grimaferve

I can hear this picture in my head.

Not at all. Pop OS was my Windows to Linux distro of choice, of which I stayed on for almost 3 years. It’s a great way to get familiar with Linux.

I only got out because I wanted to be closer to the edge, not because it was bad.

As a redirect to a list of Fediverse instances? That’d be funny AF. As a locked solo instance? Sure, for the lolz. As a real deal instance for a community? Not a chance… Basing a community on hating a guy is sure to attract more hate, and moderating that just sounds complicated.

I’m not terribly surprised that an AI firm has monetary interest in social media, even one like Xitter. There’s probably no better place to farm data than social media. A search engine maybe?

(Although I feel like it’s kinda cheating given that he’s basically buying it from himself…)

Keep this up and we might even get to see America starting a state-run car company. This’ll be great to watch. 🍿

Hey guys I got a wifi69 card, does anyone know how to make it work? NVM I fixed it.

(User disappears after the post and never elaborates, meanwhile replying to the thread is also a necro post and it gets locked anyway)

Or my other favourite:

How to make Gameguy xbox controller work: [posted 5 years ago] [Deleted by user]

Will they be piloting this one with a controller as well?

Even though it’s typically associated with KDE and Linux, it’s also available on Windows. Good for people who haven’t made up their mind yet. It’s a great text editor with a feature-set similar to other advanced notepads.

I’ll be real though, if I hadn’t jumped ship 3 years ago, I’d be cutting my losses with Windows here.

Not a SD user, but a desktop gamer who found your post. I wouldn’t be surprised to see people on the fediverse say they often play games outside of Steam.

The non-techy people I know treat the thing like a console and refuse to use desktop mode for games. That’s the catch of the Steam Deck. It runs Linux underneath, but most people never (want to) interact with it. I love it for what it does for Linux gaming but there’s more to PC gaming than just Steam - Although I’m aware that Steam probably underprices these with hopes to recoup the loss back on Steam purchases.

(Also your method isn’t really hacky, that’s just kind of how binary executables work in Linux, plus the steps to add it to Steam)

I remember in XP, Vista and 7 using the UXtheme dll mod to get third party themes. First the loss of the sidebar then the drop-off of themers. I skipped 8 and by 10 I’d had enough. Didn’t really come back to theming until I made the jump to full-time Linux in 2022. Theming support being there by default in KDE is amazing. I miss the 2007-2018 themes but Oxygen keeps me happy for now.

Yup that's perfection for me. Next thing I know, it's 4AM the birds outside having an argument, me wondering what happened to the last 8 hours LOL.

I miss Vista. There's nothing out there that replicates that feeling of booting it for the first time. Especially after years of XP… I got lucky though, I didn't get on board until after SP1 had released so it wasn't too bad and my laptop was above recommended spec for Home Premium.