xycu

joined 2 years ago
[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Gentoo is a little easier nowadays. It has binary packages and you can use any old Linux live CD you prefer to do the install :)

[–] xycu@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn't work - the candidate he was supporting lost.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

It makes more sense when you realize he's negotiating not on behalf of the best interests of Ukraine or the USA but on behalf of Putin.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Jammie Thomas had to pay over $9000 per song she shared on Kazaa and that was like 15 years ago. Inflation + millions of shares should mean billions of dollars owed to the publishers... Plus obviously deleting or forfeiting ownership of all the models trained on that data, naturally.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I once fully updated a Gentoo system that hadn't been touched in 4 years. That was an adventure in troubleshooting.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Despite all that i said, the OLED special editions were very tempting!

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I had a fairly opposite experience. I bought a Steam Deck when it first came out and had to return it during the refund period because of a software bug making it basically unusable with my account.

A year later, the bug was finally fixed and I rebought. And... I like the fact that it runs Linux and the efforts done to make windows games playable in Linux in general. But I've found that i actually don't enjoy the form factor of the Steam Deck at all.

I find it to be too big and heavy to hold comfortably without resting it on something. The buttons are tiny and too close to the edge. The d-pad sucks, at least on mine. Staring at the little screen gives me a headache and text/icons are too small in a lot of games. The Wi-Fi is really slow (at least in the original LCD model) and downloading/installing takes absolutely forever. I've literally spent more time installing games and downloading updates than actually playing games in it.

It has been months since I last turned mine on. In hindsight, it was a poor purchase for me.

I do still like it as a concept and an happy to see it is successful. I welcome the new Linux users. I follow the steam deck communities and read the news.

... But it's just not for me, apparently.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I still have my Dual Standard one somewhere, was 16800 i think and upgraded the board in it a couple times to bring it up to 56k eventually. It was a beauty. I think it was like $800? An insane amount of money in hindsight, but worth every penny at the time.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Heliboard for normal communication (glide typing) and Hackers Keyboard for shell/remote desktop/programming type usage. Generally i find the keys too small and typing on a touch screen is slow and annoying, so i use a real computer to type whenever i can.

My typing accuracy is much better with gboard, but I don't use it because google...

I have never used voice to text nor voice controlled assistant etc. as I have no interest in doing that. My phone is muted 99.9% of the time, I prefer to operate in silence...

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I had a 256GB phone and after 1 year had used less than half the space, without ever deleting anything, so when i upgraded this time I saved money and got the 128GB model. I sync my photos/videos to my NAS so can purge those from my phone at any time to save space. That's really the only thing that takes up any significant storage.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that's capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

I have pixel 7 and it always takes 3 or 4 taps in the corners for it to register my touch

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