Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. For years now I’ve avoided buying RAM with anything less than a limited lifetime warranty. I would hope that manufacturers wouldn’t renege on their own warranties, but these are crazy times…
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Check the warranty status! Some modules have a lifetime warranty for hardware defects. Not sure if this applies to you, but it could be an easy replacement without having to pay today’s ridiculous RAM prices.
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Games@lemmy.world•So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape?English
7·1 month agoIt’s a game, heavily inspired by the mixtapes of our shared youth. Some people say it’s not a game, because it doesn’t meet their definition of “game.” Some call it a “walking simulator,” which has a pejorative connotation. I haven’t played it yet, but I plan to, critics and purists be damned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes upEnglish
6·1 month agoSeconding Winboat, works great for the one piece of software I have that is stuck on Windows. At this point I am 100% not going back, I even wiped my Windows disk. That drive is for trying out other distros now.
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Games@lemmy.world•Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)English
9·4 months agoIt’s an initial proof-of-concept. It’ll be developed into more complex games eventually, that’s not really an issue for it
Except it is an issue, just one being masked by the mountains of cash these companies are burning to provide AI. To increase the depth and complexity and actually store state would require orders of magnitude more energy, compute, memory and storage. The AI bubble is causing very single one of those to become more expensive. At some point the market will call bullshit on these companies (“show us profit, or at least exponential revenue growth, or line go down”), at which point these companies will attempt to download the costs onto their users. When people see the bill and realize what these services actually cost, the whole thing is gonna collapse like a flan in a cupboard.
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Games@lemmy.world•Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% markEnglish
32·7 months agoThe vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks
I believe this is incorrect. The Steam survey break down GPUs by description and the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”, which only accounts for 0.39% of respondents. That implies that the vast majority of survey respondents using Linux are actually on PC, not the Deck.
I did almost the exact same thing, on the same timeline! Installed Bazzite on a second NVMe sometime in the spring, and it’s been my daily driver for months now. For the first couple months I was swapping back and forth due to some graphics driver instability, but that’s because I got a 9070XT at launch and it took a bit for the Linux drivers to get to where they needed to be. That’s pretty much sorted now though, and I can’t remember the last time I booted into Windows.
Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?
I might use mine to try other distros. Bazzite has been great so far, but I’m not sure I’m sold on immutability and I might try a non-Fedora based distro.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvementsEnglish
6·10 months agoCurrently using Bazzite. Wanted something rolling release but I didn’t want to do extensive tinkering, and Bazzite ticked both boxes. Other distros I tried (PopOS, LMDE) struggled with my monitor layout. Main monitor is high refresh rate and VRR capable, secondary monitor is 60hz, not VRR capable, and it’s in portrait orientation. That combination is very not ideal for some window managers, as I discovered the hard way. I’m sure I could have fought through that on other distros, but it all worked out of the box with Bazzite.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvementsEnglish
281·10 months agoDebian Testing is unstable?
Naw, Debian Unstable is unstable. /s
Jokes aside, I don’t think I’d use Debian as a daily driver for desktop Linux, and I really like Debian. Now, for a server? Debian all day erry day. But as soon as a GUI is needed, I’m gonna look to another distro. For context though, that’s mainly because my daily driver needs to be gaming capable, and I have a very recent GPU. Debian 13 has Mesa 25.0, but 25.1 and 25.2 have fixes that keep some of the games I play from crapping out.
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Games@lemmy.world•A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?English
2·1 year agoI must have missed that negative sentiment entirely. I played all three and had no complaints. Did some searching, and apparently a lot of the gripes were related to levels being cut down in size / broken down into pieces to allow for a console release (strict memory requirements). Also I think they changed engines for the 3rd game, or at least a lot of people complain that movement and controls were worse in DS. I guess ignorance is bliss, cause I enjoyed them all.
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Games@lemmy.world•A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?English
9·1 year agoDo you mean Thief: Deadly Shadows? That was the 3rd game in the series, and from what I understand it was pretty well received. The orphanage level alone is so highly regarded that it has its own Wikipedia page.
