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  • Age of Empires 2.

    I absolutely suck at multiplayer, but it really is a fun game. I liked how its campaign mode teaches you history too. It got two remasters, and both are quite good in their own way. 2013 has visuals similar to the originals, and Definitive has its visuals vastly improved but kept the gameplay same.

    As for consoles, Chrono Trigger for SNES is the most remarkable game I can think of. It takes time travel very well, I was honestly surprised how such a game was made at that era.

    If you want a more casual game, Puyo Puyo for Genesis could do well. It could be hard when you first get into it. The games back then were written to be more difficult to get more playtime out of games; and the AI can easily catch you off guard with big chains. (Its english counterpart for Mega Drive is called Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, but the game is easily understood as it is already.)








  • GPU artifacting typically means one of the four things, in the order of severity

    1. Cable is fucked
    2. Monitor is fucked
    3. GPU drivers are fucked
    4. GPU itself is fucked.

    To test 1) try changing your refresh rate and resolution to see if the artifacting occurs similarly. If it ceases, change your cable. If one of your monitors displays properly and another monitor artifacts, this is also the main culprit

    To test 2) plug in another device that uses the same port your PC uses. If you see similar artifacting, change your monitor

    To test 3) try booting your PC off of a live USB with any OS. If you don’t see artifacting, you’re gonna need to change your GPU drivers. Refer to your OS’s documentation on that, not me please.

    This step also tests for 4. If you see artifacting, it’s highly likely that your GPU is fucked. Try disconnecting the GPU and use the integrated graphics if that exists, or an old GPU. Use that as a temporary solution until you upgrade your GPU.






  • If you’re from the EU you can file a GDPR request to the site’s admin; otherwise consult your laws for how you can do a data deletion request for best chance of success.

    Note that even if your posts/comments are deleted, some admins might refuse to delete the User ID assigned to your old account to prevent improper federation between instances. (If someone else takes that account, it could create problems there)





  • Another fun fact about North Korea: They have their own Linux Distro by the name Red Star OS, which has its 3.0 version leaked to the Internet, while the newest known version is 4.0.

    My observations while trying out the leaked 3.0 are:

    *It is a fedora derivative,its package manager made me think it’s something close to CentOS 6.3.

    *It’s visuals are really similar to Mac OS. Perhaps the state official behind this project really liked Mac?

    *Every piece of software installed has its credits removed, they have help prompts that refer to them being made in some sort of university.

    *It leaves strange markings to created files. I couldn’t understand what they do exactly, but I assume it could be used to track the computer that made the files.

    *Their browser does not support https, and does not have English support at all.

    *Packages intended for developers aren’t installed by default, doesn’t have a remote repository but instead was intended to be installed with a physical media drive.

    *Just for fun, I tried to request the Linux kernel’s source code that the developers behind used, as it’s licensed by GPL. I was unsuccessful; which means this is the first time a state sponsored software is violating GPL.



  • Biggest difference between Ubuntu and Pop is that Ubuntu aims to popularise usage of snap and uses apt as a backup option while Pop aims to deliver its software through apt and flatpaks, in the priority that the user wants.

    Flatpaks are more consistent to run, they can run between all distros but install dependencies seperately so could take up more space for installations.

    Apt makes use of the native debian installation, which works well for most but sometimes you could be stuck in a dependency hell between some software. Uses the storage more efficiently as it can share dependencies between multiple installed packages.

    Snap sucks. There’s literally no point in using it. It can run apps on all distros similarly to flatpak but its worse in every possible way. It hits noticably to run time of applications.