Presi300

Presi300, 7 months ago

I honestly don’t know how I deal with myself sometimes… Ah wait you mean with other incompetent people… Uuh, I just let them do their thing and put on a huge ignore wall around them.

Presi300, 7 months ago

I’d use sister partitions for everything but swap, just use zram for swap, it’s faster and doesn’t need it’s own separate partition

Presi300, 7 months ago

Use virt-manager or gnome boxes, they are both better and tend to run faster in my experience

Presi300, 7 months ago

I don’t generally believe in a “higher power”, despite having religious parents, I never really understood it… I just don’t get how people can genuinely believe that there is a higher power that is somehow watching over everyone. That’s not to say tat religion is a bad thing. It’s not, in fact most non-radicalized religions have genuinely good teachings, be it Christianity, Buddhism or Islam (and others, again I’m not too into this stuff, these are just the religions I can speak semi-confidently about), they all fundamentally teach the same basic things, don’t be an asshole, live modestly, help others, etc… (yes I do know it’s MUCH more complicated than that).

That’s the way I ultimately see the “higher power”, as a way to get people to be good members of society by making them believe that there is a higher power that will bless them if they are.

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

That all teenagers must spend all their time chasing girls and going to parties as to not be “losers”. I see this attitude both from older people and from other teenagers, though it annoys me mostly from older people, as they just can’t seem to fathom that some teenagers have interests that aren’t just… Wasting their time? I mean don’t get me wrong, I enjoy doing it as much as anyone but it bothers me when people talk to me like it’s the only thing I should be doing in my teenage years…

And the other thing is the stereotype that you need to talk to teenagers with a belittling attitude, I really don’t know how to explain it but I sometimes feel like older people (not like old old, people in their mid to late 30s) feel the need to talk to me in a different, more “fresh?” or overly friendly way. It’s not just individual people who do this, big companies also do it, and it’s just as annoying. Like, we’re both adults, just talk to me like normal… (I guess this doesn’t apply to teenagers, younger than me but I’m talking about stereotypes that bother me so Idc, I’m 18 and this has bothered me for as long as I’ve been able to notice it)

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Idk, I’ve always been pretty introverted and never really liked the “intense school social network” it’s not like I fully distance myself from others or anything, it’s just that sometimes, especially early morning, the crowd can be a bit much for me. As for emotional intelligence, again idk, I like to think that I’m somewhat emotionally mature to an extent (been through a lotta shit and all) but I’ve never really been in an emotional relationship before, so I can’t say for sure… Dunno I guess I’m just fine with keeping a small friend group and just being generally friendly with everyone else.

And you mentioned that you have niche interests… Yeah, you should look at my lemmy profile, though I generally don’t feel like having niche interests makes it harder to socialize with people, as if you give them the hint, they’ll usually start the conversation themselves and you can pick up after…

And my problem isn’t so much an age group problem, it’s more of an, as I mentioned above “I’m an adult, you’re an adult, why do you feel the need to belittle me?” type of feeling… And yes, 18 is the legal age for… Pretty much everything, where I live.

Presi300, 7 months ago

All the programs I use just run on linux, no really. VSCode runs on linux, I’ve used libre office for longer than I’ve used Linux (and it obviously runs on linux), all my faves run on linux through steam or lutris.

However, if there is a windows only program you wanna run on linux, you have a few options.

I’d just cross running it though wine out, it’s really annoying to setup and my original success rate with it had been… Not great.

If your program isn’t terribly graphically demanding, you might be able to run it via a windows virtual machine. It’s not perfect but for lighter programs or visual studio, it works.

If your program is graphically demanding (e.g. Adobe suite, CorelDraw, Autocad, etc…) you’re kinda out of luck and will have to dual boot… (Or loose your sanity trying to get them working through wine)

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I’d tell you, if I could remember any of my dreams or what they were about

Presi300, 7 months ago

Ayo no more ugly frame in dolphin, less goooo

Presi300, 7 months ago

Installing windows after Linux, causing both the windows boot manager and grub to collectively shart themselves.

Trying to manually install the Nvidia driver and breaking my system in the process,

Not following the official docs the 1st (and 2nd) time I tried to install gentoo, resulting in sadness.

Not following the official guide the 1st time I tried to install arch, resulting in sadness.

Rebooting during a kernel update (I’ve done this many times on many different distros).

Forcing re-complilation of my whole Gentoo system with -ofast and forced lto on everything, causing… everything to break

Accidentally deleting my EFI partition in an attempt to fix grub. (I’ve also done this more than once, with systemd boot too!)

There is probably much more that I just can’t remember atm.

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

That just will not work, because some languages have different rules about gendered words, to those of English.

E.g.

English:

One man

One woman

One non-binary person (they)

Bulgarian:

Един мъж

Една жена

Един не определен човек (те)

Notice how in the “non-binary/they” form in Bulgarian you still have to use the male version of “One”, it’s just how the language works…

Many languages will have to be entirely re-written to account for the new pronoun. I think until that happens, “they” gets the job done.

