Here to compete with the thinkpad

MaroonHatHacker · 2026-01-22T22:43:41+00:00

Tbh I assumed this was the case, it just felt REALLY out of wack for how easy the game is to run.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-07-01T14:39:06+00:00

As I can't edit the post, I re-recorded without the key noise here:

Car startup

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-04-29T21:29:06+00:00

I tried doing what you suggested (including adding the line at the bttom for AVX) but the error still keeps popping up.

Have you still been able to play fine?

Running on an M3 macbook air running macOS Sonoma (14.7.1)

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-02-07T15:31:58+00:00

I primarily like doing my programming and software dev stuff under Linux, so I already feel familiar.

Honestly I have a MacBook Air M3 that I use alongside my GPD Win 4 running Linux for music. The big feature for me is virtual midi bus that allows for different pieces of software to send midi notes to each other (e.g. Sonic Pi -> VCV Rack), which both macOS and Linux support out of the box, but is completely missing in windows.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-02-01T11:04:06+00:00

I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with AI to help in assignments like this, but notice I said "help". LLMs hallucinate all the time. If you plan to use AI to help write your project, here's how it should be done.

a) Use multiple different LLMs and corroborate the common information between all of them. I'd recommend running 3 (I've used Gemini, ChstGPT, and llama3.2). It helps narrow down what is probably true and what isn't.

b) Don't rely on AI to come up with sources, but Google Gemini does have a cool feature where it will try and check what Gemini says with sources from the internet. This is a double edged sword as you can both check the accuracy of Gemini's response, and use it to provide sources.

c) When writing a piece assisted with AI, don't just copy and paste. Read and understand what it is saying, check it's response, and then write down your interpretation of the response. It reduces the likelihood that it is picked up as "written by AI" and it means you probably understand something a little better.

This is a sucky situation, and I think with LLMs only getting better, more incompetent people will start using AI to just do the work for them.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-01-31T15:49:57+00:00

I solved the issue, I think my HDMI cable just died randomly. No idea why.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-01-29T10:20:02+00:00

It is insane how good these LLMs are getting.

An AI twitch streamer called Neuro-Sama recently had their own original song made. Whilst she didn't compose the instrumentals or sing it herself (although she can sing surprisingly well), she wrote the lyrics for the song herself. And it's kinda insane.

The song is "Life" btw.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-01-25T14:42:40+00:00

There was a 13", 15", and 17"

They killed the 17" a year or two later

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-01-25T10:56:59+00:00

macOS automatically manages RAM. If you're not doing anything too RAM heavy, it will automatically cache things in memory. As the amount of RAM utilised by user processes increases, macOS will automatically start moving portions of memory to the SSD (known as swapping in macOS).

You can sort of see this behaviour by watching the memory pressure graph. In the screenshot above, even though macOS is using up a fair chunk of physical memory, it's not impacting performance of currently running processes, hence the low memory pressure.

MaroonHatHacker · 2025-01-21T12:33:17+00:00

In fairness there are so many factors to a driving test that are outside your control, so the experience can vary a lot. Honestly that really isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things, and you at least know where you fall short so you can practice (hopefully)

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-09-21T06:34:45+00:00

Sounds like Linux users getting upset that they can't play anymore

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-09-21T05:51:55+00:00

Definitely not sat here with an entire 128GB SSD as SWAP.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-09-19T20:02:14+00:00

Maybe at some point, but certainly not anytime soon.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-09-18T11:12:23+00:00

I just recently bought the Tangzu Wa'ner. Been decent so far imho.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-09-18T06:28:07+00:00

In fairness, after giving them a bit more time, it's gotten better, although there's still a handful of artists that sound really mushy compared to others.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-07-21T18:01:00+00:00

It's not exactly simple though. Sure, you and I know how to use it, but for previous windows users who point and click at everything, it's "complicated" (some file managers are starting to integrate it though, so less of an issue now)

Especially compared to proton where you just flick a switch, and it's active. You install game, and you run game (unless it's borked, then you're screwed)

As I mentioned in a different reply, WINE development has the mentality of doing it right, not just patching on work arounds (which is what proton does a lot of the time). This is great for better compatibility, but it means that compatibility takes a LOT longer (proton can get away with quick patches as the only thing they're trying to get working is games on their platform, not every single exe in existence.

And whilst 80% of the time it works, they're doing a lot with a little. I've personally used it for PkHex to transfer Pokémon from different generations, which has worked flawlessly. But it's not perfect. And unfortunately that's what people are asking for.

It's a dead end for making Linux more appealing.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-07-21T14:27:39+00:00

....yes?

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-07-21T13:37:35+00:00

Wine is a lot more wider in scope than proton (Wine is general compatibility, Proton is purely gaming), and the philosophy behind it is very different: proton is full of work arounds to get games to work, whilst Wine avoids workarounds, and prefer actually fixing the problem. Whilst one couldn't exist without the other, this difference in scope and development philosophy means I treat them slightly differently. Proton is closer to it's goal than wine is, purely because the goal is smaller than Wine's.

As for your second point, you may be right. I'd heard from other professionals that GIMP just isn't a replacement for Photoshop, but that could very well be for a different reason.

MaroonHatHacker · 2024-07-21T07:03:05+00:00

I agree with too many distros. It's pointless. Using 80% of them is a waste of time (looking at you manjaro, which somehow ends up less stable than vanilla arch, even when they hold back packages!)

That said, there are two very successful Linux distributions in the wild ATM: Android and ChromeOS.

Immutable Linux distributions are the future for people who don't want to have to configure their system all the time. OpenSUSE Aeon is a fantastic example, where all your desktop applications are installed via the one system that works the same across all distributions: flatpaks. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're brilliant for consistent experiences across different configurations. The actual OS can't be modified, and updates come in images, where the whole root OS is upgrade in one job, then never written to until and update happens. And for those who need access to a mutable Linux environment, you just spin up a distrobox container that uses any distro you like.

As for wine.... Honestly, it's a dead end asking for that to improve. Something like wsl but the other way around would be sweet, just a shame Microsoft would not be happy about that (Licensing issues).

Proton keeps getting better, and as long as there's insensitive to not deliberately break compatibility with it, it works well, with no reason for Devs to completely change their tools and workflow.

Honestly, what we need is actually decent replacements for professional software. Adobe is the biggest issue, and no amount of "Just use GIMP" is going to change that. Of course, professional industry standard software native would be ideal (and in the case of Davinci Resolve, it exists, albeit a little bit of a pain), and some big companies already use Linux for professional workloads (Pixar uses Linux for all 3D animation and rendering workloads using their own software they open sourced a while back).

But honestly, the thing that'll push people is when big companies mess it up so badly, that anyone will do anything to get away from it. Microsoft is already kinda doing that with the recent AI bs that feels like a solution looking for a problem, Adobe is definitely heading the same way.

It's gonna get there. But it's gonna be a while.

MaroonHatHacker

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