confident_inept

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by confident_inept 11mo ago
I've been using a somewhat low-spec PC to play games and for general desktop usage. Finding stuff in this form factor, that you can guarantee will be well put together and worth the money is a rarity. Highly likely this could replace m
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by confident_inept 2y ago
I'm really curious to see if these still rely heavily on resizable BAR. Putting these in old computers in linux without reBAR support makes the driver crash with literally any load rendering the cards completely unusable. It's a r
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by confident_inept 2y ago
If you look at their previous devices this company's whole shtick is having weird, quirky, or niche features. The MicroPC had a dedicated serial port on a device released in the 2010s. People often buy these devices for the whimsical n
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by confident_inept 2y ago
I've purchased and used a number of the GPD products and even contributed to the Arch Linux wiki on the various small caveats of the devices. They generally have good (community) linux support quickly after launch. Build quality is dec
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by confident_inept 2y ago
Is there anyone who can break down the advantage of something like this over a typical open source model? I read through the page and FAQ for fair source and still don't quite grasp the angle here other than making software less free f
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by confident_inept 3y ago
Directly filing your taxes in the US was currently mail-in only until this pilot originated. Intuit and the likes have lobbied with their millions to make sure the average citizen can only e-file with a few select proprietary options and it
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by confident_inept 3y ago
I had an AMD APU setup that I used for a while as a light gaming rig. I'm impressed to see these chips continue to grow in capability and be offered at reasonable prices. I'm curious how the FOSS video driver for these fares on Li
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by confident_inept 4y ago
Emulation aside, the Steam Deck has been compared to the Switch in some capacity or another in almost every single review I have ever seen of it. While I wouldn't think it's had any negative impact on Switch sales, it's a abs
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by confident_inept 4y ago
I'll add LOVE ( https://love2d.org ) to that list as well. Very powerful and flexible game framework, Currently working on developing a game in Minetest ( https://www.minetest.net/ ), it is also scripted in Lua
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by confident_inept 4y ago
What a good story, and a good mindset to have. A great deal of learning comes with failure and I've learned to look forward to messing things up over the years. I recently started painting models. I wasn't happy with the brush loo
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by confident_inept 4y ago
I have a short tuta.io address that always gets odd looks when I spell it out to people, who tend to react weirdly when not hearing a major domain when typing in an email address. Anecdote aside, I've had several people not receive my
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by confident_inept 4y ago
I'm not terribly interested in podcasts but I do love seeing what people create, so I gave it a click... and then couldn't back out to HN. Why is your site back-button trapped?
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by confident_inept 4y ago
Glad to see PS1 style rendering that simulates the affine texture warping side effects of the console. The original Playstation was very much not designed with 3D in mind, lack of perspective correction on textures lead to the aforementione
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by confident_inept 4y ago
At a very young age I ventured into taking apart my personal computer to better understand it. When I was in my early teens I could build a whole computer with off-the-shelf parts without any help. My older peers would poke at me for being
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by confident_inept 4y ago
You can crash people quite easily in game without any mods by just loading an overly-complex avatar. There is the content gating system, but quite a few people just turn it off, hence the crashing.
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by confident_inept 4y ago
I have a separate Windows machine I use for all of my gaming, including VRChat, that does not touch my Linux network or any of its files. I started doing this around the time Windows 10 came about because I didn't want to take a gamble
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by confident_inept 4y ago
In my opinion the rules increase in complexity in order of release, with Queen's Garden being by far the most complex. Depending on how much complexity you like, it's a linear scale in my opinion. All four are fun and they are soo
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by confident_inept 4y ago
Any of the four Azul games. They are all loosely based on each other and the rules between them have similarities even though all four are a completely different experience. They fit that great middle ground of being simple to play but have
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by confident_inept 4y ago
The GPU shortage is at the initial stages of being over, largely due to multiple facets of the cryptomining implosion that are right around the corner. I still can't yet walk into a Best Buy or local electronics store and get one off t
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by confident_inept 4y ago
This stuff is still incredibly easy to do to this day. I was the general manager of a retail office store chain and we would frequently have calls come in forging fake complaints but asking for the district or regional manager's first
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by confident_inept 4y ago
I'm a previous owner of a few Pine products but I just can't get even a little exited about any of their hardware anymore for most of the reasons you mentioned. Pine supporters will point out that their site claims they don't
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by confident_inept 4y ago
All of the Pine64 stuff is like this and it's detestable. I had a RockPro64 for a while that I had tons of trouble getting to work for almost these exact reasons (largely thanks to uboot). Got rid of my Pinebook Pro for similar reasons
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by confident_inept 4y ago
It's 2022, can we please stop saying 'pwned'? Sure, I'll take the karma hit for this comment.
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by confident_inept 5y ago
We get several of these stories every year. It's news if something makes it out of a laboratory and even into prototype production. Do these articles do anything to help spur research or draw interest? What's the point?
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by confident_inept 5y ago
That project is outdated, and doesn't have drivers for pen displays.
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by confident_inept 5y ago
I have a Huion Kamvas Pro 16 that I struggle to get to work with Arch. There are multiple projects out there on Github that have slapdash python drivers with various degrees of functionality. The previous most functional one is no longer in
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by confident_inept 5y ago
Thank you. That website and article were a train wreck. I had no idea that ship was still stuck. I guess now they have to dismantle it in place? What's process here?
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by confident_inept 5y ago
It's not even a matter of having his work backed up. He still has the code. He no longer has access to the entire Google ecosystem and there is absolutely no other viable alternative for mobile.
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by confident_inept 5y ago
Lots of people like and use Google. For me, I've moved away from their services for email and communication. Their tendency to launch a new project with tremendous momentum and support only to suddenly and without warning cancel the wh
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by confident_inept 5y ago
I think the game not having an online component is one of its charms. Simplicity in nature and execution is the obvious goal. Have you seen the leaderboards of any online game lately? They usually get wrecked by cheaters and defeat the whol

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