Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•how is game and software piracy on linux?English
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    4 days ago

    I don’t sail the seas often. Sometimes for an AA OR AAA(never a AAAAAAAAAA) title I refuse to pay £100+ for. Usually to just uninstall it when it’s boring repetitive shit. I do have quite an extensive indie and A game collection. I do my best to get games with native builds whenever I can, if only to show that there’s a market for them. And for the most part, you can really tell which Devs have made Linux native builds a core part of the process and which had it as an afterthought.
    I’ve got a few games that just run better using the windows build through Proton. I still persist with aiming for 90%+ Linux native builds for new additions to the collection.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•how is game and software piracy on linux?English
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    4 days ago

    Most LTS builds are stable at the expense of potentially compatibility with things like gaming. If you’re aiming at gaming, avoid LTS and stear clear of Debian and it’s direct derivatives. If Debian is upstream from the distro you choose, then your updates will be significantly behind the curve. There’s a lot of gaming oriented distros floating about, and really the only way to find out which is best for you is to try a bunch. I landed on Garuda Arch, it works for me, and if people ask for recommendations it’s top of the list in my opinion.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•System76 on Age Verification LawsEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Ok, then just start region blocking places with these laws. If the OS connects to the internet and sees it’s in a banned region it locks itself down irreparably or deletes the network drivers and permanently blocks reinstallation. Region block all said regions from even downloading the install files. Put a legally valid entry in the EULA saying that use in those regions is absolutely prohibited without exception and any use by anyone is without the company’s permission and all responsibility for that is on the user.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptopsEnglish
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    9 days ago

    So, some of rakabis’ advice is pretty good. I’ll just say that if you’re wanting to get away from being locked into a computational ecosystem with an even worse support lifetime than windows devices, avoid buying a Mac. A 2018 MacBook stopped receiving 90% of updates in 2024.
    Caveat that by saying that older MacBooks, i.e. pre Mac made chips, are usually pretty reasonably priced on the used market. If you’re willing to switch to Linux then there’s even really good support for the hardware, with basically every distro working on MacBooks with Intel chips out of the box. The only part of deploying Linux on my wife’s 2017 MB Air that was REALLY a headache was the webcam. There’s info on every step to get the drivers installed and everything working, it’s just not all in one place, and a little outdated.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptopsEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Oh yeah…for well over a decade. If you’re REALLY lucky the proprietary form factor m.2 is user replaceable and not just sad bits soldered direct to the PCB. (Edit: I really really hate Autoassume, that’s supposed to be “SSD bits”… I’ll leave it as is because it’s funny)

    My wife has a 2017 MacBook Air, at some point in the last few years it stopped getting system and security updates. She didn’t notice until she got a pop-up from Chrome saying that her OS is no longer supported. Completely ignored it until around October last year when some websites stopped working and gave an error indicating out of date certificates.
    (There’s a lot in those last 3 sentences that is wildly troubling to me…)
    Took me from October until mid-January to convince her to TRY Linux. So I went to buy her a new m.2…and paid an extra £20 on top of standard because of the proprietary form factor. Luckily I bought before the major price hikes…got a 256gb m(ac).2 for ~£90. Would have just backed up her files and wiped the original drive but she wanted to be able to switch back to her exact installation if she didn’t like Linux…and the new drive is double the capacity 👍

  • Sturgist@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.English
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    9 days ago

    Or switch to one of the growing number of Linux distros who have taken the stance of “not a fucking chance are we complying with that idiocy” and then just hope where you live doesn’t pass a law like this and those distros are forced to region block downloads for you 👍

    There’s also the worry that if enough places push something like this through, could end up being a case of a vast swath of the internet will just refuse to work without receiving an approved “Age Assurance Signal”…

    Or the bigger worry that this is the beginning of the end of proper human interaction with the internet. Access and child protection laws become so strict that only chat bot agents are legally authorised to use the internet and we all become beholden to these programs for everything from looking up a recipe to requesting access to research papers to help support your masters thesis or fucking whatever.