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dinckelman , (edited )

Depends on your distribution. Arch packages some electron apps in a way, where they can accept their own flags through a dedicated file. For others, it’s just a plain electron-flags.conf in your ~/.config

I would recommend visiting either the arch wiki, or tour distributions equivalent for details

Keep in mind that this does not apply to CEF apps, as that’s an entirely different framework

dinckelman ,

Define bad.

If you can run native in wayland, run in native wayland. Your performance will be better, and if you need scaling, scaling is considerably better too

Never buy .xyz

I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found...

dinckelman ,

I have mine through namecheap too, although the name server is from cloudflare now. The only issue i’ve had was some shitty forums preventing registrations from anything that wasn’t @gmail.com

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”...

dinckelman ,

Don’t take any of their words for granted. They know exactly what they’ve been doing, and what they’re doing now

dinckelman ,

Normally, I would say that I don’t care when a game comes out, as long as it’s a genuinely good, complete experience. But knowing Bethesda, it’ll be another 5 years before we see anything, and then we’ll get an embarrassingly buggy title, that hasn’t innovated on anything since Fallout 3 came out.

I used to forgive them for anything, knowing that the modding community would just patch things anyway, but we’ve seen how Starfield was rejected by a ton of people with skills.

dinckelman ,

That really is a pretty substantial part of it too. Modding at its core requires a good game, and everything else comes from people wanting to change parts of it, that aren’t necessarily to their liking. Bethesda somehow assumed that people would be willing to reimplement half of the game at launch. That just won’t slide anymore, for 70$

dinckelman ,

Their announcement for the 30th anniversary implies that it is in early pre-alpha right now. Chances of it running on the same exact engine as Starfield are practically 100%

dinckelman ,

Who knows, honestly. I’m not holding my breath for this game anymore. When it comes out, i’ll check it out, but if it’s in the same pitiful state as Starfield, then idk

dinckelman ,

That’s the difference. I would wait a decade for a follow-up to Elden Ring. It was a genuinely incredible game in every way.

dinckelman ,

Even Samsung have practically given up on Tizen. In smartwatches, the plug has been pulled, and for smart TVs, it’s not updated anymore, because they probably realized that it’s a waste of effort

dinckelman ,

Starting from scratch is a worthwhile investment, if you can carry it to completion. Samsung never do this, so it was a waste of time from the start. Admittedly, their Tizen watches were leaps ahead in performance, compared to the Android alternatives, but they completely gave up on attempting to improve any of them

dinckelman ,

The same shit, just not updated

dinckelman ,

I’ll be honest with y’all. If your decision to not buy something from a hardware manufacturer is based on that they’ve modified their optional Ubuntu install, this hardware wasn’t for you to begin with

dinckelman ,

I get what they’re trying to say, but they also carefully omit very important details. There are a lot of things that can be unbelievably bad for you, but essential in moderation. This is really no different. If you aggressively jerk off 15 times a day, obviously you are completely screwing yourself in multiple ways, but in moderation, it’s good for your body

dinckelman ,

Are the dlcs worth getting? I only have Rise and Fall. With the current bundle, I could snag the rest of them, for the price of New Frontiers alone. I can’t really say i’m huge into Civ, or knowledgeable about individual leaders though

dinckelman ,

Ended up buying everything. Comes down to 19 Euro for just about everything, minus the game, and the dlc i already owned, so if I end up playing with friends, it’s not a bad deal at all

dinckelman ,

No surprise it feels a lot snappier. You only run the shit you have purposefully installed, and not endless layers of telemetry, candy crush silent installs, game bars that somehow make the performance worse, and mandatory online service accounts

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

dinckelman ,

A lot of people would have huge bursts of negativity about this, but at the same time remain stubborn enough to not even consider evaluating alternatives. Microsoft and Apple spent decades making sure this would work

dinckelman ,

My mom only really browses the web, writes emails, and edits and occasional document. I’ve given her my old XPS 9350, with Fedora installed on it, and she’s been very happy with it. Keeps saying that everything just makes sense, and when she needs something, it’s easy to find. She’s far from tech savvy, but not completely clueless either

dinckelman ,

Maybe they can consider redesigning their monetization strategy, and figuring out the endless licensing issues, so people actually have something to watch, for the money they spend. It’s either that, or piracy

dinckelman ,

If you frequently watch this kind of stuff, your options are to either shuffle subs between 8 different platforms, or just get what you want from alternate sources. It’s always a service issue

dinckelman ,

Yeah… that was similar to my experience too. When I first got a Netflix sub, i was like okay, let’s see this movie then. Oh… not there. Next one then. Also not there. Maybe the other show? Not there either, but on Hulu. Except the paid plain on Hulu served me 16 unskippable ads, each over a minute long, all within the length of a 24 minute tv show episode. Immediately removed both subscriptions

dinckelman , (edited )

