I’ve got a laptop running Garuda, it has and Intel APU(so integrated graphics) and a dedicated Nvidia 1660. Working better than with Win 11 on it. I did have to configure Heroic launcher to default to the dedicated gfx card, but that was about 7 mouse clicks tops. Steam games tend to just assume that you’ll be wanting the dedicated gfx to do the work, but some games ask. That said, out of the box, I had to fight win 11 for about 25mins to get it to agree that yes I did in fact want the Nvidia card to be used to run games.

Bump for Garuda. It’s decent, as simple as any installation I’ve ever had to do, comes well configured out of the box, and has a very active forum that the Devs keep an eye on and answer questions quite quickly.

Yeah, most of what I watch is cooking, gaming, and trades stuff. The algorithm has decided what I really want to watch is videos on VTuber drama. It’s almost literally the only thing it suggests to me, so I just watch off my subs list.

That’s a good point.

In this case it absolutely is.

That too

Exactly, an equitable solution could be to pay royalties to artists that had their work stolen to train these algorithms. That, however, would require any of the generative algorithms to be operating at a profit, which they absolutely are not.

I’ve been getting a lot of play time from Ostranauts.

From the Steam blurb:

Ostranauts is a hardcore noir space-sim. Manage life aboard your ship, and beware the cost of every decision you make. Scavenge and explore the boneyard. Create, build, and customise your ship.

There’s kinda of a story, more like things are happening in the world. You’re mostly just left to your own devices.

Another game that’s taken up a lot of my 2024 was Baldur’s Gate 3, pretty sure it doesn’t need a short write up though.

Fuck it, I’m in!

But the bones are how you make banging soups…

like slashdot, digg, and reddit, lemmy is a link aggregator. the community is not the point, it is an emergent feature.

Not sure I agree with this bit. I’m absolutely on board with everything before this…but if community wasn’t the point, why have comments, profiles, direct messaging? Pretty sure community is the point.