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There are distros for that. Ubuntu and derivatives have a GUI hardware detection tool that finds the right driver for you. Some distros come with Nvidia drivers out of the box. Most have a GUI tool for adding extra package repos for things like Nvidia drivers.
But it's important to note that this isn't a Linux problem, it's an Nvidia problem. AMD drivers are bundled with the kernel because they're FOSS, and Nvidia could totally do the same thing.
I'm not saying Linux is perfect, I'm saying you don't need to use the terminal if you're just trying to play games.
I want gaming on Linux to be as good as it can be, but I too draw the line at kernel level anti-cheat. I'd rather deal with cheaters than install that crap.
I want gaming on Linux to be as good as it can be, but I too draw the line at kernel level anti-cheat. I'd rather deal with cheaters than install that crap.
I suppose that's fair. But you're unlikely to see much difference with 1k miles.
It would be interesting for that to be the default shell and silently "just work" for installing stuff. They could even handle debs or rpms in the correct container. So you could pull a PPA, AUR package, etc and could just work.
Linux can feel faster in a number of cases because its scheduler is better IMO, but that doesn't help when running something like a game. A desktop feeling snappier won't increase your benchmark scores or framerates.
It'll certainly breathe new life into that crappy old laptop, but it's not magic.
Agreed. There are tons of random papercuts that a lot of us just ignore or workaround without thinking about it.
I absolutely think Linux is the bees knees, but I always list a bunch of caveats whenever I recommend it. If you go in with modest expectations, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and that's much better than being disappointed.
I've heard about them, but as you say, they don't show up on searches. I'll have to look harder then.
At least the climbing gear is FOSS though!
I kid, but I'm guessing Bazzite has something like openSUSE Aeon's distrobox, which let's you install anything you want inside of a container and expose it as an app. If not, they should consider adding it.
Yup, I'm absolutely a fan of georgist tax policies.
“The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false,” the official said via email. “On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
Wow, this is getting spicy. Lawsuit?
"year" is the wrong way to look at it, apparently they only disappear at the beach.
To follow that logic, this must also be niche: when you eat a hamburger, you gain weight exactly proportional to the hamburger.
Only if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. I don't need gameplay or anything, I just want to know more-or-less what the status is. As in, are we likely to see a release in the next couple years? Or is this a 5-years out situation?
While I agree, the article mostly explains how Linux is almost caught up to Windows for gaming. For me, Linux > Windows, so if Linux can play enough games to keep me occupied, it's a better "gaming" system. This was true for me before Steam even came to Linux.
That said, this article completely ignores the fact that many of the most popular games rely on anti-cheat w/o Linux compatibility, so that right there kills Linux as a contender regardless of its many other merits.
I guess my point here is to please don't oversell Linux. You want someone's first impression to be positive, and if they run into game compatibility issues at the start, the experience will be far from positive. I would much rather see a section right at the top about how to check game compatibility, since that's what most people would want to check before looking at the various other things that are awesome about Linux.
Epic Games
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We also don’t have to worry about download speeds, as they’re even better compared to the Windows client.
Is this true? If so, it's very surprising.
By the way, I always encountered risk control and couldn’t enter the game when playing Rogue Company on Windows. I don’t understand why the anti-cheat component considers me a threat, but after switching to Linux, I no longer faced this issue; it has been much smoother than on Windows.
Anecdotal. I doubt this is a Linux vs Windows thing, but more that they saw different OSes being used by the same account and flagged based on that.
Some of these emulators also have versions for Windows or macOS, but on Linux, we can directly download and install them from the store, without the need to worry about dependencies or version issues, making it a lot easier compared to Windows and macOS.
Good point. Package management is really nice on Linux. However, if you don't know what you're looking for, you're in a similar camp as on Windows.
Games on the Android platform can also run on Linux. In addition to virtualization ways like Windows and macOS, Linux can run without virtualization by using namespaces. If you’re interested, you can check out my previous article on Android Application on Linux without Virtualization.
Huh, neat!
Besides Steam, we can also use cross-platform tools like Flathub: Parsec to control Windows hosts directly on Linux. This means that even games that can’t be run through the aforementioned ways can still be played on Linux, completing the last piece of the puzzle.
So you'd need a second PC? That hardly seems convenient.
Actually, I also wanna introduce some advantages of the Linux graphical interface over Windows in terms of gaming experience. For example, GNOME’s Do Not Disturb botton allows me to toggle all notification alerts with a single click.
