Laurel Raven

Mint works on dual monitors… I had it running fine on 4, one of which is an ultra wide (X11 can be a bit flaky about different sized monitors, but other than occasional oddity, it didn’t cause me issues)

Yeah, ones like D2 where the developer is actively hostile towards Linux to the point of banning people who manage to get it to run is going to be “use Windows or play something else”, unfortunately

I think it’s a little of neither on that one… It’s an effect of always assuming it’s the only thing installed on a machine and not actually caring about not stepping on competition to code the updater to look for and respect dual boot configs

I’m sure they’d look at it like a happy little accident

I’m not sure about the hardware acceleration, as far as I know it’s just worked for me (or it’s not been working and I’ve just not been aware), but for the bootloader breaking… Honestly, crap like that is why I don’t understand why Fedora is as popular as it is, it’s had weird issues like that pretty much since the beginning.

I’d recommend trying a different distro, maybe Mint or OpenSuSE, but bootloaders breaking on updates should be rare to non-existent

Yes, but they said “doesn’t work”, not “doesn’t work as I’d like”, which are very different things

Unless it’s just to teach the bastards a lesson, I wouldn’t bother… If they didn’t open, then they didn’t roast and taste like crap

Which games, out of curiosity?

This is true on Windows too

I use it for work (AD admin, kind of have to unless I want to change careers while I’m halfway to retirement), and at home I use it for a machine that’s dedicated to running simulator games (I can get the peripherals to work in Linux for the most part, but a lot of the setup for them is Windows only and since it’s only used for that, I’m currently just sucking it up there… Though I’ll need to keep something around even if I switch that system since some of them can only be programmed via Windows, like my VKB flight sticks)

I’m guessing memory almost full and no swap space

If you do, you may also need to get EU versions of the games… I don’t know if they’re still region locking them but at the very least used to be a common practice

An eco-friendly dystopia

Probably at least as powerful as a raspberry pi

I’ve got a few capacitive buttons in my car, none of them critical, but I’d gladly replace them with the physical buttons in the lower tier version of that car…

Like, how is this considered the nicer option? Hell, I think they’re actually cheaper for the manufacturer than proper buttons at this point…

But sure, I really want to have to try three times to turn the vented seats on because I don’t hit the exact right spot on the pad, only to accidentally switch it to the heated seats in triple digit weather while reaching for the AC knob (which actually is physical, thankfully)

That’s only really true if you’re going to be storing the password in a secure vault after randomly generating it; otherwise, it’s terrible because 1) nobody will be able to remember it so they’ll be writing it down, and 2) it’ll be such a pain to type that people will find ways to circumvent it at every possible turn

Pass phrases, even when taken with the idea that it’s a limited character set that follows a semi predictable flow, if you look at it in terms of the number of words possible it actually is decently secure, especially if the words used are random and not meaningful to the user. Even limiting yourself to the 1000 most common words in the English language and using 4 words, that’s one trillion possible combinations without even accounting for modifying capitalisation, adding a symbol or three, including a short number at the end…

And even with that base set, even if a computer could theoretically try all trillion possibilities quickly, it’ll make a ton of noise, get throttled, and likely lock the account out long before it has a chance to try even the tiniest fraction of them

Your way is theoretically more secure, but practically only works for machines or with secure password storage. If it’s something a human needs to remember and type themselves, phrases of random words is much more viable and much more likely to be used in a secure fashion.

This just confirms my decision to never fly United again

Guess that means it’s time for RTO!

(Yes, I’m a bit salty, how could you tell?)