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Shifty Eyes @ shifty @leminal.space
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  • Looking to make the switch - Advice?

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  • Start with

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    For all your gaming needs, there's a Steam app you can download from whatever app store or flathub, or download/install directly.

    I went from Windows to Mint Cinnamon, to PopOS, to PopOS Cosmic Alpha for the last year on both my laptop and desktop. PopOS and PopOS Cosmic Alpha have been great, minimal issues for me on Cosmic with gaming but there were a few hiccups or delays with newly launched games, more so an issue with Nvidia drivers than the OS. For example I had to wait a month or two after Starfield launched because there were bugs with the Nvidia drivers.

    Protondb is a great resource both for checking if a game runs well on Linux, and also checking troubleshooting steps if you do run into an issue, there might be some advice on what worked for other people to get a specific game running.

    Also avoid Razer or Corsair gaming mice or do your research on the specific model before buying unless you want headaches with not being able to edit the RGB settings. Best if you still have access to a windows machine if you want to own anything Corsair (or are fine with not being able to edit RGB settings). I have a Logitech G502X without RGB because of all the headaches I was having with my last few Razer and Corsair mice.

    Edit: OpenRGB is another resource if you have an RGB device and need to change some settings, there's a list of supported devices on the website.

  • [Request] Induction range in the $1,500 ballpark without a bunch of nonsense

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  • Food for thought: https://brander.ca/range/

    Replace Your Range With a Modular Kitchen

    Three years for us, now, and we've never looked back. My wife loves to cook, is brilliant at it, bakes bread, does a fabulous holiday turkey. And we just do not need a "range" that combines an oven with a stove.

    We gave up on the "range" concept when ours died twice, with every important part of it in perfect working order. Except, that is, for the tiny circuit board, that overheated a chip, or something, and refused to tell the perfectly-good components to turn on. The first repair was $1000, and the repairman said if it happened again, give up - just buy a new $2000 range. It failed again. We replaced it with what you see below, instead.

    We tried out a single-burner first, so we have just three. When that one dies, we'll replace with another double-burner. Either way, they run about $70-$80 US per burner.

    The praises of "induction" have been sung elsewhere. I won't compete, just say "It's all true in our experience; induction is the best".

    I'm jealous of those shopping for induction now: options have multiplied like crazy since we purchased. It's a hot area of innovation, if I may be forgiven the remark.

    Finding your own steel table, or perhaps your own solution with a carpenter, is left to the taste of the homemakers. Connie built this from a kit that came home in the car.

    The 220V adapter-plug allows you to run two double-induction cooktops totalling over 4500 Watts, off your old stove plug.

    After a lot of shopping, we concluded the Wolf oven was the top product, and since we were saving $2000, shrugged at paying $700 for it.

    And, crucially, this solution is modular. The cooktops are by far the most-used part; they may go every ten years. But also the cheapest part!

    We probably wouldn't use the roaster oven down there on the floor, that's just where to store it. But that's another value of modularity: we can take it out to the patio, to cook a roast in summer, and not heat up the kitchen!

    Similarly, it's just one minute's work to take one or two cooktops from here, to another counter, so that two people can work at once.

    So:

    • It's cheaper to buy to start with;
    • It's cheaper to replace, by far, just one part at a time, as different things wear out, rather than a single point of failure sending $2000 in mostly-good appliance to a junkyard;
    • It saves energy.
    • Every part can come home in a car back-seat; no delivery costs.

    While you're going induction, go "no range" while you're at it.

  • Athletic Shorts That Don't Suck?

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  • Under Armour Tactical Heat Gear compression undershirts.

    UA Performance Tech™ Mesh Boxerjock, either the 6in or 9in to prevent chafing, don't get the 3in version.

    Both last at least 4 years for me with daily use, rotating through about two weeks worth of undershirts and boxerbriefs. Machine wash and low heat in the dryer, I don't do anything fancy to make them last longer. I just replace the whole set in bulk once they start getting too worn. But I've never had holes develop and rarely have the stitching/seams come undone. Usually its the labels that start to wear off by the 4 year mark and I just figure its time to get a new set (or I feel like getting different colors).

