Posts by RanAS - Kafuka Boards

20K may be an even number, but 25 is a whole, nice, round number.

Speaking of that, how soon do you think you'll get to 25000?

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

So, in ~2 years you'd probably have the most posts out of any AcmlmBoard that ever existed (unless I'm forgetting any). Neat!

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

I've been using Vivaldi for the last half-year or so, and I got pretty used to its quirks by now (not to mention, a lot of bugs got fixed since then). I switched away from Opera because it started changing too many things about its browser/interface and trying to make everything more simple for the casual internet user.

I wanted to use Firefox (as an alternative to the Chromium ecosystem) but I honestly can't get used to it, even after Quantum happened. I have it installed as a backup in case I ever need to use it.

At work, we are obligated to use Google Chrome only.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

I think I only need about 500GB personally, but 1TB is a good safe margin for the next five years. I currently have a bit more than 1TB of space and I'm only using 34% of it so far. I don't really archive many things and I don't play that many games on my PC, so I don't need that much space.

My SSD has both Windows 10 and Linux Mint, and it's also where I put most of my personal documents (aside from videos) along with all programs I use. It has 75GB/223GB used.

My HDD has games, emulators, ISOs/ROMs, movies, videos and other heavy downloads, including backups of my documents. It has 315GB/931GB used.

There is one thing I'll say though: 20GB is seriously not a lot of space nowadays (this is how much space the Athlonic has, my "retro" spare computer). Sure, I'm able to install Debian 10 + Windows XP on it, but it doesn't leave much more than a couple of GBs for me to work with.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

a little bit of baba in my life

*ahem*

a little bit of Baba Is You. it's a great puzzle game that will force you to think outside the box. you constantly need to rewrite the rules of what makes each object themselves, so what object do you control, what you can push, what is the win condition, etc, all of these change as you're playing the level.

the tricky part is controlling these changes and getting the game to do exactly what you want it to do.

it's kinda like programming in a way.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Hydrogen (Elemi)

it has a few oddities but overall i've been digging this theme

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Does the Socket A fit in somewhere along this timeline?

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

i guess i'm a Linux Mint user now, huh. how about that.

you can click the image above btw

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

I used Windows 7 until 2019 when I switched to "Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon" because I could not stand Windows 10. I have been using Mint for a while now and I have no real desire to go back. Sometimes I miss the compatibility I had on Windows 10, but I started to like Mint too much to go back.

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As far as choosing a Linux distribution:

If you're starting out on Linux, I'd say that you'd probably want to stick to the "easier to use" distributions. Stuff like elementaryOS (if you're used to Mac, that said I don't actually have any experience with it), Mint or Ubuntu (if you're used to Windows). It's also important to learn about desktop environments. Basically, a distribution only dictates stuff like what apps and games you can install, hardware compatibility, how things will be organized internally and how stable your system will be. The actual look of your system comes down to your DE (desktop environment).

Linux Mint is a bit easier to use and configure, it's meant to be a system that "just works, out of the box" without giving you any headaches. It still will sometimes, but they're rare, much rarer than I expected. It's geared more towards desktop users, but it also has decent touch support as well. Being used to Windows, I'd say it feels pretty familiar. It comes with Cinnamon as its default DE which I find to be an absolutely wonderful replacement for Windows. A few apps may look and feel a bit odd at times, but for the most part, Cinnamon was exactly what I needed/wanted when I had to switch away from using Windows, and it's more lightweight than it as well!

Ubuntu tends to do its own thing most of the time, focusing more on the bleeding-edge (such as their focus to become a distribution for cloud computing, IoT devices, phones, servers AND desktops). For that reason, it's likely to be more unstable or need frequent updates. That said, it's much more popular and has a much bigger community for support. I'd personally only recommend it you're looking for a development studio or looking to work with anything extremely recent. By default, Ubuntu comes with GNOME as its DE, which is pretty much it's own thing and very unlike anything else. Menus are not where you expect them to be, windows behave on their own special way, etc. GNOME breaks a lot of traditional desktop conventions and it may take a while to get used to the GNOMEness of it all. GNOME is also a bit heavy, maybe more-so than Windows.

Because Mint is based on Ubuntu, most Ubuntu resources also work on Mint as well, but not the other way around. Also, both have alternative desktop environments as well. MATE is a good one that's officially supported by both Mint and Ubuntu. It looks and feels similar to Cinnamon, but with a few differences, and you can also customize it a lot more than Cinnamon. MATE is also more stable than Cinnamon, but also looks slightly more dated than it by default. This page offers a good comparison between both.

