I'm really enjoying my time on CachyOS. It's like Arch without the stress - the grub-based integrated snapshots which run every time you run a pacman command takes a lot of the stress out of running with Arch.

They do a couple of things I don't like, like using Fish shell by default, but that's easily undone.

I'd also prefer that they install ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda do, but again, that's easily installed from git.

It's probably the least I've ever had to tinker with a distro post-install.

I'd still love it if they had some kind of Discover integration (which appears unlikely), or incorporated paman, for a GUI-based package control. Octopi is somehow more obtuse than Synaptic, which is impressive. [Edit, and I somehow totally skipped over the headline about Shelly!! DOH!]

But hey ho. That's just quibbling at this point. Everything else is just so slick.

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Loved the first game, despite how stressful it was. And unlike Rebellion's Alien Deathstorm, there's a (slim) chance that this sequel won't be encumbered with Denuvo, so I have my fingers and toes crossed for this!

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Automatic hate reactions for absolutely every decision that Canonical makes is completely normal. It's bizarre.

But for the first time, I'm with the haters.

It's just so strange to look at the absolute shitstorm that MS weathered recently by adding Copilot to everything in Windows and think "yep, we should do that, people obviously want more AI in their operating systems."

Are they blind? It's baffling.

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A hundred dollars will hopefully translate to around £75 or so, maybe less.

A dualsense (PS5) controller is still £65 and doesn't have the dual touchpad or rear buttons, so I'm pretty comfortable with that pricing if it pans out as I hope.

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Quoting: stormtuxNot exactly a revolutionary technology, ever heard about "static program analysis"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis [External Link]

Are they surprised that a new approach to the problem has uncovered new vulnerabilities? Who would have thought! 🤔

How many vulnerabilities have been systematically fixed by traditional code analyzers throughout the entire history of Firefox without all this marketing hype?

Yeah, these tools have been around for years (by which I mean "before the genAI hype cycle began late-2022"), but typically only affordable to large Enterprises. With their desperate need to overhype genAI, the AI companies are loss-leading the access to these models to drive adoption, so we're seeing lots of weird hype for things that have existed for years, but have been priced... well, if not fairly, then at least "normally", within the industry. So now smaller outfits like Mozilla have access to these capabilities, and we're seeing headlines like this.

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Quoting: Luca

Quoting: scaineI wish AMD would focus on GPUs. Now, more than ever, they could establish themselves competitively in the GPU market. With Nvidia prices being absolutely exorbitant, a half-way decently priced upgrade to the 9700XT would be well received by people like myself still rocking the 6800XT or even the 7900XTX.

I am actually using a 16 Gb RX9700XT on a 9950X3D system (Mint 22.3) and I have 140 fps on "The Callisto Protocol" that I assume it's the most demanding gave I own.

I don't have Cyperpunk or ARC Raiders to benchmark but I think even at 60 fps they would be absolutely playable and good looking.

Sure, even my most demanding games look great (albeit, thanks to FSR, since I'm gaming at 4K) and I'm still on the 7900XTX myself. My point was more that the card you're using barely keeps up with the 5070, let alone the 5080. And Nvidia still have the 5090 out there. If you're "serious" about your games, then you want the top-end, and AMD aren't anywhere near close to that.

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Free to play, but £2500 if you want all the DLC.

And here I thought Star Citizen was a disgusting cash grab.

Presumably you only buy one of the £30 ships and not, like, all of them?? Hopefully?

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Wayland remembering where windows are positioned is the last feature missing from X, for me. It really annoys me that all windows open in the centre of the screen.

Except Steam. It doesn't care about desktop managers or theming or whatnot. Does what it likes. 😅

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Nope.

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Feels like you're still defending base degradation as a good thing, or at least as an irrelevant thing. Not sure why.

I had over 100 hours in the game when I stopped, but the base degradation, while probably necessary in an MMO-setting, was infuriating. There is no positive, for the player, to have base degradation, other than getting some land back when a player stops playing entirely.

If my generators run out while I'm on holiday, or traveling for work - coming back to find all my storage boxes emptied by scavenging players would instantly stop me playing this game. Giving me some bonuses later for rejoining doesn't give me back the hours I spent creating my base, building the vehicles, collecting tens of bodies for water, all the unique components I'd collected from science sites, all the custom weapons I'd gotten during runs.

I genuinely loved playing this game while it lasted. I really hope they offer self-hosted options to remove degradation, and I can actually see myself getting back into it again.

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