Recent content by ezst036

Local accounts not permitted. This surprises a grand total of zero people.

I have this nagging voice telling me that Google is quietly giving up. ChromeOS isn't long for this world anymore.

This aspect of the story seems contemptible. Once the authorities have determined definitively that the perps are evidentially the guilty party, the money itself should be returnable to the victims. In some of these cases and all things being the same, the governments could have saved these...

This is really bad. If I'm reading this correctly, the M3 are basically at 2080 levels of performance. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-pc-benchmarks-settings-performance-analysis The M4s are basically 3080 levels - this is impressive for onboard video to be sure but its a...

Linux approaching 3% at Steam, very cool.

Microsoft was for a while pushing to get all things out of the kernel that didn't absolutely need to be there. In the wake of the Crowdstrike incident. They seem to be dragging their feet on that though. If there is one thing that doesn't serve some massive need to be in the kernel, its...

If your experience is taking the ship down a few notches, then "well respected" because of "your experience" is not valuable. I can't speak personally about Gary Patton or any others, just making this observation. This or some in particular might be a bad move. However not all experience is...

This. Linux is much more prime-time ready than most corporations will allow it to be. Anybody who has used a Steam Deck knows this. This isn't the 1990s anymore where you gotta modify conf files just to get a video display and then edit the conf some more to get the second monitor. Those...

Microsoft wants to drive everybody into Windows 11 Advertising Edition that way they can maximize the Microsoft Online Accounts which really is all about maximizing ad revenue. Welcome to your future of adware. Which used to be considered a form of malware, but its really just the mainstream...

They enjoy that decades-old FUD. Even though its not working. Some sites were saying Linux is up to 5% market, but now they are saying that Linux is up to 6% market.

Let us not forget that Linux is capable of taking a Windows based gaming handheld and then without any hardware changes at all you get more frame rates and better battery life with that very same handheld just because you ditched Windows 11 Advertising Edition.

What is so seductive about a company is going to boss you around?

I second the Home Depot idea.(above) Remove the water cooler and bring the bolt to Home Depot.(Ace Hardware, Lowes, etc) Find the correct nut size, problem solved. My current CPU heatsink has nuts and bolts in it from Home Depot. I brought the whole motherboard into Home Depot to make sure I...

AMD RX 580 are still fully supported, only on the Linux side though. So, why not keep using it if its capable for the job. Open source support lasting for such a long time is so wonderful as opposed to the planned obsolescence machine.

I'm always curious; Was this ever tried on Linux? What about Nvidia cards on both platforms? Whoops article addresses it. It is very interesting that this was also affecting Intel's GPUs. That points back to the game itself.