Yeah, this is certainly neat. I'm actually surprised Windows doesn't have something similar, but maybe each app handles notifications itself there?
Additionally, I have never encountered the issue on Linux where I can’t temporarily return to the desktop during fullscreen gaming, which is something I often face on Windows, where the taskbar pops up but returning to the desktop is impossible. On Linux, regardless of which game I’m playing, whether in fullscreen mode or borderless window mode, I can freely switch between windows.
On the flipside, I've had a lot of really odd problems switching applications on Linux. I don't know if it happens on Windows too since I haven't used Windows in a decade or so, but I'm guessing the Linux experience here is worse.
I also sometimes have games completely lock up Linux, which I'm guessing is probably the Wayland compositor crashing. That used to happen to me on Windows, but again, this is from >10 years ago, so I'm not sure if it applies today.
Right. Yet there's zero timeline for release, and I'd like a timeline for release. You can't just tease something and have pretty much no updates for 7 years...
Yeah, I don't bet w/ human lives, I'm not an insurance company.
It’s not like it’s going to plug itself in
It could stop at Tesla "dealerships" along the way and have the staff plug them in, or have fancy robotic chargers at just those locations. Surely there are enough "dealerships" that this is feasible for most people.
Yeah, I live like 10 miles from a Tesla dealership, about 1k from a Tesla factory. If having the car drive to me is cheaper than loading it on a truck and taking it to my local dealership, I'm fine with it having 1k miles.
This is all hypothetical though. There's no way this timeframe is happening.
Question about quadlets and kube play
Current setup:
- one giant docker compose file
- Caddy TLS trunking
- only exposed port is Caddy
I've been trying out podman, and I got a new service running (seafile), and I did it via podman generate kube so I can run it w/ podman kube play. My understanding is that the "podman way" is to use quadlets, which means container, network, etc files managed by systemd, so I tried out podlet podman kube play to generate a systemd-compatible file, but it just spat out a .kube file.
Since I'm just starting out, it wouldn't be a ton of work to convert to separate unit files, or I can continue with the .kube file way. I'm just not sure which to do.
At the end of this process, here's what I'd like in the end:
- Caddy is the only exposed port - could block w/ firewall, but it would be nice if they worked over a hidden network
- each service works as its own unit, so I can reuse ports and whatnot - I may move services across devices eventually, and I'd rather not have to remember c
Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95%
Apparently US bandwidth was reduced to 1TB for their base plan, though they have 20TB for the same plan in Europe. I don't use much bandwidth right now, but I could need more in the future depending on how I do backups and whatnot.
So I'm shopping around in case I need to make a switch. Here's what I use it for:
- VPN to get around CGNAT - so all traffic for my internal services goes through it
- HAProxy - forwards traffic to my various services
- small test servers - very low requirements, basically just STUN servers
- low traffic blog
Hard requirements:
- custom ISO, or at least openSUSE support
- inexpensive - shooting for ~$5/month, I don't need much
- decent bandwidth (bare minimum 50mbps, ideally 1gbps+), with high-ish caps - I won't use much data most of the time (handful of GB), but occasionally might use 2-5TB
Nice to have:
- unmetered/generous bandwidth - would like to run a Tor relay
- inexpensive storage - need to put my offsite backups somewhere
- API - I'm a nerd
The Surprising Power of Gratitude (and how it relates to Finance) - MrFiner
mrfiner.com The Surprising Power of Gratitude (and how it relates to Finance)
“Why is Finer writing about Gratitude?” you might ask. “Isn’t this is a personal finance blog?”Yes – this is a personal finance blog. But over the years, I have …
With Thanksgiving in the US right around the corner, I found this article about gratitude from a FI perspective. This is from a few years ago, but the message is evergreen.
: Vanguard now allows converting mutual funds -> ETFs online
Link is to the Bogleheads forum post where someone posted a link back in August. Before now, you had to call in to request the change, and it could take a few days, but now it's online and allegedly is done the next day.
I don't know when they added this, but I think it was sometime this year because I remember considering it last EOY (that's when I usually rebalance).
Here is a direct link, or you can get there on the website: Transact > Buy & Sell > Convert Vanguard mutual funds to ETFs. You can select either a number of shares or a percent of the total position.