Now the 2014 reboot, just titled Thief, that was so poorly received the it basically killed the series. It might have been a decent game, but it was not a good Thief game.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Should I get a sysadmin certification for Oracle Linux?English
8·1 year agoNot the person you replied to, but I’m in agreement with them. I did tech hiring for some years for junior roles, and it was quite common to see applicants with a complete alphabet soup of certifications. More often than not, these cert-heavy applicants would show a complete lack of ability to apply that knowledge. For example they might have a network cert of some kind, yet were unable to competently answer a basic hypothetical like “what steps would you take to diagnose a network connection issue?” I suspect a lot of these applicants crammed for their many certifications, memorized known answers to typical questions, but never actually made any effort to put the knowledge to work. There’s nothing inherently wrong with certifications, but from past experience I’m always wary when I see a CV that’s heavy on certs but light on experience (which could be work experience or school or personal projects).
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PC Master Race@lemmy.world•[Solved] My PC suddenly won't turn on. Need help.English
4·1 year agoI also unplugged the psu for a while. It makes a slight buzzy noise after powering the computer, but I do not know if this is normal.
I’d recommend starting with the PSU. A buzzing noise is not a good sign. This article has details on how you can test your PSU: https://www.howtogeek.com/172933/how-can-i-test-my-computers-power-supply/
You can perform a basic test with just a paper clip or a bit of 16 or 18 gauge wire.
It sounds like the PSU is giving some power, given that the keyboard lights up. The issue could be isolated to one or more rails, e.g. it’s not delivering anything / enough on the 12V or 3.3V rail. I’m guessing 5V is OK since that’s USB voltage and your USB keyboard gets power. You’d need a multimeter to check individual power pins on the PSU connector.
Edit: if you have access to a second PC, you can swap PSUs between them. If the problem follows the PSU then that’s the faulty component. If the problem stays with the original PC then it’s likely motherboard, CPU or RAM.
If you can determine that the PSU is OK then the next step is to try booting with the bare minimum amount of hardware. That’s motherboard, CPU and one stick of RAM. If that won’t boot then you try with a different RAM. If it still won’t boot then the issue is motherboard or CPU. Before you replace either of those expensive components, try replacing the cheap CMOS battery as another poster recommended.
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Autism@lemmy.world•Seven standard "riffle" shuffles are needed to effectively randomize a 52-card deck.English
21·1 year agoAfter thoroughly shuffling, the exact order of the deck is one of 52! (52 factorial, or 52 * 51 * 50 * … * 2 * 1) possible combinations. That is such a large number that it’s possible, even likely, that the exact ordering of your deck has never existed before and will never exist again.
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Games@lemmy.world•Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review ThreadEnglish
62·2 years agoYeah, I don’t get it either. What I’ve seen doesn’t look anywhere close to an 8+ out of ten rating. Will be interesting to see the player ratings on this one…
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Games@lemmy.world•Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review ThreadEnglish
91·2 years agoI don’t dislike that art style in general, but to my mind it seems like a poor fit for a Dragon Age game. I guess they’re pivotinf strongly away from the series dark and gritty roots, which is unfortunate because I think that was one of its strong points.
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Games@lemmy.world•Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review ThreadEnglish
202·2 years agoWatching Skill Up’s review now, and oof. That art style… that writing. Don’t know who they made this game for, but it’s definitely not me.
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Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His WordEnglish
191·2 years agoOh I’m streets ahead, I never took him at his word in the first place.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit companyEnglish
31·2 years agoOpenAI on that enshittification speedrun any% no-glitch!
Honestly though, they’re skipping right past the “be good to users to get them to lock in” step. They can’t even use the platform capitalism playbook because it costs too much to run AI platforms. Shit is egregiously expensive and doesn’t deliver sufficient return to justify the cost. At this point I’m ~80% certain that AI is going to be a dead tech fad by the end of this decade because the economics just don’t work now that the free money era has ended.

I think the short answer is that it doesn’t. VaultWarden is currently open source, and no private equity organization can put the genie back in the bottle. If things get really bad then someone would likely fork the open source bits and maintain a pure open source version, in which case there would likely be a procedure to migrate existing VaultWarden installs to the purely open source successor. I don’t think VaultWarden users need to be overly concerned at this point.