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New comment by gabegm in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

gabegm — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:54:54 +0000

Use CachyOS or Bazzite instead.

New comment by gabegm in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

gabegm — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:56:14 +0000

I got mine from a reputable German seller on Ebay. Avoided AliExpress due to the negative reviews on r/thinkpad.

New comment by gabegm in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

gabegm — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:54:30 +0000

Out of curiosity, what is your ThinkPad struggling with?

New comment by gabegm in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

gabegm — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:07:28 +0000

Intel AX210 card worked for me out of the box in Linux.

New comment by gabegm in "Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement"

gabegm — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:49:20 +0000

I have recently switched to Rustdesk and it has worked quite well for my use case.

New comment by gabegm in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

gabegm — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:22:27 +0000

People have different work preferences; some thrive working from home, while others do better in the office. I think the strong opinions about mandated office days stem from the fact that the job doesn’t necessarily require employees to be physically present.

New comment by gabegm in "SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube"

gabegm — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:50:30 +0000

According to the extension homepage:

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...

There are currently 64,634 users who have submitted 230,432 titles and 107,027 thumbnails."

New comment by gabegm in "Homemade Pasta. Now Is the Time (2021)"

gabegm — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:02:00 +0000

There's a common misconception that fresh pasta is always better over store bought.

In fact, there are two different kinds of pasta here fresh (egg based) and dried (semolina based) pasta.

Egg pasta can easily be made at home, without even the need for any machines.

Dried pasta requires industrial heavy duty machinery due to the force required to shape the pasta.

It's also important to note that not all sauces pair well with fresh pasta and same goes for dried.

Nowadays I'm careful when picking dried pasta from the supermarket. I have learnt that the more yellow the colour, and the smoother the texture, the lower the overall quality will be of the pasta.

Looking for these key indicators will give you pasta with better texture and pasta water to use for your sauces.

New comment by gabegm in "A Grand Theft Auto III Re-Implementation"

gabegm — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:00:32 +0000

He's actually reviewing re3 which was the project DMCA'd by R* and involved manual decompilation rather than a complete reimplementation.

It's an interesting video to watch to get his perspective though.

New comment by gabegm in "Geospatial data science with Julia"

gabegm — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:02:45 +0000

It would depend on where most of the processing is happening.

PostGIS gives you the benefit of spatial indexes which are extremely performant.

I've seen Python GeoSpatial applications taking hours to finish processing which only took a few minutes when shifted onto PostGIS.

If you're also doing a lot of processing in Python, exploring other languages could also help. In the case of Julia you get a typed language that's also JIT compiled.