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Cake day: May 28th, 2024

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  • Don’t. a few years ago I made that mistake and bought 2 ships including the starter to just access the game. How much was that total? over $300. Initially it was alright but after awhile you quickly discover there’s just simply nothing to do. Also keep in mind when you “pledge” for these ships you can lose them when they finally decide to pull the trigger and roll that out. People will tell you “well you’re not buying the ships, you’re pledging to the game and the ship is just the reward” cause it gives you 6 months insurance with the ship. They haven’t turned on that “feature” yet and I dont’ know if they ever will.

    Hell at this point if someone wants my account i’ll just give it to them, i’m never going back to that scam of a “game”. I’ll switch the email and pw over to whatever you want. Then you can really get a “free trial”.







  • best anti-virus I’ve ever used? my gut n’ noggin.

    been online for 30 years and have never once got a virus or trojan or anything and I pirate A LOT. My point being you’re not going to find a super duper great anti-virus program and they’re all gonna be annoying and provide false positives etc. Windows defender is going to ping you a lot cause you’re using cracks to alter admin settings to get your pirated shit to work, that’s the point.

    Download from trusted sources and uploaders, do your research. if it feels off or looks iffy then bounce out. People who get virus’ and trogans and shit honstly don’t know what they’re doing and in many cases it’s all hogwash anyways to sell you anti-virus programs.

    Like really, truly, think about it for a moment who in your entire life has recently gotten a computer virus? out of all the people I know in my life I can’t even think of a single person that has.



  • a few years ago I bought these cheap no name bluetooth headphones off Amazon. maybe cost me at most $30. 3 or so years later I still use them and they are by far the most comfortable pair of headphones I’ve ever owned which is important since I wear glasses.

    Other headphones I’ve had would eventually hurt because they would press the side of my frames into my head. not these. The battery lasts a LONG time too, I only charge them maybe once or twice a week and they’re usually one for 8 hours a day. The range on them is great too. I can literally walk just about anywhere in my house and still be connected to the pc. and the mic on them is surprisingly decent too.






  • and even the challenging part doesn’t really have to be that hard and can quickly be figured out. either via a package installer or it can be as simple as git clone <insert git repo> then makepkg -si

    I mean with Arch and AUR it’s that easy. worse comes to worse if it’s not in Octopi or AUR then download the exe, wrap it in wine, and that should do it. I’ve been using Linux for almost a month now and I think the only thing I just couldn’t get working was some Mod package for a game and that’s only cause I’m lazy and gave up on it but it would work if I was dedicated to get it working.




  • This was one of the main reasons I made the switch.

    when I was using win10/11 for whatever reason once or twice a year, always at least once a year, the wifi on my laptop would just working. just wouldn’t connect to anything. sometimes doing a hardreset would work but usually it wouldn’t. even uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers did nothing. Nope Windows would just randomly decide that this thing isn’t worth it’s salt and wouldn’t acknowledge it’s existance. the ONLY fix was to reinstall the OS. It’s not like I was doing anything, just Windows deciding it didn’t want to work.

    Now on Linux everything just works. if I have issues it’s because of my own doing and they’re easy to work cause I know what I did wrong. worse comes to worse I got auto backups and just need to reinstall which takes all of like 5min. Or I can use it as an excuse to try another distro.

    That’s my biggest issue, I’m just so addicted to tweaking the thing now that it’s a dangerous rabbit hole to go down cause I know i’ll end up breaking something. It’s fun though. Just constantly tweaking and adjusting to get it “just right”.


  • I’m lucky where I’ve been able to get everything I need to work on Linux. It’s also very simple to get the stuff that I thought was windows only to work on Linux. Hell I was able to get some random Elden Ring program needed for a mod to work.

    Thankfully though it’s not hard to find what will and won’t work on Linux. I’m on an Arch distro so AUR is a life saver. I’d say 8 or 9 times out of time someone has already got a repo for what I need.


  • Windows 11. It was just so damn frustrating. about once or twice a year it would randomly kill my wifi adaptor for whatever unknown reason. regardless of uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, nope, would just prevent the wifi from connecting to anything and the ONLY solution was a OS reinstall.

    also my main machine is a laptop. a gaming laptop at that. with Win11 I could average about 30 to 45min out of the battery. It was just such a hassle to go anywhere (I work remotely a lot) and always have to look for a plug. Windows just ate my battery like it was a t-bone steak. I even thought I had to replace my battery.

    Then I just finally had enough and decided to try out Linux. Someone here on Lemmy suggested Mint as a good starter for me. Played around with it for like 3 days and decided to just backup everything and wipe my machine and install linux.

    Used Mint for maybe 2 weeks beforce deciding to switch to CachyOS. Mint was fine and all but wasn’t great with my Nvidia GPU. CachyOS has been awesome. Everything is faster. my laptop boots up super quick now, games run at twice the FPS than they did on Windows and my battery…holy shit my battery WASN’T dying. I now get 4 hours (!!!) out of it. For that reason alone i’ll never go back to Windows.


  • also just a heads up to potentially avoid the random “windows update will fuck shit up” problem look into ReviOS. If you’re just using it on a hobby box thing then that might be an option that will work out for you. it removes Edge, copilot, onedrive, all the bloatware removes the anti-privacy shit and lets you choose the updates.

    before I switched to Linux that’s what I was using over instead of just regular windows 11. I mean the preformance improvments wasn’t anything I would say was groundbreaking but it was noticibly faster than regular win11.