As to why you may want to do this, here are a few reasons:
- converting shares classes isn't a taxable event (but you can't go ETF -> mutual fund)
- ETFs have a slighly lower ER (0.01-0.02% in most cases, so not huge)
- easier if you want to ACATS transfer shares to a different brokerage
- if you have a mix of ETFs and mutual funds, rebalancing between
FINE vs FIRE - what are you saving for?
www.jillonmoney.com The FINE (Not FIRE) Movement — Jill on Money
Forget the FIRE movement, I'm all about the FINE movement, a new acronym that was sent to us by a listener. Financial Independence, Next Endeavor. Having that financial stability to be able to pick and choose your next journey. That's the gist of the conversation with our latest caller. Have a mone
Link is to an older podcast episode, and The Money Guy YouTube channel occasionally talks about FINE instead of FIRE.
Here's the definitions of each:
- FINE - Financial Independence Next Endeavor
- FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early
Basically, FINE focuses on what you plan to do after achieving financial independence, whereas FIRE tends to focus on cessation of working. I always called it FI (leave off the retirement part), but I suppose FINE works.
Anyway, just wondering what everyone else is planning to do once they hit Financial Independence, whether that's retirement or starting something new. I'll leave mine in the comments.
Tax Efficient Fund Placement
This is a link to a spreadsheet to help determine which funds to place into taxable vs tax-advantaged space.
Here is a link to the Bogleheads wiki about tax-efficient fund placement:
If all else is equal, international funds have a small tax advantage over US funds, because they are eligible for the foreign tax credit.
TL;DR:
- put international funds in taxable and file for the foreign tax credit each year
- the total difference is like 0.1-0.2%, so optimizing fees may be more impactful than going through this exercise
This wasn't good enough for me, especially as I'm looking into applying a small-cap tilt to my portfolio and really like optimizing things, so I went digging for more information.
Foreign Tax Credit
When you own stocks or otherwise make money in another country, that other country may charge taxes, and the IRS will also charge taxes on any dividends you receive, regardless of source. This end
www.mrmoneymustache.com Six Dumb Misconceptions About The Economy (that the Politicians Want You To Believe)
– Well, it looks like we’re here in another US election year already. As Advanced Mustachians, we already know that the ongoing battle of Harris vs. Trump should not be consuming much o…
I generally don't like to make political posts, but this one has an interesting correlation to some of the culture around FI, which is things we can and can't control (i.e. this older post about circle of control, which echoes The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People).
So even if you're not in the US or just aren't interested anymore in the election (i.e. I already voted last week), there's still some interesting points about what the head of government can and can't do, as well as what the rest of government has and doesn't have control over.
Stocks are all over the place right now, and there's a lot of concern about what might happen after the results are announced. I hope this article can bring a little peace since a lot of what the market and news orgs are worried about aren't really things the President has direct control
What Net Worth Puts You in the Upper, Middle & Lower Class?
I found the graph at 10:55 to be especially interesting because it shows how someone with around the median income ($65k) can make it to the lower upper class by retirement through some discipline (10% saved per year).
As a quick TL;DW, here are the median incomes, net worth, and percent of population for each class:
- lower - $34k income, $3.4k net worth (many are negative) - 25%
- middle
- lower - $44k income, $71k net worth - 20%
- middle - $81k income, $159k net worth - 20%
- upper - $117k income, $307k net worth - 20%
- upper
- lower - $189k income, $747k net worth - 10%
- upper - $378k income, $2.5M net worth - 5%
Some questions to spark discussion:
- Do you agree with his breakdown of the economic classes? Why or why not?
- What strategies do you think someone in each category should take to improve their situation?
- If you don't mind sharing, what class do you think you're in, and does the breakdown match your experience?
What Net Worth Puts You in the Upper, Middle & Lower Class?
I watched this video a couple weeks ago, and while it has nothing to do with FI, I thought it was quite interesting how he divides the economic classes. TL;DW:
- lower class ($34k income, $3400 net worth) - ~25% of population - truly struggle with emergencies and flirt w/ the federal poverty line; net worth is pretty much nothing (often negative!) due to student debt
- middle class - three categories (lower, middle, upper)
- lower ($44k income, $71k net worth) - ~20% population - identify more with middle-middle class and tend to get into more debt than necessary by trying to keep up with the Joneses, but could be financially stable w/ some discipline
- middle ($81k income, $159k net worth) - ~20% - financially stable, most of assets are in home
- upper ($117k income, $307k net worth) - ~20% - passive income and compound interest supplement income; some live paycheck-to-paycheck due to lifestyle inflation (i.e. keep up w/ next group), but some can do really well with investmen
Retirement Calculators: the good, the bad, and what I use
I've been reading Yahoo Finance a bit recently due to all of the shifts in the market, and they have a PF section where they cycle through a variety of PF topics. One of them linked to a retirement calculator, which I had a lot of trouble with as someone looking to retire way earlier than typical, so I decided to go look at a few more and compare them.