    Maybe there's some buildup of deodorant on the undershirts after 2 years, but I just soak them in diluted rubbing alcohol and it all dissolves out.

  • Millions of Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills

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  • Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

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  • Password manager by Amazon

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  • My ex kept her's in an unprotected excel file. I never peeked, I was just surprised when I saw her accessing it on her laptop.

  • [Request] looking for a reliable/trustworthy site or resource to shop for cookware.

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  • [Request] looking for a reliable/trustworthy site or resource to shop for cookware.

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  • America's Test Kitchen has a bunch of reviews

    Edit: as others have said, look at restaurant supply stores in your area. Besides stainless, I'd also recommend carbon steel or cast iron since you're looking for durability and food safety.

  • The world could experience a year above 2°C of warming by 2029

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  • Instead of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, it'll be 6 degrees and we're all bakin'

  • Removed

    Trans former Wikimedia employee says abuse at the nonprofit is “organization wide”

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  • More than meets the eye 😏

  • 8BitDo refreshes Retro Mechanical Keyboard with new all-in-one package

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  • I use one of these Keycrhon numpads and customize the layout for excel. I got tired of the full wide keyboards that would get in the way of my mouse when gaming.

  • Just built my first ortholinear keyboard!

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  • Make one of them delete or backspace so you don't have to move your right hand so far off center.

  • Credit to Steve Nelson | Twonks

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  • Knock yourself out

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  • I'm pretty similar in the console to PC shift. Pretty much had all consoles and handhelds through Xbox 360/Switch/PS3.

    I still miss the Wii controls (I hate moving my neck for anything VR) but I don't think with Switch 2 motion controls/mouse will get me back on Nintendo. Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Trilogy were awesome on Wii. Only reason I bought a Switch was for Zelda but I didn't care for it and eventually gave my switch away, never finished BoTW. I don't think Metroid Prime 4 is enough for me to justify buying a whole console. So I'm planning to get a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.

    If we ever see a world where nintendo games are on steam and you don't need a nintendo account to play them, I would totally buy up all my favorite games and play them on PC.

    Otherwise I really don't care for the business model of re-buying the games I already own, just re-released on the latest console. Don't care for paying for online access. And the few games they have really aren't compelling enough for me to justify buying a console when I have hundreds of unplayed games in my steam library. (my humble bundle subscription snowballed my library lol)

  • Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production)

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  • Thanks for this, I appreciate the info!

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • SNES Consoles Appear To Be Getting Faster As They Age

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  • Its all losses on paper, unrealized losses.

    I could see them all coming out ahead in some other way, tax minimization, write downs/write offs, other financial methods not accessible to normal people that don't have a fleet of accounts and tax lawyers on retainer. And they'll all be ready to profit massively during and after any future crash.

    The cynic in me says that they all have a bunch of call/put options, algorithmic high frequency trading and dark pools at the ready, or other bets that'll make them massively rich and any upcoming stock market crash is calculated and planned by influencing a bought president. Maybe that's giving them too much credit but the people that advise these billionaires and the president are definitely ready to profit off of whatever is coming.

  • Thousands of children in England falsely accused of witchcraft in past decade

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  • And horoscopes

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    My mechanical keyboard with split spacebar (System76 Launch)

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    Open Source Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard

    www.crowdsupply.com /mnt/mnt-reform-next
  • BuyItForLife @sh.itjust.works
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production)

    www.crowdsupply.com /cool-tech-zone/tangara
  • BuyItForLife @sh.itjust.works
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    MNT Reform Next - A 12.5" modular, future-proof, open hardware laptop.

    www.crowdsupply.com /mnt/mnt-reform-next
  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    MNT Reform Next - A 12.5" modular, future-proof, open hardware laptop.

    www.crowdsupply.com /mnt/mnt-reform-next
  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
    Shifty Eyes @leminal.space

    Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production)

    www.crowdsupply.com /cool-tech-zone/tangara