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Richie’s Computer Stuff

@ richie_golds @lemmy.ca

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  • Why just play on Linux, when you can also play on another Linux

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  • Yay, I get to join!

  • Night Time Void Cat

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  • He does that too. If he’s just doing the nighttime watch, he’ll sit in the doorway, but if he sits around the corner, that’s him hoping for us to also hide around the corner, and make scurrying noises so he can bat at it!

  • Had enough of having to change it every 3 months

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  • One way to deal with this I’ve been doing for a little while is to use a service that enables me to use email aliases. It’s mostly meant to avoid email address leaks, but will also make it harder for online services and companies to track you, since it’s a big point of tracking. You can also use it to figure out who sold your email address. Not a perfect solution, but it’s something. I’ve been using Proton. Whether or not you trust them is up to you, but they do offer this ability (I just can’t remember if it’s free or paid).

  • Mind control

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  • And he knows it!

  • ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

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  • I guess they need to train the AI to better differentiate between gut issues and last night’s borscht.

  • Getting too expensive

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  • Reminds me of my big upgrade a little while back. I wanted a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which of course meant a new motherboard and RAM too. I was coming from 64GB of DDR4, and while most of the time I didn’t need it, there were times where I did need it, or it was great to have.

    I didn’t want to spend the extra money on 64GB of DDR5 memory at the time, and settled with 32GB thinking “it’s fine, I don’t need more than that most of the time anyways, and I can always upgrade later if I need to”. I got 2x16GB, leaving room for two more later on (and allowing myself to graduate from dual channel to that tasty quad channel).

    Well, fast forward to now, and… it’s not hard to get close to that ceiling. Between video/audio work, BeamNG.Drive being an absolute pig on memory (the Linux kernel is like “absolutely f****** not”, and boots it out of memory to prevent an OOM situation), and running AI models locally just for funsies, I’ve been thinking about an upgrade.

    lol imagine my face when I see how “64GB prices” are now “32GB prices”. And all of a sudden… I don’t really need it anymore.

  • Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media.

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  • Our geese are unreasonable and ruthless. Don’t even look at them the wrong way. One day you need a winter coat, and the next day is t-shirt weather. There are two times in the year where I blast the heat in the morning, and the air conditioner by noon. You apologize when someone bumps into you.

  • Confidently incorrect

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  • I love roasting ChatGPT for being a suck-up and confidently saying something is right when it’s not.

  • I dont understand people's tolerance for marketing

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  • I go to great lengths to avoid seeing advertising, to the point of finding alternative means to access websites, or dropping them entirely and replacing them with the Fediverse. I know part of the point of advertising is to make me remember them, so if I can minimize what I see? All the better. I’m even getting better at diverting my gaze if I see markers of advertising before I recognize what the ad is for.

    I use a browser called FireDragon, run uBlock Origin and VPN/DNS adblockers, anti-tracking scripts, access YouTube through the FreeTube app or Invidious (and wait for fixes if Google breaks them), or just use PeerTube (I financially support the instance I’m on), have no streaming service accounts except for ad-free ones that do not have ad-riddled tiers, buy DVDs and keep the TV off until the menu appears, keep my smart TV off the Internet (still pissy I couldn’t get a “dumb” TV), refuse to keep my Xbox online (almost never use it anymore), dropped Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram and replaced them with Lemmy, Mastodon, and Bluesky, and use blacklisting extensions for any website that demands I disable my adblocker.

    There’s probably more that I do I just can’t think of, but beyond billboards which I think are reprehensible (and have gotten better at not seeing), I very rarely see ads online. I feel like my mental health and general state of mind are much better off this way, and I cannot go back to the unfiltered Internet.

    I won’t allow my devices to be ad-delivery systems. What happens on my screen is within my jurisdiction, and I will control it.

  • Well, it happened again: Muscat sits on his own tail like a pallas cat

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  • No, no… this cat is gumdrop shaped.

  • What are your cats' nicknames?

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  • My cat’s name is Spooky, since black cats are a common theme on Halloween (hey, that’s today!). We don’t call him Spooky very often, though. We often call him Spucky or Sporky, both originally mispronunciations of his name that someone said that we found funny. We also call him Scoopy, Kitty, Catster, and Mr. Cat.

    This is him after I opened a tube treat for him.

    (And no, my floor is not dirty. It’s old and damaged linoleum that looked like hell even when it was new.)

