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New comment by malbs in "Aliens.gov Live"

malbs — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:00:33 +0000

"Somebody said Aliens, she thought they said Illegal Aliens, sign up"

Taking the whole UAP thing and turning it into a crusade against allegedly illegal immigrants is some top tier shitposting.

New comment by malbs in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

malbs — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:24:04 +0000

This is great. Nice work.

The galaxy explorer/map in Elite: Dangerous is pretty good, I wish they would produce a stand-alone application of just the galaxy map, whether it's even close to correct or not, who knows, but it's enjoyable just to pretend you can move instantly between star systems and go exploringthe galaxy

New comment by malbs in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

malbs — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:34:40 +0000

Here's a podcast deep diving into what it was he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J1JQaIrxRU

New comment by malbs in "Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash"

malbs — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:00:17 +0000

I love that Sarah Fitzpatrick has absolutely doubled down on this, gets sued, drops another article, "come at me bro"

New comment by malbs in "Is my blue your blue?"

malbs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:18:00 +0000

Also no way to account for the variation of LCD displays. The same "colour" can look different on two different panels

New comment by malbs in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

malbs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:24:21 +0000

The fastest 1km I ever ran was around 3m20s, I felt like I was sprinting, and was fully cooked at the finish line.

Afterwards I did some quick numbers and realised the average marathon runner was not only going a lot quicker than I was, but they were doing it for a further 41km

New comment by malbs in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

malbs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:36:06 +0000

Thanks for those, but I can't trust that a random post to a mailing list from a compromised email address, to provide backing to someone else's argument is proof of life

New comment by malbs in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

malbs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:23:39 +0000

When did Satoshi make an appearance in 2015? I couldn't find the spot in the article where the author cites it. Everywhere I've read it states his last interactions were 2010, and his wallet hasn't been touched since then either.

Based on everything I've read, I think Satoshi is Len Sassaman

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:46:28 +0000

dude, the whole Linus sticking his finger up at nvidia meme? Its still real in 2026. The opensource ABI whatever the fuck they call it is trash. I'm absolutely ready to purchase an AMD card next GPU I buy. I don't want to give nvidia anymore money, I'm done. It'll be AMD GPUs from now on no matter the performance diff, purely because they've got a better attitude to supporting non MS deployments.

There's too much TPM/SecureBoot/Enroll key hoops you have to jump through that a lot of distros just haven't bothered with.

If I'm being completely real, I'd be running FreeBSD 15. I just could not get a working nvidia driver going in 15 and get a working X installation. Supposedly 15.1 fixes it, we'll see in June. I've always preferred the BSD design, fs layout, etc, and I would love to have a FreeBSD desktop with a wine 11 install that actually plays games.. the dream!

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:04:29 +0000

yeah, sorry

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:45:25 +0000

yeah, I've heard this too.. and I'd rather my rig just works rather than try and stuff around making it work under linux + I know iracing is cooked anyway, and I've spent enough money on the rig to just want it to work, and not get stuffed over by some anti-cheat, maybe soon

picture of my rig https://www.arcturus.com.au/rig.jpg

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:29:03 +0000

I agree, but I'm sure Bazzite/CachySteamOS all have support for them on boot.

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:28:26 +0000

yeah, on install you select a window manager, I didn't bother trying any others, just opted to go to Debian instead

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:25:23 +0000

I tried cachy, but I decided I hate the kde plasma environment, I should have chosen some other window manager but wanted to try the recommended one

there is also something to be said, negatively, for the number of distros now, cambrian explosion since the good old days of slack, deb, redhat, suse lol

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:15:11 +0000

to give you a single data point, I've finally committed to linux on my desktop machine at home (I posted in another comment on this thread regarding my sim setup, thats another issue), but on the desktop machine, I installed steam, proton, downloaded a few games from my library, and they just worked on install, no stuffing around at all, no searching the web for fixes to get it going. It's probably been 6 years since I tried it, and last time I tried pretty much every game needed _something_) to be done to get it working. The level of technical knowledge required to get it going now is minimal, so maybe 2026 is the year of linux

the one caveat was, ubuntu 24.04 LTS still didn't recognise my xbox wireless controller out of the box, and I needed to get xone and compile it and install the driver, a minor inconvenience, but something that would be beyond one of my daughtrs or wife. I've since moved back to debian though but already armed with that knowledge so it wasn't any kind of surprise.

next step will be to migrate my work machine, but that one is more difficult because the primary dev is in Delphi, so it'll probably be a case of linux on the hardware, and virtualbox running a win10 VM to do compilations, the other parts of the job are basically all o/s independent python dev, so no problem there.. although I will miss toad for oracle.

New comment by malbs in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:05:29 +0000

On my wife's laptop, I've uninstalled MS AI 3 times. I'm just about to lose my mind. I'd have already wiped the machine and moved it to mint but the data in her one drive, bookmarks, etc, I'm sure migrating her over won't be a totally seamless experience. I also have not tested battlenet under linux wine in a long time, and I expect some level of anti-cheat to give me hell there.

On all of my machines bar one, windows is completely gone. I have a simrig, currently running win10, but the hardware there, simucube base, simucube pedals, require some drivers I don't believe exist under linux, and/or don't work properly, and then there is iracing with it's easy anti cheat usage, from my understanding I'm screwed there as well. So it'll live on Windows 10 until the day iRacing stops supporting windows 10, or start supporting linux.

after having written that, I wonder if the simucube tools will just work under linux anyways, the UI is all written in QT, maybe simucube has/is developing linux drivers, given they're finland based :) .. I'll need to test it out

New comment by malbs in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

malbs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:17:42 +0000

findstr is an underappreciated command line tool. I use it a lot

New comment by malbs in "Goodbye to Sora"

malbs — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:46:20 +0000

Conspiratorial thought - did OpenAI shut down Sora because one of their models started attaching it's weights to all the output videos, and some how escaped the farm? Not an original thought, "If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies" authors proposed this is an option for an AI to escape the sandbox. lol. Imagine.

New comment by malbs in "Migrating to the EU"

malbs — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:17:31 +0000

For email, I've been using migadu for a number of years now. Very happy with the service/support I get for the amount I pay per year

New comment by malbs in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

malbs — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:56:50 +0000

I feel like this commitment to Windows quality post is actually just copilot generated slop.

Someone in the comments here said nobody loves Windows. I probably did love Windows 7. I felt that it was the best of all worlds, huge support for hardware, basically rock solid on good hardware, gaming performance was fantastic.

In my opinion, Windows has spiraled downwards ever since 7. So much so that I finally switched to Linux permanently. Windows 11 and the forced AI integration was the absolute last straw for me.

The only thing that had really kept me on Windows lately was the gaming side of it. As I've gotten older, the games became less important. Now Proton pretty much gets me compatibility on 172 of 173 games in my steam library. Sure I had to search and find and compile my own controller driver, but it wasn't super painful, probably beyond the realms of an average user still.