Listening to Björk for the first time because of your comment.

Violently Happy was cool, but Venus as a Boy and Army of One are definitely more my speed (guessjng that’s a normie ass take).

It’s not for everyone but I feel like the only people who “hate this with a passion” only ever listen to the top 40 charts and NOTHING ELSE, which is really hard to do if you have Spotify tbh

First time listening to Violently Happy and idk what you’re on about, it’s literaly a 4 on the floor beat with occasional intentionally off-beat elements

I had to look through their profile after you said that and GOD DAMN, they posted the ones I found most memorable!

We don’t deserve you!

Real talk, “Linux is the only way you can be sure your porn viewing habits aren’t getting logged by some corpo in San Francisco” may be a good way to convert some people

Yes! It really was a second job! When it’s good, it’s REALLY good but it gets to the point where you’re playing because you feel you have to, not because you want to. You’re constantly grinding mindless crap so you’ll be ready for that next content drop that hits as hard as the last thing you actually enjoyed over a year ago (spoiler alert: it won’t).

I was lucky. I came to that realization at 1.1k hrs and it still took another 100 to quit. Afterwards, and I am dead serious about this, it took a bit more time before I could enjoy single player games I used to love again.

D2 is a pit that can and will suck you in. It’s digital crack.

From my limited understanding, it seems like it’s dependent on the anti-cheat itself. Riot Vanguard is pretty much the gold standard and it does deter cheating significantly more than others I’ve seen. Like I think I’ve seen 2 or 3 cheaters total in 200ish hours of Valorant. Compare that with BattleEye or EAC (Siege and Apex respectively) and you see enough cheaters that it feels like they’re cheating every time you lose a fight. These are all kernel-level so it seems that kernel access is required but it also matters how good the actual anti-cheat is.

Edit: It’s a bit weird with Apex thkugh because it could just as easily be the broken controller aim assist

If by D2 you mean Destiny 2, then I recommend making the switch so you CAN’T play D2. As a former addict myself, I can tell you it doesn’t have control your life. I know it doesn’t seem like it now but there is a way out if you’re open to it.

Sending thoughts and prayers ❤️

Huh, this was definitely a fix I used on an older version that I just moved over to a new install with the new drivers so the drm modset line may not be necessary anymore yeah. I’ll check next time I connect to my monitor.

And yeah, it’s def gonna get better. I’ve already seen both wayland and nvidia improve significantly over the last 2-3 years so at this rate, things should “just work” pretty soon (insert meme about year of the Linux desktop).

I vividly remember struggling to get proprietary drivers working on Fedora 37 (or 38, it’s been a minute) only to have them break on the next version on my previous laptop. It was definitely much MUCH easier to install on Fedora 42 on my current one and updates haven’t broken anything for me since 40.

What gamepad are you using? If it’s Xbox One/S/X try out xpadneo

This is graat info. Didn’t know about Ventoy before, it sounds really cool.

Just wanted to add that if you’re running multiple monitors on an nvidia card, you may find that the second monitor has low fps/stutters on wayland (common on dual graphics laptops). The fix is as follows:

Add these 3 lines to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf:

options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1 NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations=0 NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

Add this line to /etc/environment:

KWIN_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:01\:00.0-card:/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:02.0-card"

You may have to modify the part that says pci-xxxx\:xx\:xx.x-card with the appropriate values for your graphics card.

Run lspci | egrep VGA to list installed PCI graphics cards and try to map the values from there

Disclaimer:
I don’t know why this works but it does and it isn’t malicious as far as I can tell. If anyone knows what exactly it’s doing, I’d like to know please.

What a delightful video :D
Samanfar took me a minute. I also approve of Smacker.

Switch to firefox. They’re assholes too but at least no google tracking BS and you can install ublock origin

Edit: just saw the other reply after I posted but let’s be honest, you knew what you were getting into with lemmy 😅

That episode getting removed from Netflix over some virtue signaling bs was one of the reasons I wrote off streaming and started hoarding content.

This is dead on! 99% of the fucking job is digital plumbing so the whole thing doesn’t blow the up when (a) there’s a slight deviation from the “ideal” data you were expecting, or (b) the stakeholders wanna make changes at the last minute to a part of the app that seems benign but is actually the crumbling bedrock this entire legacy monstrosity was built upon. Both scenarios are equally likely.

Try a VPN to any EU country. I find that platforms can get really cooperative really fast when you wanna delete your account and they think GDPR applies

Unless you’re already in the EU in which case you could try “Mine” (saymine.com) although it’s been a minute and the AI stuff on their site does by fill me.with confidence

The “here’s how you keep doing this poorly but more efficiently” energy on display here is a refreshing change of pace from the usual “here’s how you do this correctly” crap peddled by normies (including me). You have my respect.

I’d like to second what priapus said - Helldivers is actually making fun of the type of blind patriotism you find obnoxious. It’s heavily inspired by Starship Troopers which is also a comedy movie making fun of that type of obnoxious patriotism. It’s all very tongue in cheek, devs aren’y actually pushing the patriotism.

I thought you were being serious as well. I’ve dealt with enough people who would genuinely make that argument so I assume nothing.

Effort or no, if an attacker can reasonably bypass it, it’s not secure. That’s why software gets security patches all the time, why encryption/hashing algorithms can fall out of favor, and why quantum computing can be pretty fucking scary.

The 7 Lives of Léa

Interesting French Netflix mini-series. Way better than it has any right to be considering its scale and I don’t think it’s gotten the attention it deserves.

I recommend watching in French with subtitles.