festus

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not even the right calculation he should be considering - a mortgage payment pays down interest and principal. Rent should only be expected to cover the interest portion of a mortgage - anything that covers principal is basically free money for the landlord. This guy is basically upset because he can't find a tenant who'll give him a free house fast enough. I have no sympathy.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is NVIDIA for Wayland? I heard that previously it was an absolute nightmare, but I have Sway setup on my laptop and I'm wondering if it's time to switch my desktop too.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, unfortunately I don't use heroic.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly I'm not sure - as I said I don't use it. I know of at least one game that's "DRM-free" but requires the GOG launcher for multiplayer (No Man's Sky). That's fairly controversial and I think the only reason why it's on GOG is because it came onto GOG back when it was a singleplayer only game.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

My experience with Linux on my Framework has been pretty good but admittedly not perfect. If you want an idea you can check out the Arch Wiki's Framework page. Personally I think the repairability and upgradability of Framework outweighs the marginal increased Linux support you get with System76 (assuming they have no issues), but Linux isn't as big a priority for Framework as it is for System76.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's true. My previous laptop was getting up there in age but it still had probably a year or two left of casual use after I replaced the battery. Thankfully my father found a use for it with one of his projects. Now I'm eyeing Framework's new Ryzen mainboards and thinking of upgrading despite just buying this laptop last year. Yeah I can use my old mainboard as a home server, but I've been doing just fine without one.

If I do decide to upgrade, I don't know how I'll justify my subsequent upgrade until things stop working.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] festus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The GOG launcher is optional (I don't use it). On their website you can download offline installers for every game you own, and these installers don't require the GOG launcher or any account authentication.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah for a while now I'm been buying games on GOG where possible and keeping an archive of them, because I know at some point every company will eventually let you down.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Similar to what other people mentioned, I find it good at filtering out the obvious SEO spam. Otherwise the top 3 results of a search aren't really different.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably a good pricing decision. To avoid hitting the 300/month usage I kept DDG as default and only used Kagi for more complex searches. If I upgrade to this I could then keep Kagi as default.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should clarify I'm not in medicine. The panel was formed by a random sample of British Columbians and then we talked with different experts, but we ourselves aren't experts or meant to be experts.

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