Skip Navigation
Posts
7
Comments
184
Joined
2 yr. ago
    1. Distros : as others said, Mint is a solid choice. I personally use ZorinOS because it's very close to the Windows interface and I really enjoy it, i installed it on every computer in the house x). I saw Pop_OS recommended for gaming too.
    2. Hard incompatibilities : as others said, some big games with kernel level anti cheat might not work (Fortnite, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rust, etc.). Along ProtonDB, a great site to keep track of that is https://areweanticheatyet.com/. Other than that, I ended up being able to run approximately anything, from old indies to modern big games without major problems, though it may involve tinkering.
    3. Tinkering with linux : if you are used in googling issues and browsing a bit through old forums posts, in my experience you're good to go. I found a solution to every of my problems but one : it's caused by Nvidia drivers. As you asked in another comments, AMDs and Intel's drivers are open source, and so it's easier for linux devs to adapt to them. Nvidia are proprietary, though they are going half-open-source and there is an attempt at building an open source driver from scratch, but their basic drivers options may clash with linux sometimes (in my case, the driver wont let linux turn off the screen when i'm inactive for too long, so not that a big issue).
    4. Windows compatibility : On 2 of the 3 computers i tried, having a windows 10 partition on the side is easy to setup and does not generate much trouble. My main computer is ZorinOS/Windows 11, and this one had more issues : each time i switch, i have to go in BIOS to set a setting that is made for Windows off, otherwise i can't have multiple screens in linux. I also experienced some troubles which are probably linked to the partitioning process (i had to defrag data to create partitions) : if you can, i'd recommend making a clean multi partition drive, installing windows from scratch first, then installing Linux.
    5. Good luck in your process ! I was a bit reluctant at first, but now i'm really glad i did it. If you have access to another device, maybe try to install linux there first, so you can try it out and go through the installation process a first time.
  • Absolutely no expertise guy, but here is a possible explanation : ferrous is a word use in common speaking, where it is useful to distinguish things based on practical properties. Being magnetic is one of those practical properties, and iron being the most common magnetic metal, it was designed as 'ferrous'. Adding metals that contain no iron to the list makes it scientifically/technically incoherent but that does not matter much from a common sense practical point of view.

  • From the article :

    There are examples of drone operators from earlier this year being able to trace the cables back to the positions from where they were launched and target the enemy crews. But if this technique was a successful one, fibre optic drones would have disappeared as soon as they appeared on the battlefield, when – from presidents to workshops – all the talk is of increasing numbers.

  • Lenine is a huge theoricist, but beware of those idolizing him. Neither God, nor Caesar, nor Tribune.

  • I'd say you could render something close in real time. I'm not entirely aware of all techniques used in this film, but seeing what we can render at 60fps in terms of games, I think you could find a way of achieving a Toy Story look at 24fps. You may need a lot of tweaking though, depending on what you use (i was thinking about EEVEE, the Blender 'real-time' engine, and I know there are a bunch of settings and workarounds to use to get good results, and i think they may tend to make the render not real-time (like 0.5s, 1s, 2s per frame, so quite fast but not real time)

  • rules obviously got set up with a specific definition that was understood at the time

    Oh boi, having studied law, i can confidently say that using words with no clear definition in laws and trying to apply them is one of the main problematic and debate fuel of judges and lawyers.

    And "man/woman" are clearly not words with one specific definition, even in the past (maybe people cared less about the definition, but it does not make it more specific).

  • Permanently Deleted

  • French Polynesia with one relatively good example, but there are others that are rather bad : New Caledonia/Kanaky, Mayotte are maybe the worse i know of. Not Israel-level bad though, but France is clearly not the absolute clean guy here either.

  • Permanently Deleted

  • Well some more than other, especially New Caledonia and Mayotte which are experiencing big post-colonialism crisis. It's clearly not the Gaza level though, and by far, but hey, french government also has blood drops on its hands.

  • You may want to beneficiate from little performance boost even though you mostly don't need it and still need python's advantages. Being interested in performance isnt always looking for the very best performance there is out of any language, it can also be using little tips to go a tiny bit faster when you can.

  • Permanently Deleted

  • Are you sure they are aware of this? If yes, maybe they disagree but don't have words or take action for some reason. Or maybe they know or think they know the man very well and trust him? Just hypothesis, i'm not really convinced.

    But i'm even unable to conceive how someone that young would be attracted to someone that older, outside of any authority figure or idealisation kind of scheme. So I guess she must have a specific reason, and she's not doing this out of the blue, and this reason, whatever it is, may make it difficult for her parents to convince her or force her out of the relation.

  • Both are available, do you have any preference ? PC/XBox/Both ? If you don't have any, and if that's okay with you, we can wait until some asks for either one or the other, and i'll send you the one that remains.

    Nevermind, someone asked for the XBox one. Hope PC is okay for you !

