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What distro do you use and why?
  • Fedora 41 KDE at home on my daily driver laptop and desktop.

    Antix on my dell mini netbook.

    Multi machine VMs I manage at work run on red hat enterprise with no DE or WM.

    My web app servers at work run Ubuntu server 24 LTS with no DE or WM.

    My home lab runs on fedora 41 server, no DE or WM.

  • What is your directory structure like for programming?
  • I have a folder for my projects on root and within those projects I have my GitHub repos all contained within their own directory named the same as the project.

    If I am learning something, I have a folder for the topic I am learning, and a logseq file with all of my notes. Then I have folders for my book references, one for video or audio references, and then a folder for my practice projects.

  • Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops?
  • I manage the few linux servers at my company. I use a windows laptop to ssh to my servers. Windows for me is fine, but I do very little on it outside of ssh or emails. However, I would never use windows outside of this.

  • I have an Nvidia GPU, should I get an Intel or AMD CPU?
  • Fair point. Hadn't followed recently, but that suggestion makes sense. I would personally buy used, but I totally understand others not wanting to and buying the newer chips would make the most sense there.

  • Book Review: Continuous Architecture in Practice
  • I would totally be down for this. I am currently reading zero trust networks (2nd edition), but this is mainly due to the company I am working for looking to open up some web apps to the public internet. I am also reading Net Zeros and Ones to look more at data sanitizing.

    Then fun reading is 2001 a space Odyssey.

  • I have an Nvidia GPU, should I get an Intel or AMD CPU?
  • You could go either way. But with the shit going on with the 13th and 14th gen Intel chips, I personally would rather go the AMD route. I would actually probably go with 5000 series chips with ddr4 ram for the savings. It would probably still be a huge upgrade for me, and it would be overall a much cheaper upgrade. If you are gaming primarily, the 5800x3d is still an amazing chip for gaming when it comes price to performance.

  • How proficient do you rate yourself in your most coded language?
  • I think my job requires me to work in too many different areas. So although I can work in several languages and dev stacks, I am probably only a 2 or 3 or less out of 5 in all of them. However, network and server infrastructure, and cybersec/opsec I am probably more in the realm of a 4-4.5.

  • UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it
  • I have been completely hooked on this game. Night manor so far has been my favorite and I cherried that on. But Bushido blade has been great too. Lately I have been bashing my head against star waspir, and it is so much fun.

    Vainger is also really cool.

    So far everything I have played on this game has been great.

  • What are some PlayStation games you avoid?
  • This opinion is unpopular among all but one of my friends, but I actually find tank controls to be fairly intuitive. If I haven't played one in a while it takes me about 10 minutes to adjust, but after that, it is second nature for me. But I did play a ton of RE as a kid. Maybe that's why.

  • Beginners Guides
  • I have been using terminal almost exclusively for about a decade or more. But, when I started I just decided to do it. And that meant that every time I wanted to do something, it would take me forever because I would have to look it up. Eventually, I got faster and faster and now anything I want to do with a gui, I can almost certainly do faster with terminal.

  • wtf I hate using AI for programming, but today it was useful for Rust
  • I don't mind AI for coding assistance. Sometimes I am writing a function and it suggests basically what I was going to write anyways, then I just have to hit tab and move to the next section. Sometimes I use it to add comment descriptions to my functions so I don't have to type it manually. Sometimes I use it to spitball ideas.

    I think the trick is to use it as a tool to make yourself better, not to do the work for you.

  • The Future Is Here! Pop!_OS's Much Awaited COSMIC Desktop is Now Available for Alpha Testing
  • Depending on performance, I may have to try this out. I used to enjoy pop os before gnome seemed to cause so many performance issues for me. Since then I have been on fedora with KDE, which has been remarkably stable for me.

  • picked up the pixel 7, will (eventually) be testing some performance.

    Hey all,

    A while back I made a post requesting any information about emulating games on the Tensor chips from google.

    Just recently I broke down and bought the pixel 7.

    I will likely be doing some gaming and reporting back here what I find. I will try and aim for the harder to emulate of each of the big console generations that are currently well supported on android.

    With that all being said, are there any here that would like any games tested on the pixel line? I have an extensive physical retro game library and have the means to rip the roms from any of them.

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    Google Pixel Phones and Emulation performance.

    I am currently a primary iPhone user, however I am planning a return to android in the next year. I always use custom Roms and lately it feels like I will be moving to GrapheneOS which will require me to move to a pixel phone. I have used a pixel in the past with GrapheneOS on a pixel 4a, but I have yet to use a non snapdragon variant.

    I know historically, at least it seems, that Adreno tends to get the most development of emulation geared towards it, specifically on the high end. But, does anyone here have experience using Mali on higher end emulators. I see yuzu has added support recently, but I usually stick too my steam deck for Yuzu. Generally I would be curious about AetherSX2 performance, but any level of insight is greatly appreciated!

    Either way I will being going with it, so I suppose I can follow up here with my testing and compare it, relatively poorly, to the SD 8gen1 in my tab s8 ultra.

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