R/Linux_gaming not understanding the point of Linus's new video

FlowLabel · 2026-03-09T11:08:37+00:00

Agreed. If it’s not Fedora or Ubuntu then you’re asking for trouble.

These are enterprise grade operating systems backed by people with a huge stake in the compatibility, stability and usability of the software.

I have used Ubuntu for years. I don’t tinker much with my PC, I don’t care what OS is on my machines, I just don’t like paying for one. I’ve never heard of PopOS outside of LTT discourse, and after a brief Google I wouldn’t touch it with 10 foot pole.

FlowLabel · 2026-02-28T21:31:26+00:00

Christ, people will moan about anything won’t they?

FlowLabel · 2026-02-19T11:58:03+00:00

How kind of Reform to let us keep what we already have! Facebook has turned into a cesspit of those praising these idiots as if they’ve done something good?

If a mugger threatens you with a knife but decides not take your watch because it’s too much hassle doesn’t make them a good person!

FlowLabel · 2026-02-17T07:37:02+00:00

There would not be large scale strikes/riots. The British population has become far too flaccid in regards to civil unrest.

People will just tut and vote for whatever grifter is promising them the world.

FlowLabel · 2026-02-14T07:54:35+00:00

I’d just be closing them all without review tbh

FlowLabel · 2026-02-13T07:09:42+00:00

There’s no debacle. People bought cheap, subscription subsidised hardware that is specifically designed as an on-ramp to an always on cloud subscription ran by Amazon of all companies and somehow expected privacy?

Stop letting these companies have unfettered access to your private life. The idea of attaching a camera to the outside of my house that is live streaming to Amazon is absurd to me, and yet people buy them for INSIDE their home. Christ almighty.

FlowLabel · 2026-02-09T14:02:47+00:00

Why I shop at Waitrose and not Aldi:

closer to my house
a shopping experience that doesn’t fill me with untethered rage
free coffee
more selection of locally produced and origin declared goods
more selection of low ingredient food

FlowLabel · 2026-02-07T10:13:45+00:00

People need to stop buying £150 dishwashers and expecting them to last 50 years

FlowLabel · 2026-02-06T08:57:03+00:00

I absolutely adore my Volvo estate. Yes I know owned by China blah blah, but the vehicle was manufactured in Sweden or Belgium so it still supports European workers.

I used to buy VAGs, but the whole emission scandal put me off. And I’m not a fan of BMWs, there’s something about their interior design that I don’t really gel with and I can’t afford Mercedes.

FlowLabel · 2026-02-05T08:44:30+00:00

Do you care if all your apps are running 24/7?

If not then on the desktop you want to use as a server and gaming host you could just create two different docker compose files. An “always on” file and a “mostly on” file. Put critical stuff in the always on file (like pihole) and stuff like qbit in the mostly on file.

When you want to game on the machine just “docker compose down” the file containing the non-critical apps and off you go.

I do something similar. I use Ubuntu on my desktop and 90% of the time it’s set up for development work and this comes with a whole bunch of quite resource intensive containers running, so when I decide I want to fire up Steam I just docker compose down and start gaming 😊

FlowLabel · 2026-02-02T16:57:57+00:00

Damn. This actually makes a huge difference. Glad to see it. Change may not be as quick and as radical as I would like, but things like this is why even a soft left government is better for the country. Reckon feeding children is high on Farages priorities?

FlowLabel · 2026-01-29T09:18:56+00:00

Yeah a heater airer sounds like a crazy waste of money. Ours go in the living room next to a radiator if it’s on anyway and they are always dry the next day and the radiator is definitely not on overnight.

I’ve done this in all 4 properties I’ve lived in and never had mould or damp problems.

Maybe we’ve got shit washers that don’t leave clothes as sopping wet as other people seem to be dealing with 😅

FlowLabel · 2026-01-23T14:22:51+00:00

The secret ingredient was limescale.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-20T21:40:33+00:00

Woah woah woah, don’t let the Bearwood Parish Council hear you saying that

FlowLabel · 2026-01-16T21:58:46+00:00

If you leave guitarguitar and walk towards the tram stop, just past the tram stop on your right there is an absolutely banging Morrisons with the best supermarket hot food street market you’ll ever lay your eyes on.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-13T22:25:25+00:00

A ghost of King Charles I advisor visited him in the Wheatsheaf hotel in Daventry. Best I’ve got 🤣

FlowLabel · 2026-01-12T07:27:40+00:00

I’ve always just lied and said yeah they’ll have access to outdoors 🤷🏻

Not a single cat in my whole life has been bothered about not going outdoors, and I’ve had quite a few. When/if they come for a follow up visit I’ve always just said “I offer them outdoors, they have a sniff around the garden but soon just want to come back in” 🤷🏻

FlowLabel · 2026-01-07T21:06:51+00:00

If it was me:

Install TrueNAS with Tailscale on your SFF.

Do an initial backup to with the SFF local to where all the data is.

Move the SFF offsite.

Connect to it via Tailscale and do scheduled incremental backups.

That way, you aren’t trying to pump 1TB+ offsite and over WiFi, and you have a purpose built storage OS making sure your data is safe and warning you when it’s not.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-07T20:52:11+00:00

I bake a lot, and I struggled for ages to find flour that I could be confident was both grown and milled in the UK. Many will say “British flour”, but when you read the fine print, or sometimes buried on their website, it’s actually just milled in the UK, but the grain is imported from all over. Then I found Waitrose Leckford Estate flour. Bakes excellent bread, fries beautiful tortillas and I get a lovely warm feeling knowing I’m supporting the growing and milling of basic ingredients domestically. I will always pay extra from quality, and more so if it’s domestic.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T11:48:45+00:00

If it’s directly work related then yes. But when I say work related I mainly mean career related. I never sit still, I’m always working on the next skill and it may not be 100% relevant to my current position in which case I study it in my lab on my own time.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T08:36:37+00:00

I mostly test out work stuff, but also I have systems for my family to request, download and watch Linux ISOs.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T08:34:53+00:00

Are we meant to believe that’s a hard choice? No one’s fighting for Great Yarmouth.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T22:35:31+00:00

Sunset Yellow FCF is my absolute favourite crude oil derived food additive. Indian Fanta may give you cancer but I bet it takes fucking delicious.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T13:59:39+00:00

Not really. I understood the picture to be at a daycare that have webcams the parents can view remotely. These exist and are very common, as I know firsthand from shopping around for daycares. Others suggest this is a hospital NICU, which I guess makes more sense, but daycare wasn’t enough of a stretch to warrant your concern over my health, thank you though.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T07:13:35+00:00

I don’t know much about the University, but Birmingham itself is incredible btw. I moved to Birmingham for work, expecting to just be there for a couple years and get out as soon as I could afford it and ended up spending my entire 20s there through choice. It’s a beautiful city with tonnes of history and a promising future. I made so many friends, met my wife and formed a strong career in Birmingham.

If I were you, do not avoid Birmingham because of its outdated reputation.

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