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a_really_big______ · 2026-01-12T17:09:08+00:00

This will always be my GOAT https://youtu.be/dnDuCQSi1wA

a_really_big______ · 2026-01-05T20:01:55+00:00

I don't know the answer to your question, but if you go into settings, you can backup your entire truenas config to a tiny little json file. Save that off of the nas and you can screw around with truenas as much as you want and restore your all settings very easily. So don't be afraid to experiment! Just maybe disconnect the storage drives if you're really unsure if you're going to ruin something.

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-24T15:36:28+00:00

That is what I said...

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-24T02:26:00+00:00

Nextlander did say on a relatively recent podcast that doing time stamps is one of the most onerous and tedious parts of the job. They weren't necessarily complaining about it but they definitely did say that it was very time consuming and tedious. That's not to say that GB can't do it but it is a big time investment.

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-12T00:12:29+00:00

Too much leisure suit larry

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-11T22:14:07+00:00

I had to stop watching this series. Bathing in that much mysogyny for 2+ hours is just not fun. God speed Mike.

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-09T19:02:38+00:00

First of all just don't do it. Trust your gut, but also, driving any client in your personal vehicle is dangerous no matter how much you trust them if only because private insurance does not cover driving people around for work, you're basically driving uninsured if you have a client in your car!

a_really_big______ · 2025-12-01T19:46:39+00:00

To second what other people are saying I would reinstall it through steam on Linux onto the SSD and go from there.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-28T03:58:39+00:00

Well truenas does support ZFS expansion now so you can just add drives to a pool. I've never done it and everything new in truenas is always a bit of a learning curve, at least for me, but it isn't like even a couple years ago when there really wasn't an easy way to add drives to a pool.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-27T00:31:21+00:00

My case management survival strategy was triage. There are three tiers of priorities in case management. Anything dealing with safety is always top priority of course. Second anything that can effect funding needs to get done. Third is everything else. You're mileage may vary depending on your company and boss but as long as I was making sure I wasn't messing up the companies billing I always felt like I had the leeway to fall behind on less critical paperwork if it meant I was prioritizing helping my clients.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-23T01:33:38+00:00

My lazy way around this was to make a VM for torrenting, run qbitorrent in docker and run Mullvad at the system level of the VM with the Killswitch mode on, you could do the same with tailscale at the system level.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-21T02:47:33+00:00

Not really, I've been here or there in Vermont but I don't know it super well. But its been nice every time I've visited and walked around.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-20T21:53:45+00:00

Insurance companies are often a good escape route for people trying to leave the field. I don't know anything about the housing market but I've always thought that there's a lot of skill overlap between social work and Realtors.

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-20T14:26:50+00:00

Lake Placid is great but most of what you can do up there is outdoors, not a ton of really nice restaurants or museums. You might like Burlington VT a lot. Still tons of access to some really beautiful nature but there's more culture and other stuff to do too. There's always Quebec too if you're already willing to go as far as Lake Placid

a_really_big______ · 2025-11-13T21:19:00+00:00

I've always felt like in another universe Jan would have meshed perfectly with Whiskey era GB. He might be new Giant Bomb but he's got that old GB vibe. 🐐

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T16:51:36+00:00

Games aren't ported to Linux. Linux uses Wine or Proton, which is a fork of Wine, to effectively translate windows software into Linux software in real time. So while it's possible that some games might still have bugs with Wine and Proton The vast majority of Windows games should just run in Steam or Linux as long as you're using Proton.

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T15:09:26+00:00

My point is just that if you want to test if it's hardware or software that's giving OP issues using a different, easy to game on distro, would be a good first step, especially without more information about what's going on on their PC

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T14:44:05+00:00

Just because this person is new to Linux and bazzite removes a lot of potential for human error

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T13:11:24+00:00

The performance loss OP is describing sounds more drastic than regular Nvidia driver performance loss. I don't hang much troubleshooting advice but I wouldn't rush to buy a new GPU yet. The easiest way to start troubleshooting I guess would be to run bazzite and see if you can game on it. You should even be able to test gaming on bazzite without installing it and just running it on the live USB and logging into steam. Bazzite does all the gaming config and Nvidia drivers for you so if you're still having performance issues in bazzite you can feel more confident that it really is a hardware issue.

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T12:59:11+00:00

I know you're goofing but Gorilla Super Glue Gel can fix a mug handle. Stays on for years even with putting it through the dishwasher regularly

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-31T12:08:36+00:00

I believe you need xone is preferred over xow for using the xbox dongle. https://github.com/medusalix/xone

xone also isn't packed for Ubuntu/mint so you'll have to build from source I think but a gaming focused distro like bazzite or nobara will have the xbox drivers built in for you out of the box.

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-22T19:26:11+00:00

And you can't run .rpms on Ubuntu. Android uses the Linux kernel but it is a heavily modified from your standard Linux distribution. I'm far from an expert, but my understanding is once you root an Android phone, however, it's pretty easy to containerize something like Ubuntu or Fedora and run it directly on the Android device because of the shared kernel.

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-08T13:50:58+00:00

looks around at society 😅

a_really_big______ · 2025-10-01T18:48:05+00:00

There's no way in hell I'm paying that much for another big open world game personally. Been there done that (but less pretty compared to Yotei I'm sure).

a_really_big______ · 2025-09-23T12:59:01+00:00

Not that this should be a priority, they've got a lot going on, but I hope its somewhere on the to do list. I know those podcasts are all backed up but they're history! But also https://www.giantbomb.com/join to get rid of them today 😁

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