overview for Kaldo

‘Furiosa’ Up In Smoke With $31M-$33M, Lowest Memorial Day Opening In Decades, Might Get Clawed By ‘Garfield’: How Worried Should Hollywood Be About Theatrical? in c/entertainment@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

That's a shame, it's a really fun movie and great to watch in cinemas. Doesn't reach the highs of fury road but it was still a really good time for me personally.

Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 7 points 5 months ago

Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we're not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it's free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots. Its the go-to place to build communities nowadays.

Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven't done my own research tho so I don't know if all of this is (still) true

Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 15 points 5 months ago

Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.

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Is Linux pretty much unusable with an Nvidia GPU? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Kaldo@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been trying Linux Mint on my old dell laptop with an nvidia GPU and it's been just one impossible issue after the other.

Even games that have native linux versions like Valheim don't run if I'm running off the GPU (but run if i switch to the integrated intel gpu but with terrible performance). Some games that work with proton work fine but have tons of weird issues like not being able to type specific characters on the keyboard, or the game and the entire OS just randomly freezing after 15-20 minutes - it happened in both warframe and guild wars 2 for example. Every time it happened I had to do a hard reboot since it was completely unresponsive.

I tried installing bottles and couldn't get through the basic setup of the GOG launcher without getting black screens in it. There were some workarounds with no-sandbox launch arguments at one point but I think I eventually gave up on it. Steam had tons of issues with launchers freezing, or steam itself getting stuck on constant shader updates every day I start the game.

I tried changing proton versions, installing wine and lutris manually, changing nvidia drivers (randomly trying other one since there's no useful info online about which to pick or which ones even work...) and it never got to a satisfactory point. I still have no idea which drivers im supposed to be using (if it's not the recommended ones that come with Mint), or how to properly update them manually.

I've had steam somethines just not run at all, I run it and nothing happens. I see it in the process manager, kill it ,restart it... it gets the temporary update popup and then disappears with no error message whatsoever.

I actually own a steam deck and I never had any major issues with it, so my only conclusion is that this time it's the fault of either linux mint (which is supposed to be the stable, no-nonsense OS), or the different hardware - probably the GPU.

So yeah... is the conclusion wrong, or is it really simply pointless to try linux with nvidia?

edit: hardware info:
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
CPU: i7-7700HQ
I'm currently running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon
Nvidia drivers in use are the latest ones available from the driver manager (currently nvidia-driver-550).

Will try PopOS! next

Thinking about the direction of Beehaw in c/chat@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

Sounds like you want forums, basically :D

I'm pretty nostalgic for forums myself but while they are great for smaller communities centered around a specific topic, they were really difficult to navigate when it comes to larger general communities IMHO. Fediverse with its reddit-like structure has an advantage here, and I personally like the idea of AP and multiple smaller communities interacting. We just need better tech and UI.

Mort: A Hilarious and Heartfelt Adventure with Death in c/books@lemmy.ml

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

I always tried to get into Discworld though color of magic but it was Mort that finally got me hooked. Death is such an amazing character indeed. I loved when he worked on a farm and showed off his scythe skills.

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Maybe for you but I miss interacting with actual developers, personalities or other content creators that post and respond on reddit or twitter. Mastodon and lemmy/kbin only get second hand crossposts (if even that), without any of the actual interaction and back-and-forth that usually happens. I'm still hoping it takes off eventually but if the "big exodus" didn't do it I don't see it changing at all for the foreseeable future.

Why projects start with a Discord and not an alternative - Comment found on Mastodon in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

The genie is out of the bottle and discord is unfortunately here to stay for the foreseeable future. What we need are good reliable tools to export all this data to an external service / knowledge base. At least that way they could be picked up by web search and be accessible without a discord account one day down the line when discord goes to shit.

After Axing Headlines, Elon Musk To Hide Retweet, Like Buttons On Twitter in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 16 points 11 months ago

The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I'm deleting it too. Until then I don't really see mastodon being a proper replacement, if anything it looks like bsky is taking the lead in that area unfortunately. Besides, half of mastodon community is seemingly against the idea of becoming mainstream anyway... so I dunno if it's ever going to work out that way.

(Now former?) Telltale employee: "This is a sore subject, but I feel it necessary to add to the gaming layoff news: Telltale laid most of us off early September. Status of TWAU2, I can't say (NDA)." in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What? 😥 I was/am so hyped for TWAU2, the first one was awesome. Why is that studio so cursed...

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Any good FOSS weekly planners / calendars you'd recommend? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Kaldo@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'd like to have a tool to break down my free time in a week and try to get some schedule going on, while also keeping track of upcoming events (import from google calendar would be nice). Ideally no cloud service - would like to have it offline on my PC, and would be nice if it can run in the background and play alerts/notifications for upcoming events.

Are there any tools like this that you can recommend for this? Just trying to get my weeks a bit more structured and doing it in a excel grid, while practical at first, gets tedious fast and has a lot of manual labor involved.

Threads is struggling to retain users — but it could still catch up to X in c/technology@beehaw.org

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep, without actual big content creators the platform is just randos talking about their private life. That's not inherently a bad thing but Mastodon often feels to me more like Facebook for software developers than something like Twitter where'd if actually find interesting new people to follow or art/music/games to enjoy.

Lack of proper discovery tools and algorithm is also a big issue.

SotO's Rifthunting in c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Tier 2 rifts have a proper champion miniboss that's much tougher to kill so I think it's only an issue with T1s (and those are meant for < 5 players anyway). My bigger possible issue is with rewards since I'm still not sure why are we closing them, at least PoF had the new armors, elegy mosaics, trade contracts in addition to regular drops like unids and money.

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SotO's Rifthunting (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kaldo@beehaw.org to c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf

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So far I've learned 2 things about rift hunting:

The only new unique reward from it are the essences
To get to higher tier rifts, you need consumable 1-use "motivations" that let you open tier 2 rifts instead (which give higher tier essence)

Are there any other ways of getting motivations except crafting them? Are there any other rewards besides the essences, and do we know if they are actually used for anything besides crafting the new legendary armor once it's available in 9 months?

Either I'm missing something or they don't seem that interesting or lucrative to run a lot, especially if you're not interested in the armor? What's your experience with it so far?