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    Game codes giveaway (Microsoft Store, XBox, GOG) (all claimed)

    Hello folks ! Here is bunch of games I got codes for with Prime, and already own or cannot play. If you're interested, leave a comment or a DM and i'll send it to you in a DM if it's still available, as soon as i can.

    Technology @lemmy.world
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS)

  • Oh yeah, right wing libertarian (based on private property) seems a bad thing for forest, without specific system. I was talking about left wing libertarianism (without private property).

  • Apart from the Tankie Triad, i'd doubt right wing opinions would get you banned (i'm not against believe it if i saw some examples though).

    Hate speech and promotion of oppressions that right wingers tend to consider as simple 'opinions' might though.

  • I'm not entirely sure about what are the reasoning behind your comment, but i see it as : llibertarian implies no state + parks and forest require state = incompatibility. I'd disagree on the parks and forest require state, i thinl they only need organization, meaning one or more NGO could handle it. Accepting this, not that much incompatibility between libertarian and forest remains (accepting libertarian as left wing meaning that does not imply private property)

  • Permanently Deleted

  • I'm used to separating breakfast food (cereals, fruits, bread and jelly, crepes, pancakes) and lunch/diner food (carbs, vegetables, sushi, etc), but i'm also used to eating some at the time of the other (dining with crepes or bread, or having breakfast with leftovers of dinner)

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    Game codes giveaway (GOG, Microsoft Store, Xbox) (no codes left)

    Hello everyone ! I get some game codes with the Amazon Gaming thing, and some of them I already have or I can't play, so I share them with you. Please tell me in the comments/DM if a game picks your interest, and I'll send the code to you in private message, and mark it as submitted.

    Firefox @lemmy.world
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    Firefox alternatives comparison - asking for advice/opinion

    Meta note : am not sure if this is on topic for this community, please tell me if it is not. I could not find rules, so I assume it's okay, but i'll remove it if its not. (Also, please consider the info given here with precaution, for they are only based on people feedback and media report, not any technical certainty).

    So, after the recent Mozilla privacy drama, I saw multiple recommendations of alternative browsers, each one with their pros and cons. I was trying to get a better understanding of which one was good/bad for which reasons, and I thought i might share it here so people with more knowledge can correct my takes.

    Here is what I could get so far, based mostly on Lemmy comments and Wikipedia pages. This is aimed at browser that share some of Firefox values (foss, independency, (maybe) privacy, etc), so I excluded Chrome, Edge, and others. I'm open to any feedback/infos/browser suggestions to get a more accurate summary !

    | Browser | FOSS | Privacy | Features | Browser Fami

    Blender @lemmy.world
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    Node editor : what's the better way to create straight paths ?

    Hello yall ! I am asking for your opinion on node editing, more precisely on creating straight paths with reroute nodes.

    I find the built-in way of creating straight paths with reroute quite weird. If I'm not mistaken, it is :

    • Click-drag to create the connection
    • Shift + Right-click-drag to create a reroute.
    • G and drag to place the reroute (repeat until path is made of 90° angles)

    Now when it's time to clean up messy noodles, it makes sense : you don't need the first step and you can join multiple noodles with the Shift + Right-click-drag to go quicker. But when I create straight path from the start, I find it weird to first make the full path and then divide it.

    I would have liked a feature to 'extrude' from reroute nodes so I can build the straight path step by step instead, so I made a small script to add this as a shortcut : when i press 'E', it adds a reroute connected to the last reroute/node selected. I'll try to add a gif to show what I mean, and I'll leave the code if

    Gaming @lemmy.ml
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    GOG codes giveaway (no codes left)

    Hello folks, I have access to multiple codes for GOG games with Prime gaming. I already own some of those games on other platforms, so I share it with you !

    Please tell me in the comments or with a message which game(s) you are interested in. I'll try to keep the post updated.

    Games :

    Have a nice day <3

    techsupport @lemmy.world
    Takapapatapaka @lemmy.world

    Advices on alternative Android OS (Huawei P20)

    Hey there everyone !

    I recently got a Huawei p20 to replace my old dumbphone.

    I don't need most of a smartphone capabilities : no need for emails, GPS, discussion apps and common social apps (Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok, ...) What I really need are SMS and calls, and I also like having a camera, a local agenda, a sound recorder and a notepad.

    This new phone is pretty cool, and do what I want perfectly, but there is a lot of things that I dont need (un-uninstallable google and huawei apps, and a bunch of other functions). I also lack some options (no true dark mode, and navigation is not intuitive for me).

    I recently learned that it is possible to change a smartphone's OS, and switch to opensources options, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. If i understood, it could help with my experience, with the device's performance, and with the privacy/data sending (this is not my priority but i'm always happy if i can avoid generating data for corporations).

    I searched a bit, but it seems that s