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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize for the semi-driveby comment but hopefully this will help.

  I had a boot problem during a laptop fresh install that I kind of understood but just could not solve a couple years back relating to some weirdness with that specific laptop.

  I used boot repair. This is surely not the howto I followed, it’s just the first recent one I found. My recollection was that it wasn’t too hard to sniff my way through, I wasn’t at all sure it had worked, but sure enough it came up fine on the very next reboot.

  www.debugpoint.com/boot-repair-disk/

  100% there are other howtos out there, I have not vetted this one beyond skimming it to see it looked reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need an entire crew to pilot this homemade tank simulator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. I wish this was my friend. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “People started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter,” Dorsey said

  This quote in context regarding all the rest makes it clear he didn’t understand what people were running from. Unless he intended it to be like Truth Social and thought folks were running towards that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck hits over 14,000 games rated Playable or Verified⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People LOVE to shit on Linux gaming, and for some of those people it seems to have really offended them when it started to get better. I hope I live long enough to get to the point of “Why are you carrying all that overhead by running Windows for gaming??” to be the standard trolly comment, instead of “Linux is no good if you want to game!” as it is today.

  I have no doubt that we will reach this point unless PC Gaming as a category evaporates in the meantime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck hits over 14,000 games rated Playable or Verified⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not normally a big fan of “I told you so” but I wish I could roll back to some ancient forum posts from the early days of Proton and SteamOS and tell some of the surprisingly aggressive naysayers that seemed to crop up in every discussion of them back then to have a look at this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeopardy! Boss Breaks Silence on Mayim Bialik Firing, How Ken Jennings ‘Really Won the Job’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  insidethemagic.net/…/jeopardy-reveals-the-return-…

  However, executive producer Michael Davies recently revealed at the 2024 Television Critics Association’s winter press tour “Unscripted Storytellers” panel that Jeopardy Productions was already looking into bringing back Mayim Bialik for some version of the show.

  Despite the firing, Davies defended the former host (per Variety), saying, “Mayim is a superb host. We hope to continue working with her on primetime versions — this conversation is ongoing.”

  While Davies did not give any specifics as to when Mayim Bialik might return to host Jeopardy, it is striking that a “conversation” is happening at all, considering the storm of controversy that surrounded her entire tenure on the show.

  Interesting turn of events!