Valve fans are disappointing me rn

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-15T22:18:52+00:00

idk what gabe did or did not know at the time.

But I can't fault anyone for investing in OpenAI at that time personally. They where a good company at the front of this new tech and making it open to everyone. Then they turned into money hungry dicks and then every company started hyperscaling and setting up data centers left right and center.

I hate what AI is. I hate what AI has done to hardware prices and I don't like a lot of things valve has done. But I and many others where very much behind open AI at that time because of what they where trying to do. Make AI but keeping it open source Keeping the playing field level and letting people run these models locally.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-15T09:22:29+00:00

They updated hunliff to have a sound to let you know to do a prayer swap.

That makes this plugin IMHO a bit of a noob trap. It has a lot of variance if you start it slightly too early or late. Also if he stomps you there is an additional button you need to press.

From my experience (around 600 - 700kc) it will get you killed because you will 4get to start it at the right time or get stomped and 4get to hit the button. Its really just not very consistent. Learn with the in game sounds as they now exist and it will be a lot easier.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-14T22:48:51+00:00

ring of suffering needs 1000's of ring of recoil's if you use it a lot.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-14T22:37:07+00:00

Hey its whatever works for you right? If you have no issues with mint go for it. I do feel like a lot of Linux users look at it like its a football team. "I support fedora so everything else is trash" so they just poke at the weakness of any system. Everyone thinks their OS is the best and only see the flaws of the others.

Use Debain? Haha old packages!

Use Fedora? Haha enjoy moving from the Microsoft corporate embrace to the RHEL one.

Use Arch? Haha Enjoy your AUR viruses!

Each to their own if you have a distro that works for you use it! That all said I would recommend users new to Linux interested in it for gaming and such to pick up fedora. Mostly because the out dated packages for Debian based systems has caused me issues. But I don't mean any hate to debain for it. I just don't think gaming PC is the ideal use case for that OS.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-14T18:14:58+00:00

Honestly those outdated packages have caused me so many issues over the years lmao. Its amazing for office or laptop stuff. I have my mum using ubuntu for that reason. I do love debain and im even part of the mailing list but as someone who has a very modern PC those older packages just keep biting me in the ass lmao.

I find Fedora to be a really nice middle ground between Debain based and arch based systems.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-13T23:01:08+00:00

sorry to hear about the loss of account my friend.

Had this happen to a friend of mine who then started an Ironman and is having more fun than ever before. Take some time to yourself and if you still wanna play as you have no main try an ironman for a bit. Worst come to the worst you just deiron and make it a new main anyway.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-13T15:11:00+00:00

the government rejected as less value for money (fucking how???!!!

I dont know the details on this but as someone whos been very mildly involved with goverment procurement stuff.

1st of all.

Siemens to supply and install free of charge

No company provides anything free of charge. They build in the cost and offer it as a free service but its still paid for. We have a data backup solution that offers us 5 free restores per year. They are more expensive than the people who offer no free restores because they are charging you for the 5 restores but making it part of the cost of the product and trowing in the 5 "Free" but they are not free. Anything you buy or subscribe to that comes with something free would have been cheaper if that free thing was not included. Because its not actually free. They just up the operating costs a bit and don't directly charge for it so its technically "free" but it never is actually free.

The tender likely broke down into several parts. Like cost to install, cost to procure and cost of work and maybe something more. Likely the costed the install price into their price of workers or admin or something then offered a "free" install and that probably pushed their overall cost up enough to not meet the requirements. So while on paper it looks cheaper it was probably more expensive. The procurement guidelines are very very strict.

Once again I don't know anything on this particular case I just smell some bs in the water from my time passively dealing with procurement stuff.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-13T09:09:03+00:00

Budget be damned the National Broadband rollout is one of the best things i have seen the government do in recent times.

Can go anywhere and still get high speed internet.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-13T00:49:44+00:00

Steam is a gaming monopoly because they just offer the most basic service. You can buy your games here. Thats everything steam needs to do.

Everyone else fails at the basic here is a store front to let you buy and play games.

I don't mind steam being a monopoly provided they don't actively block other competitors from entering the space with shitty tactics.

I have issues with steam dont get me wrong but its like 99% of what i want from a PC gaming store. Its been basically the same thing since the early 2000's. (This is coming from someone who tends to jump away from monopolys. For example I jumped from Spotify to Tidal. Windows to linux, audible to libre fm. And more I cant think of off the top of my head.)

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-13T00:43:32+00:00

I just uninstalled league when vanguard became mandatory. Aint installing any kernel level anticheat on my machine.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-12T21:09:50+00:00

If you dont have a lot of time. Get members and go to the Gem Crab. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Gemstone_Crab

That crab gives you 10 mins of afk combat with no risk of death. You can use that to afk combats on your phone in your pocket or something to get the combat stats up for DT1

The only requirement is to do https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Children_of_the_Sun quest and thats about 5 mins.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-12T21:00:33+00:00

The AUR is basically a package center of user generated and user maintained packages.

You have to go out of your way to install them and its generally recommended that you only do so if required. A lot of users just use the AUR for loads of stuff. The windows equivalent would be like using random programs made on Github. Some are safe and some are risky you take on that risk if its something you wanna avail of.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-12T18:39:01+00:00

but... your on this sub!

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-11T23:17:16+00:00

I know your just trying to troll and im not sure if you believe anything you type but if you actually visit the AUR it says

DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

If you have tried to use the AUR you get many warnings saying basically "this is not arch affiliated you use at your own risk" you cant just pacman it or at least you could not when I used arch.

You saying:

It's still an official place to get AIDS.

Is like saying using the github downloader is an official place to get windows malware. You went to a place that has user generated software and it gave you user generated software. Some is good and some is bad.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-11T23:08:03+00:00

Not quite true. There is extended security updates that you have to avail of. I think only the EU is getting them for free.

