Alk

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Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

He's implying that he will lose power anyway and is trying to use that as a bargaining chip by offering to step down. (I don't agree, I'm just interpreting)

Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" in c/gaming@lemmy.zip
Why is it so difficult to know if a game is goig to run on your system? in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago

This doesn't get talked about much but in my experience gaming on a Mac is often worse than on Linux despite the market share.

This a new one: Banned for abbreviating New York Times to NYT in a comment. in c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 117 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What happens if you write GNU since that's a recursive acronym?

Keep seeing incestuous posts on lemmy by day old accounts with no post history in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The bed is super weird. But it's not weird in a lot of places for valentines gifts to extend to "anyone you love in any capacity" instead of strictly romantic love. My mom has given me chocolates and a valentines card every year since I can remember and it's a normal thing around here.

Danes hit back at Trump with ‘buy California bid’ as they vow ‘to take over Disneyland and bring hygge to Hollywood’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Humoring the situation, I imagine English would be an accepted official language of the region lol

I bought a phone with a heat camera and now I know exactly how hot my pizza is in c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That's sad to hear. It looks like a pretty good phone otherwise.

ELI5: Docker containers in c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

To elaborate on this, when you want an update, you "update the container." This usually means downloading an entirely new container image and replacing yours with the new one, which has new internal versions and data but works the exact same. You rely on the supplier of the container (if you didn't make it yourself) to do all of that for you, and you just receive the update when you request it.

So ideally, dependencies will be taken care of for you when the container updates, if you are using a pre-built container.

Mexico by Puzzled-Sherbet-7850 in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I had a globe like this, it was wonderful. It deteriorated long ago.

TIL The Verve lost all rights to Bittersweet Symphony to The Rolling Stones in a copyright lawsuit in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no speakers right now. Does it sound basically the same or is it wildly different?

Rogan rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes because I have some.

The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Me at CES today (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Me at CES today (sh.itjust.works)
 
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To all of you who are done with your daily tasks, I hope you enjoy some downtime today. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I am as well. It is time to play some video games and eat a piece of raw cookie dough.

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Wall Gnomes (youtu.be)
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Poker's Greatest Tournament Run [34:42] (youtu.be)
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Nobody came trick-or-treating :( (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Alk@sh.itjust.works to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
38 comments fedilink
 

I moved to a house (my first) recently and we bought full size chocolate bars and beef jerky sticks to give out (in case someone doesn't want chocolate).

Not a single child came. I didn't see or hear anyone under 20 the entire night. We all stayed out on the porch for hours.

The only chocolate bar we gave out was to the pizza lady.

Does nobody trick-or-treat? We have kids in the neighborhood. I see them rising bikes during the day.

How was everyone else's Halloween?

Edit: We got one! Long after trick or treating hours were over, a little cowboy knocked on our door. I gave him like 5 candy bars and 2 jerky sticks. He was very happy. His dad stopped in a car and he got out to knock on our door. I reckon it had to do with the fake neon LED "trick or treat" sign we hung on the porch.

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Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Alk@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
35 comments fedilink
 

Edit: Tumbleweed and bazzite are currently the most attractive options based on what I've learned from the comments. I will trial run those and 1 or 2 others.

I am currently on Pop OS.

I am dissatisfied with the DE/UI and I've been playing with others but half the point of this distro is it's custom UI. So I figured I would try another. I have several criteria that may narrow it down.

  1. I am going to use KDE or KDE Plasma (preferred). This is the only non-negotiable criteria.

  2. I will be gaming. This means I would like relatively up to date kernel and software. Rolling or semi-rolling releases are preferred.

2.5. I also work from this pc. This mainly entails using discord and Firefox though so no special requirements. I do have 4 different sized monitors with 3 different refresh rates that I use for work. Only one for gaming. One is vertical. I can tell I'm pushing x to its limits with that setup.

