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by bcrescimanno 6mo ago
Obligatory Dennis Reynolds / It's Always Sunny... thoughts on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzb355qT8RI I honestly don't mind downloading apps for things I use all the time so long as the app isn&#x27
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by bcrescimanno 2y ago
The 555 version is the current version. It was officially released on June 27. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
> Compared to the overall effort invested, that's careless, badly planned or underfunded. Not at all. It's a pattern that's very easy to spot while the eyes of the world are looking for it. When it was needed, it worked ex
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
> does the nouveau driver these days allow enabling higher power/speed? My understanding is that, yes, with the Nouveau GSP code in Kernel 6.7. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-Merged-Linux-6.7
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
Like many others in this thread, I've enjoyed a ton of Orbital. My introduction was when 99x in Atlanta played "The Box" a few times and I picked up a copy of In Sides. Also, like many, I spent many a late night learning to c
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
Valve getting involved. Proton. SteamDB. The progress that's been made over the past couple of years is absolutely amazing. For a huge number of games and gamers, Linux is so close to being considered a viable option. The big problem i
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
The public repo for the new version of Cosmic: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch
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by bcrescimanno 3y ago
> does it fail to track the mouse on wayland apps? Exactly. It will work properly if the app is using XWayland and fail for native Wayland.
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
Always glad to see someone else who remembers that era at GT! CS1311 - Data structures in pseudocode (or Scheme if you had the "X" class) CS1312 - Build the game "Risk" in Java CS2130 - Die a painful death at the hands o
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
Per the article, the size of "mid-size" trucks today is about the same as full-size trucks were in the 1990s. When the pandemic began and I started working from home, I gave up my car because it just didn't make sense to have
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
It's so rarely an issue on Arch. Between the massive official repos and the incredibly comprehensive AUR, I've only needed to do it a couple of times. My initial comment was about needing to do that on non-arch systems. I've
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
I've been a user of Arch for the past several years and I've always been a huge proponent of the rolling release model. When I first picked up Arch, it was because I needed more modern versions of several tools than were packaged
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
I'll share my own story of the Windows 3.1 -> 95 migration and MS Tech support. At the time, I was using my grandfather's old PC that had originally been a 486sx 33mhz processor with 4mb of RAM and a 200mb HDD. We upgraded the
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
I'm excited for this feature. My brother purchased a small karaoke machine for my daughter for her birthday this year. It connects to her iPad via Bluetooth; but, so far, she's only been able to use her regular iTunes library for
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
Proton Next - Candidate build for the next major version release. Proton Experimental - "Bleeding edge" builds.
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
He's not personally liable for the $13B. If (when?) Twitter implodes, he gets to walk away not owing a dime of that money--so why spend it if he doesn't have to?
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
I'd share your surprise; but, I sometimes question if they believed it themselves. I've spent the last 15 years in public companies and if there's one thing "The Street" demands, it's growth upon growth. The co
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
The emails are not spoofed. They are actually generated by PayPal to notify an account holder of an invoice. The vast majority of the emails that these systems generate are legitimate emails with legitimate invoices. The vector here is: 1.
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
Former PayPal employee here. In truth, you got the best possible experience and it's good that you reported it. Ultimately, what would happen internally is that we'd detect this malicious use and cancel the invoices so it's n
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
A couple of things. First, I used the phrase "debit card number" to basically mean, "they didn't have my physical card--but they did have the information to be able to use it." Second, this happened circa 2004-2005.
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
That fear isn't irrational at all (at least, it wasn't). About 20 years ago, I had a debit card number stolen and my account was cleared out. It took about a month to get resolved an, in that time, I had some very unpleasant conve
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
This comment thread on the previous conversation has a lot of good replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908731 A few highlights: * "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" * People don't like Lu
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by bcrescimanno 4y ago
Former Netflix employee here (left back in 2013 so their stance might have changed). At the time, Netflix was very opposed to what we called "meta search" (e.g. having Netflix titles available to look up outside the Netflix inte
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
In my opinion (disclaimer, I'm currently test driving Arch again in a VMWare installation) this phenomenon is one that is routinely glossed over in discussions about challenges of the Linux desktop. The fact that the most active people
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
Prior to the regulation of pseudoephedrine, NyQuil also contained pseudoephedrine and since the nasal congestion from a a virus can often be the most disruptive factor for sleep (at least, in my personal experience, that's the case)
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
Best Buy made some really good moves about a decade ago that have paid off for them; I think (one of) the biggest is investing heavily in Buy Online - Pickup in Store (BOPIS). After not having shopped there for years due to online shopping
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
I loved Freshmeat from about 1998 to maybe 2002 or so and I remember checking it multiple times a day from my first dorm room at Georgia Tech. In those days, the "./configure && make && make install" was burn
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
My primary issue with paying for Google services is that, when it comes to Google, I am the product being sold. I honestly haven't looked into YouTube Premium despite consuming a fair amount of YouTube content because I don't stro
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
It appears to use BattlEye which is another anti-cheat solution https://www.protondb.com/app/578080 The thing is, part of the challenge is that we don't really know if the game itself will work because people can&
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by bcrescimanno 5y ago
For context, ProtonDB is a database of Steam games and how well they work on Linux through Wine/Proton. A huge number of the "borked" games are using some kind of anti-cheat and that's the main reason the game doesn&#x27

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