golden_zealot

golden_zealot, 2 days ago

Only if they all die.

golden_zealot, 3 days ago

They actually made the load time worse with their update. Not by a little, by a fucking tonne. Going from any interior to outside now takes like a full minute and 30 seconds, its ridiculous.

golden_zealot, 3 days ago

It seemed a lot faster for me prior to this latest update, but they were never superb. Here’s hoping either the mods can be fixed or bethesda can get their shit together.

golden_zealot, 3 days ago

That is the hackiest workaround I’ve ever heard lol but I will give it a shot, thanks.

golden_zealot, 5 days ago

That is a based decision, and something I expect you won’t regret if you stick to it.

golden_zealot, 10 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Ehhh, I think its probably code for

“We want to try to convince you that this was unintentional and not a calculated business decision that was made with the objective of profit at your expense.

We want you to believe that our multi-billion dollar company did not foresee this even though we have hundreds, if not thousands, of business analysts who work for us globally who definitely suggested this was a possibility in the first 10 minutes of account linking on PC after 4 months being suggested internally.

Also our PR people probably suggested it as a possibility.

Also our legal team probably suggested it as a possibility.

But even though we analyze the industry and the market and the users, and the business, and the case studies, and the marketing, and the games constantly, not stop, day and night, globally; please believe us that we are still trying to learn whats best for PC teehee.

In the future, we will be sure to try to force you into account linking from the beginning with any future release.

Please ignore our transgressions and instead give us money. Goodbye”

golden_zealot, 20 days ago

How did you do it, what are you using and how do you have it configured? Also interested in the costs.

golden_zealot, 20 days ago

Swell, thank you.

golden_zealot, 19 days ago

Perhaps a different perspective, but I am gearing up to switch at the moment.

While I have previously used Linux (I have been running Debian 12 on my laptop for about a year), I bought windows 11 for my Desktop as I was still under the impression that is was the only real way to play games.

I recently learned about what Proton has done for games on Linux and also noticed how many games are truly playable on Linux now with the ever increasing market share.

Even though I am using NVIDIA hardware, I have looked up the process for installing the NVIDIA drivers on Linux and while not as easy as AMD, it appears to be quite easy anyway (I am an IT graduate so it seems pretty straightforward to me).

It really was only games that was holding me back I think.

Windows, especially lately has been growing more and more and more and more invasive. I feel like in the last 6 weeks I have read tens of articles on how Microsoft is trying to insert ads into the OS, watermark the OS, install AI into the OS, force the use of MS accounts instead of local accounts etc, and it is completely disgusting. At this point given the recent activity, I would not at all be surprised if they started to try to enforce the OS as a “subscription service”.

The moment I installed windows 11 I knew it was going to be a poor experience, considering I had to create registry keys and manually relaunch the OOBE with flags in order to use a local account.

For all these reasons (Gaming becoming ever more accessible on linux, and MS consistently making their product less valuable), I will be switching to either Debian 12 on my desktop or Arch in the near future.

It is a disgusting corporate world we find ourselves in right now, but while this is in many ways a bad thing, I have never in my life noticed more people taking notice of that, becoming interested in FOSS, in Linux, in even considering no longer putting up with this kind of thing, and that gives me hope.

golden_zealot, 20 days ago

Single player, but stalker Gamma scratches that same itch for me better than tarkov ever could and its completely free.

golden_zealot, 19 days ago

No worries. The cost here is disk space as GAMMA is built on top of the free Anomaly game. In total, it looks like its costing me 89.3 GB of storage on an NVME, and they do recommend an SSD at least for the games (that total includes S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly, and GAMMA).

Anomaly can be obtained here www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly, and I believe you can get GAMMA from this discord discord.com/invite/stalker-gamma.

Follow the install instructions on the GAMMA discord when it comes to both Anomaly and GAMMA, they are pretty straight forward, and they have free support!

I think you would be impressed by the AI, it is some of the best enemy AI I have ever experienced. They peek corners just like a player would. The other day when I was playing, an enemy peeked a corner in front of me, shot me and immediately went back behind the corner. I walked into the building that they had peeked around and looked out of a window to see if I could spot them. The AI had backed up behind cover and was holding the corner they had peeked, not moving at all.

Never seen AI that smart in any game in my life, if I had walked around that corner, I would have been dead!

While the game is unforgiving and there is a fairly steep learning curve, it is one of the most incredible games I have played in my life, again, for free!

Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot :)

golden_zealot, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

I walked down a path like an alleyway or large aqueduct. It was the middle of the night and water rolled down the slope in the direction I was walking. Walls on either side of me, several stories high, were made of immense sandstone blocks. I entered an underground chamber through a barred gateway in the wall on the right, already open, waiting for me.

A few twists and turns and down a flight of stairs, and I could see a room beyond with 3 walls. The side farthest would open up to me if not for the large rusted bars that separated the space, save for yet another gate to the right. Just past this gateway on the left there was a stairwell with its first steps in the corner forward and to the left.

In front of the bars on the side of the entry way, there seemed to be a mound of dirt or trash. Nearest the corner to my immediate left after walking through the gateway, an old wooden door stood closed. A guardian stood to the left of the door in the corner with the head of a jackal. The guardian of the door spoke to me and said “Open the door. There is no going back.” in a low doubled voice that I seemed to hear in the air, but also in my head. I hesitated and turned my head to the left to look back one more time in the direction I came from.

Just past the bars now, atop the mound of refuse and filth, I saw the dirty white skeleton of a deer resting with its head upright, both living and dead. As my gaze turned to the left revealing it, I seemed to glimpse that it’s skull was turning to its left at an identical cadence to mine to look right at me, like a mirror with left and right reversed. When our gazes stopped squarely looking at each other it felt jarring.

It looked right into me with its gaping black eye sockets and rotting meat festering and falling from its ribs, legs, and neck. It looked at me expectantly, and after looking at me for a moment longer, it turned its gaze away from me and turned to black dust which itself seemed to dissipate into nothing on the mound.

I turned to face the door, turned it’s handle, and stepped through into a pure tar black which seemed to consume my memory and consciousness entirely.

golden_zealot, 23 days ago

The Oxford comma is the difference between helping my uncle Jack, off his horse and helping my uncle Jack off his horse.

golden_zealot, 23 days ago

Well shit, that does make sense.

golden_zealot, 27 days ago

Also the user interface and builtin solutions for torrenting, hosting, address booking make it way more user friendly for people to start using I find.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

No Country For Old Men.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

+1 for air VPN, using it as well.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

Depending on your usage, perhaps this re-implementation of AHK for Linux might be of use to you.

github.com/phil294/AHK_X11

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

Just in case you were not aware and you find it more suitable for your needs, they do sell devices such as this for very cheap:

ae01.alicdn.com/…/2-4G-Wireless-Original-Rii-i8-M…

They are recognized as a typical wireless keyboard on most systems.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Check out revolt chat. It’s an attempt to make a Foss clone of discord.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

Marx’s theory of alienation rings a bell:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Marx's_theory_of_alienation

golden_zealot, 1 month ago

That’s ok I don’t really want spyware anyway.

golden_zealot, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.

It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.

The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone’s data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.

The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).

golden_zealot, 14 days ago

Build a home on it. Live the hallway dream.