And that’s fine. These don’t have to come out exactly every year. Sometimes it’s good to spend a bit extra time for r&d

dinckelman ,

Money always comes first, for most of these companies. The era where your data was private is truly over. Now most of these platforms only give you a choice between your data being sold, and your data being sold for like a 2% cut

dinckelman ,

I’ll reserve my judgement until I experience the new content, but it felt like a player-made machinima at best. I’m incredibly excited about the new raid

dinckelman ,

If anything, they’ve taken features away from people lately. The quality is still shit. Lossless is still nowhere to be seen. Free users are losing options too. Yet they’re making record profits, and jacking up the price

dinckelman ,

I have yet to find even one game, from the stuff i play, that doesn’t work as well, or better. Obvious exceptions include games with a client anticheat though

dinckelman ,

I would recommend staying away from Manjaro regardless of your distribution preferences, for a whole range of reasons, some of which are documented here.

When it comes to Nvidia, don’t let people make it look like it’s some kind of an adventure quest with no map markers. Practically any reasonably maintained popular distribution will either have everything installed already, or will give you an Nvidia option during installation. There are still some long-standing issues, but the vast majority of them are either actively being worked on, or just got upstreamed, and it’s up to your distribution to deliver the update.

If you like Debian/Ubuntu based choices, Pop is not my preference, but it is a good distribution. Otherwise, Endeavour has been absolutely excellent. Fedora isn’t necessarily a bad option, but their package management policies will make setting up gaming workflows a pain. Nobara comes with all of that pre-configured, but is otherwise just regular Fedora

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year’s $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

dinckelman ,

If i wasn’t paying for a family play on Spotify, I would have resorted to music piracy at this point. The quality is still garbage, the service is getting worse, but the prices are only going up every half a year

dinckelman ,

Feel you there. A lot of what i listen to are brand new bands, and finding sources for those is rough

dinckelman ,

Pornhub has better account security than my bank, which ONLY has an option for a 6-digit numeric password, with no 2fa at all

dinckelman ,

Even besides the corporate issues, I just can’t help but not like this handheld.

It looks like a cheaply built gamer device, and it feels like a cheaply built gamer device in the hand too. Between them and MSI, it’s almost as if they’ve put literally no effort into engineering anything, and just threw together a whatever they could, on the basis of a generic shell.

Not to mention that having ArmoryCrate is literally a downside in every way, and having 2 years of warranty NOW, after they showed up on FTCs radar, is laughable

dinckelman ,

That’s quite huge. Now to see if it works as intended

dinckelman ,

First of all, I’d really love to know who told you anything, let alone good, about IE.

If anything, Firefox is in the best spot it’s ever been. Any time I’ve encountered an issue with it, it was because Google are actively crippling the web experience for the rest of the internet

dinckelman ,

Can’t say I’ve had experience with that, but I believe you

dinckelman ,

The issue is that Spotify is a private corporation. Making something OSS is not in their interest, only using something OSS is.

The only reason why they are even considering refunding purchases, is because they created a shitstorm large enough to become a large blip on FTC’s radar. Not to mention potential class-action suits. They settled on the fastest and least painful method, albeit after a ton of threats

dinckelman ,

Coming up with good product naming and marketing costs money, and Spotify are clearly too busy pocketing all of it

dinckelman ,

Of course, but that implies that the people behind Spotify aren’t shortsighted capitalists, only keeping immediate monetary gain in their perspective

dinckelman ,

Every single time i’ve checked it out, it felt like a cheap eastern Diablo clone, except it had horrible networking issues, and a never-ending development cycle, that somehow never delivered any real content.

Quite a big shame that this doesn’t even have LAN

dinckelman ,

It’s so fascinating, how some people create their own narrative, in their echochamber of a head, and then project it onto everyone else.

Please go touch some grass

dinckelman ,

Shit like this is exactly why competition is of utmost importance. The internet was never meant to be single-handedly controlled by a corporation with private interests, and more importantly, private pockets

Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

dinckelman ,

Why are we monetizing a kernel flag?

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

dinckelman ,

So when exactly is all of this going to stop? First we had town-scale crypto farms, that were juicing enough energy to leave other people with no electricity. Then we switched to NFTs, and the inefficient ever-growing blockchain, and now we’re back to square one with PISS, and it telling people to put glue on pizza, and suicide off the golden gate bridge

dinckelman ,

Such as?

dinckelman ,

I hope i can become this delusional one day. Life would be so much easier

dinckelman ,

Lobbying, and publicly traded companies, were both a colossal fucking mistake. We elect these people to be the voice for us, but they only act in their own interest, while a ton of money is flowing directly into their “donations” pocket

dinckelman , (edited )

Things like these prove to us, that they’ve learned nothing, after a decade of Siege

dinckelman ,

A couple years ago they approved a curated script, that’s now bundled with the iso. If you already know your install flow, this won’t really add anything to your experience. I’d still recommend the official way

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