punkfungus

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[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, both the Ally and the Go are sold in Australia. However it's also quite easy to order a "grey import" Steam Deck from Amazon, which is what I did. I'm guessing the sheer number of Steam Decks that have been sold into Australia that way are factoring into Valve's decision, because anecdotally among my peers the Steam Decks owned outnumber the Allys 4:1. Pretty impressive for a device not officially sold here.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I've only been fully on Linux for about 4-5 months, but am yet to experience any issues on Fedora KDE with Wayland. Previously while I was distrohopping I was having a bit of a rough time but since settling on Fedora and with Plasma 6 it has been smooth sailing.

I'm using an AMD 5700X/B550m and RX 6700 XT. Also with two mismatched 1440p displays (different refresh rates).

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

By hand you can feel that you've engaged the thread properly. If you just send it with a power tool then dealing with cross threaded fasteners is in your future.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

You may know this already from the Steam Deck, but I highly recommend installing protonup-qt which will enable you to install the glorious eggroll versions of Proton. A lot of game cutscenes don't work with vanilla proton but will with ProtonGE.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Really not good enough from AMD. I wonder if Intel wasn't a complete dumpster fire right now if they would still cut off the fix at Zen 3 (I doubt it). There's really no reason not to issue a fix for these other than they don't want to pay the engineers for the time to do it, and they think it won't cost them any reputational damage.

I hate that every product and company sucks so hard these days.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This isn't the first time such a vulnerability has been found, have you forgotten spectre/meltdown? Though this is arguably not nearly as impactful as those because it requires physical access to the machine.

Your fervour in trying to paint this as an equivalent problem to Intel's 13th and 14th gen defects, and implication that everyone else are being fanboys, is just telling on yourself mate. Normal people don't go to bat like that for massive corpos, only Kool aid drinkers.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crowdstrike bypassed WHQL because the update was not to the driver, it was to a configuration file that then gets ingested by the driver. It's deliberate so they can push out updates for developing threats without being slowed down by the WHQL process.

And that means when they decide to just send it on a Friday with a buggy config file, nobody is responsible but Crowdstrike.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Not quite true on the second part. It's primarily Jatco CVTs that are reliability nightmares, and are what is used by Nissan. Subaru make their own CVTs which are widely regarded to be much more reliable.

Pretty much the entire poor reputation of CVTs derives from those shitty Jatcos but the tech itself wasn't the problem, it was the execution.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

They were springs, not shocks. Of course it was too stiff for exclusive use on a farm, it's expected to do most of its driving on roads in China. The tires didn't wear out, he wanted knobbier tyres for the farm. And you know what other vehicle always wore through its seat upholstery in 2 years? Nineties hiluxes. You know, the gold standard of rugged, simple reliability. And guess what, living on a farm those required a lot of maintenance too. It's a machine, machines wear out with use even when they have Toyota badges.

These cheap electric trucks are a return to simple, easily serviceable designs that you'd think ol' boys would be cheering for. Instead all they do is cry about it. It's culture war brain rot

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Last I checked hexbear had something like 70% more total comments than lemmy.world despite only having a tiny fraction of the users. Sounds like bots to me

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The thing he replied to is a modified copypasta, it was made as a joke

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