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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Mandrake was my second distro, I think, I think I had knoppix before that. Used neither for long, switched to Ubuntu in the first or second major release. I was on Ubuntu until gnome 3 was released, then I threw up a little in my mouth and dustro hopped s bit until I landed on arch, which I also had for almost 10 years,

    Now I am on NixOS,

    No I am not sadomasochistic for using arch or nixos. There are benefits and trade offs, and I would not have used them for so long if it didn’t make sense for me.

    I’m against distro shaming, and DE shaming. Everyone can like what they like for different reasons. That makes Linux better!

    BTW, fun fact, both Arch and NixOS is older than Ubuntu, just fun to think about



  • Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)

    The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module



  • The answer is a bit complicated. Linux has a long history with HDR where you would need exact software and hardware, or else no HDR… Just know that it will get easier because the ball has already started to roll in the correct direction.

    But the shortest way I can say it now,

    If you use Valve’s game mode, (which is possible to get either using steamos, bazzite, chimera OS, nobara, or you can manually set it up. You should be able to get it to work. This should work for windows games that support HDR. AFAIK there are no Linux games yet supporting HDR. It should be possible to get videos playing with HDR also, but that would be an exercise for the reader, or wait until people make it easier.

    Please correct me if I am wrong, but I currently believe the newest version, of KDE and Gnome are now HDR ready. If I am wrong you might just need the newest beta which will become stable Q2 this year.

    Playing videos, I believe the newest version of MPV just got HDR support. With more apps incoming.

    Anything that let’s a gamepad or a remote browse your videos? AFAIK not yet, but be patient, as this is all new









  • I’m just waiting sometimes searching for an in depth guide, or an easy to use tool, to upscale my sg-1 dvd’s directly from original non compressed quality, to a more palatable resolution before they are compressed and converted to mkv. Tools being FOSS is a soft requirement, it kind of has to run on Linux, or I need to find an older dual core Intel Mac in storage or run windows in a vm.

    I don’t have any computers with a DVD drive any more, but I’m not opposed to buying one




  • You can do it! Did you beat hades once?

    Look up OP builds, use the Hera bow, and start with aprodite’s keepsake, and use aprodite’s cast with hera bow. This is the only required part for this build. Other than that Athena dash is always the best dash always always, until you find the game becomes easy. Poseidon attack with this build is suggested, but optional.

    In the mirror, focus on getting more death defiance, dashes and life regen. After that more health and the one that gives bonus damage if you have two curses on the enemy (you get one from aprodite’s cast, and one from poseidon attack + razor shoals boon)

    Use the same build over and over again and you will beat hades in a few tries.

    Learn the moves, when foes telegraph their attack, dash more. The hardest boss is the second to last boss. Won’t explain why, for sake of spoilers of you or someone else hasn’t gotten that far.

    You should use gold to buy max health, or healing more often. I bet you focus on buying boons first, you don’t need that with the build above

    When you first manage to beat hades, beat him like 9 times total i think to get the end credits. The prolog after the end credits has more story than before the end credits. Mainly give max amount of nectar to everyone to qualify for the big ending in the prolog


  • My favorite story now that Hades 2 the video game is in early access, is that Melenöe, Hades daughter, was conceived by Zeus disguised as Hades hitting up Persephone.

    They do skip details like this in the Hades games, also skip incest and inbreeding. They dont skip same gender relationships though, so at least there is some details that are retained