SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

They’re just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:

• Step 1: Make it opt-in and present it as the new cool thing.
• Step 2: Make it opt-out, and if the users opts out, show a scary warning about how the cool thing won’t work anymore.
• Step 3: Silently opt-in, and hide the opt-out option deeply in a settings menu.
• Step 4: Silently opt-in, remove opt-out, but it still works with a registry hack. Microsoft apologists will still thinks it’s cool because “just use this simple registry hack bro”.
• Step 5: Remove opt-out alltogether, and silently opt-in everyone who had previously opted out.
• Step 6: Enjoy their boiled frog!

SpaceCadet, 6 days ago

No but there sure is a much more unreasonable form of this.

SpaceCadet, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Just disconnect your network cable, press this magic key combination and type this undocumented command: “MSBLAOIGKSDF /ACZSF”

SpaceCadet, 10 days ago

• Red Hat Linux 5.1 - 7.x
• Slackware 7.0 - 12.0
• Ubuntu 6.10 - 9.10
• Slackware 13.37 - 14.1
• Mint 16 - 17
• Arch

SpaceCadet, 18 days ago

So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn’t that slow, given that it’s an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?

SpaceCadet, 18 days ago

The post doesn’t answer the questions, it’s why I asked.

It says:

All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪

I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That’s a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver!

Now I know some of these words, but it does not answer my question.

SpaceCadet, 18 days ago

Yeah god forbid people have some interesting discussion on this platform, right?

SpaceCadet, 22 days ago

It ran like absolute ass on 386 hardware though, and it required at least 4MB of RAM which was also not so common for 386 computers. Source: I had a 386 at the time, couldn’t play Doom until I got a Pentium a few years later.

Even on lower clocked 486 hardware it wasn’t that great. IIRC, it needed about a 486 DX2/66 to really start to shine.

SpaceCadet, 22 days ago

If anyone can enlighten me, This is pretty much why you can find DooM on almost any platform BECAUSE of its Linux code port roots?

I mean yeah. Doom was extremely popular and had a huge cultural impact in the 90s. It was also the first game of that magnitude of which the source was freely released. So naturally people tried to port it to everything, and “but can it run Doom?” became a meme on its own.

It also helps that the system requirements are very modest by today’s standards.

SpaceCadet, 21 days ago

I ran it perfectly on a 33MHz 486 with 4mb RAM for a long time. Even Doom II with some of its heavier maps ran fine.

“Perfectly” would mean it ran at 35fps, the maximum framerate DOS Doom is capped at. In the standard Doom benchmark, a dx33 gets about half that: 18fps average in demo3 of the shareware version with the window size reduced 1 step. Demo3 runs on E1M7, which isn’t the heaviest map, so heavier maps would bog the dx33 down even more.

I’m sure you found that acceptable at the time, and that you look back on it with slightly rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia, but a dx2/66 and preferably even better definitely gave you a much better experience, which was my point.

SpaceCadet, 23 days ago

Without knowing what was being hosted, the only surefire way would be pulling a complete disk image with cat or dd.

That’s not surefire, unless you’re doing it offline. If the data is in motion (like a database that’s being updated), you will end up with an inconsistent or corrupt backup.

Surefire in that case would be something like an lvm snapshot.

If you wanted to stay on a similar system, RHEL 9 would be a good option or one of its “as similar as possible” like AlmaLinux.

No love for Rocky?

Also Oracle Linux is still free, and fully compatible with RHEL.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago

LOL this isn’t even a Linux issue. This is an “I’m confused about how DNS works” issue.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Read the post. The user obviously didn’t even know that Mullvad uses DNS over TLS and that the other providers used regular DNS, nor did he know how to properly troubleshoot a DNS issue, which is a skill you should have on any OS if you’re going to mess about with DNS settings.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago

I have had so many instances of having to spend hours upon hours upon hours just do figure out how to do some basic shit on Linux that I can do on every operating system within a matter of 5 minutes

skill issue.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

How the fuck am I supposed to know that Network Manager won’t support DNS over TLS

Read the documentation? Use google?

