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If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.

But to call them ignorant would be naive.

I used to believe that sort of thing, in my callow youth. They’re rich and powerful, they must know what they’re doing. It’s hard to imagine how anyone paying attention to the news these past ten years could still believe it. There’s no mysterious logic behind their nonsensical decisions. There’s no more than luck involved in any success those decisions have brought them. When they behave like clueless twits it’s because they’re clueless twits.

First it was the end of Moore’s law, and now the delicate balance that existed for so long between computers getting more memory and software getting more bloated has been wrecked by software more wasteful than anyone could’ve imagined. So much for the so-called Information Age. I guess it’s Disinformation Age time.

Oh, two choices. So I guess it probably switched to using your intel i915 graphics instead of the nvidia gpu. I dunno how to fix it, but it seems likely that’s what happened.

half of them would simply not open at all with any tweaking. The rest of the games eventually started to run but some of them were hit by performance degradation severe enough to not be playable.

It sounds like your video card driver stopped working and it’s fallen back to non-accelerated graphics.

Skyrim Together Reborn was the one I looked at and it does advertise that it’s working on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim_special_edition

(… most mods will work just fine with the GOG version, but maybe there are a few that would have problems. You might want the “anniversary edition” for maximum compatibility as well.)

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Estimated chance of TES6 being good plunges to new lows

Huh, weird. The only thing I can think of is to check /etc/security/limits.d to see if there’s another conf file in there setting it to 4096.

Are you sure you really need 1048576 open files? It seems like a lot. But you’ll probably want to set “soft” as well as “hard” limits. Then you need to log in again for the change to take effect.

I cannot condone people saying that they cannot condone piracy, but I get why they do it.

Browsing around nethack.org I found this link if anyone’s in need of an introduction to nethack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210212161326/http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

The comments are full of people sharing their yasd stories.

The significance of the number is not that it “lost 0.8%”, it’s that this month’s number is like last month’s well above the previous trend line, making the record high look that much more like a meaningful change and not just a random fluctuation.

The data is still noisy month-to-month and just how meaningful it is remains unclear, but this data point is nothing but good news for linux market share and framing it as somehow the opposite is misleading.

I remember admiring its art style when it first came out — it seemed to capture something beautiful about the landscape that reminded me of real Canadian wilderness. Now seems like a good time to try playing it.

Tetris has a CEO? Does she hang out with the President of Pong and the Mayor of Space Invaders?

Starting 3 years ago, it only took me about 3 years to mod it to perfection — which was another exercise in patience I guess.

It was good, although its age really showed even compared to the sequel which I’d already played. Strong start to the series. They did some kind of remaster a few years ago which was what reminded me to try the original, so maybe that’s worth it if you don’t like old-game mechanics.

It’s not been easy. There’s also Mass Effect, which I got around to playing last year — but that’s largely because I forgot about it after being patient about it for only a couple of years.

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