Macaroni_ninja

joined 1 year ago
[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know it sound crazy, but maybe some days use the time you spend on traveling to and from the fast food place and cook home instead multiple portions of food you enjoy for a fraction of cost.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Inagine planning a BBQ and it starts raining for a million years. Smh

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People at work wants me to do something and using phrasing, like "can we check this?" , "we must do xy quickly". What do you mean WE? If you want me to do something personally just fucking say it MF! It makes my blood boil.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago

I know it will fail but I really hope it will fail big time to accelerate the dowfall of this soulless corporate piece of shit company.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But can I take my Steam Deck with me?

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

They lost me at "new muliplayer shooter" and "early access"

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My wifes old laptop died and I got an ancient gaming laptop from a colleague and put Linux Mint on it. It works great.

She uses it for studying and some light gaming (Stardew Valley). It just works. She never used Linux before but had zero issues using it and she even said its just like Windows, just faster.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I personally love the smaller userbase. Less spam, more quality, less screentime, no doomscrolling. Its a win-win in my book.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

No idea, also not my ideal preference, but he seem to like it, while he was miserable with the IT school.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Very true, more people should follow their dreams.

I know a guy who was kind of forced into an IT university. His parents thought it would be a good fit, as he likes computers and videogames.

He one day decided to quit and took some time off and started working in some fancy hotel kitchen as a temp job, while spending some time away from the family. Fast forward a couple years, he is now in culinary school and wants to become a chef. Needless to say he is happier and visibly has a better mental health as before.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

We knew it 10 years ago, we know it now, how is this news to anyone consuming online digital content?

 

This is just to share my experience with everyone, especially the people still undecided.

I was planning the switch for months, and finally had a couple hours undisturbed from the wife and the kids :)

It was a slightly rocky start, as my USB wifi receiver did not have native drivers, but with wired internet and the official Mint tutorial the rest of the transition was super smooth.

The OS install went flawlessly and within an hour I had all the basic programs, browser and utilities up and running. I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

I backed up my steam folder (with the rest of my files of course), so after installing the steam client and some quick synchronization I had my installed games library back in minutes. I did some testing and everything works great. As I own a steam deck I already had some experience with games not running natively on Linux, but a saw many great tutorials for beginners. I cant wait to test out some more games!

Edit: thank you for all the positivity and great feedback! I know Lemmy users love Linux and I have to admit I feel a little bit more included :D

Who knows, maybe I will start warching Star Trek next...

 

I'm getting an android tablet soon (will be a present and a little birdie told it to me). Nothing fancy, just some mid-range 10 inch one with basic features. I'm planning to mainly use it for comic books, but while I'm at it might as well watch movies on it.

So my question is: any good setup/apps/guides for movie streaming or downloading I should know about? I don't have a home server, or anything, usually just torrent what I want on my desktop PC and watch it there, but I have zero experience with pirating movies on android.

I will definitely not use the tablet for social media, google services, etc so I can do with it whatever I want, it's purely for comics/ebooks/movies.

 

Hi Lemmings!

I have my Deck since March 2022. I was one of the fortunate ones to receive it quite soon.

Lately I noticed two things: The right joysticks movement is not as smooth as it was before and sometimes it makes a creaking noise.

The "A" button lost some of its resistance and become super sensitive in some games registering twice per button push. For example in a text heavy game I often skip dialogues because of this.

The device is in a perfect working order, no abuse, no damage, screen protector since day 1, protective skin applied, etc.

My question: Should I contact Valve and ask for a repair..

...or maybe try to get some nice replacement parts and upgrade the buttons and joysticks?

How does the available replacements compare to original parts? Are they an improvement? Or should I go the safe route and let Valve repair it for me?

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