Pascal Ampertail 🐇💾

Photo of an older man sitting in a booth at an American diner. Backed by windows painted black with night, he stoops over a table, grasping a PS3 controller in both hands. Set up on the table in front of him is a large-ish flat screen TV, on which we can see Demon's Souls being played.

Happy 10th anniversary to this photo of some auld fella playing Demons Souls at an Arbys

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A brown and white lop-eared bunny rests on a beige carpet. A blue ball and black sofa are in the background.

Are the latest AMD gpu drivers being a tad funky for anyone else? RX 7800XT on Windows 11 here and I've had two hard resets from crashes in the kmode AMD driver in the last week after the most recent update

So, now that it's out.

Is Durandal even IN the new Marathon???

Twitch Twitch is the world

Rock and Stone! I'm Engi-nearing my absolute limit, I'm bugging out, I'm gonna plat-deform these xenos!

It is time for some more Deep Rock Galactic with @pascalampertail.bsky.social as we do the 8 year anniversary missions! Cheers to the DRG team!

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The GOAT

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As if they needed help doing that... Hey mesa devs. Still waiting on that bug fix for an over two year old regression I and a mountain of other people reported!!!

The cited article has as much credibility as a grain of salt so I'm not paying this one too much mind

But also dropping a three and a half hour video a mere two months after dropping a four hour video? Insane stuff

This man never misses with his videos honestly

Yeah that... Does also line up with what I've heard from said family friend. It's all a bit chaotic

I can say for a fact that there's absolutely people in Microsoft developing Windows who would push back against this kind of nonsense because one of them happens to be a family friend. There's no way MS would actually do this unless they want to blow their own foot off

So I was playing Deep Rock Galactic with @asterokosmosvt.bsky.social last night and I swear to god this woman is going to be the death of me.

(Like I will admit as annoying as the microsoft account can be at times, being able to just cart around the same license on my desktop for the past god knows how long has legitimately been fantastic)

Oh yeah no 110%. I've used it for that as well. My desktop does have a license tied to my MS account that I've just carted around from system to system over the years but for others? Massgrave is a life saver

I am so glad that co-op games like Deep Rock Galactic exist. God they're so much fun

That's good at least. Using Limine is the right idea though because Linux does have a bad habit of breaking or at least regressing in a strange way after a software update so picking the bootloader with btrfs snapshot support baked in is ABSOLUTELY the right move and will save you many headaches

BIG fan of how fast my Pixel 9 gets software updates goddamn

I used it on my lappy which only had a home license to just bump it up so I could use local GPO, honestly, a true lifesaver of a script

With anything arch based, it's not if, it's when

Only thing is you need Windows 11 Pro to use Local Group Policy but if you don't have that uhhh

*cough massgravescript cough*

Wow that was a strange cough

Although I do recommend applying this GPO as well which defers the security updates by 7 days by default just in case because sometimes you get the odd weirdo but this will hold all of them back by a week so if a weirdo rolls out you'll have time to block it before your system even tries to dl it

See the good thing about this method is it blocks the annoying feature updates that often are the big breakers that need extra time to be fixed (eg the 24H2, 25H2 updates etc) but you can still get all important security updates without issue so you can y know, stay secure

Usually windows only yells at you if a library or dependency is entirely MISSING, if you have multiple versions of that dependency installed (eg visual C++ runtimes which have different year versions etc and ain't cross compatible) Windows will just... know which one to use and do the thing

Since the NT kernel Windows has been VERY smart at knowing how to deal with different core libraries and stuff thanks to how dll's work. dll hell used to be a thing but that's long faded away because Windows is pretty smart about this stuff now

And then you have stuff come along to try and solve it like flatpak's which are great except they negate the whole space saving thing because they effectively download the program and all its required dependencies into a sandbox and... yeahhhh

Yeahhhhh that's unfortunately the big issue with Linux on the desktop. It's great on servers but on the desktop having so much be modular often gets in the way more than anything. Dependency Hell is real and I've been there, it's miserable.

So there's a group policy setting where you can set the target version for feature updates, see screenshot. Combine that with the second group policy I've screenshot and it basically locks the system to the current feature pack until EOL rolls around and you need to roll up to the next one

I've found this method to be EXTREMELY reliable for me at least because my setup very rarely breaks, if ever. It just kinda stays out of my way and lets me do my thing. I wish I didn't HAVE to do this to begin with of course but the point is more that "Windows 11 is fine once you tame it a bit"