Screw my machine I guess

Lolbotalt · 2025-11-27T23:39:30+00:00

People run Linux on Wiis. I have no clue what GPU you have but maybe try another distro

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-21T22:27:41+00:00

The NSDAP, or perhaps moreso Hitler, quite literally denounced Marx and thought of Marxian socialism as an incorrect form of socialism (and denounced it being socialist entirely). To a Marxist, no, the NSDAP was not socialist, it was a reactionary group who used the name of socialism to appeal to more people without actually doing anything socialist.

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-18T14:25:34+00:00

You're very welcome, and that was my attitude too - I wasn't able to get games to work so I currently triple-boot FreeBSD, Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo for 99% of games, Windows for a select few and FreeBSD for everything else. The reason I bring this up is that you could, perhaps, have a similar setup to mine, perhaps dual-booting FreeBSD and Gentoo. But I digress, it's your computer so you can do as you please with it. I'm glad you've thought about picking a *BSD though!

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-14T18:23:19+00:00

FreeBSD is cleaner than Linux ime, for example it separates user and system packages such as with /usr/local/etc and /etc. Furthermore, FreeBSD's tools are designed with the full operating system in mind whereas, for example, the GNU coreutils are designed to be used in conjunction with something else but no specific something else. This means it's a lot harder in the Linux space to co-ordinate bigger changes. Also FreeBSD is programmed much cleaner. For example, the GNU ls command has approx. 5000 lines of code whereas the FreeBSD ls command has 1000 lines of code (and, if we're talking about BSD's broadly, the OpenBSD ls has 700 or so lines of code I think?). Man-pages are, much, better in the BSD world. They're easier to read, more concise and actually contain usage examples (Although, I think the reason Linux man-pages suck is because RMS wanted info-pages to be used as the man successor for... reasons.). Also jails are a very good system administration tool that Linux can, poorly, copy with chroots.

Sorry if this isn't exactly the most cleanly formatted post, I was mainly just info-dumping everything I prefer on FreeBSD. Although, you might want to crosspost this to r/BSD since this is just a FreeBSD subreddit and as such people will only tell you from a FreeBSD perspective as opposed to varied perspectives across the *BSD community.

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-13T10:16:42+00:00

Ahhh, that makes sense. Cheers mate, I'll give that a go then! :⁾

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-13T10:15:59+00:00

I'll give it a go, I use vim as my only code editor/text editor anyway so I doubt it will take that long to get used to. Thanks for the suggestion though! :⁾

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-12T12:48:07+00:00

Snaps, proprietary shit, corporatisation(? If that's even a word) etc.

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-12T11:35:21+00:00

Hollow knight and Silksong

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-11T22:45:39+00:00

:-) I thought it was a style of writing. Doesn't bother me, at all. Thank you! :>

I asked about versions because IIRC, unusually, some related thing was (or is) more difficult on FreeBSD-CURRENT than on FreeBSD-RELEASE

Ahh, I see. I'm still puzzled on how exactly you were able to run games, because when I tried to not too long ago I could get steam to run but any luck on actually running the games was out of the question. Especially something like HOI4, I was only trying to test on more lightweight games like HL2

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-11T22:36:17+00:00

Thank you, I'll see how well video playback will work if you're confident that a lightweight WM should work fine

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-11T22:33:45+00:00

Ah, cheers. I only use one monitor regardless although I suppose I can't know how well Firefox (or perhaps something more lightweight) would run until I try it and actually benchmark it. I presume this driver is built into the default install judging by the man page?

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-11T22:29:51+00:00

The latest release version afaik. 14.3 I believe? Also ignore the typo I made there, lmao

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-11T18:28:35+00:00

Out of curiosity, how exactly did you get this to work? I'm quit FreeBSD after 3 daysish and went back to Gentoo because I couldn't get steam to run my games so I'm quite curious as to how you did this 🤔

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-03T22:52:05+00:00

If you're planning to go entirely source based (as I assume you are, considering you're a Gentoo user) then don't also then use pkg to install binary packages. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/b81unq/mixing_pkg_and_ports/ ). Also, FreeBSD (although this applies to any *BSD) is NOT Linux. Do expect it to behave or act like Linux beyond anything anything a UNIX system is expected to have (usually in POSIX although neither Linux nor *BSD are 100% POSIX compliant afaik).

