4shtonButcher 11h ago • 97%
Can’t we ever have software that just keeps working? Password managers are like the new RSS readers.
- search around for a good one
- find a nice one and start using it
- they add stuff you didn’t want and slowly make it worse
- they’re bought up/ abandoned/ otherwise become unviable
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4shtonButcher 14h ago • 60%
Interesting! I did not know any of this. Sort of confirms my impression which I should have framed differently: the other candidates are so niche that the rest of the world has no clue
4shtonButcher 18h ago • 76%
This thread mostly shows how broken the democratic system in the US is, not that she did anything wrong. Try coming to a real democracy with many parties and coalitions being formed. They actually thrive on dissent, finding compromise and collaborating for the greater good ;)
4shtonButcher 2d ago • 100%
I’d totally be fine with a rough “tier list” to start with. I know there are 2d games that are quite demanding, especially badly optimized indie games. And I think half life 2 can basically run on a potato despite still looking decent. So simply judging by how fancy it looks probably isn’t always going to work.
4shtonButcher 4d ago • 100%
One of the reasons the tech nerd in me is against some of the fancy modern e-bikes like Cowboy. And the silly wireless shifter stuff. But the tech is cool!
The only thing I realize and accept I won’t repair myself are hydraulic brakes and wheel truing. At least I understand the mechanism, I just think someone with more experience should do it. Everything else on a bike should be simple enough to fix with the right (cheap-ish) tool, an hour or so of time and a good manual.
4shtonButcher 4d ago • 100%
This sounds like a great way for me to have fun!
… by fiddling for hours to get crazy mods running to then never play the game 😂
4shtonButcher 6d ago • 100%
Thank you to all! I was aware of what bazzite is but this might be relevant for some lurkers. I am indeed mostly interested in what my hardware can do. I don’t game enough to warrant a hardware upgrade right now. Once I do want to upgrade it would be good to see “what should I go for to be guaranteed a good experience on the more modern games I am curious about”. My desktop is aging and I might go laptop-only at some point and live without the latest AAA games, there’s a huge back catalog!
4shtonButcher 7d ago • 75%
My daily driver was 6.06 up to 8.x I think. Only had minor encounters with it since. And here I am still fooling myself into thinking „I’m pretty familiar with Ubuntu“ 😅
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
Thanks! This is very useful! Now, if this functionality could be combined with the UI of ProtonDB … 🤔
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
This is a great resource but tells me nothing about whether or not I’m likely to have a good experience on my device.
Is there a service or knowledge base somewhere that can help you find the highest rated games for your hardware? Background: I don’t have much time for games and just installed Bazzite on a few years old ThinkPad. I would like to play some games on it but don’t know what I can expect to be playable. I see tons of “will it run on steam deck” info but honestly couldn’t even figure out where this computers performance lies compared to a steam deck. This should be easy. Just type in specs, maybe filter genre and say “sort by meta score” or “sort by steam rating”.
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 80%
In Copenhagen there are a lot of options for street charging. Yes, it might be more expensive than a private charger, but overall prices have come down quite a bit. And then again, if you insist on the luxury of owning a car in the city, you can afford that
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
I’m skilled with IT stuff (I guess many are on here) but have plenty of that at work and a highly varying degree of time for such things based on what’s happening in life. I guess the more handheld something is the more I fear it might break when I absolutely don’t have time or mental capacity to deal with it. I’m getting quite comfy with how well the Synology works. It’s kind of weird there isn’t a “pay up and just extend the synology into the cloud automagically” - it all sounds adding more possible failure sources.
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
Do they have any bundle offers like Apple One? It really adds up quickly. I’m honestly hoping for some Black Friday deals that reduce the cost for whatever I end up choosing.
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
Actually have Jellyfin running on the NAS and am starting to get back into “in-home streaming” - but I also want to maybe stream a show while traveling.
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
So far the NAS is not reachable from the internet and knowing how many threats lurk out there I’m sort of happy with that. I still want to do backups as well es find photos when I’m e.g. visiting family or simply traveling.
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
This is why it’s so important to support independent news outlets. E.g. Kyiv Independent in Ukraine or Zetland in Denmark. I’m fine paying for independent journalism that’s really well made. But not for copy-pasted propaganda.
What are your thoughts on finding a good level of subscriptions for online services, such as storage, photo backup, music streaming, video streaming? Personal situation: I don't want a ton of subscriptions. I take lots of photos. I listen to music quite a bit. I live in a household that has Android, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Linux, ... and a Synology NAS that is already filling up with old music and video stuff from before streaming, phone photo backups as well as the photos from the big camera (manually copied so far). I currently pay for two cloud storage thingies and have to free ones, 3/4 are full :P We also have Spotify Family and cut down to only (HBO) Max and public service for video plus sometimes getting something specific for a month or two. Any experiences or other observations welcome as well!
4shtonButcher 1w ago • 100%
Saw them at a hotel not too long ago and immediately talked about how matte black faucets would be awesome at home.
4shtonButcher 2w ago • 100%
Wait, you can’t watch porn in Texas? 😂
4shtonButcher 2w ago • 100%
Sort of. It’s definitely worse since Covid with the majority of “local” events being online either way. And where I live now it’s much quieter than where I used to live.
4shtonButcher 2w ago • 100%
We were sad to realize we’d need a car (dog, kid, family and friends in unpractical locations) but we made sure to buy a used electric car instead of just any cheap used car. I mean we put a child in this world, we shouldn’t fuck it up more than absolutely necessary.
I don’t spend much time on my desktop computer but if I do I tend to game a bit. OW II, CS, Helldivers, Tabletop Simulator mostly. And of course need Discord. I am considering a minor upgrade to the hardware and would need a fresh install (currently Win 10). I’ve been out of the distro game for a while and currently only have one old thinkpad running Debian and an X1 Carbon gen7 I want to use for experimentating/ distro hopping. I want a daily driver OS that can play games. I also edit photos and might to the odd “flash a CFW to an old phone” or similar light tasks. Where do I start? I hear PopOS because “it just works” but also CachyOS because “performance, muh”. I have experience with Ubuntu (first was 6.06) and Fedora mostly but have played around with a lot that came with at least a barebones UI (crunchbang anyone?). My life has changed so I have less time to nerd out with this than I used to. But I feel the itch to experiment now and maybe use Linux on my main desktop again after some years with that mentioned upgrade soon.