I dumped it when it went from $5 to $10 a month for PC gamepass.

$120 a year gets me A LOT of games on Steam sales.

I know I’m not the target audience, but it was pretty nice playing tons of games for $5 a month.

At $30 I don’t think I could even justify that. It’s absurd. Even as a one off to play everything I could…I’d rather use that $30 for literally anything else.

You can buy appliances without smart features still?

Best Buy has dozens, if not hundreds, of fridges without smart features. I can buy a 18cu top freezer fridge for $450 right now.

That same type of fridge back in the 1970s cost $300-$400. Adjusted for inflation that’s $2,000

So I don’t get this post. You can buy cheap fridges still and it’ll probably last a long time if you take care of it. Read repair reports or Google random problems for a fridge you’re looking to buy to see the most common failure points and see what the repair cost would be to factor in future costs.

Stupid post.

Using Mediawiki here.

I have obsidian and tried using it, but my personal workflow for my homelab just doesn’t…work with it? Idk, it’s just easier to throw it into a private wiki.

I still use obsidian but for personal life stuff.

I just add the official launcher as a non-steam game and ran through the install as normal.

Granted I haven’t done it in a couple of months, so not sure if that method still works…but I don’t see why not

You should keep an eye on Gnome. Their recent release, Gnome 50, just introduced parental controls to limit access to programs and they’re looking to implement website access as well.

I don’t like Gnome, but my kid’s first PC will have Gnome on it now because of these new features, which I greatly appreciate

Genshin is playable on Linux? I play it on my Steam Deck.

Honestly if you worked with any government entity at any level you’d see how flawed, inefficient, and broken the system is.

Government contracts out everything to the lowest builder. Yeah we get “more” for our money, which in turns fucks us in the long term as our infrastructure is compromised in different ways, and once it’s truly tested you’ll see the cracks form and the eventual collapse.

What does this mean for the US military going forward? Idk, but it gives me the same vibes we were seeing with Russia back in 2022, all of us expecting a steam roll and huge military force and it turned out to be a gigantic flop.

This is what I was looking into recently. I just want to replace my shitty Spectrum router.

I was looking at Topton N150s on AliExpress, but $250+(tax/shipping) is terrible, with no RAM.

I saw people using the Lenovo m720q/m920q with a pcie 4 port, so I’m leaning towards that.

We’re about to get fiber in the next year or two, so I want to get something that can handle 1g up and down.

There’s a lot of options, none perfect, but none terrible.

I think one of the best things I’ve done recently was setup a freshrss instance and grab all of the websites I’m interested in that have RSS feeds.

Now I’m pretty much only using Lemmy to argue with people and go to my rss instance to read the news.

If SteamOS doesn’t work on your mini PC you can try the CachyOS “handheld” edition. It launches with the Steam game mode front end and looks exactly like SteamOS but has support for more hardware.

I put it on my Steam Deck and it’s been great, bit snappier. I would totally throw it on a HTPC type box and hook it up to a TV.

Or when you sign into a Microsoft game with your Microsoft account, like Halo or Gears and it’ll automatically link your “local” account to your Microsoft account.

To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.

We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.

Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.

I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

Been self hosting my own content since Netflix removed King of the Hill. Cancelled my sub immediately.

For the most part I was doing everything manually with a seedbox, SFTP, and then renaming things.

Just scrapped that setup and did a docker environment with gluetun, qbit, and some *arr apps. Pretty good so far, some annoyances, but was a bit easier than I expected.

For real. What is stopping a program from querying if an account is an adult or child, and then seeing if there’s an email or username or whatever tied to that account age?

So now we have a database of children with their names and emails? Addresses? Or if a system gets hacked and that information is sold to bad actors?

What is stopping a pedophile from making a “child” account and then being lumped in with a group of other children?

These are things you think about in the first 10 minutes of questioning whether something like this is viable and how it can be exploited.

I can’t wait until it’s leaked that these child accounts are being used to target minors for whatever: ads, sexual exploitation, etc.

The average user trying to switch to Linux? YES, they would.

The average user like my mom? No, because she sure as shit doesn’t even know what Linux is nor how to make a bootable USB drive.

I’m sick and tired of this cop out answer of the “average” user.

This is like someone buying a car. Do you want to get a lemon? Sure, buy whatever “looks good” OR you do some RESEARCH and figure out what car to get from reliability reports.

Do you think a Mac user wanting to switch to Windows won’t do any research?

Supposedly Linus switched to Kubuntu, but we’ll have to wait for part 2 to see how that turned out. But from the WAN show I don’t think it went well.

My biggest issue is that there is zero information of what everyone is actually running.

“I’m running Kubuntu”, cool, what version? LTS or STS? What kernel? What version of Mesa drivers? How did you even install the OS? Ext4? Manual partitioning? Are you using swap? Is steam installed via flatpak, snap, or the deb?

But nope it’s “lol I installed pop again, shits still broken, Linux sucks! I’m cursed!”

It’s not even just US related subjects though. There was just a post the other day about physical media(photos, dvds, etc.) and I posted a comment detailing pricing out a local NAS so you can backup your shit to it(because physical media can get destroyed) and replies I got were the whole “digital stuff can get destroyed too”, “ransomware”, “it’s about the experiences! you can’t have that with digital!”, “prices are CRAZY for computer stuff!”(even though I linked products at reasonable prices and people said it isn’t that price anymore, CLICK THE LINK DUMBASS!).

And it’s all an asinine argument because you can DO BOTH. Have your physical photos AND back them up digitally.

It’s all or nothing with some people and it’s infuriating. It feels like I’m arguing with children over ice cream flavors. Yeah, chocolate is good, but I prefer strawberry and then it devolves into “CHOCOLATE ONLY FOR EVERYONE!”.

That seems to be the answer for everything on this site. I left reddit because I didn’t like all of the doom scrolling, nihilistic, bullshit posts, yet they’re here too now.