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SimplyTadpole

@ SimplyTadpole @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi! You can call me Tadpole. I enjoy maps/geography, sci-fi and speculative fiction, classic and sports cars and motorsports, and retro and retrofuturistic technology from the 70s-90s. Also a racing, role-playing, indie and retro video game connossieur.

I am a certified lurker.

  • It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great.

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  • Eh, issues aside, I'd rather have a greedy late-stage capitalist developer than a proudly neo-nazi developer.

  • Stop being elitist, spread Linux!

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  • I can't speak for OP, but I remember reading about two years ago that Linux Mint is a poor choice for gaming because Cinnamon's compositor can't handle more fast-paced games (even just 60 FPS) and will reduce them to a stuttery mess even if the game's otherwise running fine. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I did deal with it back in late 2021.

    There was also the stuff about Lutris developers abandoning their support for Mint (in a letter I feel was frankly way too harsh, rude and unprofessional) due to it doing some weird stuff with system packages that made the Lutris program generate weird bugs that couldn't be replicated in other Ubuntu-derivative distributions. However, that can be circumvented by using the Lutris flatpak.

    Honestly, I do hope those are no longer issues. I have a soft spot for Linux Mint since it was the first distro I daily-drove (and has a similar UI to Windows XP my beloved), and even though I don't use it anymore, I still follow its development from time to time and I'd love to see it getting better and universally usable for everyone.

  • Flathub Grows Past One Million Active Users

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  • I am really glad Flatpak exists, it made using Linux much easier for me ^^

  • I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.

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  • Does SponsorBlock work with Invidious and LibRedirect in general?

  • Experience with KDE on Fedora?

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  • I use the Flatpak version of Firefox on Fedora Kinoite and it uses the KDE file picker without problems, I guess it's an issue with the RPM version.

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    OpenDX: An Open Source DirectX implementation for Linux, providing native support for DirectX-based applications and games!

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  • Besides speed, it's also really useful for older games with unstable graphics renderers that don't play nice with modern hardware. When I was still on Windows, I used DXVK on Fallout: New Vegas and Driver: Parallel Lines, and they decreased crashes by a LOT compared to when they ran on native DX9.

    In terms of speed, obviously I didn't notice much of a difference with D:PL since it's a 2006 game that's not demanding at all, but I did notice F:NV seemed to also run better and less laggy in general (not only is FNV poorly-optimized, but I also use a lot of graphics mods for it).

  • It's OK if you cry

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  • I see, that is a shame...

  • It's OK if you cry

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  • Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying. It seems that where I live mostly only has the older Realtek chips for sale, so I likely mostly had bad luck.

    I tried USB tethering, but it wouldn't work for some reason... I don't remember exactly what happened, but I think either the phone or my computer couldn't detect each other.

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    Glitch in the matrix

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  • Ohh, I see. Thank you for clarifying, Math has always been the bane of my existence. x_x

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    Glitch in the matrix

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  • What's the difference between implicit multiplication and explicit multiplication?

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    Glitch in the matrix

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  • You're a lifesaver, thank you so much. I actually didn't know about PEMDAS, I was never taught it before...

  • It's OK if you cry

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  • I can absolutely confirm it's still valid for Realtek. I had one using the RTL8812AU chipset that basically no kernel version nor distro provided out of the box, so I constantly had to download a third-party driver from Github and manually patch it via dkms, or use a third-party repository containing the driver package... and then the driver broke so badly that it wouldn't let me update at all unless I uninstalled it, which left me without the internet I needed to actually update, effectively leaving me unable to update until I could buy another one from Mediatek that's compatible.

    And said Mediatek wifi is really slow, so I just went from the frying pan into the fire...

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  • Does Intel sell wifi cards that use USB rather than PCI slots? My motherboard doesn't have the slot for a wifi PCIe card, and I've only seen Intel sell those :/

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  • Me struggling with Realtek on Linux 🤝 One of my partners struggling with Nvidia on Linux

    At least I managed to get a Linux-compatbile wifi USB later on, but it was pricey to import it and it's still quite slow :/

  • Which distro/image to use for distrobox where you just want to install tools?

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  • For everyday tasks, I think a Fedora distrobox works fine, but you would have to upgrade it eventually and I admit I'm not sure how you do that under distrobox. Still, I initially used it and still have a Fedora distrobox I use for doing stuff for my job, as well as one I use for running a game modding program that requires Java, and they both work fine.

    I've also had success with a Debian distrobox, which I used to compile Render96ex. Debian is pretty universal, so it's much easier to follow compile instructions using it than a Fedora distrobox ^^'

  • "I vote moderate" rule

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  • I can't help but notice that the overwhelming majority of people claiming they're "neither left nor right" are always just far-right, every time.

  • Has anyone managed to use 80_PA on Linux?

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  • Do I really need to make an account there in order to download it? :/

  • initial rule

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  • Hi, I am one of the two people

    It honestly gets better after Stage 3, most of the downright awful stuff is confined to Stage 1 (and 2 to a lesser extent).

  • initial rule

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  • A classmate of Takumi whom he has a crush on, Natsuki, is having sexual relations with a rich 50 year old guy for money, despite her being a teenager.