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Cake day: January 9th, 2024

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  • To answer the direct question, BTRFS works fine for gaming. Garuda uses BTRFS by default and I’ve been daily driving it for a few years now. My gaming machine hasn’t had an unrecoverable failure that wasn’t my fault (not checking consple output for errors when updating and then rebooting). Games on an ext4 file system work fine - that’s what I do for games I don’t play often. The main NVME is for games that are played regularly and everything else goes to the storage SSDs.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, it seems like you want an immutable distro more than BTRFS for what you want to do.



  • I admit that I am a bit biased. During the 8-10 years I tanked my startup by going all-in on Microsoft Store apps because I absolutely loved my Windows Phones and was convinced that they were the future, especially when Continuum was announced (and it actually worked!).

    The disenchantment started when Microsoft forced developers to rewrite their apps for Windows 10 after already having forced the mobile devs to do it from 7 to 8. The hatred ramped up when they killed support for the Lumia 950XL 6 months after launch. I freaking loved that phone.

    It pissed me off so much that I went to Apple lmao talk about cutting off my nose to spite my face.




  • Over-explaining is my biggest issue. I’m entirely self taught and the trash quality of certain softwares with non-descriptive variable and function names sort of steered me towards clearly naming things (sometimes verbosely). That has the unfortunate side effect of repetition when documenting and it comes across as sarcastic or condescending when proofreading.

    Its far easier to have a machine do it than to second-guess every sentence.

    You mentioned a llamafile, is that offline? I’m using GPT-4 at the moment because my partner has a subscription. If so, I maaaay have to check it out ^^





  • We have recently received a takedown request for content not directly related to these communities, but it prompted us to review other piracy related content and communities.

    What a pathetic response. I am interpreting this as:

    We will fold whenever we get a legal request, real or not.

    To users on .world, I strongly recommend scrubbing your posts, deleting your account, and then going to a different instance. These admins have proven that they WILL buckle to legal pressure no matter what - that means also giving up user data upon request. Your data is completely accessible by admins. That includes your private messages and unpublished pictures.

    Off the top of my head I can think of a few scenarios:

    • Being LGBTQIA+ in a country where its illegal to be
    • Consuming content from websites not approved by the Chinese government while being a Chinese citizen
    • Disparaging the Chinese government while being a Chinese citizen
    • Activism discussion (eg. extinction rebellion, antifa, the auntie network)
    • Right to repair in countries where its illegal to circumvent device DRM to perform repairs

    I’ve deleted my account there because that TOS and so-called privacy policy are complete and utter trash.