Nia [She/Her]

Breaking your install within a few days is the rite of passage

I think on a lot of Android phones you can skip the Google sign in step and use it without an account, but it’s limited in the usual ways like no play store access, etc

For League of Legends, that one surprisingly works, even has a wine-ge build made specifically for it https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-27-LoL

For CS, that’s one of the rare games that has native Linux support and runs without needing anything at all

This browser is the shit

Really just craps on all the competition

okay i’ll see myself out

For gaming performance, some games run better with Proton-GE which is a custom build containing some fixes that Valve/Steam can’t distribute as a US-based company, some games need it to run at all, some get better performance with it, some run worse, just depends. I’d recommend using GE when a game won’t run with vanilla Proton or runs poorly with it.

Also, checking your games on ProtonDB.com, clicking the PC tab on the game, you can see some tweaks other people did on the game to get the best experience with it, as well as a general idea of how well the game will run on Linux.

For non-steam games, those run good too with stuff like Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, and Bottles but may require more manual intervention to get working in some cases compared to a lot of Steam games.

Open 4 browser tabs

jokes aside, you’re getting benefits from more caching into ram, and you’re also getting the ability to not have to even think about your ram usage, even if the ram isn’t actively being used by apps you’re getting good use just from having it available, the OS has more wiggle room to use it optimally: I have 64GB of ram and regularly use only about 12-20GB of it, currently 6.1GB is being used as cache

Some apps like Okular (pdf viewer) can be configured to use more ram in the settings, you can set it to be very aggressive about preloading pages so that everything loads faster, set a very high amount of scrollback in your terminal if wanted, etc

I’ve never done this so I can’t speak to how much benefit there is from it, but you can set up a way to preload/cache your most used apps into ram, so that they’re always fully loaded and ready to go

That’s about all there is that we can say, some people just don’t care about their privacy until a blatant violation of it is right in front of their face, and nothing else except for that would ever make them care.

The energy is better spent on sharing info with people who want to do more for privacy, so that eventually it’s hopefully normalized to care about privacy.

I don’t know how many times Meta has to literally be worse than a movie villain for people to stop having stockholm syndrome.

They’ve ran experiments on their users putting negative content in their feeds to see how it affects their mental state, if you want that stuff on here, well, I don’t even know what to say.

They have a track record of being absolute garbage for decades.

Why does everything have to have Meta in it?

Seems like they split the video into two different ones after deleting the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDsW_xpRr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCaug10dRE

They started talking about this a long while back and a lot of instances have already preblocked their domain (mainly Mastodon/firefish/etc but some lemmy instances have too), you can check if it’s blocked or not by going to the instance list and scrolling all the way to the bottom

KDE: https://kde.org/stuff/metastore/

Gnome: https://shop.gnome.org/

Debian (partner stores, some give commission back to Debian): https://www.debian.org/events/merchandise

Opensuse: https://shop.opensuse.org/#!/

Those are all the ones I know of