herewulf (u/herewulf)

herewulf commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

raw_anon_1111 · 3 days ago

Why would someone want to sync bookmarks, browsing history etc between their phone, their iPad and their computer?

Chrome and Firefox do the same.

herewulf · a day ago

Firefox only does this if you set it up that way. It's in no way obligatory. That is a far cry from Apple and Google.

herewulf commented on Workday project at Washington University hits $266M theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/sebastian_z

janstice · 2 days ago

Workday’s student offering is designed as a full student management offering like Banner et al, with the carrot that it’s internally integrated into the financial & HR systems, which avoids another vendor and also a massive and ongoing finger pointing exercise.

It’s also one of the few from-scratch cloud-first student management solutions.

herewulf · 2 days ago

Banner is just a pile of hacks on top of an Oracle ERP with 7 character names for everything in the core. At least that was the state of affairs as of a number of years ago.

herewulf commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

BuyMyBitcoins · 5 days ago

Moreover, due to executive order the typeface is now called “Times New American”.

herewulf · 5 days ago

BVT NOT TO BE CONFVSED UUITH TIMES OLD ROMAN.

herewulf commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer

archagon · 12 days ago

On the other hand, during the anarchy years of bring-your-own-skins (and sprays), there was a lot of horrible shit out there — goatse was only the tip of the iceberg.

herewulf · 11 days ago

You ran your own server within your group of (probably Internet-) friends and policed and banned players doing that kind of crap. A lot of the potential offense was limited by the low resolution of sprays anyway.

herewulf commented on Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months pcpartpicker.com/trends/p... · Posted by u/zekrioca

amarcheschi · 12 days ago

I honestly can't wait to use used gpus as lego bricks similar to what kids in Weimar republic did with cash

herewulf · 12 days ago

Soon you will bring a wheelbarrow of GPUs to buy a loaf of bread.

herewulf commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

dmead · 16 days ago

I've been using linux since the days of downloading slackware on a stack of 1.44mb floppy disks. I gave up on linux gaming around 2007. I've revisited it this year, but it still sucks. it's just not worth it.

just relax, install windows and late the escapism take over.

herewulf · 16 days ago

I also started my Linux journey with a turn of the century Slackware install. Linux has come a long, long way since then, but I learned a lot back then. Distros like Bazzite are practically "turn-key" now.

In any case, I would rather use those hard earned skills hand configuring Slackware today than to put with the shitshow of Windows pop-ups, forced account creation, telemetry collection, UI changes for the sake of change, advertisements built into the OS, random OS corrupting BSODs, etc..

herewulf commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

moltopoco · 16 days ago

My understanding is that a lot of the games on Steam are actually executed in some kind of sandbox, but I am sure if that is just for compatibility/emulation reasons, and which directories are still accessible in that case.

I wish there was better documentation for this, because "random indie game demo cannot upload my family photos" would be a great selling point for SteamOS/Bazzite.

As it stands, the Steam flatpak is probably the safest way to play games (which does not work on Bazzite).

herewulf · 16 days ago

Why does the Steam Flatpak not work on Bazzite? Because it's already installed by rpm-ostree? I wouldn't think this matters.

herewulf commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

prmoustache · 16 days ago

Honestly if the point is to run proprietary software like commercial AAA games, the supply chain is already compromised.

I treat my gaming computer as a video game console, it wouldn't occur to me to share passwords, accounts, data or anything sensitive on my gaming machine. And I only connect it to the network if I need to download a game/update.

herewulf · 16 days ago

I totally agree and I have done likewise for many years now.

Consider setting up a VLAN or additional WiFi SSID if you find the network situation a hassle.

herewulf commented on Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming bazzite.gg/... · Posted by u/doener

Night_Thastus · 16 days ago

There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

For some games it can be. For some games Proton performs far worse than Windows. It's not steady across the board. And some have stability issues, bugs, major performance problems, or just flat out don't work.

I want Proton to be the future as well, but I think it's important not to oversell it as a drop-in replacement either.

EDIT: GN highly recommends against apples-to-oranges comparisons of the two, but even looking at their own data for AMD cards (with exact same CPU, RAM, and motherboard) it clearly shows Proton being behind on the order of 6-15%. Not a lot, but not ahead either. You can compare the numbers for the AMD cards against this video's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP0axVHdP-U

EDIT 2: Instead of just down-voting because the result makes you unhappy, how about responding with well-sourced proof otherwise?

herewulf · 16 days ago

> I want Proton to be the future as well, but I think it's important not to oversell it as a drop-in replacement either.

Proton needs to be understood as a temporary solution to make the back catalogue on Linux comparable to Windows.

Eventually there is a tipping point and most games will have native Linux binaries. Once that happens all developers will gradually follow suit to avoid being left behind. Perhaps Valve's latest hardware efforts will finally bring this about.

Proton will still exist for older games and as hardware continues to become more powerful, loss of performance won't matter much.

herewulf commented on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/speckx

lmz · 21 days ago

On die ECC for DDR5. Which corrects locally but does not signal the host or deal with data between the die and the CPU.

herewulf · 20 days ago

Presumably this is being marketed indistinguishably from regular ECC RAM?

If so, that's terrible news. It was already difficult enough to find ECC RAM for "workstation" class machines (i.e.: High end, non-server CPUs that support ECC such as AMD Threadripper).