[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I find it insane that people somehow think they have to make that noise when they sneeze. It’s totally a learned and unnecessary behaviour. People who are born deaf don’t ever make that noise when they sneeze.

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

There Goes My Gun in my ass

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Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago

Just remembered that seeing Doom for the first time is another obvious one. Man that game was incredible when it came out.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984).

Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced.

The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away.

I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha.

A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

The tiny thumbnail for this looked like a belly button on my phone, had no idea what I was tapping on at first

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

My last ever Nokia phone, a half way house between old Nokias and smartphones circa 2008.

No touch screen, but could play music, videos, had a calendar etc.

Absolute piece of garbage. Got super hot at times doing who-knows what, and had a software bug where the audio would completely stop working until you rebooted it… which meant that multiple times my morning alarm went off completely silently and I was late for work.

Bought an iPhone 3GS as soon as my 1 year contract was up, Nokia were never relevant again after that era.

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

If the Mac has a Retina display then I actually found XFCE runs worst of the various DEs at native resolution. Not in terms of resources but very choppy scrolling, video playback etc. Gnome and KDE Plasma actually ran better than XFCE for me on my 15” 2012 retina.

Presume it’s some kind of graphics acceleration thing, not 100% sure.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

Hi,

After messing around on various distros as a learning experience, I’ve had Debian 12 installed (via installing Spiral Linux) for a few days now on my old Mac.

I noticed today that gparted asks for the root login when launched and that my own user doesn’t have default access to any partitions I create using it.

Is this expected behaviour or have I messed something up?

Thanks!

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Hey all,

I’ve currently got Mint running on my old Mid-2012 15” MBP, mainly as a hobby project / Linux learning experience. I have a newer Mac as my main computer.

I’ve already had a ton of failed attempts installing other distros which didn’t work out, I’m assuming because of the now quite outdated hybrid Intel/Nvidia GPU.

I’m currently running the Nvidia driver, but have been reading things about the 390 driver not working on newer kernels. Moving forwards am I going to be better protected from updates breaking things if I switch to using the Nouveau driver instead?

Thanks!

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it’s nice!

I can’t take any credit for it, I found it here and figured out how to modify it slightly, mainly to remove the bits I couldn’t get to work.

https://github.com/andeon/conky-simple

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[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

It’s an older system sir, but it checks out

[-] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, absolutely this.

You cannot listen to music losslessly with AirPods Max, cabled or not.

From Apple’s own site: “The Lightning to 3.5 mm Audio Cable was designed to allow AirPods Max to connect to analog sources for listening to movies and music. AirPods Max can be connected to devices playing Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless recordings with exceptional audio quality. However, given the analog-to-digital conversion in the cable, the playback will not be completely lossless.”

If someone thinks AirPods Max sound amazing, they’re agreeing how good compressed audio can sound, whether they realise it or not.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/90s_tv
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