By doing all the things

Which bit?

For CS2, especially around launch, this was advice fed to me multiple times on places like the linux gaming subreddit. And then also through my own experience of trying it out and comparing.

Black Mesa, this was also just known within the Half Life and Linux gaming communities. Plus if you tried playing the native you would start to hit your first set of visual bugs within the first 5mins, switching to Proton solved basically every issue lol.

And just to add on to this, CS2 has been shown to perform better under Proton than running it natively.

And yes I know before anyone points it out that VAC doesn’t work under Proton, but you can still try it out on a private no VAC server. Or, the way some people were doing it around the time CS2 launched (assuming this still works), installing Steam via Wine and then launching CS2 with Proton worked as well with VAC working.

And another example of using Proton over the native version of a game would be Black Mesa, where it was always advised to run the game with Proton due to less bugs and far better performance.

Oh but he will find that mail

41 posts by OP, only 4 comments on a 24 day old account…

Yeah OP definitely needs a better hobby lol

Yeah this is pretty much smack on.

I’m an IT Consultant that works 99% remote (occasionally in the office, but they are trying to get us in more), temp contractors I see tend to have the highest amount of freedom but lose on the job security, us permanent hires have to seek permission to travel and work, but have our job security.

Then there are the client requirements as well, some demand on site consultants every day, others occasionally, then the majority in my experience are more than happy with pure remote work.

We working at the same place are we?

My company will start to give reminders 5 minutes beyond their arbitrary ‘deadline’, but will take months and months and months to sign off on a promotion…

Okay… Want to elaborate on that?

I’m not “getting up in arms” about it, but rather trying to understand a very confident double down on their comment in a public forum.

The advice to not touch something “unvetted”, the fact they so confidently said it was “straight up unknown”. Just because you haven’t heard of something does not mean you can now confidently start telling people that it is unknown, don’t touch it, etc. This isn’t Reddit…

You’re the one that mentioned about Garuda not being privacy focused though? I don’t really get why you wouldn’t just answer the question if you were responding anyway?

2007 MSN was still very popular for high school students here in Australia

Actual discussion is still possible in the Fediverse, at least for now.

Somewhat recently I was talking to a close friend about their brother and how he has been acting, particularly how he approaches discussions with those around him. My friend was telling me about a discussion they were having, and the only response his brother could give him was “you are uneducated and misinformed”, but couldn’t actually formulate an argument to back up his side. I physically laughed when he told me this and jokingly responded that he “sounds like a standard Reddit user”, my friend paused for a second, chuckled, then replied “he basically lives on that site”.

I’m yet to have this kind of online interaction on the Fediverse, and that is nice ☺️

Outside of something like TailsOS, what Linux distros are you regarding as “privacy focused”?

So because you don’t know about it, “it’s straight up unknown”?

It’s not an unknown browser? Firedragon was the default browser in Garuda Linux (not 100% sure if it still is), Garuda if you didn’t know is quite a popular Linux distribution that has attracted a bit of attention over the years mostly for its OOTB theming.

“Bullshit I missed that parry! These fucking devs”

Don’t care about follower numbers, and post what’s on your mind or engage with others as you see fit. The big one for me though was curating my tabs (feeds), using Antennas was easy for this. So for example, my ‘Home’ tab is an Antenna tab with a bunch of keywords and phrases that I’m looking for, for example ‘linux gaming’ and ‘retro gaming’.

Took some setup, but super happy with it now

Not your question, but just want to talk about the Mastodon bit.

I’ve always been interested in microblogging platforms since Twitter originally released, but I’ve never been able to really engage with them. Over the years I tried Twitter numerous times, later X, tried Bluesky a couple of times, and also tried Mastodon and failed to stick with it.

However lately I’ve switched to Sharkey (using Aria on Android), which is a fork of Misskey. Sharkey federates with Mastodon, Misskey, and a couple of others that I’m mind blanking on right now.

It’s only been coming up to a month since I switched, and I’m absolutely loving it! Plenty of engagement, the Antennas keywords and phrases thing is awesome, and it’s just really nice to be on a platform like that without a damn algorithm dictating what I consume

The Nintendo Wii.

Like so many, I fell to the marketing hype. Was completely bored of the thing after like a week. Where it was definitely some peoples cup of tea, it was most certainly not mine

Adding Slow Gods to my backlog, thanks for sharing the recommendation 😊