joshcodes

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[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not true, at 8 minutes he literally gets asked that exact question and responds no. Watch between 8 mins and 8:06 of the link you posted...

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by joshcodes@programming.dev to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

I have a B450 motherboard, 16gb DDR4 3200 RAM, 1660 Super gpu and a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU. I don't plan on updating the GPU this time, because I don't play a lot of games that require anything more, I'm playing a lot of older titles currently. The problem is this also makes me feel like I shouldn't update the pc at all.

I think I mostly just want to mess around with a decent home lab, but because I dont have an intended use case I'm struggling to justify. I also had parents who don't like to spend money on this sort of thing and I've got their disapproving voices in my head.

The plan is to upgrade to a 5900XT and 64 gb of ram and probably run a lot of virtual machines in a little lab environment but I'm not sure how often I'll have them all running so it could be overkill. The upgrade is about $700 all up too so not small but not too much. I know I'm extending the lifespan of a computer instead of e-wasting the entire thing but I'm still a little apprehensive.

Good idea or nah?

P.S. I run Linux Mint on all my machines if that somehow changes anyone's mind or is somewhat helpful? Can't let the arch users be the only ones to announce.

Edit: thanks for the replies. I went to bed so I'll try to reply to people as today goes. Thanks for the ideas and the one person who asked if I was a sex worker, you've made me laugh and think.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Idk dude, depends what you want to do. If you want to SSH, sure, use the terminal. RDP apps work for me. My gnome de has decent menus for pretty much everything, except sound. I'll admit that was weird. Turns out though, you can install a gui though so not an issue. Haven't found a thing I want to do that didn't have a gui yet. Been using it on every pc I own for about 3 years now.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck yes. I switched to Linux after Windows got all control freaky over my task bar. On Linux I can have 30 task bars if I want, 100 task bars. I can setup a mouse-task bar that opens radially around my cursor. On mac I can put that shit left, right, bottom, which is something, and i can resize it which is the bare fucking minimum.

On Windows? Bottom. Full width. Don't like it? Fuck you. Shut up and cope.

Oh but there's a registry hack to... nope. Not dealing with that shit again after I tried to make the fucking icons smaller AND IT BROKE THE TASK BAR.

Love that proprietary feeling, those crisp millions of dollars of development being used to innovate and develop a robust and perfected operating system.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

Came here to say this. Maybe we're too silicon valley and she's too whatever the other valley is in valley girl.

Are they the same valley? Am I having a stroke?

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

I had a snytuingnin once but luckily my doctor removed it.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Little confused by the second link. It's not about Draiman, its just one of the band members saying assassinating trump wouldnt do the US any favours (I somewhat agree for different reasons, killing him would have started civil war 2 most likely).

In case you missed it/didn't think of it, there's a rather notorious tweet about student loans (unless he deleted it) that rubbed me the wrong way so I'd use that instead personally. He basically said "you took out a loan, pay it back" which ignores all the context for those who got one.

Plus there's the fact their lyrics in the last album seem very "can't we all just get along" and tends to trivialise many of the issues in the US right now. It's this idea of "if we all just talked we'd see we have common ground" bullshit like no one has had a real conversation in the last 25 years cos they're all on their phones etc.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Many can't upgrade to 11 and don't want to buy a new device. They'll believe it's their only option unless told otherwise. It's not necessarily a "Win11 is bad" or "Linux/BSD is better" scenario, just a "to keep using your current device which you paid for less than a decade ago, do the following".

Times are hard and people shouldn't be forced to buy new hardware because of the current monopolistic software companies's latest money making scheme, especially when their old one works perfectly fine and the environment is going to suffer.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Near me it's none of the above, teenagers arent winning any races and I dont expect them to. $15 minimum for a meal, and $30 for my partner and I, so fuck it, might as well go to the local burger joint where it's $36, feeds us both ,and I get a blue cheese and bacon burger for my trouble.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've got no experience with it but at first glance it seems like a very positive direction for the project:

Collaborate, not Compete

We are proud of our community and closely interact with projects around it. If we build a platform feature that can be useful in an upstream project, we prefer to contribute it to that project, rather than keep it in the platform.

You don't hear that often enough these days, everyone seems to be siloing information.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I lost the game

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Steve Hughes did a pretty good bit on this - "Go play with your girly tits you Gaylord, I'm going to fuck a man."

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Counter point, set the 'swappiness' lower than the default 60. I've set mine to 30 and the system boots a lot faster. You could research and consider 10-20.

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