The very first hit when you google “dns over tls tumbleweed” provides the answer: dev.to/…/using-dns-over-tls-on-opensuse-linux-in-…

A more generic query “dns over tls linux” gives this, which works just the same: medium.com/…/enable-dns-over-tls-in-linux-using-s…

Both google searches return several more hits that basically say the same thing.

Even the NetworkManager reference manual refers you to systemd-resolved as the solution: networkmanager.dev/…/settings-connection.html

Key Name	Value Type	Description
dns-over-tls	int32	Whether DNSOverTls (dns-over-tls) is enabled for the connection. DNSOverTls is a technology which uses TLS to encrypt dns traffic. The permitted values are: “yes” (2) use DNSOverTls and disabled fallback, “opportunistic” (1) use DNSOverTls but allow fallback to unencrypted resolution, “no” (0) don’t ever use DNSOverTls. If unspecified “default” depends on the plugin used. Systemd-resolved uses global setting. This feature requires a plugin which supports DNSOverTls. Otherwise, the setting has no effect. One such plugin is dns-systemd-resolved.

I don’t use NetworkManager, I’ve never even used Tumbleweed and I found the answer in all of 10 minutes. Of course that doesn’t help if you’re so clueless that you didn’t even know that you were using DNS-over-TLS, or that DoT is a very recent development that differs significantly from regular DNS and that it requires a DNS resolver that supports it.

when every other operating system does?

Like Windows 10? (Hint: it doesn’t)

You use Arch. Mr skillful

Who cares what I use. When I’m messing with something I don’t understand, I at least read the documentation first instead of complaining on the internet and calling the whole community toxic and, I quote, “Butthurt Linux gobblers” when you get the slightest bit of pushback.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago

Why not your current computer? No time like the present…

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago

It’s not just about trusting Microsoft, but about control over the technology. Users will never have real control over AI technology, it’s too valuable and the inner workings are anxiously being kept under wraps by the big techbro companies. It also runs on their computers for the most part, so of course we can’t trust what’s being done with it, regardless of whether Microsoft has been a good boy or a bad boy recently.

SpaceCadet, 24 days ago

Use Xorg with the proprietary driver instead of Wayland for the time being. Much less issues. You can always switch to Wayland later when either Nvidia support matures, or when your next computer has an AMD GPU.

Or get a cheap ass AMD GPU, like an RX6400, plop it in as a second GPU and run on that in Linux. Perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.

Or run on integrated graphics, if you have it. Again, perfectly serviceable for plain desktop stuff.

Problems have solutions :)

SpaceCadet, 23 days ago

Yeah but you said you wanted a dual-boot machine for your next computer, with Windows only for gaming. What I meant is: why not get a head start and make your current computer that dual-boot machine?

SpaceCadet, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I don’t think the word Reich, without further context, is by itself suspect in German. It just a generic word for realm, and is not bound to any specific political system. Even their parliament building is still called the Reichstag. In German it’s also common to refer to modern day monarchies as Königreich. Even the Belgian constitution, where German is one of the three official languages, refers to the country as das Königreich. And there are even two whole countries that have it in their German name: Österreich and Frankreich.

Where it becomes suspect is when inexplicably the German word is used in the English language in a certain context by certain politicians with certain ideas, as it is here.

SpaceCadet, 27 days ago

Perhaps it’s a 32-bit application and it needs lib32-zlib.

What does ldd ./runner say?

SpaceCadet, 27 days ago

Multilib packages aren’t installed by default just by enabling the multilib repo, so yes you need to find the lib32 libraries your application needs and install them by hand.

SpaceCadet, 26 days ago

If it’s just two PC’s and no video, it’s easy. There are plenty of cheap USB hubs in the €20-€30 range with a toggle switch.

I have a good experience with a ugreen branded switch that I got from Amazon. I bought it to toggle between my PC and work laptop when I started to work from home during covid.

SpaceCadet, 10 days ago

Why, so you can censor some more posts critical of China?

The modlog of this sub is absolutely ridiculous:

https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/6d60c077-ed98-46cb-a39d-bc158c027c9e.png