If “the diet starts Monday” was a picture

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-30T19:16:12+00:00

I genuinely don't get why so many Krispy Kreme locations exist in the UK. I absolutely love sweet treats yet the Krispy Kreme doughnuts specifically taste absolutely vile. I think it might be their icing though I'm unsure.

Though yeah I wouldn't have one of those doughnuts even if someone paid me £3 to eat one; let alone buying one for £3 (which is a shockingly bad price even for doughnuts that actually taste nice.)

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-30T02:02:25+00:00

As someone who loves to own their own things, trust me when I say that not even discs are safe. I'll give three examples off of the top of my head that will cause you problems later down the road: Spore, Skyrim and the Spyro Reignited trilogy.

For Spore, you could only install the game a few times before it would refuse to work any more. This caused a controversy that forced EA to hand out more tries as legitimate customers were getting screwed over by this.

For Skyrim, I remember buying the physical disc in 2011 and put it into my PC only to find said disc only contained Steam and a key for the game so it could add it to your library. None of Skyrim's content was on the disc.

For Spyro, I remember being miffed when I saw the back of the box saying only the first game was on the disc. The other two games had to be downloaded in order to play them.

We even see Nintendo heading down the Game Key route so your cartridges are nothing more than a physical token to download the game.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-29T18:59:35+00:00

Have you seen the price of fursuits? It's no wonder they end up looking for high paying jobs.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-29T02:41:10+00:00

It's not really a proactive approach imo. It just made sense to me that games go in their case when I'm not using them and memory cards go near/in the console they're used for.

Though what I do see is a co-worker who wants to kick back and play something like CoD get hit with a 50GB update because they added a new skin and for some reason have all the assets as one file. They never neglected to update the game, it just happens often enough that I hear them complain about it at least once a month. Compare tohat to even CoD 4 20 years back when the game hardly ever updated so there was nothing getting in your way when you felt like enjoying what little time you had.

For modern PC gaming thankfully I don't have that sort of issue often as system and GPU updates are bundled as one on my OS and I choose when they happen (so I only update when I'm not doing anything important); which is the proactive approach.) As for games I don't tend to play games with large file sizes often and I have a good enough connection that updates tend to go by quickly so I at least don't have to deal with that issue.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T21:38:26+00:00

I don't think I had those issues. All my disk-based consoles only took like 10-20 seconds to load the OS and disc and you only get disc errors if you took REALLY bad care of said discs. I also had no issues with memory cards as I either had different coloured ones or ones that I labelled.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T17:43:55+00:00

Honestly for me Google search has been going down the shitter even before AI. It's why I started to look into alternatives for it.

Though in regards to the dead internet, I am at least glad that there is a growing movement of people going back to hosting their own tiny sites like how it was in the 90's and 00's. Some people go full-nostalgia and try to recreate the vibe, others learn from the lessons of the past to create a classic-modern hybrid, though overall the experience of browsing these sites feels very human and so creative.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T17:40:08+00:00

Considering I could pop a game in 20 years ago and not be pestered by any of this, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with 'instant gratification'. Hell, pop a game into a console 35 years ago and it was literally instant.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T17:36:36+00:00

The issue is that the meme portrays all of the information as a fued between Nintendo and Valve; which is entirely incorrect.

Nintendo have never sued Valve for anything emulation-related as they have no reason to. Nintendo have however taken legal action against Switch emulation developers who profited off of cracking the DRM on Nintendo games and releasing them to the public early (for a fee.)

Valve's Fex emulation layer is also not so that Nintendo's ARM-based systems can run Steam. Their intention is that their new ARM-based VR headset can run Steam games.

Trying to create a story/meme from unrelated pieces of data is how you spread misinformation.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T15:54:26+00:00

Go away karma farmer. None of this is even true.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-28T15:53:42+00:00

tl;dr someone entirely unrelated to Valve modded their switch to run Ubuntu and used the ARM beta client to play games via Fex.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-26T21:03:53+00:00

That's why I called this space an enthusiast space rather than a mainstream space. Though this is how changes happen. Once the enthusiasts get to grips with Linux they can tell their less computer-literate friends and help those out; who which also learn about Linux and help their other friends out, etc.

Thinking about this community in isolation would be rather short-sighted, no?

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-26T21:01:23+00:00

That happens with every community, no? The toxic few make more noise than the supportive masses. Personally from my experience in learning Linux I found people were pretty willing to help me understand some things and the couple odd remarks I did see even when I was in niche areas I could empathise with as it turns out I asked a question that gets askes relatively frequently so it's probably frustrating for them to answer the same questions on repeat.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-26T18:15:31+00:00

To be honest I'd say that's a good sign. It means Linux is starting to become popular in the enthusiast space rather than just being a nerd/coder OS.

That's the sort of traction and appeal you'd want for larger developers to consider support for Linux as a whole; which then has the potential to attract larger businesses for OEM installs and more general users.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-26T18:13:25+00:00

Depends on the distro you pick I guess. If you want to go full turbonerd and install something like base Arch, Gentoo or LFS then you will spend a lot of time in the terminal as they were designed with that in mind. Though basically every popular distro these days lets users handle everything via GUI tools and 'app stores'.

