Now you’ve got 9th world problems.

[flipping through meme glossary]

There’s nothing wrong with it. There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

No one person/company/entity can know everything about me.

Well, they could, but the price would be high and I suppose I’d end up dating someone who went through that level of effort to know me anyway. :P

Ok. Just wanted to make sure the info is relevant to you.

If you have any connections to the IT departments of colleges or your work, see when they do overhauls of laptops and if you can be sold any surplus. They will be not amazing but solid performers, tend to have decent compatibility and a good deal usually. Watch out for Chromebooks as they might be a little harder to configure than your standard.

Use your local online classified (craigslist, kijiji, FB marketplace etc.). You will have to arrange pickup and payment 1 to 1, quality may vary but you will get a decent deal. Test for boot up to a login screen at minimum before you buy, and when you get it check that the speakers/headphones, other hardware actually works before installing something new and wondering if it was functional to begin with.

Avoid Bestbuy, Newegg, Amazon as they are way overpriced for what you can get through these other methods. Warranty is the main advantage, but I’d suggest Microcenter or to support your local computer shop if you go this way.

Stuff like ebay may work, quality could be decent but unless you can spot an amazing deal, prices are only a little bit better than buying from a retailer.

What country/geographic region are you in? I have Canada and US specific sites about what sites and stores are good, what are overpriced.

You should be able to get Linux running on most laptops, whether every feature will work (camera, fingerprint sensor, audio, dedicated video card) can be a crapshoot but I’ve heard it’s gotten better on the software side in recent years, just use Ventoy and distrohop until you find one that works. Trying to use a Nvidia laptop graphics card is a huge pain in the ass, I’ll warn you in advance.

Old ThinkPads are a solid choice if you can scrounge one wherever you are.

Check what environmental variables and launch options Lutris is using, and if stuff like gamemoderun is being used, which can help with performance a little or a lot depending on your hardware.

Yeah, getting the dedicated graphics card and other peripherals on laptop to work is one step more difficult than on desktops.

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Maybe the person means prepaid debit cards.

Other nerdy version of the meme, I whipped up on falstad’s circuit simulator:

For me more often it goes like this:

Friend: Wanna play [game]?

Me: sure. launches game

Friend: Alright the game lobby’s ready, come and join it.

Me: (Processing vulkan shaders, 2%) I’ll be there in a bit, it’s taking a while to start.

Is the “Emulate a virtual desktop” option gone? That is the one I usually set for games that really misbehave in full screen and have a terrible/non-existent borderless window mode.

If you don’t see it in Lutris settings, use the Launch winecfg option in Lutris after selecting the game.

It’s all fine, they have another set of billions of files as copies so they can safely remove the original collections.

Isn’t it great when the US’ FTC does something other than lick corporate boot?

It’s just an aggregation site, how can it grow in value?

Supposedly in Reddit finance there’s something called the “Anarchy Chess/Ewan gambit”. If you post one grain of rice, and double it each time you reach a threshold you can farm near-infinite updoots! Probably works the same with money, idk.

I noticed from the beginning that Lemmy’s default comment sorting improves visibility of a variety of comments including newer ones. Gee, I wonder who could have helped make it that way ;)

Over the years I ended up getting a Reddit habit of replying to one of the top comments so that it could attain some visibility. I still do sometimes but less often on Lemmy.

Lynx is where it’s at.

There’s more: this Monday, November 13, 2023 at 10:00am PT, the Rules Committee of the Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss upcoming ballot measures, including this awful policing and surveillance ballot measure. You can watch the Rules Committee meeting here, and most importantly, the live feed will tell you how to call in and give public comment. Tell the Board’s Rules Committee that police should not have free reign to deploy dangerous and untested surveillance technologies in San Francisco.

Usually the answer starts with M and rhymes with honey.

Hey that’s a fair assessment, I think it’s fine to wait and see what this implementation will ultimately look like. We got a confirmation but details are still scant.

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[EN|CN] PoM (Moderator shield) Today at 16:23

Just announced on [Stage Channel] there will be a new version of FaceIT that supports Linux!!! (Popular version of Linux and SteamDeck will be supported) And different than the CSGO version. BBR will be the first game to be using that version (A more casual version)

It’s been presumed so. The fact that this is a former internal employee who would purportedly have enough evidence to put forward a suit gives it more legitimacy than conclusions drawn from external app analyses and speculation.

So long as you can bring people you know with you to other platforms it’s great! Alas, though I haven’t posted anything on FB for about a decade, I am still tethered through Messenger with people I know.

I’d be on board with Passkeys if there’s an open-source app to set, authenticate, back-up and restore passkeys between devices. I held off getting 2FA TOTP codes until I used andOTP.

…if you’re syncing passwords through a browser, a password manager, iCloud Keychain, or one of the Microsoft or Google equivalents, be aware that you are already trusting a cloud service

I don’t trust and don’t use any password manager services. I’m also wary of the single-device passkeys because I don’t like having a single point-of-failure to access to my accounts. I know password/recovery options can be used as fallback, but my adoption of this new tech will depend on these factors.