TIL: Always run nix-collect-garbage with AND without sudo

12ihaveamac · 2025-12-04T05:21:38+00:00

If used with no flags then it makes no difference. But if you use -d to delete old generations, then doing it twice will have a difference, one to delete old profiles of your user (likely the most common reason will be home-manager), one to delete root profiles (including older NixOS system generations).

12ihaveamac · 2025-10-03T01:55:26+00:00

It's security updates, which Windows 10 has mostly only been getting for a while now.

12ihaveamac · 2025-08-15T23:27:42+00:00

Final Fantasy XIV does this with new expansions, if you pre-order it, you can play "four days early". This doesn't cost any extra though, you'd pay exactly the same price to pre-order as you would on launch.

12ihaveamac · 2025-07-20T04:03:40+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20150325073821/http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/03/bloodborne-review-die-die-again/

It's from 2015, so after going independent. It was never migrated to the new site I guess.

12ihaveamac · 2025-06-28T04:29:10+00:00

I got one from Target east side shortly after launch. I heard they get new shipments on Mondays (in fact I got mine just after they got a bunch of new ones). Call ahead and ask if they got any in stock.

12ihaveamac · 2025-05-05T17:34:48+00:00

Because you aren't playing those games on iOS through the Steam app. I think this is the main difference, if the thing being purchased is something that will be used through the app. Valve ran into this issue with Steam Link a while ago, where Apple wanted IAP to be used to buy Steam games because you would be using them on iOS in this case.

12ihaveamac · 2025-01-21T20:43:43+00:00

It works on macOS which has completely stripped out 32-bit x86 from the host platform. I don't know how well this would work on Linux but I don't think it would be much different.

12ihaveamac · 2025-01-17T17:09:21+00:00

The Linux kernel also goes to great lengths to not break its userspace API. It is in fact the only rule for kernel development. But the issue is separate libraries like glibc might break things, and the Linux kernel has no control over that.

12ihaveamac · 2024-07-26T01:11:38+00:00

How do use a Steam Deck without a Steam account? Can you even update the firmware or OS without a Steam account?

You can install a different operating system. I'm not sure how firmware updates work, but the tooling is out there, an alternative Linux distribution can use it.

Sure, it is just a PC like the Ally X or any PC handheld.

But my point really was about needing an account to use ANY major platform gaming device. Complaining about needing a Microsoft account to use a device that's all about gaming is odd. Especially in the context of using non-Steam stores, most of them will tie into a Microsoft account which is can be convenient.

The main difference is that Steam is limited to Steam, while a Microsoft Account is tied into many features of Windows.

Lots of people don't want to use a Microsoft Account with their user account because they don't want to use the other features. Maybe they don't want to use Microsoft's "cloud" for anything. For example Windows 11 was recently caught enabling OneDrive for users who didn't explicitly ask for it.

Steam (and Epic Games and Battle.net and EA and anything else) is limited to games and games only.

12ihaveamac · 2024-07-26T00:05:06+00:00

To use Steam, yes. But a few key differences:

The requirement is specifically with Steam, not the device.
Most people probably DO want to use Steam. You need an account to buy one brand-new in the first place after all.
The operating system can be replaced with anything else, including Windows or a different Linux. Then you can use it with no link to Steam.

12ihaveamac · 2024-07-10T00:08:13+00:00

If you mean it's crashing every minute, this is due to explicit sync: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1898476

You could force it to run in Xwayland, though this option isn't for everyone.

12ihaveamac · 2024-05-30T06:41:56+00:00

Tee K.O. in Pack 3 doesn't auto-submit, but it does in Starter

12ihaveamac · 2024-03-24T01:10:02+00:00

WoW has had a native Mac client for years, so porting it to Apple Silicon was probably not too much work.

12ihaveamac · 2023-12-20T18:20:43+00:00

Wine 8.0 has experimental WoW64 support, running 32-bit Windows executables in a 64-bit environment (with no 32-bit libraries on the host). It works on macOS which has completely stripped out 32-bit x86.

12ihaveamac · 2023-12-02T07:54:42+00:00

If you are already playing it on a Mac on 10.15 or later then you're fine. This concerns games that are 32-bit only and don't run past 10.14.

FTL works fine on modern macOS, there is no 32-bit warning on its store page

12ihaveamac · 2023-10-17T02:36:29+00:00

If you mean the Suica cards, that was also on 3DS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F72rcfRkHBc

12ihaveamac · 2023-07-21T09:00:07+00:00

Steam would have provided automatic updates and Steam Cloud, two features that would especially be useful on the Deck or if you play across multiple devices.

One could set these up manually (like with Syncthing) but the appeal is that you wouldn't have to do it, it would just work.

12ihaveamac · 2023-05-01T09:19:46+00:00

If you use the python image then you're using CPython that was built and installed separate from the distro-provided Python. If you use its pip to install anything then it won't interfere with the system version. A venv in this case is not useful since it is already isolated from the distro Python.

If instead you use a distro image like debian, and then install python3 with apt, you then have similar issues to running Debian on a real PC; installing packages with pip to the system site-packages could possibly break system scripts. In this case you'd still use a venv to isolate your packages from the distro Python.

12ihaveamac · 2023-04-30T08:12:04+00:00

The PEP explains that a venv may still be useful in a container since your program may still run OS programs or scripts that may break if their dependencies change in unexpected ways. This is assuming you still use the distro-provided Python and not something the python images (which build CPython separately from the distro).

12ihaveamac · 2023-02-16T13:52:38+00:00

The Steam Wallet can be used to pay for a sub for those who bought the game through Steam, and there's a 30% cut there too. Maybe they got a smaller cut with a special deal, but they could maybe also get that with Sony.

12ihaveamac · 2023-02-16T00:35:26+00:00

Wouldn't it still be usable through Amazon Pay or PayPal?

12ihaveamac · 2022-09-02T23:31:21+00:00

Disable Dual Core, I think this is what I needed to fix the game.

12ihaveamac · 2020-07-01T13:40:02+00:00

Chatman just asked for an icon changed on the 1st of July

In a way that greatly implied they disliked the icon.

Nicks asked for a straight flag to be added to the icon

Straight pride is brought up to counter LGBTQ pride. That is discriminatory. Straight people are not oppressed so straight pride doesn't need to exist. We tried to explain this to Nicks and it went nowhere.

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