Void is a full featured desktop OS, it can run a browser, play games, watch videos, and run an office suite. All of those applications have their own hardware requirements but the OS is just the layer between the things you want to do and the hardware you are using. It should be as light as possible and Void shows that it is possible to be very light.

Like Torvalds, Stallman and Wozniak, Gabe Newell had an idea of how he thought technology should work and has never let up on it, it’s a shame they couldn’t profit as much as Gabe.

The yacht hobby is a bit much but compared to the standard billionaire hobbies, destroying the planet, rape, and murder, he’s pretty mild.

NAS has 1800MB, runs Debian, uses 200MB.

Netbook has 1800MB, runs Void, uses 90% when browsing.

Desktop has 32GB, runs Debian, uses 2-3GB while browsing, 8-10GB while gaming, 32GB while doing image/videoework.

Since the NT kernel.

Im running Void on a 2013, dual core atom, netbook with 1800MB of ram, THAT is a compromise. No more than 4-5 tabs at a time, only one if I want to watch a video, but it works.

16GB being the minimum for a desktop OS is insane.

The Steam Deck has an absolutely fantastic set of inputs. If the new controller comes with the all the same bells and whistles then it will be well worth the price.

Honestly, I have no fucking clue what Roblox even looks like. I have been hearing about it for years but not a single forum post or article has ever had a screenshot.

Assloads of ram, and GPU is exactly what you need if you are going to run graphical applications, encode them, and stream the results to the withered remains of desktop/laptop hardware.

I was planning on replacing my 2017 build next year but I bit the bullet this month. Even if prices drop by 50% in the next year there are going to be no parts to buy :/

While completely murdering the home PC market. When the AI bubble pops get ready for desktop as a service as those datacenters get repurposed.

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There is a Defcon talk on libraries and the threat they face from government and capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT6_OcY_dc

Archive.org is the largest digital library, a very new concept, that I know of and they are constantly being sued.

Tinfoil Hat Time

I’m pretty sure Pokemon Go was used, successfully, by law enforcement to look for the bodies of missing people.

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pokemon-go-body-river-wyoming-leads-woman/

• https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/pokemon-go-player-finds-dead-body-in-new-hampshire-park/520-6577bd86-9e2d-4dbd-8f6c-de828dcf297e

• https://laist.com/news/pokemon-go-body

• https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/man-playing-pokemon-go-finds-dead-body-nashua-nh/

• https://mashable.com/article/pokemon-go-dead-body-discovered

• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-dead-body-pokemon-go-20160715-snap-story.html

• https://www.10news.com/news/pokemon-go-players-discover-body-at-marian-bear-memorial-park

• https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/wyoming-teen-finds-dead-body-while-playing-pokemon-go/523-47e3fd94-be65-40bd-a201-6507ffcc0a52

• https://www.ksat.com/news/2016/08/26/pokemon-go-players-find-mans-body-in-new-braunfels-cemetery/

And the list goes on.

When the game was new I suspect that law enforcement were asked to provide lists of areas they would like to search but did not have the time or manpower to cover, and that these areas were used as points of interest in the game.

There is also the fact that the CEO of pokemon go’s developer/publisher was partly funded by the CIA when his company was building what would end up being Google Maps. I would be surprised if he didn’t keep a few contacts in the government given his career.

Maybe I’m paranoid, maybe a boom of people wandering around aimlessly would have found just as many bodies.

If libraries did not exist and you purposed them today, you would be labeled a pirate and likely used into oblivion by the 3 or 4 massive companies that “own” all media. It’s not strange that there is an overlap in the tools needed to preserve media in a robust, distributed way, and the tools used to distribute movies, music, and books.

It means stop using, investing in, pumping up the fucking AI bubble.

Personal computing is gonna be set back a decade because people are too lazy to write their own documents or make a 30 second search.

Sooo don’t buy in. Steam, Itch and GoG have covered all my gaming needs for a decade. Why look anywhere else?

I have an Xbox 360 controller that has been awesome, takes AA batteries.

Switched 10 years ago. Nearly everything anyone does on a desktop/laptop is browser based lately and while I missed a few Windows exclusive applications there was always a reasonable alterative.

My only regret is not trying harder to make the switch in the 00’s, I would have been ahead of the game and could have used it as a career path.

Bruh, install HL2, they added commentary!

The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.

They come with W11 but I wouldn’t say users are forced to use it. My first boot is always into the Debian netinstaller.

The TPM2 requirement is purely to drum up sales for hardware vendors and ensure that they keep bundling Windows with their machines.

Making shareholders happy by increasing profits and padding the CEO’s ego Theft and corruption certainly is.

And the whole thing where they are trying to dial back rights for everyone but rich white men.

I have a single W10 machine left and that’s only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn’t be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.

The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.

I have an android phone and hate every second of it. Next time I get a new phone it’s getting GraphineOS on day one.

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

Welp, enjoy your rootkits and privacy violations.

Daily Debian since 2015, zero regrets.

Looks fun but Windows only is a dealbreaker.

No on hates their own fans more than Nintendo. Pirate everything they sell.

Wait, this ISN’T an Onion article?

Why the hell would Plex get you banned?

Gatekeeping, pixel peeping, number wank. Play on hardware you can afford, don’t let some guy with affiliate links tell you that you are gaming wrong.

If the game is genuinely fun, no, it’s all wank. I still use an HDD and the load times are long but not long enough to justify buying more stuff.

Oh no, anyway.

Data collection subsidized ewaste machines.

I doubt the quality of your work.