Grangle1

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What distro would you recommend to harness the full power of this semi old cheapo PC with an NVIDIA GPU? in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Nobara, moved to it from Neon myself after the debacle that was the rebase to 24.04. It's Fedora based and you can get it with regular KDE or their own customized version. It's Fedora with special mods made by GloriousEggroll (the dev behind Proton-GE) to improve performance mostly for gaming though the improvements can be of benefit to other applications as well. It was probably the most popular "gaming" distro until Bazzite became the hot new thing. Give it a try and see how it runs on your hardware.

Looking to get into Sonic games in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The franchise is very much split in gameplay style between the 2D and 3D entries. Generally the 2D games are much more highly rated, but there are good 3D games (and not-so-good 2D games) too. Here's a list of what's worth checking out of each:

2D The original trilogy from the Genesis (found in various Genesis collections and Sonic Origins) Sonic Advance trilogy (GBA) Sonic Rush (DS) Sonic Mania (any modern console and PC)

3D Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 (Steam, modern consoles MAY have digital copies) Sonic Colors (most easily accessible through recent remaster on PC and modern consoles) Sonic (X Shadow) Generations (just remade everywhere) Sonic Frontiers (haven't tried it myself but heard it's alright)

A mighty hunter in c/cat@lemmy.world
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

While I agree that cats are fine outside (while supervised and/or staying within their own yard - a small harness and leash can do the job), cats are just as healthy and happy staying indoors. My own cat actually refuses to go outside despite enjoying looking out the window all the time. I tried taking him outside a couple times to get him some exercise and he absolutely hated it. Different cats enjoy different environments.

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.4’s enters soft feature freeze, Dolphin and other KDE apps "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs get a visual overhaul, and that the file transfer in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know if the major issue with QTWebEngine will be fixed so that KMail/Kontact and Falkon will work again?

What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Water Temple.

Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Pretty capable" will get you dunked on in the PC gaming world. For what I've seen PC gamers actually recommend I could buy 2-3 modern consoles.

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VPN: excessive IP blocking (lemm.ee)
 

I'm just mostly commenting to vent frustration with what I'm seeing this past week as a sharp spike in captchas and sites straight up blocking Proton VPN IPs. Proton is slowed down, captcha'd and blocked at a far higher rate than any such behavior I encountered with Nord when I used them. You can do all you want to protect privacy but when you hold yourself out as the big "privacy" VPN service everyone's gonna be suspicious that you're gonna be the service that bad actors use and block all your traffic. I know I should also figure this will happen but I would also figure there would be more effort to prevent it from happening. I use Proton VPN because I enjoy Proton's other services but if this keeps up I feel it may get to be unusable for me.