  • Well, it happened again: Muscat sits on his own tail like a pallas cat

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  • This cat’s shape: ⚪️ round

  • Nice changes when switching to Linux and a smallish problem

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  • Damn, I really wish I could offer more help beyond ensuring drivers are set up correctly for NVIDIA. I mean, you could also check the power profile too, using something like cpupower-gui to see if it’s in power saving mode. I suppose you could also close other applications to see if one of them is interfering, since you said Firefox may have something to do with it. I suppose it’s possible Snap has something to do with it too.

  • Nice changes when switching to Linux and a smallish problem

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  • You said this happens during Elder Scrolls Online, right? Maybe have her close the game’s launcher while the game is running. In my case, I noticed jittery performance in everything, including moving the cursor, until I closed the launcher. May or may not be the issue, but it does sound similar to what happens to me when I leave that game’s launcher open.

  • Cat shenanigans

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  • If a cat can fit their head into it, they can get into it.

  • Your Kitty Order Has Arrived! Do You Prefer Xtra Large Or Xtra Smol? 😻😹😺🐾📦📬

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  • I see two kitties that require pets.

  • Documenting the descent into madness

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  • What? Don’t look at me like that! I totally need 70 computers! Yes they’re useful! They all have their purpose! That one? Its job is to be force-fed whatever weird obscure Linux distribution I just heard of! Oh, that one? That’s for testing Arch Linux configs on 25 year old hardware!

  • Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story

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  • I’ve been using Linux and macOS since 2020. I shifted my main PC from Windows 10 back in April of 2020 right as lockdowns were hitting my locale, when I discovered how much Linux gaming had improved. I was curious to see if I could make it work for myself.

    At that time, I had been interested in using Linux more frequently than on random old computers that I had lying around, but my opinions on Microsoft’s and Windows’ “quirks” were… less advanced. At that time I was unconcerned about Windows telemetry and advertising, but it also wasn’t as bad then.

    It took me about a week to get everything set up and ready to go and to get settled. At first, I didn’t know if it’d end up sticking. Well, it did. I started with Ubuntu, and quickly went after Pop!_OS. I used that for a while, and eventually shifted to Garuda where I still am today.

    Windows 10 end of life has almost no impact on me. My mindset has shifted dramatically since I first started using Linux on my main PC. When I used to not be bothered by Windows’ telemetry I find myself strongly off-put by it. Even macOS, which some say isn’t as bad as Windows puts me off and I’d rather not use it. Having had to set up Windows 10 for someone about a year back, I saw how much worse it got. It was insufferable.

    Right now, my brother and sister in law still use Windows 10. They don’t see the problem with that. My brother specifically says he’ll just keep using Windows 10, because he “doesn’t have anything important” on it (I mentioned his Steam account has linked payment info). He’s also told me that he’d rather use Windows 11 (which he hates) than give Linux a try, a stance I don’t understand. It’s clear he doesn’t really understand the situation, and he doesn’t realize that Linux is not necessarily the difficult and unfriendly OS he thinks it is.

    I’d rather him use Windows 11 than Windows 10, despite how awful I know it to be. At least there’s somewhat lower risk of nasty compromise there. I also know that he does play at least a couple games with anti-cheat that explicitly block Linux, so that introduces some complexity. But, I’m done preaching. I know how it makes me look, and I’ve tried in the past to change his mind but he’s unwilling to do so, so at this point the only way he’s going to learn is for something really bad to happen. Maybe his computer gets hit by ransomeware that took advantage of an unpatched vulnerability. That might be what it takes to finally make him do something.

    I hate that it’s like this. I’ve tried to tell him about the risks. He doesn’t understand the full scale of it, and he dismisses me when I try to explain it to him. But at this point, what can I do besides say “I warned you” when something goes wrong?

  • Why?

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  • I learned how far gaming on Linux had come, so during COVID I decided to try it out. I wiped my Windows 10 installation, and installed Ubuntu on it (later Pop!_OS, then Garuda, and Arch on other machines), and got to work figuring things out. I didn’t know if it’d stick, because I was still unsure of it as I wasn’t sure I’d get all of my games working. But, I got settled within a week, and over time things just got better. At that time I was so used to Windows’ bloat and other… “features” that I became blind to them. After more than five years using Linux, using Windows even for a few minutes is quite the shock!