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New comment by rounce in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

rounce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:33:14 +0000

FYI xcancel is just a mirror that allows reading replies without needing an account.

New comment by rounce in "Cursor 3"

rounce — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:17:34 +0000

Why does nearly all product marketing these days have to be delivered via "personality led" marketing?

New comment by rounce in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

rounce — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:10:40 +0000

The UK constitution isn't a "vague set of traditions", it is spread across a number of acts of Parliament.

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

rounce — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:01:32 +0000

Linux kernel provides ways to observe from user space. The problem is that there’s nothing to stop someone running a kernel which neuters anticheat tools ability to observe using that functionality. As far as I’m aware the only way to mitigate that is via measured boot attestation and having signed kernel etc.

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

rounce — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:33:15 +0000

Nice, glad to hear it.

New comment by rounce in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

rounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:38:11 +0000

How is this a barrier to using a microcontroller? I've sent http requests from many different microcontrollers.

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

rounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:35:40 +0000

Yes very much this. It is possible to modify an existing prefix but there are quite a few things to do, it's easier to back up savegames and game config files and then create it anew.

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

rounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:55:32 +0000

What is your specific wheel hardware? It should simply be a case of binding the wheel axis in Content Manager’s controller options.

Hop on either matrix or discord listed at https://simracingonlinux.com and one of us will be happy to help you work through the issue.

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

rounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:45:28 +0000

Simucube uses the hid-pidff driver which is built into the kernel. For setting up the base using the SC2 software there is a guide available[0]. I’m not an SC owner myself but there are a few people on the SimRacingOnLinux[1] discord who seem to have everything working nicely.

0: https://granitedevices.com/wiki/Using_Simucube_wheel_base_in...

1: https://simracingonlinux.com

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

rounce — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:41:11 +0000

AC works fine just requires a little extra setup, either use this script[0] or use the latest GE-Proton (with a fresh prefix), I recently updated protonfixes to fix a CM/CSP issue. The latter is better as newer Proton has some definite performance improvements.

0: https://github.com/sihawido/assettocorsa-linux-setup

New comment by rounce in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

rounce — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:25:24 +0000

Incredibly jarring lowercase 'a' in that. Far too prominent to the point of affecting readability.

New comment by rounce in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

rounce — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:36:11 +0000

No, it was 1.6 that was on the Steam beta. That was years before HL2 and CS:S were even leaked let alone released.

New comment by rounce in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

rounce — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:24:08 +0000

That’s a wild exaggeration. Yes they underperform relative to the Windows drivers but my experience is far from “cutting framerates in half” nor “borderline impractical”. I’ve had the last four generations of Nvidia card (currently on 5070Ti) on Linux and played demanding games just fine.

New comment by rounce in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

rounce — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:49:08 +0000

Though currently Proton has not yet shipped a release which uses Wine 11.

New comment by rounce in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

rounce — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:10:52 +0000

Why have `

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New comment by rounce in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

rounce — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:42:37 +0000

In your suggestion any other citizen has collective bargaining at their disposal, do they not?

New comment by rounce in "Why I love NixOS"

rounce — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:19:38 +0000

Why? Most people’s system configurations are publicly accessible on GitHub. Stuff like Omarchy only makes sense* when the system must be configured imperatively and there is a cost to trying things (accumulation of application residue). When you build your system declaratively you can just copy the bits you like from other people’s configs, or even just run their config as-is.

* IMO Omarchy doesn’t make sense anyway, far too much opinion and too little utility. It’s not a distro it’s some guy’s overly promoted pile of crufty scripts and dotfiles.

New comment by rounce in "Why I love NixOS"

rounce — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:25:10 +0000

Add `nix-darwin` to your path (it probably already is on it) and run it while in the directory of the flake: "nix-darwin switch --flake .#private"

New comment by rounce in "Why I love NixOS"

rounce — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:15:30 +0000

> the number of times ive been able to install something 'normally' (not via nixpkgs/flake) is approximately zero. You cant go to a website and download a binary and just run it

You can: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld

New comment by rounce in "Why I love NixOS"

rounce — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:04:51 +0000

The reproducibility is amazing in reality: you either just run the misbehaving server’s config in a VM (one command) or spin up a throwaway VPS and apply the config to that (one command and about 60s). One of the major benefits of reproducibility is not having to poke at production machines because that’s the one place you can manifest the issue, now you can reproduce the in-production issues in a safe environment and fix them there.