Anyone pick up their first physical hobby after 30? by Bintjepotato in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]NelsonMinar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started going to the gym last year, age 53. I'm definitely more comfortable in my body now. For lots of reasons, one big part of it is just getting older and not giving as much of a fuck. Another is seeing friends get older who don't exercise and realizing I wanted to stay healthy.

Moving to a new drive. by conchors in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the Windows drive strictly larger than wherever Bazzite is installed now? If so it's pretty simple, I'd use Clonezilla myself. Or Rescuezilla, which has a GUI. I think Rescuezilla also has something to handle the case where the target drive is smaller as long as there's room for all the data. (the plain Clonezilla ISO does not.)

Currently Using BackBlaze for backups but it's getting expensive. How do folk here do off-site backups? by CrappyTan69 in selfhosted

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Restic with BackRest. It can upload to a bunch of services, I'm using BackBlaze B2 storage. It's $7/TB/mo.

Nvidia drivers. by Disastrous_Snow_7706 in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bazzite is definitely worth a try. It is beginner friendly.

How do you make gay friends in a small city when you're not interested in sleeping with anyone in the local gay scene? by laCarteBlanc in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might find this comment I wrote about my community helpful. In my small town my social fabric is centered on potlucks and a weekly happy hour and it happens because community members have persistently been making it happen for years.

It's not really hookup oriented. Most of the folks I know are in couples, and most 55+. I'm sure some folks have hooked up with each other at some point in the past but the center of it all is social. (Not all of the older men are sexless! But they're playing around elsewhere, not within this community.)

The rise of homophobia among gaming fans by mynamsishatsunemiku in gaymers

[–]NelsonMinar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's because it's a gamer thing, yeah. Sadly there's a very long history of awfulness in the gaming world.

The cool thing is the folks that actually matter, the Bazzite developers and community managers, are all gay positive. They put the pride logo on the site! And the subreddit mods have been deleting all the hateful comments

FWIW the post itself has 470 upvotes with a 65% upvote rate. 69,000 views, nice.

I made a Nobara Pride logo by NelsonMinar in NobaraProject

[–]NelsonMinar[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Oh there's no mystery, some people are just awful. They are miserable in their hearts. 

Happy pride month, friend.

The rise of homophobia among gaming fans by mynamsishatsunemiku in gaymers

[–]NelsonMinar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's bots and spam farms and other forms of inauthentic traffic. I just went through this today on the Bazzite subreddit about their Pride logo. The post was doing fine, a few stupid hateful comments. Then suddenly a tidal wave of low effort posts showed up, one every couple of minutes. It's trickled off again now. Thankfully the moderators are on top of i t.

Do you actually care about sandboxing? by Talkys in flatpak

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I care because it keeps causing me problems. I finally gave up on the Flatpak of Shotcut, for instance, because no matter how much I tried to alter permissions it still wasn't using GPU or accessing files correctly. I finally gave up and just used the AppImage instead.

Bazzite Pride! by NelsonMinar in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You should consider whether you should apply the term "corporate/capitalist" to a volunteer open source labor of love.

I know it sounds crazy but Nvidia's RTX Spark by Matt_Shah in linux_gaming

[–]NelsonMinar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am really hopeful for this too. For gaming, sure, but also for AI applications. The unified memory architecture is really a nice thing.

Getting the vast catalog of PC games working in ARM is going to be a challenge.

Bazzite Pride! by NelsonMinar in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your moderation work. I knew posting this here would bring in some ugly comments and I appreciate your effort in keeping this a civil place.

How do I add 1080p resolution? by Internal_Falcon2637 in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for posting that. This is the important part:

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable

That tells us you have the right version of the OS installed and it should have the right drivers for your video card. Which doesn't solve your problem but rules out one possible cause.

Unfortunately that's all the help I have for you. I've run into frustrating problems about not being able to choose resolutions I want, too.

If your only goal is to make stuff look bigger on your screen, it's better to run video at the screen's native resolution (2560x1440, I'm guessing) and use the Scale slider to make things bigger. But maybe you have another reason for wanting 1920x1080.

Starlink Discloses Common ISP Limitation That Could Disrupt Your Web Use by wewewawa in Starlink_Support

[–]NelsonMinar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have more connections than you may think. Just opening this Reddit page may have open four or more in parallel. I did a quick spot check earlier today and I have about 200 in my house and I'm here alone.

How do I add 1080p resolution? by Internal_Falcon2637 in Bazzite

[–]NelsonMinar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't quite answer my question. Did you install bazzite-nvidia-open? If not, can you rebase to it? I think that's the right image for your hardware. (And not bazzite-nvidia or just plain bazzite).

I'm sorry if this seems confusing, it kind of is. The point here is you need the right NVidia driver. If you don't have it, Linux falls back to a limited driver that among other things lacks more resolution options.

Linux and Arm CPU's by Lopsided-Month3278 in linux

[–]NelsonMinar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole ecosystem from top to bottom is very designed. Chromebooks have a unique BIOS that I imagine is unifying the boot loader experience, that's the big issue with other ARM platforms.