  1. I would prefer Debian-based as that is what I'm used to and because .deb packages are so common.

  2. I don't want it to be a ton of effort to set up. Pop OS worked out of the box with my Nvidia GPU and all other hardware. I am willing to put in some effort though.

  3. I have been using and very much like apt and flatpak. This is not a requirement, just an observation.

  4. Wayland is neat

  5. Active community with lots of support to search through. Pop OS has been good for this as it's Ubuntu based and has its own great community.

Ultimately I want an easy to use desktop OS that uses some sort of KDE, supports up to date packages and drivers, supports most games and isn't a pain to maintain.

Here are some contenders that fit at least some of my requirements.

KDE Neon user edition

Opensuse tumbleweed

Kubuntu

Endeavor OS

Debian

Manjaro

Bazzite

Mint Debian edition

Right now I'm leaning toward KDE Neon, Kubuntu, or Debian (whatever the rolling release version is), but the others all have their draws. I've heard the aur is great but I have come across several applications only available in website downloads of Deb packages so I'm hesitant.

I have been using pop as my first desktop distro after Windows and I've enjoyed it a lot. I barely run into anything I can't solve with some effort and headache and not a single game I can't play. I'd like to keep it that way.

Now that that's out of the way, does anyone have suggestions? Am I looking in the wrong direction? Am I asking the wrong questions? Should I just install arch, live in the terminal, and throw away my mouse? /s

Thank you all for your advice in advance.

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Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Alk@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
42 comments fedilink
 

Edit: Tumbleweed and bazzite are currently the most attractive options based on what I've learned from the comments. I will trial run those and 1 or 2 others.

I am currently on Pop OS.

I am dissatisfied with the DE/UI and I've been playing with others but half the point of this distro is it's custom UI. So I figured I would try another. I have several criteria that may narrow it down.

  1. I am going to use KDE or KDE Plasma (preferred). This is the only non-negotiable criteria.

  2. I will be gaming. This means I would like relatively up to date kernel and software. Rolling or semi-rolling releases are preferred.

2.5. I also work from this pc. This mainly entails using discord and Firefox though so no special requirements. I do have 4 different sized monitors with 3 different refresh rates that I use for work. Only one for gaming. One is vertical. I can tell I'm pushing x to its limits with that setup.

  1. I would prefer Debian-based as that is what I'm used to and because .deb packages are so common.

  2. I don't want it to be a ton of effort to set up. Pop OS worked out of the box with my Nvidia GPU and all other hardware. I am willing to put in some effort though.

  3. I have been using and very much like apt and flatpak. This is not a requirement, just an observation.

  4. Wayland is neat

  5. Active community with lots of support to search through. Pop OS has been good for this as it's Ubuntu based and has its own great community.

Ultimately I want an easy to use desktop OS that uses some sort of KDE, supports up to date packages and drivers, supports most games and isn't a pain to maintain.

Here are some contenders that fit at least some of my requirements.

KDE Neon user edition

Opensuse tumbleweed

Kubuntu

Endeavor OS

Debian

Manjaro

Bazzite

Mint Debian edition

Right now I'm leaning toward KDE Neon, Kubuntu, or Debian (whatever the rolling release version is), but the others all have their draws. I've heard the aur is great but I have come across several applications only available in website downloads of Deb packages so I'm hesitant.

I have been using pop as my first desktop distro after Windows and I've enjoyed it a lot. I barely run into anything I can't solve with some effort and headache and not a single game I can't play. I'd like to keep it that way.

Now that that's out of the way, does anyone have suggestions? Am I looking in the wrong direction? Am I asking the wrong questions? Should I just install arch, live in the terminal, and throw away my mouse? /s

Thank you all for your advice in advance.

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How many of you have heard the "collision imminent" warning and NOT died? (sh.itjust.works)
 

I am bad at the game, and I often fly my ships too fast towards a space station and can't stop in time. I've never heard that warning and NOT blown up seconds afterwards.

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