Test it out on an old PC, you gotta have one hanging around the house. After a couple of weeks you’ll wonder how you got anything done without it.

And so you spend hours tweaking the UI only to have it nuked by an update. If you’re gonna rice your desktop, run Linux!

I read a long time ago that delays had to be added to desktop UIs because users didn’t think the computer was “working” if it responded in a single video frame. Maybe the M$ LLM read that too and took it to heart.

I think I’ve had one game in the past 4 years that was totally broken with Proton but all I had to do was switch versions. Blew me away to have a literal 1-click solution to gaming on Linux.

Mechanically separated meat is an effective way to turn every shred of animal into an edible product instead of sending it off to be processed again into some lower value product. If you’re gonna spend all the time and resources to raise and kill an animal for food, why not make sure that the absolute maximum of it is turned into an edible product?

I can but can you look at a list of “chemicals” and identify which ones are food safe ingredients and which are hazardous? Not many people can, and using the label “chemicals” makes the problem worse.

For example polyethylene glycol is a food additive in Dr Pepper but ethylene glycol the poisonous part of anti-freeze. If you do not specify what chemicals you are concerned about and why then you are just using a catchall term to paint a particular product or process as bad.

I worked at a meat processing plant, salt water is added to every piece of meat that went through there in order to bulk up the weight and increase margins. Sometimes it is just a soak in other cases (like peameal bacon) they inject it with 200 steel needles and a hydraulic pump.

chemicals

Dog whistle. Using the term ‘chemicals’ as a negative serves only to gain support from the ignorant by obscuring the topic. All meat is treated with chemicals before you eat it, a solution of solvent, explosive sodium metal, and deadly chlorine being the most common.

Still running a 1080, between nvidia and windows 11 I think I’ll stay where I am.

Switched on my daily driver around 2016 and have been doing all but VR gaming on Linux since about 2019. I would totally recommend it to any one as long as they aren’t a tripple a, release day kinda gamer.

Yup, I have a 500gb HDD for Steam Games, loading screens are a few seconds longer than you would expect but that just makes time for a beer break.

TIL SearXNG, I will be testing that out this weekend.

Valve devs said “we are not working on, and have no plans to re-start work on Half-Life 3” in the recently released HL2 audio commentary. How much clearer to they have to be?

also, go play HL2 with the commentary on, it was awesome and worth the re-visit

My 1080 from 2017 has 8gb of vram. Still works fine.

3.3k over 19 years isn’t too bad considering I bought an Index and Deck :/ If anything I need more games!

All the addicts who didn’t win.

Why? 4k is already at the limit of what your eyes can resolve unless you have an enormous screen.

Virtual Box is probably the easiest to get started but lately I have been using LXC containers because they are a very similar to VMs but with less overhead.

No idea where you are in your trek, but if you can find the time learn how to use virtual machines (or use an old laptop) so you can test stuff without fear of breaking a machine you rely on.

When I want to use a new package or make a change to my setup I will do it in a virtual machine as many times as it takes until I get it right, then use my notes to do it on my daily driver. I went from a Windows only user to daily driving Linux in about a year thanks to keeping good notes.

Windows still hasn’t decided what it’s configuration windows should look like, there are still dialogs with the 30 year old W95 design language. I doubt that they were able to put together a seamless gaming UI over that past x months or years.