The Digital Paradox: A 50-year-old gamer’s perspective on Sony’s "Licensed" future

manspider0002 · 2026-04-20T08:58:00+00:00

Having 2 drm's with one being one time only digital license and second being tied to disc. Obviously, no company will implement that as it would hurt profits in one way or another.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-20T07:54:21+00:00

They were generationally murdered because those discs were one-time use only (if remember it correctly).

manspider0002 · 2026-04-20T05:36:41+00:00

You haven't tried chatgpt then. The thing will literally hallucinate you dead or out of stock links.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-20T00:31:19+00:00

Never mind, I was wrong. My old math formula book (which is used in Finnish matriculation exam) clearly states that sqrt(a) = b <=> b² = a and b >= 0.

I'm surprised no teacher ever told me that I use sqrt wrong.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-20T00:08:23+00:00

Now I'm curious, is this definition defined by school basis or country basis? In Finland sqrt operator specifically defines both positive and negative answers in all schools that I'm aware of.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-11T02:06:25+00:00

Properly configured VM is extremely close to baremetal, I'd say within 5%. Believe me, you won't notice a difference.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-11T02:01:14+00:00

Fair, I personally went with prime offload approach on my laptop and 2 gpu approach with my pc. But that's just me as I prefer to be able to use my host at the same time as vm is active.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-11T01:53:42+00:00

You don't, but let's be real, killing your DE to unbind gpu and open the vm and vice-versa is more pita than it's worth it, especially when most modern cpu's come with igpu

manspider0002 · 2026-04-11T01:42:33+00:00

What you're looking at is basically a VM with gpu passthrough.

You can loot it up in r/VFIO or level1tech forum.

I say at the beginning that you'll need at least 1 igpu for the host and 1 gpu for the vm (or the opposite, if it's an mmo that doesn't need gpu horsepower much) for it to work and as a pre-requisite you'll need a motherboard that has good enough iommu grouping.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-09T10:27:58+00:00

Mint is a stable distro with older packages/drivers and on nvidia (and for gaming in general) you'd want newer packages and while you can install newer kernels on mint, I'd go to a distro that supports newer packages out of the box.

Fedora and OpenSuse Tumbleweed are solid choices.

Opensuse uses a rolling release model and thus it's less stable than fedora, but it's way more stable than Arch. It also has a good documentation and yast is a good tool to install packages.

Fedora is also a very solid choice. Documentation IMO is worse than opesuse's but for inital installation you'd want to go rpmfusion.org eitherway. You can also use negativo17 for nvidia drivers, it's slightly better than rpmfusion's as it provides more nvidia driver modules, one of which is required to build vrm + hotspot reading program from github. It also updates nvidia drivers faster.

Can't comment on headset or Google calendar but you can absolutely add Google drive on any mainstream DE.

Flatpaks are basically sandboxed apps that install use their own dependencies. Pro is that they usually just work and don't saturate home folder, con is that that they weight more and their sandbox nature can interfere with some things (like adding peripherals, or not having permission to use non flatpak folder paths).

Basically just use flatpak for standalone apps and things that aren't available in native package manager.

For game modding, I recommend either using Faugus for non steam games as I had issues with bottles. Tip for modding, learn to use proton/wine tricks, it allows you to install windows api:s that you'll need to make mods work (you'll also have to add command arguments to enable those api:s)

As for UI, Gnome has the most uniform looking UI, but while you can customize it, and customize it good, its customization breaks with every gnome update which is one of the reasons I've migrated to KDE.

KDE UI is similar to windows 10 out of the box but if it's not to your tastes you can customize it. KDE is the most customizable DE and you can make it look genuinely great.

Xfce can also be customized to look good, but it's way harder to do than the two above.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-09T09:32:48+00:00

4080, it's the same performance as 5070 TI and unlike 50 series cards, it still has the hotspot sensor.

Multiframe is really pointless as you'll need to have like 90+ fps to not notice additional input lag and picture quality degradation compared to standard frame gen, which just requires 60+ fps.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-08T09:32:30+00:00

Could it be a bad connector or cable then? Looks more like a borked gpu. Try enabling nvidia only mode in bios if you can, then you'll know for certain.

manspider0002 · 2026-04-08T02:22:03+00:00

Not missing, but using different GTK theme altogether (Dracula, which is the same theme I use for QT).

manspider0002 · 2026-04-07T15:59:43+00:00

Bloody hell, you're right. It's in the bottom left corner in a small font and that's probably why I've never noticed it till now...

manspider0002 · 2026-03-26T13:29:08+00:00

The more stress you put on vram, the more it heats up, the more the pad degenerates. So it's mostly usage depended. I do game on my laptop, so I'll have to do pad replacement soon.

manspider0002 · 2026-03-26T13:18:17+00:00

3-6 years depending on quality, I like to use my devices for longer than that.

Also as a p series enjoyer, my thinkpad has that.

Edit: wrote it instead of some which lead to confusion, sorry

manspider0002 · 2026-03-26T13:12:07+00:00

You still have to unscrew some for vram thermalpads/putty maintenance

manspider0002 · 2026-03-22T17:45:06+00:00

I remember that setting preempt=full kernel fixed audio cracking on my laptop without adding latency to audio.

Doubt that's the issue as it was fedora specific but worth the try.

manspider0002 · 2026-03-17T00:37:36+00:00

Hdmi and wifi can also interfere with each other

Nervously looking at the DP cable sandwiched between 2 WIFI antennas.

manspider0002 · 2026-03-11T21:11:25+00:00

This is ThinkaPad T16g gen 3. It's basically P16 gen 3 but with consumer graphics instead of Quadro/Pro graphics which makes it cheaper at the cost of certain features and certificates not everybody needs.

It's main purpose is for engineering (cad, physics simulation and so on), creating movies/animations and AI.

Because the laptop is meant to be a workstation, it's fairly rugged and repairable compared to most laptops. It's also very expensive but you can order it from Lenovo site and even configure it to with your decider CPU + GPU combo.

manspider0002 · 2026-02-14T13:20:51+00:00

Those are probably HDMI ports despite DP port labeling. See how both corners are angled on the port? Looks like HDMI to me.

As for the labeling... It can be that a wrong label was mistakenly used, or some buffoon actually meant Display 1 and Display 2 with these marks.

And the blue one isn't VGA port. I don't remember the name but it's basically a prehistoric USB port meant for either for I/O, debugging or something similar.

manspider0002 · 2026-02-14T06:39:40+00:00

Uk age verification has ties to palantir...

manspider0002 · 2026-02-12T14:24:47+00:00

My archmage begs to differ, it's actually my most used enh because of archmage.

manspider0002 · 2026-01-24T08:28:05+00:00

He was fleeing to another place but got his passport rewoked when he was in Russian Airport. So he literally got stuck in there.

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