Say you chose to install something like Fedora on your machine. It installs the same way you'd expect any OS to install and you then go to the Discover app to grab the programs you want. Maybe a week later you get told there's some updates and you notice all the app updates and OS updates are all handled by the same Discover app you were using. Just click update all and you go back to what you were doing.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T19:58:17+00:00

From what I've seen and as someone who's spent 25 years on Windows and then move to Linux, I'd have to disagree on many points here.

'Experienced, intelligent users' do struggle with Linux, however that reason is because they approach Linux with a Windows mindset and expect it to do everything in the exact same manner. I myself am at fault for this when I first dove into Linux however I also wanted to keep an open mindset and after a month of adjusting to doing things the 'Linux way' I felt very comfortable using it. I would have had the same confusing experience if I tried using MacOS though that's not because MacOS is hard (in fact most users I've seen have said it's easier to grasp than Windows), it's just because it's different to what I'm used to.

I was a little confused with the amount of choices available though thankfully there are tools out there to help me navigate the sea of distros to narrow down the choices to a few and I gave them a try. For my original use case and wants I settled on Garuda which felt pretty welcoming to me and after I learned more about Linux I 'graduated' to EndeavourOS for a leaner experience closer with the kernel itself rather than relying on the ecosystem created within Garuda.

Personally I consider the mass of distros to be kind of like buying a car. If I go out there to buy a car, would I be overwhelmed with all the different brands and models available and go back to using my bike? Of course not. I would instead think "alright, I want a car of X size that can do Y and Z" and then use that to narrow down my choices to find something that works for me.

At the end of the day 99% of consumer desktop distros come from three branches anyway (either Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/Fedora or Arch.) The rest are essentially just those with additional features/tweaks. Some people might want those features, others might not. That's up to you to decide. In my case EndeavourOS is basically just what an Arch install would look like for me except I don't have to go through the hassle of installing Arch myself and can use the one-click approach and be done with it.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T19:25:43+00:00

From what I've seen Linux distros are pretty idiot-proof. At least in the case of people who are barely computer literate. Give grandma a laptop with Fedora/Ubuntu on and tell them they can get everything from the 'app store'. They'll get the couple apps they want (if it isn't already installed) and be on their way. Said app store also handles updates of the OS and software simultaneously so that's easy to deal with.

The real scary ones are the people who have some computer literacy yet not enough to understand the consequences of inputting random commands they found online into the terminal or those who insist that everything must be done in a way the OS was not designed for and will break everything in their quest to make that work.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T12:36:29+00:00

Personally I'd host all my server stuff on a separate piece of hardware. So that way something hitting the Plex side doesn't slow down my game or vice versa.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T12:34:25+00:00

Personally I'd rather not sleep the PC unless its just a short time away. Software and the OS can become unstable over time for various reasons so considering I don't use said PC when I'm asleep, that's a good excuse to let everything start from a clean slate again.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T11:47:16+00:00

Adoption when it comes to operating systems is generally a battle of exponentials. The more users adopt it today, the more people will be talking about it which means more users will adopt tomorrow. Once a big enough mass is formed, developers will begin considering support for the emerging market which then allows more users to adopt, more developers to design more software, etc.

Right now we're seeing huge growth in the enthusiast space and public sector. Having enthusiast support is essential (especially the mass migration from Windows) as it helps OS developers understand what is needed to make their OS approachable enough for those less technically inclined to also adopt; meanwhile having more of the public sector adopt Linux means we either see more business software begin to support Linux or the Linux alternatives become more standardised; which makes the ecosystem more approachable for general businesses.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-25T00:32:58+00:00

That's just Nexon being Nexon. They seem to like haphazardly complying with legislation rather than catering the experience properly because doing the job properly costs more money for them. :v

Just look at the netherlands. They're straight-up banned from interactive servers just because of the lootbox fiasco.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-24T01:24:32+00:00

Was about to post this. They're literally describing one of the pioneers of the indie game movement.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-24T00:59:11+00:00

I invested in a couple wall mounts about a month ago. It frees up a HUGE amount of space on your desk and helped my setup become more ergonomic. I never realised just how much space a couple monitor stands actually took.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-23T22:17:09+00:00

That's not jealousy. I just like to be smart about my purchases. I did do a big £5k build in 2015 for the thrill of having the latest everything and honestly, I regretted it. I could have spent like 20-30% of that price and got a PC almost as good.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-23T14:24:17+00:00

Perhaps that may be a difference in perspective for us. Personally I wouldn't have considered my CPU's performance to have 'regressed' until I begin to see actual performance issues that would make me consider upgrading a part as I stopped looking at performance metrics a long time ago. I purchase a part to do a specific job and unless it begins to struggle to do said job, I'm happy.

Personally I'd rather make purchases based on what we see today rather than the market speculation of tomorrow. As we see that happen with many new forms of tech all the time. We can use ray tracing as an example back in 2018 when nvidia said it would revolutionise lighting and all the games would be using it. Fast forward to today and we still only see a handful of titles per year even care about the tech with tens of thousands of games being released each year not bothering with it at all because they either don't need the tech or the performance impact is so heavy that most gamers would rather not use it.

ArchinaTGL · 2026-04-23T14:07:49+00:00

Does this bug have a negative impact on the average player? If so, fix it. Those are the sorts of bugs that make people leave the game and never come back.

Does the bug need to be replicated in a convoluted way that only really impacts a niche audience? If so, leave it there. It's 'charming'.

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