chikorita157

chikorita157, 12 hours ago

@GouacheAirship Nope

chikorita157, 13 hours ago

@yon If only Apple was more serious about gaming, it wouldn't have gotten left behind.

I wonder, if Steve Jobs was still around, would Apple still go the Metal only route or adopt Vulkan and keep OpenGL and CL around.

chikorita157, 10 hours ago

@yon I mean, if Apple intend to make all the Macs gaming capable, they should add Vulkan support and make life easier.

Then again, “Pro” laptops and desktops tend to have the best graphics. Still, kind of sad gven they used to tout their Power Macs for gaming, as seen with the Rage 128 and even demonstrating games during the Keynote.

chikorita157, 22 hours ago

@irfan I really need to find the root cause. The backend appears to be working, but Nginx cannot communicate with it through the reverse proxy. I think this is the second time this happened this month.

chikorita157, 16 hours ago

@yon Sold to a russian company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

chikorita157, 1 day ago

@NaraMoore Sorry to hear

Do they have any idea what might be causing the throttling issues?

chikorita157, 1 day ago

@mikoto True, especially given that Gamer's Nexus video with them doing a warranty claim for broken sticks, and getting an invoice for an unrelated problem that doesn't need fixing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

chikorita157, 1 day ago

@dopey_kun @fujiwara No matter how many people hype up Desktop Linux, I don’t think it will ever go mainstream. Don’t get me wrong, Linux is great for server, but not so much with Desktop Linux as it's not the easiest thing to use and it takes a lot to get stuff fully working, especially if things break. @yon
probably know this well. While I am very skilled at computers, I do not use Linux as a main OS as I want things to work and I need commercial app support.

Another drawback as to why Desktop Linux won't catch on is the lack of support for commercial apps, which are typically only made for Windows and Mac, namely Adobe products, and other creative software. Sure, there are open source alternatives, but they may not be as compatible with industry standard formats, not as fully featured, or not as easy to use.

I would only really recommend it if the user is willing to learn how to use Linux with the caveat that they will have to do a bit more to get things working or having to fix potential problems. Otherwise, the other best alternative is just to get a used or refurbished Mac as it has good support for commercial apps and not as intrusive as Windows 11. Hacking new macOS releases on unsupported Macs take a little bit more work, but it’s not difficult.

Or just pirate Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, which has several more years of support.

If only we had more competition in the OS space... if BeOS and OS/2 didn't die off...

(I'm a Mac user, I hate Windows, but I have to use it sometimes, and at work)

chikorita157, 1 day ago

@fujiwara @dopey_kun I have installed Nobara Linux on the Asus ROG Ally and yes, games run well on Linux as it improved a lot, but for productivity, this is a big weakness Linux has, and Wine can’t run everything. Even so, it still took a lot of work to get fully working though.

I don’t do any gaming on my Mac, the days where a Mac is a viable gaming platform is long gone, but it excels at other things as productivity. I have separate handheld PCs I use for gaming in addition to consoles.

chikorita157, 2 days ago

@yon That is capitalism for you, needing to change stuff for the sake of change.

Kind of makes me want to go to the past when things are simpler. Then again, Classic Mac OS wasn’t the stablest thing either.

chikorita157, 2 days ago

@yon Never used Next for obvious reasons, but using the earlier versions of Mac OS X, emulated in PearPC in the mid 2000s, I wished i had a Mac instead of a shitty Dell. That is until I got the Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro in 2006

Also liked how you can do a lot of customizations through those Unsanity Haxies, although it can make the system unstable. Those were the day.

chikorita157, 2 days ago

@yon Tech in general has been rather mundane for a while. Apple Silicon is interesting, but they are just sealed, unupgradable machines. Back in the 2000s and even the 1990s, Macs used to be easy to upgrade and perhaps, more repairable and upgradable than it is now. Of course, while I got my own computer, although the “worst” Macintosh, the Performa 6200, it was at least better than any PC at the time. During my childhood, I actually tried playing some of the games I had on an IBM PS2 I think and it wouldn’t run because the video card can only do 16 colors. I know CDs are hard to get working on Windows system back in the day.let alone a sound card.

I just not very nostalgic towards Windows 95 or 98 like most people. It’s just not a good operating system. I just don’t like Windows in general, which is why I still use Mac
OS no matter how buggy it is. Glad I am since Windows is adding some intrusive features with Copilot.

If only there is an alternate reality where BeOS and OS/2 were viable alternatives. More choices would be better than just Desktop Linux, which has it’s own usability and ease of use issues.

chikorita157, 2 days ago

@jellal Bing api went down this morning and knocked out several search services that uses Bing’s indexes

chikorita157, 2 days ago

@jellal I knew since if you search for news articles, you get some items from Microsoft Start