Warning: these are pretty US-centric.
Smart Asset retirement calculator
- maxes out at 40% savings rate
- minimum retirement age is based on birth year (i.e. can't retire before today)
- default annual rate of return is 4%? This is worded oddly, because it's called "savings" and is right under "cash savings and investments"
- no option for HSA, but you can lump it in with IRA
- seems to estimate Social Security income, which is cool
- has on option to add a spouse, which was cool
This was was pretty awful, but with some fiddling, I got it to spit out some halfway decent
Looking for HW recommendations for DIY NAS/Homelab
Here's what I currently have:
- Ryzen 1700 w/ 16GB RAM
- GTX 750 ti
- 1x SATA SSD - 120GB, currently use <50GB
- 2x 8TB SATA HDD
- runs openSUSE Leap, considering switch to microOS
And main services I run (total disk usage for OS+services - data is :
- NextCloud - possibly switch to ownCloud infinite scale
- Jellyfin - transcoding is nice to have, but not required
- samba
- various small services (Unifi Controller, vaultwarden, etc)
And services I plan to run:
- CI/CD for Rust projects - infrequent builds
- HomeAssistant
- maybe speech to text? I'm looking to build an Alexa replacement
- Minecraft server - small scale, only like 2-3 players, very few mods
HW wishlist:
- 16GB RAM - 8GB may be a little low longer term
- 4x SATA - may add 2 more HDDs
- m.2 - replace my SATA SSD; ideally 2x for RAID, but I can do backups; performance isn't the concern here (1x sata + PCIe would work)
- dual NIC - not required, but would simplify router config for private network; could use USB to Et
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all states
This is exciting for me because:
- I model ny taxes in my spreadsheet anyway, so I'm likely to notice a mistake
- I usually use FreeTaxUSA to file for free, and this means there's one less party to share my personal information with
- my state's taxes are pretty simple, so I don't need state-specific tax software
I hope this helps simplify things for some people and save a bit of money as well. I'm going to try it out next year.
Do any of you estimate your taxes? Are you interested in trying out this service?
www.madfientist.com Bill Perkins - Memory Dividends, Time Buckets, and Maximizing Net Fulfillment
Bill Perkins, author of Die with Zero, joins Chris Hutchins on the All the Hacks podcast to discuss memory dividends and how to spend money!
I haven't finished listening to this, and unfortunately there isn't a transcript. According to the comments, the transcript exists on Spotify (I don't have a subscription, sorry), so that can be an option.
Anyway, I'm well on my way to my number, so I've been thinking about maximizing my time while I wait for the market to do its thing.
I've been listening to a lot of The Money Guy show recently, which has a lot of overlap with the FI mentality, and the recording theme is to optimize for enjoyment. I think that's something I've been forgetting recently, so I'm glad I found this podcast to help keep me grounded.
Anyway, thoughts? How are you spending you time now? How to you expect that to change when you're FI? Are there changes you'd like to make to optimize things today?
Average Retirement Savings Balance by Age
Here are just the number for all of you degenerates who just want some milestones for your spreadsheets.
Average total retirement savings by age:
- <35 - $49,130
- 35-44 - $141,520
- 45-54 - $313,220
- 55-64 - $537,560
- 65-74 - $609,230
=75 - $462,410
Average 401k balance by age:
- <25 - $5,236
- 25-34 - $30,017
- 35-44 - $76,354
- 45-54 - $142,069
- 55-64 - $207,874
- 65 and older - $232,710
And retirement savings targets from various advisors:
Fidelity:
- 1x by 30
- 3x by 40
- 6x by 50
- 8x by 60
- 10x by 67
Rowley:
- 1x by 35
- 5x by 50
- 7x by 70
Anyway, do you like metrics like these?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
Horse styles of the ’50s
May 10, 2024 (text in body)
For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, and smelling like fish! … And what story have I got to swallow this time?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.
May 10 2024 (text in body)
Look! Look, gentlemen! Purple mountains! Spacious skies! Fruited plains! … Is someone writing this down?
May 10 2024 (text in body)
Sure, I’m a creature—and I can accept that … but lately it seems I’ve been turning into a miserable creature.
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
It has been a while since the last one. So...
Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.
If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be a plus.