I’ve been itching to upgrade to AM5, this might finally be the CPU to finally make it worth it. Hopefully power draw and thermals are good, I’d like to do an ITX build if possible.

i’m on a diet, i’ll just take the crackers

sudo eat | grep -v "Chocolate Cream"

Still J.C. Staff. Hopefully the production schedule doesn’t melt this time around.

I occasionally think back to Rocket League, which I loved in its earlier days. I put close to 100 hours into it, which is a lot for one game for me. Then they added lootboxes, leaned harder into the competitive space, and just completely sucked the soul out of it. And yet it’s still hugely popular.

I just don’t get it.

I’m so torn about stories like this and GTA online. Because on one hand, people play these games, and people won’t switch to Linux if they can’t play them.

But on the other hand, I just cannot give a single fuck about live service trash like this. I struggle to understand how people play games products like these, and I absolutely don’t understand why anyone would waste their time cheating in them. And yet they’re absurdly popular.

Despite gaming being such a big hobby for me, I feel so disconnected from what the average gamer values.

it’ll usually be the artist’s name. Like if you search for “Taylor Swift”, you’ll get exactly zero results because that phrase is blacklisted due to a complaint from the label. If you instead search for a specific song, you will see results, and can work backwards from there to find the album you’re looking for.

The last time I had trouble finding something on Soulseek, it was an album that had released a month or two ago, so it might’ve still been too new.

Yeah, I’ve had to use that blacklist workaround on many occasions, lol

Oh wow, I never realized that was an option. Fixed, thanks!

I also just noticed I got the percentage in the meme wrong. Oops.

Linux is now at 4.55% desktop marketshare (up from <1% in early 2018).

Linux’s desktop marketshare has risen by ~350-400%, not 3.5-4%.

EDIT: reuploaded with corrected value

Context:

Back in 2018, Philip Robohle (doitsujin) developed DXVK because he wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.

Valve hired him to work on it full time, then they released Proton (Wine + DXVK) a few months later. Proton likely would never have existed if it weren’t for DXVK, and by extension the Steam Deck either wouldn’t exist or would use Windows instead, and all the other cool Linux-related stuff Valve have worked on since probably wouldn’t have happened.

Desktop Linux’s marketshare rising is obviously not exclusively because of the gaming improvements, but it’s for sure a huge boon. Good enough for a dumb meme like this, lol

That’s only on the newest V4 stations, which are being rolled out incredibly slowly. All of the charges near me are V3 stations.

A 10% to 80% charge is about an hour.

It’s definitely been a thing in the US for a long time, not sure about the rest of the world. Ford and Rivian were the first to gain access, then GM a couple days ago. Hyundai, Nissan, Lucid, etc still can’t charge at superchargers in the US right now.

This location was $0.44/kwh, another one nearby was $0.62/kwh. The Electrify America station near me is usually $0.45/kwh.

It just rolled out to GM a couple days ago.

All the Tesla app knows is that I have a Chevy Bolt and I have an adapter, it doesn’t seem to care what adapter it is.

Threw this together to explain the issue, not sure if all Tesla stations are like this. Here’s how the chargers are supposed to be used by Teslas:

I can use the charger to my left like this, but then I fuck over that spot while leaving an unused charger unreachable.

If I really squeeze close to the chargers, I can use the left one, but then I fuck up the spot on the other side unless it’s another car with the same charger location as me.

Notes on my first charge at a Tesla station:

Holy shit these cables are short, I’m lucky that this stall with a more accessible charger opened up.

The first two chargers I tried didn’t work.

The Tesla app sucks, I had to restart it twice before it let me start charging.

I’m using the A2Z Typhoon Pro adapter, works great!

I would love to see what someone could do now in the same vein.

Genki is finally making a new TXR, got announced a few days ago.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634950/Tokyo_Xtreme_Racer/