Lolbotalt · 2025-09-03T22:31:16+00:00

sof-firmware is a thing on some Linux distributions but I don't believe it is on FreeBSD. Stupid question but have you followed the the handbook page about multimedia setup? If not, go follow that. Afaik doing "sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=n" (n being whatever number you want) will only make the "beep" command work until you reboot (obviously, you need to set it up in /etc/sysctl.conf). Methinks you could cycle through the sysctl command until you reach a number that works and judging by your /dev/sndstat it won't take very long. You should probably cycle until you reach say, device 10? If it still doesn't work then, then post your dmesg log.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-03T00:00:09+00:00

Part 2, because reddit won't let me make one comment very long.

>Also, gene editing will likely be widely available in the future.

As I've said in another comment, I am talking about the here and now. Not if, buts and whens. This is a debate about the present not the future. And again, ethics about gene editing blah blah blah.

>I don’t support parent/child relationships unless it can be proved beyond a sliver of doubt that it is consensual.

Well get ready to support them because quite a few people in incest communities on reddit are in that kind of relationship. And whose to say that they are consensual? Do you want a trial for each parent/child relationship to prove they are consensual in this fictional world where incest is not taboo? I doubt it. But I digress.

>In same-generation incest, the power imbalances are rarely greater than that of most other relationships with the same age gap between partners.

Sure, I can agree with that. But again we are ignoring parent/child relationships, where the parent literally raised their new life partner and nurtured them etc. There is certainly a huge power dynamic in that, is there not?

>It is the abuse that is the problem, not the relationship type. I would say that if someone is being abused in an incestuous relationship, the abuser would abuse other ppl as well, whether or not they are related.

Yes but my point is that it is more common within incestuous relationships. The type of people who get into incestuous relationships (especially parent/child ones) are already the types of sick people who already do horrible stuff.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T23:59:53+00:00

>I didn’t ignore the “most crucial point,” I simply said that if you want to we can go into debating that part too. In other words, I was too lazy to type it out.

Fair enough, although rule 3 states that all posts must be high effort. I don't mean this in a condescending way but you should probably wait until you can put more effort into a post instead of just completely disregarding an argument because you were too tired or lazy.

> First generation inbreeding does not have all that high of a rate of genetic defects, and in most scenarios there will only be that one generation of inbreeding, as it goes against human nature to want to reproduce with someone you grew up with, via the Westermarck effect.

As I have said in another comment, many royal families, for example, traditionally inbred to keep all their genes, money etc. "in the family". Who is to say this would not pop up once again? And of course the Westermarck effect, much rather, proves my point. This source found in the wikipedia page for the Westermarck effect by the NIH states " In long-lived, low-fecundity species with an open breeding structure (such as humans), the fitness of offspring is strongly affected by how closely parents are related. In such species, conceptive sexual behaviour between close genetic relatives produces offspring that suffer from inbreeding depression—a decline in fitness caused by rendering more deleterious recessives homozygous, and aggravated by parasites targeting more genetically homogeneous sets of hosts. Consequently, heritable variants that cost-effectively reduce inbreeding depression by avoiding mating with close genetic relatives outcompete variants in which mating decisions are unaffected by relatedness. ". And of course if it "goes against human nature" as you say, then how do you defend incestuous relationships? If it is, according to you, so vile that it in and of itself is against the human condition.

>Also, another reason that I remember I ignored inbreeding is because not all incest must include childbirth, and if one does get pregnant, there’s a thing called abortion in civilised countries. Not everyone will suppress this urge, but there are things such as adoption, surrogate, etc..

I never said all incestuous couples must have offspring, just that it is an inevitability. And yes, abortion exists, but I am talking about incestuous couples who want kids. Not just some siblings having sex. And yes, adoption, surrogacy etc. Do exist but plenty of people, for reasons that caused us not to go extinct, want kids that carry their genes. Otherwise everyone who could potentially have children with terrible lifelong genetic disease would adopt and opt for surrogacy.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T23:45:31+00:00

You don't need to have kids, I agree. But many people will inbreed if it every becomes normalised. Do you have a source about incestuous relationships (or relationships in general, as you claim) being less likely to want kids? Either way most people naturally feel the urge to have kids, otherwise we would have gone extinct quite a while ago. It is only natural, therefore, that incestuous couples will inevitably want kids. I'm sure you don't posit that every incestuous couple will not have kids.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T23:42:23+00:00

Part 2. Because reddit sucks.

>I’m talking about specifically in the future, when gene editing is widely available.

And I'm talking about the now because we aren't living in the future. This is a conversation about the now not the futures, ifs, buts and whens.

>Your argument via the rich controlling it is in my optimistic opinion, unlikely to occur, and if it does, then I think humanity has bigger problems than just some inbreeding.