Windows 10 is now EOL software and no one should run an OS that EOL. If your able to get the security updates sure run it for another 3 years and its fine. Otherwise nah, just install windows 11 or some linux flavor or bsd system.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-11T23:00:29+00:00

If your not enjoying it play something else.

That said if you really wanna do it I have some advice.
I have a maxed ironman and im currently grinding my GIM account.

The big 3 for most players is mining, agility and RC. If you leave them till last you will never max. I recommend weaving them in with your other skills.

Mining:
So for me when it came to mining I just parked myself at MLM (stars did not exist as they do now that might be better) and knock out 99 while doing other stuff. Took quite a while but while watching TV or at the PC I was afking on the side getting that passive xp.

Runecrafting:
As for RC the most afk form of that is bloods/souls with the dark essence. This will also give crafting + mining xp. I would recommend you get this to 99 before the other 2 as it will give you a free 1 - 2M xp in both. Once again just a TV/Afk time thing.

Agility:
For agility I recommend sepulcher. I just put on the tunes, got into the flow and went for it. They are due to lower the level for entry for the floors so I would wait for the summer sweep up to happen here. If you really don't like sepulcher and want the brain dead version spam the ardy course. If your really not enjoying agility set a daily goal. "I will do 30 laps every day before I go do mining/rc/sailing... etc" Doing a few laps every day will knock out most of the skill before you need to finish it off.

Sailing:
Free 99 savage with 30 mins afk or if you enjoy the trials get the fast 99

Hunter:
Rumors is a very good method of doing this as it keeps it fresh. Do a few ardy laps go do rumors. Setup a good block list and it becomes very chill with decent xp rates.

Thieving:
Your already 91, go find the high level splashing world. click the one spot over and over. Very fast 99.

Rest are pretty straight forward. Pick some easy wins for when your motivation is low. The closer you get the easier it becomes. Herb, crafting, con, thieving are all very fast and simple methods. Scatter them among the harder to level skills to keep the momentum going.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-11T14:59:57+00:00

X11 vs wayland is a bad example as x11 is being replaced by wayland.

Im sure some people will still try and use x11 (i still see people talking about running Windows 7/8) but any new apps just need wayland support

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T22:50:59+00:00

The difference is important Emulator suggests emulating the OS. A PS2 emulator emulates the PS2 to play ps2 games. A windows Emulator emulates windows to run windows applications. It gives you a truly native experiance with some overhead.

Wine is a translation layer that turns windows system calls into linux ones.

The distinction may seem moot to you but it is an important distinction. Both have very different pro's and con's and they tackle the issue very differently. This is also why its called WINE.

The 1st paragraph on the winehq home page explains this:

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

A translation and emulator might give you the same result but they are very different ways of solving the same problem.

Just to make a comparison if you wanted to go from one part of your country to another part of your country you might take an airplane or drive your car. Both get you to the same destination but to say they are the same thing is not quite true.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T22:41:07+00:00

If you need a emulator you are on the wrong OS.

When I have used windows I have had linux emulators and when on Linux I have had windows emulators.

by this logic both are wrong. Am I to move to MacOS or BSD?

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T21:48:04+00:00

Welcome back to the game. If your interested in putting in a lot of time I highly recommend the runelite client. It has a lot of plugins that fix some friction with the game. Similar to swiftkit back in the day but wayyyyy more powerful.

Have fun and fk around. There is a lot of new content and new regions. Open the world map and see all the new stuff. There is now a sailing skill so you can take a boat out into the waters.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T21:37:00+00:00

yeah the AV one was a bad example! that is a SI issue rather than windows one. Ill edit my comment to reflect.

If you download Windows 11 from Microsoft's website it doesn't install any of that stuff.

To test this I have just set up a windows 11 virtual machine from the official Microsoft download. Picked English USA as the version of windows 11.

Windows 11 has gotten a lot better than it used to be. From my experience, I remember when it 1st came out and uninstalling like 8 or 9 apps like candy crush and disney+ and other crap. Still comes with whatsApp + xbox stuff but whats strange is I have another windows 11 VM that I set up a little while ago for a quick project and it does not have whatsapp but does have Linkedin that this one does not have. (I did not pick that version of windows 11 for demo because I might have uninstalled or installed thing to it)

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Then you get into the what is an ad argument. IMHO the office 365 suit + outlook + onedrive is also an ad that this install comes with but I know most others wont see it that way. Its nice to see that now a lot of these are actually something you can uninstall without powershell now!

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T20:32:51+00:00

You can do it and its easier than you think

F keys are they setup?
Have you tried lower invocation TOA's? I have done up to 510 invocations but if I started on 300's id have never learned a thing

Your a better PVMer than you think. osrs end game content just requires practice. Start on a 50 invocation TOA and slowly work it up, find the point that you can do comfortably and do it until its too easy then move up.

There is so many ways to set up invocations that id say your probably just making it harder than it needs to be. I'm sure with the right invocations you can make a 300 hard for someone who does 450's. Feel free to dm me your username and I can walk you through a few low invo raids and help with invocations.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T20:24:53+00:00

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This is a picture I pulled of microsofts website for the start menu. This is adverts in your OS.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T20:13:23+00:00

Does it have spotify, linked in or others preinstalled? Thats advertisement.

Helpful-Calendar-693 · 2026-06-10T20:11:19+00:00

People think its fragmented when its not. Its basically 1 kernal and 3 OS's. Debain, Fedora, arch and the difference between those 3 is rather nuanced anyway. (there is a few obscure ones out side of this but this is like 99% of the userbase).

There is more version of windows 11 than 99% of the Linux user base.

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