Presi300, 7 months ago

AntiX/MX Linux, I’ve had great success getting them to boot on systems that were refusing to boot anything else, AntiX is my go-to distro for bringing new life to old hardware, it works with literally anything you throw at it.

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Step 1. Install fish shell

Step 2. Type fish_config

Step 3. Profit

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I hate Google (the company and the search engine) but that doesn’t mean I hate everything they make.

E.g. pixel experience is the best phone interface imo, oneUI and all the other garbage can’t hold a candle to it.

Material is also my favorite design language, especially now with material you. Google disk is also incredibly convenient, as long as you don’t store anything personal on it.

You can say the same thing about any tech giant. I hate Microsoft and windows, but I use VSCode daily and I use ecosia as a search engine (which is based on bing). Their AI chatbot is probably also the most useful free chatbot rn. C# is also a great programming language and Ik that people like typescript (I don’t). Fluent as a design language is also great, though not as good as Google’s material imo…

Presi300, 7 months ago

I use proton mail, switched to it from outlook around a year ago and haven’t had any issues… Unlike with outlook, piece of trash

Presi300, 7 months ago

I used to use gnome with just a system tray extension until very recently, though I’ve now switched to plasma… And copied my gnome workflow there

Presi300, 7 months ago

Idk if Warframe counts as an MMO, but it’s the closest thing to an MMO that I play.

The lore is really cool, though it’s mostly for the people who care about it as it is really easy to skip/miss.

The community is mostly super friendly and a big part of the game (yk, trading in-game items for in-game currency, clans, etc…).

The PvE of Warframe imo is top notch, fluent movement, satisfying weapons, time or characters, abilities, strategies and weapons to choose from and reach one can be upgraded individually.

The PvP however… It exists and that’s all I can say about it, it’s kinda just bad and no one plays it.

Idk what RvR means lol.

Oh, and the game is completely free with no forced pay walls and it’ll run on pretty much anything.

Though it’s not perfect, it’s a grind (yk it’s a looter shooter) and there is an annoying mechanic of items taking a while to craft

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Warframe is designed as a Co-op experience, it’s the correct way to play the game, only parts of the main story is single player, cinematic experience and all, 90% of the game is supposed to be played co-op or in a team of randoms… RvR isn’t technically a thing the way you describe it, but there are huge hordes of enemies, so you can think of it as PvR… kinda.

Presi300, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

zram… Obvious

systemdboot (unless I’m on a distro without systemd)… My main desktop is running Gentoo OpenRC atm

xanmod kernel… It’s literally just free performance

wayland… I have 3 monitors with 3 different refresh rates and 3 different resolutions, X11 just isn’t an option for me (smooth animations are a bonus to ig)

Unlock origin, ecosia and dark reader as extensions, regardless of browser

VSCode… I like FOSS software as much as the next guy, but I want my code editor to just work with minimal to no configuration

Fish shell, has the best autocomplete and integration of any shell

Presi300, 7 months ago

I need to do extra shit for extensions and I just don’t wanna bother

Presi300, 7 months ago

Xanmod is a gaming-optimized kernel… Idk where you read the server stuff from and the performance and the difference isn’t so much in performance… I mean there is still an uplift there but it’s more improved frame consistency (less microstutters) the games just feel more snappy.

Idk what you mean by “low tech computer” but I’ll assume that means “weakest”, I run xanmod on my main desktop PC, which is the only computer I game on, so it only makes sense there. It does tend to kill battery life on laptops and idk anything about getting it to work with nvidia (I’m on AMD). As for the “weakest” computer I’ve ran it on… tbh I don’t remember, I don’t really use a lot of low-end PCs in my daily life.

As for compiling xanmod, no reason to, 90% of the distros either have it in their main repos, or in the AUR on arch or on a copr repo on fedora. I did compile and configure it myself (I use gentoo) but the performance difference between the packaged version of xanmod and the one you compile yourself is minimal, most of the uplift comes from the kernel itself.

Presi300, 8 months ago

Great. Works on anything without any issues. I use it for pretty much everything (except web browser and only because I don’t wanna bother with permissions on that)… As for the size argument, I have also never had isssues with space, my laptop has 128GB of storage total and the /home partition on my desktop is ~100GB, both use fllatpaks for pretty much everything, I have no issues with space on either… And yes I use flatpaks on gentoo, cry about it.

Presi300, 8 months ago

AUR can be an unstable mess at times (yes, it’s very convenient, but it has flaws and arch isn’t the only distro out there. Also the space argument just makes no sense, yes the 1st time you download a flatpak, it downloads like 1~2GB of dependencies, but after that all other flatpaks use said dependencies and are a fraction of the size. So ironically, flatpaks end up using less space than AUR packages, if you don’t clean out their cache…

Presi300, 8 months ago

idk what type of drive you’re using, but flatpak startup times are indistinguishable to me, when compared to native packages. And I’ve used flatpaks on A LOT of computers…

Presi300, 8 months ago

flatpak remove --unused