Tech

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diablo-IV

Onwards!

With Diablo IV on Fedora workstation. With Gnome. Forget everything i wrote earlier, buy an AMD PC with AMD Radeon graphics card as its drivers are compiled into the Linux kernel by default, have Steam and Proton take care of the nasty graphics / gaming bits. Reason why everything suddenly […]

Sekiro shadows die twice

Linux Gamer

  “Now i have become Linux Gamer, the destroyer of imposter syndrome” Didit, set up encrypted Manjaro KDE Plasma with Steam with a lot of Windows games that just_work. Especially nice touch was the automated installation of graphics drivers with KDE Hardware configuration. It’s all X Server though, Wayland doesn’t […]

The Register NightShade

Nightshade

  Here’s an interesting article and notion by the Register. On the downside, AI lawyers will go: “should’ve protected yourself, it’s possible.” Damn right it is, that’s why i put ChatGPT in the robots blocklist of this site. I never pretended anything i did regarding computer graphics was Art but […]

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Raspberry Pi 5 purchase and KDE Plasma setup

  It’s actually very simple and straightforward: buy the board, Argon NEO-5 case and power adapter at elektronicavoorjou.nl, they’ve got excellent support and it’s not presale (for Dutch users). The old Raspberry Pi power adapters won’t work so make sure to buy the entire package. You need a fast 32/64 […]

Pi5_5

Raspberry Pi 5 KDE Plasma

Yep, at it again. And this time with great success (jagshemash!), got KDE Plasma installed on it and *everything* works just fine. Of course it’s not fast enough to do heavy graphics stuff like Blender but it’s sure fast enough to function as a decent workstation. It seems like finally […]

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Bought Raspberry Pi 5 8G

Bought it! Will write a Manjaro KDE Plasma setup manual on this website. I’ve given up on gaming on Linux but going to make this one as stable as possible and use it to maintain this website, it’s my version of Hopium for 2024. And *with* a very sexy hackerish […]

RaspberryPi5

Raspberry Pi 5

This is so entirely my cup of coffee i’m gasping. And it *finally* has a_power_button ! https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/ 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1, Vulkan 1.2 Dual 4Kp60 HDMI® display output 4Kp60 HEVC decoder Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi® Bluetooth 5.0 / Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) […]