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OnfireNFS

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  • What are things to learn and know before getting into vinyl and record players

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  • I recently got into records but I wouldn't consider myself an audiophile. I have a AT-SB727 "Sound Burger" and I usually connect it to a SoundCore Mini. The whole setup was under $200 on sale.

    The main advantage for me is that it's somewhat portable. I have 0 wires to mess with, not even a power cord. I'm sure the audio quality isn't great but I like watching the record spin and listening to albums from start to finish.

    I do have a different old record player (Sansui P1000) but it needs to be connected to AC then that has RCA connectors that need to go to a stereo which then has copper wire speakers. It sounds a lot better but also it's a lot less portable

    The sound burger does come with a line level RCA output so maybe it does sound as good when connected to an actual stereo. I want to get an elliptical stylus upgrade in the future which is supposed to help with sound quality

  • Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension

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  • This reminds me of the old cloud to butt extension

  • Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit

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  • So instead of selling on both Sparkfun and Adafruit, having what seems like a monopoly on Teensy style boards, Sparkfun decided it would be smarter to stop selling to Adafruit and force their hand to make an open source competitor

    That's an interesting business decision...

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    I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • How's Notepad++ compare to VS Code (or VSCodium) they seem pretty similar

  • Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

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  • It's funny. I feel like with the switch 2 Nintendo finally listened to the fans who were saying they just want an incremental improvement. Just make the switch with a better processor. But they really just got too greedy with it and made it an incremental improvement in the worst way possible. Paid online, $70 games which never go on sale, paid switch 2 upgrade packs, LCD screen, digital download physical games.

    It's an incremental upgrade done as horribly as possible, it feels like people are struggling right now and Nintendo is trying to extract every dollar out of customers then wonders why the console isn't doing well.

    For me it's a hard sell because like at that price why wouldn't I just buy a steam deck. I don't have to buy any new games, I don't have to pay for upgrade packs to have my games run on it, I don't have to pay for online services. I'm not going to have to rebuy games if I buy a steam frame or steam machine. It also has seamless save transfers, and steam is famous for its sales.

    It's just funny because I feel like people were asking for a switch with more power but now that it's here like why would you buy it over a steam deck.

    Also to top it off Nintendo's lawyers are aggressively going after emulators, streamers and modders. Why would I want to support a company so hostile to its own community

  • Help me ditch windows?

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  • I would definitely give Bazzite a try. If you are looking for stability and a set and forget OS. If you don't like it you could always try something else.

    If you are looking for something to tinker with and change things like manually changing packages or messing with services you probably want a more traditional "non-atomic" os

    Don't let talk of the filesystem being "read only" scare you. You can still save files to your desktop and documents and stuff in your user folder.

    In windows terms it's more like imagine C:/windows being read-only so you can't break your system. You can still write files to other parts of the drive, but it prevents you from messing up your install (some people like this added layer or stability, some don't like it because it makes tinkering with your system harder)

    An atomic OS is kinda like a phone OS, in the sense that every version of iOS 26 comes with the same version of Safari and the same libraries. It makes it so any bugs are reproducible and easier for the developers to track down. Packages are pinned to the OS version. (For example all installs of Bazzite 20260101 will include Nvidia drivers 590.44.01-1)

    In a more traditional Linux distro because packages can be updated to whatever version if you install Ubuntu the version of Nvidia drivers is not tied to the OS version. You could have an install of Ubuntu 25.10 and could have a completely different Nvidia driver version from someone else on Ubuntu 25.10. This could make bugs harder to trace because you could have the same OS version but different packages. Think of this like even though you and a friend could both have (Windows 11 25H2 installed you could have different drivers installed)

    As for updating Bazzite generally auto updates once a week in the background. It requires 0 manual intervention and keeps your packages and drivers up to date. You can turn this off if you wanted to. Since it uses a "image" based approach (again imagine upgrading from iOS 26 -> 26.1) it is able to save the previous version of the OS. So if the upgrade broke something you can roll your system back to a known good state with a single command.

    If you are looking for something that's set and forget I would definitely give it a try.

    If you want to tinker with it and figure out how Linux works I would probably try arch or something

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet

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  • I run rfactor 2 on Linux. Might be an option for a more causal sim racer. It's funny because I know other racing sims are more popular but my local VR racing sim location mainly runs rfactor 2 as well.

    It runs on Linux, not sure if VR works with Linux though. I suspect the Steam frame may change that

  • Stellantis Can’t Get Rid Of 2024 Dodges, And It’s Not The Only One With Leftovers | Carscoops

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  • I actually noticed this recently. They have some 2024 Dodge Chargers which MSRP for 100k listed for 60k. New car, 0km and it's 40% off. I would love a non-tesla ev with 700hp but a 60k car is still expensive. Even if it's 40% off

  • What emulators do you use to run different games, for example, on Windows/Linux/macOS and Android?

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  • When did cemu get shut down? Looking at their GitHub there was a commit 5 hours ago. Still looks pretty active?

  • Are advent wreaths a thing outside of Germany?

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  • Weird. These are really popular with Catholic people in Canada. They are found in Catholic Churches, schools and usually the center of dinner tables during Advent. It's always an evergreen wreath with 3 purple candles, 1 pink candle and 1 center candle which is unusually white. The wreaths at church get lit at Sunday Mass, one candle for each week of Advent then the center one on Christmas. Generally wreaths at dinner tables are the same but you will light them at Sunday dinner (I can't remember if they get lit throughout the week as well and you just light the same number of candles as the same week of Advent)

    I know people who aren't religious or no longer are, sometimes still use a wreath without candles as a centerpiece for their dinner table in the winter. It just provides a nice Christmas feel, similar to a door wreath

  • What is your development environment?

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  • Work: RustRover on MacOS Personal: RustRover on Bazzite

    Mainly language support plugins: Python, .env, mermaid

  • Maybe we don't need a server

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  • I've found LocalSend really nice for this purpose. If you need to send stuff over your wifi to other devices but not sync it in the background it's really nice

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Thunderbolt is exactly that.

    Thunderbolt 2 and Mini Displayport used to have the same connector. Since Thunderbolt 3, it now uses the USB C connector.

    Thunderbolt 5 supports Displayport 2.1. I wish more devices used Thunderbolt compatible USB C ports. Or GPUs came with a Thunderbolt port on them. They're pretty awesome, it's like better USB C.

    It seems like only laptops really use them to allow docking through a single cable

  • Linux Antivirus?

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  • I'm not sure you really need an anti virus with Bazzite? Because it is immutable and has rolling releases it's generally pretty up to date and secure

    If you were running a more traditional distro it might be more of a requirement

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • Hmm this makes me wonder if the Steam Deck 2 will be ARM. If the Steam Frame works well, that could be a way for Valve to push more performance/battery life out of the deck

  • I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.

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  • This. Even if you were going to run a bare metal server it's almost always nicer to install Proxmox and just have a single VM

  • Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

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  • I like that rust is opinionated by default. It reminds me of prettier. I don't have to argue with teams about what code style were using. I can open up any rust project and know it's readable and formatted with the same specification as any other rust project

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • That's a really good idea. Something like OpenWrt but for printers would be amazing.

    It's funny, they have their own hardware now. Maybe starting with a open source printer firmware would eventually lead to open source printer hardware.

  • The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer

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  • I've always thought it was interesting we have open source 3D printers but with how often 2D printers break and how expensive ink is no one has made an open source 2D printer. It's nice to see some progress in this field