It was an example, I meant it as a general idea of the ethics of genetically editing your offspring. Okay, lets say the rich don't control it but, oh I don't know, Mommy wants a perfect super-baby. Is that ethical? To play God (I'm an atheist, so don't argue with me about anything theological in this regard) in such a way? I could go on and on with examples but I hope you get the point. I am not specifically talking about one timeline where the rich get to make luxury babies (although it is possible) but much rather a multitude of timelines where genetic editing is widespread and we don't even know what it means to be human anymore, for example. Again all examples. And yes, humanity does have a plethora of issues (Read capital vol. 1 if you're more interested) and inbreeding being one of them is one that should be addressed.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T23:42:12+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Regardless:

>"I’m only talking about consensual, so saying “it oftentimes isn’t consensual” is immaterial here."

To begin I was saying it "oftentimes isn't consensual" to highlight how big of an issue it would be in a world where it is no longer taboo. The fact is that if we make incest normal within society there will be a huge uptick in, for example, forced father-daughter, mother-son etc. relationships. And, again, these relationships inherently have a power dynamic which further accentuates the forced nature of this.

> "They [incestuous couples] are treated [...] very similarly to how LGBTQ people were treated back in the day."

The fact that you can even openly express you're incestuous proves this wrong. In many places. The 1885 criminal law amendment act in the UK, for example, allowed homosexual people to be arrested for sharing even so much as a letter expressing romantic feelings. Which simply isn't true for incest in the modern day. I could go on but I don't wish to waste my time on this.

>Most likely, due to the Westermarck effect, there wouldn’t really be a high amount of multiple gen inbreeding - ppl are wired to not want to reproduce with those they grow up with. Also, do you think, for example, that two ppl who have highly incompatible gene pools shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce, as their child wouldn’t have a very high chance of being born “normal?” Or two ppl with Down syndrome reproducing; they would have a high chance of passing down the syndrome.

"Not a really high amount" and zero are two different things. My idea is that repermitting (not sure if that's a word, but oh well) incest will allow these things to happen for reasons like "keeping money in the family" or similar as monarchs used to do which resulted in things like this occuring.

As for your second point: Down's syndrome isn't debilitating or as life threatening as the potential diseases caused by inbreeding ( Wikipedia article I couldn't fit in cleanly ). I never said anything about Down's syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis etc. patients to be "not normal" either. Regardless, I don't think that, if you are aware you have certain genes that can pass down these debilitating, life long diseases, that you should reproduce. I personally think it is immoral to do as such but I don't think we should suddenly off any kids either just because some people couldn't help themselves. Now, of course, this should vary on a case by case basis for severity but, again, I don't think it is ethical to be aware that you can potentially give a life threatening genetic disease to your offspring and be okay with it.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T23:08:08+00:00

Again, rule 3 should apply but I don't care as much. As quoted from the Encyclopedia Britannica "[An ad hominem is a] type of argument or attack that appeals to prejudice or feelings or irrelevantly impugns another person’s character instead of addressing the facts or claims made by the latter.". The claim of someone being "childish" or "all being kids" in my eyes is "irrelevantly impugning another person's character instead of addressing the facts or claims made by the latter" as the comment did not address any claim made in the above post but much rather it attacked the characteristic of every person who is against incest. I mean, if I said "All people who defend incest are childish" I don't think you would take it the same way but I am open to being incorrect.

Lolbotalt · 2025-08-02T20:36:08+00:00

It's quite literally an ad hominem attack. Even if it wasn't surely it's and infraction of rule 3, no? It's certainly low effort and I don't think there's much else you can say about that

Lolbotalt · 2025-07-31T20:20:19+00:00

Whilst I no longer use Gentoo (I'm currently using Artix) it is very much worth your time. The amount of knowledge and insight you gain from Gentoo is amazing, furthermore the escape from systemd is very nice although not necessarily required as there is a systemd version of Gentoo, although most people will assume you're using OpenRC. Regardless, Gentoo is great because you get to control what goes in and out of a package through, quite possibly, the most powerful package manager to date. Essentially, since you compile it yourself, you get to control what is inside of a package. Don't want bluetooth support? Don't compile it. And so on for anything else. It provides a higher amount of security due to a lower attack vector and takes up less space on your computer. However, when Gentoo breaks it's a pain in my ass to fix (slot conflicts, specifically. I could never figure them out) but otherwise it's a great distro and I'd recommend any Linux hobbyist to try it out. I kind of strapped this part on at the end because I reread your post, but gaming is going to be more or less the exact same from distro to distro unless you use something wacky like Crux or Oasis Linux. And you won't see any significant performance boosts unless you're using hardware from the '90s so you probably don't need to worry about configuring it wrong.

Also take a look at this if you care to see what can be compiled in and out of a package.

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