t think the installer gives that option, so I’m trying to play it safe. Also a file will always write to the same part of the disk too because you allocated it first, but it’s easier to create another file and migrate to it.

Nibodhika , to linux in I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I will keep this as easy as possible, but if you installed Windows 10 that’s much harder than installing most Linux distros. If you want a lengthier tutorial but with pictures go to …readthedocs.io/…/index.html

  1. Go to linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=311 click any of the links there, the nearest to you they are the faster they will be.
  2. Find a USB drive you can use (probably like you did with Windows, and just like then everything inside it will be lost, so make a backup on another drive) and plug it on the PC.
  3. Download www.balena.io/etcher/ select the image you just downloaded, the USB drive you just plugged, and click flash.
  4. Reboot and boot using the USB drive like you did for Windows 10.
  5. You’re now on Linux, feel free to just poke around, you can connect to your wireless, browse the internet and do whatever, just notice that anything you install or save will be lost since its not really installed but running from the USB drive. When you’re ready click the install button.
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions like you did with Windows 10 (or )
  7. Reboot and unplug the USB drive and you should now be in Linux.

As you can see it’s 99% of the same you did with Windows, the hardest part of it (boot via USB drive) you already know how to do.

Now, that being said I do have one small recommendation, while installing you’ll see this screen …readthedocs.io/…/installer-install.png I personally recommend you select the “Something Else” option there and manually partition your drive to have:

  • 512MB vfat (or fat32 not sure how the Mint installer calls it) partition to be mounted on /boot (this might not be needed, but if you’re in UEFI mode, which is very likely because the machine originally had Windows 11, it is needed)
  • 60GB ext4 partition to be mounted on / (this is your system, 60GB should be enough, but if your disk is large enough you can give it 100 or whatever you like, just bear in mind that every program you install will be here)
  • <Amount of RAM> swap partition (e.g. if you have 16GB of RAM then 16GB swap partition) (Swap is a place in the disk that can be used as RAM, you want it at least the same size as your RAM so you can hibernate the computer since RAM gets wiped when the computer powers off)
  • Remaining as an ext4 partition to be mounted on /home (This is where your data, games, photos, etc will be, having this in a different partition is the reason I recommended to go with the custom partitioning. Unlike Windows on Linux partitions are just folders, so if your data is in a different partition than your system you can wipe your system, reinstall it or even install a completely different distro, without touching your data. In short this means that even if you screw up and end up with a non working system, you can follow the installation again, ensure that this partition is not marked for formatting, and you should be back in a new system but without losing any data or configurations)

That’s just a recommendation for future-proofing, but if you just want to try it and are okay with wiping everything later if needed then feel free to choose the default.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Will I ever be seen as truly British?

It’s curious, I have a similar story but with different countries, and the reactions are VERY different. I was born in Argentina, but my family emigrated to Brazil when I was 13 years old. I speak fluent Portuguese but obviously have an accent that people can’t quite place, but once it’s pointed out they notice it. Yet the vast majority of my interactions about it are something similar to:

  • Where are you from?
  • I was born in Argentina, but lived in Brazil over 16 years
  • Ah, so you’re mostly Brazilian then

And I think that that says a lot about Brazilians and how they’re very welcoming and friendly. Unfortunately the British don’t seem to be the same way, at least from your experience, maybe people in larger cities are more used to immigrants so they would see you as mostly British or something.

As for the voting, for me at least the only way was to become a citizen, most countries allow you to ask for citizenship if you’ve been living legally long enough so you probably qualify. Just bear in mind that some countries ask you to abandon your other citizenships when you do so, so not sure if that’s your case and if it’s worth it just to be able to vote.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine

I would argue the low cost option is already serviced by the Steam deck.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Best Graphic card for Linux Gaming

True, but I don’t think it’s the case for OP since he reported less performance than on Windows, so I assume he meant on the same hardware.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Best Graphic card for Linux Gaming

Which GPU do you have? Which drivers are you using? are you sure you’re using those drivers and they’re not just installed but unused? My first guess is that you have an Nvidia and are using open source drivers (nouveau).

Some performance difference is expected, after all most games are being run through a compatibility layer, and many others were ported as a second thought so they’re not optimized on the same level. Also note that lots of us don’t use Windows, so we’re not comparing experiences, if it runs at an acceptable frame rate with an acceptable graphics settings for what I would expect the GPU to be capable of, then I don’t bother benchmarking it.

Nibodhika , to selfhosted in Homeserver Ansible Playbook

just making a docker compose and maybe having ansible deploy that?

that’s what I do, why ansible? Because it makes it easier to deploy the same service in different servers with slightly different configurations, for example when migrating from one server to another. Also it helps with having something I can easily backup (e.g. git repo) that can redo my server(s) if needed.

That being said I’m still setting everything up with ansible.

Nibodhika , to linux_gaming in Xbox controller over dongle

Read what the other guy told you, see if your distro has a package for this instead of following the readme file, otherwise you’ll need to run that every time your kernel updates. There’s a reason we recommend people to use the package manager and to forget the windows mentality of installing things by random means.

Nibodhika , to linux in Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?

Yup, been using Arch for around 16 years, never had a problem with an Nvidia card and the vast majority of my GPUs were Nvidia. Every time I hear the horror stories of prime and bumblebee I really couldn’t relate because everything just works for me… A couple of years back however my company gave me a laptop with a company approved OS (Ubuntu), and while I don’t know who’s exactly to blame here (but I have my suspicions), I’ve had to use prime-select to set the OS to work always with the Nvidia GPU, otherwise external monitors work like shit.

It could be that ThinkPads are shit compared to Acer (and every other brand I’ve had in the past) laptops, it could be that the i7 on that laptop has a shitty GPU and can’t handle the external monitors. But I’m 90% sure that if I put Arch there it would just work, and I wouldn’t almost burn myself with a 99°C laptop that’s constantly running a GPU that’s not meant to.

Nibodhika , to nostupidquestions in Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

Yes, but the input power moat likely varies, and that’s because the energy conversion is not perfect, depending on the mechanics some energy might be dissipated as sound or most likely heat. But since I don’t know the specifics I can’t account for it, and it’s possible that red lasers require more energy than blue lasers because of a quirk in the way they’re generated currently. If we ignore that and imagine a magic box that can convert 100% of the energy given into specific color photons, for any given input it will generate more photons when configured to red than to blue, because a single blue photon contains more energy than a single red photon, therefore you need more red photons to get to the same level of energy.

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