hobbsc

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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

Bazzite for personal stuff because it looked neat and just worked after installation with a small learning curve. Due to interia I went with bluefin on the work computer for the same reasons

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

Dual booting may be the way to go. Sure Steam, Proton, blah blah but there are so many other launchers and AAA games that are not going to be supported at all (or at least not without a bunch of fiddling). For my own kid, I gave up on Linux ages ago and they have a Wintendo now. I have been daily driving Linux since the mid 90s but I'm also practical when I need to be.

That machine is also isolated on its own VLAN to hopefully reduce the blast radius of whatever garbage it eventually detonates. I make regular backups of it and am ready to repave it at a moment's notice.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's surreal reading comments pining for win7/8. i am getting old.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bazzite, perhaps? I don't have the dongle but all of my controllers have worked with it out of the box and I have a couple weird ones. It's gaming focused so you might have some luck with it.

Also as others have said: xone.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

why does it matter when the disc for a game is now basically just a download code? the studios have already won this battle.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

radiodroid is also great. it's an interface for radio-browser.info

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

have these streams been added to radio-browser.info?

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

Kept my parents' desktop running for 14 years with Debian, XFCE, and the occasional hardware replacement. Maybe a bit of a PC of Theseus scenario but it worked pretty great.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

back in the dial-up and bbs days, i kept plenty of floppy disks (and later CDs) with my favorite media on them to play when i visited friends. in more recent history i have placed my digital media backups on drives to play at friends' houses. it's nice to be offline now and then.

while not technically sneakernet, we did have a piratebox set up at an office that i leased for backing up media collectively.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

this is absolutely incredible. thank you so much!

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have been looking for something like this for ages. Wish it could be integrated into freetube and newpipe. Thanks for sharing!

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened to libgen?

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