... man I may need to switch to wafrn.net

this is cool. game guides aren't flashy, but the reason so many games journalism sites have invested so much into them is because they get traffic. a journalist owned guides site is exciting, and meaningfully different than the other existing journalist owned guides sites.

https://www.theverge.com/news/675764/polygon-guides-writers-big-friendly-guide-new-site

https://bigfriendly.guide/

an important part of growing up is realizing that naps are great actually and you were a fucking idiot for complaining about them as a child.

i get that wayland uses more resources, so i understand why people who like running linux on older hardware prefer x11. and since i don't really understand the technical details of it all, i'm open to the possibility there are some things about wayland under the hood that aren't ideal.

but the comments about wayland being a worse user experience just don't ring true at all to me. x11 was the source of some intractable problems for me, whereas wayland has "just worked" (at least in linux adjusted terms).

specifically, x11 could not work with my monitor setup - a high refresh 1440p monitor paired with a 60hz 1080p one. I was told x by design could not handle monitors with different refresh rates, so i had to limit everything to 60. but wayland handled it without issue out of the box.

i also had issues with vsync, vrr, and crashes in various games running at high refresh rates. these were also solved when i switched to AMD/Wayland, but it's hard for me to untangle how much of that wass Nvidia vs AMD or how much x11 vs Wayland.

hearing linux old heads complain about wayland is really strange as a newcomer, because the most intractable problems i ever encountered were caused by x11, and were immediately solved when i switched to wayland.

(that switch also coincided with switching from nvidia to AMD, which probably helped, but i was told some of my issues were specific intractable problems with x11 itself, not with nvidia drivers)

#linux #x11 #wayland

@TheZeldaZone not playing due to the BDS targeted boycott

@xgranade yeah, this is why I was kind of frustrated when ed zitton did that big piece on how awful low end windows machines are, but them completely wrote off Linux without even trying it.

I don't expect everyone to switch - like you said, many can't. but if you're professionally mad about the state of computers like ed is, you're invested enough in this to make the switch.

i really wish i could get one of these things (which are apparently called SPDT switches) hooked into a standard keyboard key switch. flip it on to hold the key down, flip it off to release.

i can't think of any practical uses for this, but i can think of MANY very silly ones.

@asterism a lot of the common autistic experiences that usually get memed didn't apply to me, but then I see one like this and feel like I've been run over by a freight train.

we got monday cornered

but motherfucker, it got us again

Racket, the journalist owned successor to City Pages, is doing a subscription drive.

if you live in Minnesota, i can't recommend them enough

https://racketmn.com/help-racket-get-to-5k-members-win-fabulous-prizes

#racket #minnesota #minneapolis #stpaul #twincities

@normplum freetube is one of the ones that has not worked for me, actually. the invidious API is hit or miss, and the local API has never worked once.

and yes, i know i could just use a normal RSS client for this, and i may do that at some point. i do use RSS, and follow some of my favorite youtube channels in there, but i have a broader list of channels i like that i prefer to just follow on youtube. the channels i follow in my RSS client are appointment viewing, ones i will make time to watch whenever they post something, whereas the ones i only follow in youtube are just things i like to watch when i'm in the mood.

i could set up a second RSS client just for those second tier youtube channels, but if i'm going to do that i'd prefer it to be one that is designed with youtube in mind.

are there any alternative youtube clients for linux and/or android that ... work? like consistently?

i don't really know how any of this works, but it seems like you could make a dead simple one that used RSS to get a list of videos from your subscriptions, and just yt-dlp'd anything you want to watch. that wouldn't get you the Full Youtube Experience, but if i wanted that, I'd go to Youtube.

but that's what all the clients i've tried seem to be aiming for, so they all depend on Invidious, and end up being dependant on whatever random open instance of it you've connected to.

#youtube #FOSS

just learned that they're re-printing bob in a standard legal mtg set, and that people think he won't be playable.

jesus christ what in the world is happening in that game? so glad i got out in 2019.

#mtg #bob

@sterophonick a classic

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