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[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I use a bred knife to slice cheese off a block every day. Line it up and push down, one hand on handel the other on the spine at the top. It works better than any other knife to slice cheese blocks.

This post makes it sounds like I am committing a war crime.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

You either die hero or live long enough to become sleepy Joe.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have not really been liking the direction a lot if headset manufactures are going. I am never going to give meta money if I have a choice.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

My works used windows only industrial software. I have tried it in wine but there are to many companion apps and the accompanying licensing issues.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it's possible.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Not sure that's 100% true anymore. It's not uncommon for people to go years without interacting with a windows PC, most will just use their mobile instead. When I say interacting I am not talking about using a self check at a grocery store running an app in kiosk mode, I mean startup, shutdown, update, install apps and use them.

I friend asked me for a laptop last year and had not used one for 8 years since his previous job. Even then his previous job was as a traidy and he only used it for generating invoices. I am sure their would be an app/service for that now.

Windows is in decline mainly because desktop and laptops are irrelevant for large swaths of the general population.

Provided the OS does not get in the way of what people are trying to accomplish (mainly accessing the web browser) it does not matter anymore.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most people normal people now days need a web browser and LibreOffice (or google docs variant). Pair that with Bazzite or other "ready to go" OS that comes pre installed with multimedia codecs, navidia drivers, a mobile like app store, a mobile like DE and it can be that simple.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

That was a good read, thanks.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

+1 bazzite as well. It comes with waydroid for android apps, its Linux (so WSL covered), it does have a gaming focus, it has various Virtualization tools (toolbox, box-buddy) but you can get other options depending on what you actually want.

Don't like it you can rebase to one of the other ostree based images from uBlue or fedora with about one command and a reboot.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Sorry to hear that. My 1080 works just fine and I use it daily, but that's using the legacy navidia drivers. I assumed the newer cards with the newer driver would be in a better state. What card do you have?

 

If Linus were to visit Mount Everest, he'd reach base camp, spend the next day criticizing the sherpas, calling them foolish for taking the well-established path, and insisting that a direct line to the summit is obviously the best option.

Bazite has solid onboarding, hardware support (including Nvidia and AMD), and, dare I say, even printer support. All things he complains about in this video. But then again, what do I know? I'm just a sherpa.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Sorry for the delay, two kids with gastro :$

I cheeted, I used my partners Win11 desktop, installed the XBox accessorys app, update completed in about 4 minutes. I have had success with windows based firmware update tools using wine in the past; with a lot of troubleahooting. Her PC is 2 meters from me and it was done in 4 mintes.... Yes I feel dirty, but it's a one-off firmware update. Pick your battles.

 

I have been running Bazzite on my TV for a few weeks. Was using PopOs however I was having issues with some games not launching, probably to do with the combination of Unraid VM, GPU passthrough, Xorg with fractional scaling on a 4k pannel. Bazzite with "Game mode" is amazing. Closest thing to Steam OS that I know about. Everything just worked with the exception of needing to firmware update my xbox controller to get it to work. Game mode seems to report as a steam deck.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cool, thought for a long time there it was just an artistic liberty; but this is much cooler.

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