dustyData

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[–] dustyData 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That's called false flag operation. Police or shock groups dress in the target group way to cause and instigate vandal behavior then justify a more violent counter action.

[–] dustyData 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Hunt for Red October is far more thrilling if not as realistic. The characters are far more unique and interesting, though jack Ryan and anything navy/CIA is just propaganda. At least it is fun to read propaganda.

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 months ago

Some linux installers will refuse to erase the bitlocker partition automatically. Then you have to manually erase it before running the installer.

[–] dustyData 6 points 3 months ago

This is the fuel underneath the 8 years long plot of Barry.

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 months ago

True that, the tri-core PowerPC is quite a unique challenging mess. But underneath it is just the same processor.

[–] dustyData 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My biggest fear is that so far Nvidia has a track record of introducing regressions and new bugs with each new driver version. Just a week ago all my flatpaks weren't working on Wayland, again. It happens almost with every single update. Some games that are native or platinum randomly stop working and it takes several updates before they start working again. While on AMD everything just works all the time and regressions are solved in a day not weeks. It's just annoying.

[–] dustyData 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If gaming is top priority. Go all amd, disregard Nvidia. AMD has extraordinary linux support and if it runs on the steam deck it will run on any all AMD machine.

[–] dustyData 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Always remember to disable secureboot and remove bitlocker before installing linux on a oem windows machine. They make it hell to remove that malware from newer machines.

[–] dustyData 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I know it is hard to believe. But the gamecube, Wii, and wiiu are the same machine. Same architecture and family of processors (IBM's PowerPC). That's why the wiiu is just a Wii with a beefier CPU (three Wii cores slapped together), and then a newer more powerful GPU sticked to the side. Thats why a single emulator can target all three consoles. The switch 2 will just be a newer version of the Tegra chip.

[–] dustyData 87 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have you ever sat in front of a casino's slot machine. They are also trash, awful and disgusting. But they're also engineered with the worst dark pattern psychology to manipulate any human being that sits on it to keep playing and be so addictive that people will burn their money just to keep playing. The qualities of fun, and additive are independent of each other. A game can be very addictive and really bad at the same time. Unlike slot machines, they have the advantage of constantly sitting in your pocket and going with you everywhere you go.

[–] dustyData 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I found them when looking for a gaming laptop to buy. A model that was regarded by everyone to be a solid mid range, with a strong cost to performance ratio and sensible cost reducing compromises, was reviewed by UB as the worst thing ever. Their review was a complete outlier and awfully childish and filled with gratuitous insults and aggressive gamer slang language. I ended up buying that laptop and it's exactly what others claimed, a solid mid performer. I blocked them from my results ever since. I can imagine who their core audience and community is, and it's exactly the kind of place I never want to visit.

[–] dustyData 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can go a step further. Lemon is a cleaning agent and was used in households mixed with vinager and baking soda to scrub and clean. So people associated the lemon smell with a cleaned house. It was only natural to use lemon scents in industrialized products. Same reason lavender is also popular. Lavender flowers are incredibly easy to extract the smell and were a common homemade aroma. So it was the first smell industrialized for ambient scenters and cleaners.

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