[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

I can second Hyper X for Linux. Using the USB dongle is perfect for wireless, as I dont like having Bluetooth enabled all the time. I only enable it when using my controller on my laptop. Headphones are great and not crazy expensive. I just wanted headphones that worked and they do exactly that.

Haven't had a single issue with my Hyper X Stinger headset across the distros I've tried (PopOS, Nobara, Cachy, Endeavor).

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

His film Only God Forgives has to be the most style over substance film if his, hands down

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 11 points 3 days ago

"I'd rather give up all of my data to Google so that I don't have to... have the awful burden of carrying a wallet" lol

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago

Big Cinema got to them of course!!!

Umm yeah, thats right! Big Cinema only wants certain films to be promoted and available, so it releases films at the cinema and it might seem its the exact same treatment as other films. But if those films criticise 'the guilty', then it disappears them. I heard it sends the films to CIA black sites, never to be seen again.

If I were you I wouldn't wanna be caught up in such a serious conspiracy, what if Big Cinema gets to you for simply pulling the curtain aside?

Definitely dont wanna get caught up in the ongoing, underground war between Big Streaming and Big Cinema!

/s

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago

To a certain degree, this has already been happening in Spain for over a year now (believe it started in 2024, possibly even 2023). Vast swathes of the internet gets blocked during games because they share the same Cloudflare IPs. It's affected so many random businesses that have absolutely nothing to do with football.

https://reclaimthenet.org/laliga-block-causes-spain-internet-outage-and-vpn-surge

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[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

While my personal opinion is that the ending was very silly lol, I would still highly recommend Sense8 overall (original idea was just awesome). I thought it was just such a lovely show at times, could make you laugh and cry. Really highlights how empathy is fundamental.

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Came to say Serenity (it's just a great end, tying up a main plot point and a small background plot point, with a fantastically emotional end) but since that is already top of the list I will go with a terrible one.

Sense8.

Started out as pretty great series, I absolutely adored the first series. I felt the quality was there even if super cheesy at parts. Then the 2nd series happened and soon after, news it was cancelled. The quality had dropped quite a lot but still not terrible. Then they were given the opportunity to do a 2 n a half hr special to tie up loose ends.

It was massively rushed, the quality was completely gone, some of the characters just acted so different from how they had been previously and some were barely in it.

To be honest, I think I am still grateful, at least we got a resolution but sometimes i remember how sucky it was, i think perhaps they should have just left it on a high (even though it had already started to falter in the 2nd series)

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fun fact - In the film The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston plays a famous singer who's being stalked and her new bodyguard, Kevin Costner's character, brings her to one of his bars... a country n western place. They dance to the Dolly Parton song and this is kinda the start of their relationship and they fall in love.

Fast forward to the end, and Whitney Houston's character decides to cover the song in a new album and goes on tour and it's a massive hit.

Good film by the way, worth a watch even it's a bit cheesy. The stalker guy is actually lowkey terrifying lol

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Aw yeah that makes sense actually on rereading it. I think i was going to try the Proton Bridge at first on moving to Linux but then saw it was only available via their paid version.

That put me off lol, so I'm just sticking to using it via browser and their own mobile app for now.

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 month ago

Just to clarify - Protonmail does have a mobile app (works great by the way, especially on Graphene)

https://protonapps.com/

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 18 points 1 month ago

According to Israel, they have, ahem... 'the most moral military in the world'. And according to this psychiatrist these suicides are attributed to 'moral injury' due to 'accidentally' killing women and children.

With the amount of women and children murdered by the Israeli army, surely the entire army should have killed themselves through 'moral injury'?

Perhaps the truth is simpler, Israel is a genocidal apartheid ethnocolony that forces its citizens to be complicit in its bloodshed through conscription and these are the few soldiers with any shred of morals left.

[-] Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 month ago

On the off chance you haven't tried this, you might need to try disabling the 'phantom process killer' from the developer options if that's thing on your device -

https://localdesktop.github.io/docs/user/getting-started

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I am still a relatively new Linux user, had tried Garuda and Bazzite on my Acer Gaming laptop 2021 (Intel integrated + Nvidia 3070 dgpu- muxless) back in July but neither worked, i kept getting weird freezes and nothing would open. Had no clue what the issue was and had zero Linux knowledge. So after a frustrating few days and many, many, many reboots I gave up. Reinstalled shitty Windows 10 again and that was that. Felt defeated lol.

Fast forward to November, the itch to go back to Linux was growing something fierce. Decided to follow some good advice from a friend, installed Pop OS and fuck, it worked like a charm. Fell in love and haven't looked back at Windows since.

Kept learning new things and picking up more knowledge about the terminal and was beginning to use quite a few commands without any fear. The terminal is class, feel like hackerman meme lol. I soon realised though that I was actually only using my Nvida gpu for everything, rendering and games etc. So decided to try hybrid. However i soon realised Steam wouldn't open, anything that i asked to run the discrete card would not actually run the Nvidia card. Tried removing the open drivers and replacing with the closed. Some things worked temporarily but I simply couldnt figure it out and decided to settle for manually switching between integrated and nvidia for different tasks. Handy feature on Pop OS 22.04.

Anyway, got the stupid distro hopping itch and started jumping about lol. Tried Cachy. Same issue with Nvidia card so bounced. Tried Nobara. Same again but stayed longer and tried few kernel PCI tricks using grubby (advice from somebody much more knowledgeable). That worked for a day or so but always kept going back to crashing the nvidia card (and was only able to use my Intel integrated card). So went back to Pop OS (my Linux safe space lol). Was almost ready to settle for my lot in life (in regards to this stupid Acer Nvidia laptop lol).

Throughout all this, I had been reading the Arch wiki off and on, and at first it may as well be gobbledegook. But after couple months of using Linux you just start picking things up a lot more, words that had no meaning before, soon made sense and you begin to have the basics down. I had been reading about this GSP firmware thing really late one night and then forgot next day and only remembered few days later. Apparently this GSP firmware that comes with the Nvidua driver can screw some of the older Nvidia cards and so disabling it, while using the closed driver can help some older machines. So earlier tonight, tried it on Pop just messing about and it worked. So I thought, fuck it, Nobara was brilliant, lets try that again and try and find out how this is done on Nobara.

Switched to Nobara, followed some stuff from the wiki and forums, did the commands, then rebuilt the akmods and regenerated the Drakut program. And hybrid graphics works fucking perfectly now!!! Fuck me, it feels amazing to have finally sorted a solution to an issue I was ready to give up on after trying to sort it for a couple weeks! And I also have to say, if I had simply gotten that answer the first night I went searching, I would be absolutely none the wiser about all the things I learnt through trial and error, through learning on the wiki and on forums etc.

Sorry for the long rant lol, just wanted to share a minor but personal triumph. After all that, I can really see how awesome Linux is. I honestly feel that I've learnt more about computers within the last few months on Linux, than I did in the last 15 years using Windows!

If anybody out there is thinking of trying Linux, you should absolutely give it a go! Jump in and have some fun! Make sure you back up any important data. But don't be afraid to make mistakes. Honestly that can be fun, figuring that out! There really are some great distros out there!

Linux4life motherfuckers!

Peace!

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