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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yeah i'm a gamer

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

points at sign: THE GAMES INDUSTRY’S CUSTOMER IS THE STOCK MARKET, NOT THE GAMER Live service games are seen as ‘worth the risk’ because when one blows up (Roblox, Fortnite, GTA Online) it makes so much money that it covers all previous failures and more. What gamers say is irrelevant to this.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Totally. It was fun to play from another perspective. Besides, there's a whole bunch of new side quests which are exclusive to that route. It was quite rewarding to play all of them (and I don't mean the in-game rewards).

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Can't believe I had kept the Nier series in my backlog for this long. Nier: Automata is easily one of the best games I've ever played.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There still isn't a Sekiro start-up movie though. :( A montage of Wolf fighting all the animals in the game would be a good one, I think. That, or the Guardian Ape flinging a ball of poop towards you and that turns into the Steam logo. :P

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Do try Nine Sols after your Sekiro run. I had a blast playing it.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Incidentally, there is a nice whale art in the background, although it doesn't quite look like a sperm whale. (More like a humpback or blue whale, I guess).

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You're right. I was being an idiot. I was working my way backward from the solution of the guy trying to convince me that two boxes are a better choice.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There is something misleading about the inherent assumption that the hypothetical supercomputer is extremely accurate. I'd naively think that would mean it gets at least 9/10 predictions right. So, choosing just the mystery box makes sense to me. If SuperComp is random, then 2 boxes make sense.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Sekiro and Outer Wilds - my top 2 favorite games as well.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'd recommend CachyOS (with KDE Plasma). KDE Plasma should help you with the transition since it resembles Windows' GUI more or less and has many more features. I've stopped my distro hopping with Cachy. It is Arch-based, i.e. rolling release. There are boot-level restore options, so not to worry

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Gaming distro is usually just that they come pre-packaged with all the gaming related stuff. Even so, as long as they are not asking you to pay for FOSS, like a certain Z-OS, the marketing is still fine. Also, Mint doesn't support Wayland well, ergo HDR and VRR won't work. Clearly not for gaming.

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d@nny disc@ @hipsterelectron.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

more people need to know this is by no means the first time RAM price fixing has occurred en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_pr...

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DRAM price fixing scandal - Wikipedia

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Already finished the game, Kojima San. Loved it. Waiting for Death Stranding 2 to release on Steam so I can play that too.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"I've got nothing to hide." - Person with the privilege of having never been a victim of stalking, harassment, hacking, authoritarianism, doxxing, blackmail, extortion, identity theft, credit card fraud, burglary, or a mistake in a criminal investigation.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

this looks like the headshot you would use if you were trying to do this as an Onion bit

A photoshopped onion article dubbed "I Am Not Sure How I Became The Leader of Antifa But I Promise To Approach The Post With Humility and Kindness" then there is a fake intro about how he works at trader joes and it's news to him but he wants to give it an honest shot.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have two issues with it. 1. They chose a browser (Brave) with a shady reputation pre-installed by default. Big Red flag 2.They seem to do deceptive marketing trying to sell their Pro version. You've to dig a bit to find that the suite of software included in their Pro version is actually FOSS.

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PZ Spiders @pzmyers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The shame of the United States -- and capitalism -- is luridly exposed to the world. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpdT...

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new epstein files are completely insane

YouTube video by voidzilla

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AAHHHHH!ddy, @addyct.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I haven't used grub in a while. But last I used it, I had to use 'grub2' in some parts of that command. Something like this: sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I use KDE plasma on Cachy. Not sure why it's doing that for you. Resuming from sleep can be an Nvidia driver config problem? In any case, if you see system running, but monitor showing nothing on wake, try Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get to TTY and Ctrl+Alt+F2(or F1) to get back to your GUI environment again.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Been using Cachy for about 6 months now and it has been pretty stable. Haven't even used my boot-level snapshots even once. Cachy also has LTS kernel btw, but I never used it either. But people who need stability can still use it.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Yes, on NVidia, HDR doesn't work in some places. But, it does seem to work for me in games with 'vk-hdr-layer'. I typically use this launch command (when this layer is enabled): PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 %command% Note: 'vk-hdr-layer' should not be used with gamescope.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I think, here, they mean the type of HDMI cable. If you're using a HDMI 2.1 cable, it should be fine. Also, if you're on KDE Plasma, go to Display Configuration, turn on Adaptive Sync.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Which controller? Is this the case only inside of games? Can you otherwise test to see if it works during configuration? For the first case, If using Steam, try to change Steam Input Settings for that game. If using other launchers, add a non-steam game and launch through steam.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Same. Highly recommend CachyOS(with KDE plasma). It's where I stopped my distro hopping.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yeah, some competitive multiplayer games have that problem. I mean, games themselves can work. It's just that the anticheat disables Linux support. I think the onus should be on the devs to allow for server-side solutions instead of kernel-level anticheat that is a potential attack vector.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It already has. You can check on ProtonDB for the game you're interested in. If rated platinum, it will work out of the box. If gold, some tweaks are needed to run it better. Usually, these tweaks are just single line launch commands entered in game's properties. Silver -works, but has issues.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Not really. Only Nobara and Zorin does this. Firefox is the defacto standard for Linux users, otherwise. Some distros even go further and try to provide a hardened version of firefox since Mozilla is now trying to bake AI into it.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Disable hibernation, turn off virtual memory and set paging file size to zero. If this doesn't fix it, then you'll have to use any reputed partition tool to get you back all the remaining free space.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'd recommend CachyOS. Bazzite is also pretty good.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Try KDE connect, perhaps. Heard it's good.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I see. Fedora Media Writer should be fine. If you're trying to dual boot on the same drive, then keep that USB with the Fedora ISO even after install. This is so that, if your Linux bootloader gets corrupted by Windows, you can use that again to fix it. Else, it is ideal to use a separate SSD/HDD.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

What error message is it? Have you disabled SecureBoot in BIOS/UEFI? Which tool are you using to load the ISO on a USB drive? Have you fully downloaded the ISO file? Compare checksum. Try getting into Legacy/Basic Graphics mode in the installation if you face any visual problems. Avoid USB hub.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yeah, completely agree. There are a few like Tuxedo, System76 and even Dell in some cases (but Dell is in the ICE boycott list, I think), which can have it installed for you. Otherwise, if people are building their desktops, they should get the help of someone to have it installed for them.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yeah, you have to use what works for you in that case, as people do in niche scenarios. Would be really unwise if anyone asks you to switch there. It's just that a lot of the 'average' users still don't have the awareness that they can still make the switch otherwise.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If all an average user does is browsing, consuming media, using office applications, gaming on Steam, even coding, then desktop Linux is very much there. For creative stuff and editing, FOSS apps exist, but may not have everything or people might find it hard to switch from what they are used to.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Nice. I tried giving Aurora a shot, but got some install error back when I did. Probably my skill issue. Lol. In any case, if atomic distros let me change firewall to the ones I choose, I'd try them again. Certain parts of it are read-only by its nature and configuring them is harder due to it.

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Aurora Chrysalis @aurorachrysalis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Try turning on video hardware acceleration in Discord settings. If that doesn't help, make sure ffmpeg (full version), not just the FOSS version is installed. This might be the case if you're using default Fedora.

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