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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • bjfar@reddthat.comtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    1 year ago

    I don’t blame them for not understanding 40 years ago, but I do blame them for not understanding now. Older generations still contain the majority of climate deniers and other heel draggers, and their votes make a big difference.


  • I mean yeah you’re not wrong, but physical media doesn’t last forever either. Vinyl is pretty good, but pretty much every form of digital storage will slowly waste away without some dedicated upkeep effort. Unless you’re really willing to put in some serious effort maintaining a personal digital archive it kind of is just better to treat everything as a lease.

    The only thing that really worries me are stuff like family photos and videos, and other important digital documents. Yeah I can print some of them, and I should do that more, but on the other hand they’re probably safer from destruction with Google than they are in my house. Both would be best though.

















  • A pretty weak one but it should be fine if you’re just trying things out.

    Yeah? I tried unreal engine 4 on this laptop a few years ago and even just doing very basic stuff with the demo templates in the 3D UI thing was pretty garbage. But maybe Godot is more efficient? Or maybe it’s just because I was on Linux using Vulkan drivers which were pretty new and Unreal wasn’t using them well or something?

    That being said eGPU enclosures are pretty expensive and not worth imo if you just want to play around with graphics. You might be better off buying a newer laptop with a GPU or a desktop PC.

    Yes, they did seem pricy. But still, I can’t be bothered with a whole new machine. I’ll have to do some more mental cost benefit analysis I guess. I guess now is a bad time to be trying to get a GPU in general…



  • Thanks! That’s comforting to hear. I hadn’t heard of godot but it does sound pretty cool, I’ll check it out! Are any of these more suited to Linux development than others? I haven’t used Windows in like a decade* and kind of can’t be assed with it unless I really have to :). I tried installing Unreal 4 on my underpowered laptop running Ubuntu a few years back, and I did get it working but it was kind of a drag, maybe they’ve tightened up the Linux version since then though…

    *Ok l lie, my work machine is Windows but I kind of forget that it is because i immediately log in to Linux machines to do all my actual work aside from writing emails and video chatting ;).