Another alternative desktop environment is LXQt/Lubuntu. LXQt is very lightweight and a pretty good choice for lower-end computers, but you'll notice the lack of customization fairly quickly. Overall, I'd only recommend it if you have a machine that can't even run Windows properly.

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As far as things you should know about Linux:

If you ever run into an issue, the internet is your friend! askubuntu.com is going to be one of those friends (even if you're not using Ubuntu), but really, there's resources and help articles spread out everywhere. And in this case, they actually ARE made to help you rather than just being generic "reboot your computer" advice that's common to hear with Windows issues.

Get comfortable with some command-line stuff. You won't need to use it often, in fact, you'll probably only need to remember half a dozen commands, if that. But it's going to be very helpful. The command-line on Linux is also a lot more powerful (and user-friendly!) than on Windows. Just don't delve too deep into it at first.

Know that most apps will either be compatible with Linux or have suitable replacements, but not all of them. For the stuff that doesn't have a replacement, you can use PlayOnLinux (or directly use Wine) to try running them, but expect new issues and glitches to happen when you run them. It'll work well for simpler apps, but anything complicated enough might catastrophically fail.

If you're very used to Microsoft Office, specially with its advanced features, you'll struggle with LibreOffice. And Wine will not help you here, it simply won't run properly on Linux. There's an alternative: WPS Office, which is as close as you can get, but it's also got its own share of odd issues. If you barely use Office, then you'll do just fine.

Surprisingly, Linux has pretty good game support nowadays, specially indie games and Steam games. Some AAA+ titles might not bother with Linux ports though, so it'd be a good idea for you to keep a Windows dual-boot, in case you need/want to play those games (and also, if you happen to need any programs which simply don't run on Wine). Chances are, you'll have to boot up Windows only a few times a month, but it unfortunately is still a a necessity.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

It's very cloudy. I'm looking at my computer and in the corner of my eye, I see thunder in the clouds. I don't like it one bit.

I don't mind the cloudy weather or even rain, but leave thunders and lightnings out of the equation, please.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

My go-to answer to anyone who's having trouble with Twitter, Facebook or any social media:

Why not try out Mastodon?

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Lots of Puyo Puyo Tetris. Already up to rank 6000 after ~40 hours of playtime.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

I've never modded a game console, but I have bought a modded Wii for my father as a birthday present. He really liked it!

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Daylight savings time has already been banned here in Brazil!

Though some computers and apps (such as Discord) didn't quite catch the memo in time...ooops.

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

my monitor is 1600x900 and VGA only. this resolution is a bit awkward for recording stuff in. also, i need to use a clumsy VGA to DVI adapter in order for it to work with my graphics card.

i need to buy a new monitor later on. probably one that's not much bigger than this one (20" LCD screen) otherwise there will be no room for it on the stand, but I'd love for it to be at least 1080p with DVI or DisplayPort or HDMI support

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Posted by Epele
I've seen the space requirements for some games, with some passing the 100GB mark. I don't have any personally quite that large.. but I do have ~475 GB of games installed across a 500 GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I've even seen that Borderlands 3 is saying 75GB of space is required.. If I put that on my SSD, it'll pretty much clog up all the space, which leaves less space for software.

yikes. 75GB is about all I have in games period (not counting emulators) and every one of them is installed on the hdd (ssd space is precious right now). though I do have a good 400GB free on the hdd just for gaming stuff (and could allocate more if i moved the partitions around), the ssd has less than 100GB free (and i'd rather it not get close to 100% anyway)

~~and porn consumes really little space honestly, specially when compared to everything else, just sayin'~~

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

Posted by ゼンガー・ゾンボルト
It looks like her. Only with more muscles and a bigger ass.

~~no complaints here~~ though yea, Bea doesn't quite look like her (Bea is more slim)

on another note: one of the futa pics (the one with the white hair) reminded me of a quote: imagine a futa being both the pitcher and the catcher. just food for thought I guess

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

bits of pieces of the Hotline Miami OST, with special mention towards It's Safe Now and Electric Dreams

there's also some songs with sick beats like Hydrogen but everyone knows those ones already

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass

I just remembered that one of my dreams yesterday was one where all my jeans had holes around the legs outta nowhere and it basically made them unwearable and I was so pissed about it.

Thankfully all of them are in good shape. But I think my brain is telling me I should stop procrastinating and buy new clothes already. And I should. Later this month, probably.

I wished I remembered more about my dreams, but they just vanish so quickly...

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." --Ram Dass