I know my way around a command line. I work in IT, but when it comes to my personal fun time more often than not I’m quite lazy. I use windows a lot because just plugging in anything or installing any game and it just working is great....
I’d suggest you give this article a read. If this does sound appealing to you, go right ahead. If you think you’d be frustrated with having to make all these changes, Arch likely isn’t something for you.
I don’t know how good it is, but for Turing and later GPUs there’s a new official open source driver being developed. You’d likely have to use a more bleeding edge distro to get that.
VR works depending on your headset. Index is fine, Oculus doesn’t work.
You could make a usb stick of your desired distro and test everything without permanent changes before commiting.
Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...
You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it’s not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die (www.techspot.com)
If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?
Best Audio Format for Storage?
What is the best format settings to store a physical music?...
Using any DE be like: (graph.org)
We've all been there... (sh.itjust.works)
I usually use .bak… .old seems so… old.
As a capable but lazy user, how much would switching to Arch frustrate me?
I know my way around a command line. I work in IT, but when it comes to my personal fun time more often than not I’m quite lazy. I use windows a lot because just plugging in anything or installing any game and it just working is great....
Total Recall (lemmy.world)
Windows 10 EOL PSA (lemmy.ca)
Windows 10 is EOL in October 2025 (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15988326...
Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)
Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...
Transparent compression layer on Linux?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15706364...
CentOS 6.3 - Best backup / restore solution?
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