Yeah because Edge didn’t exist back then.
Some say he’s still coming to this very day.
The owner of gamingonlinux? The same guy was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers? Who then deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it’s stupid design that mod logs are public? That one? [Screenshot]
For full context: The mod abuse was a incident between sirsquid (Liam/GamingOnLinux) and ‘go $fsck yourself’ (the person that comments this on every linking to GamingOnLinux.com). The alleged mod abuse is Liam deleting a post by ‘go $fsck yourself’ criticizing the title on one of his articles. Liam later stepped down as moderator.
Was Liam being a childish? Yeah. Is there a reason why ‘go $fsck yourself’ is being vague about what the mod abuse actually was and to what extent? Probably.
Incident was at 2024 May 22 Mod Log: https://lemmy.ml/modlog/15063
Incident Thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/15894308For more context, after Liam stepped down: https://lemmy.ml/post/17376889/11932442
Very succinct and includes 99% of the situation. Thanks, and well done.
Only things I would add would be: Being a moderator on lemmy and not knowing that modlogs are public is baffling. That alone really outlines the fact he was unqualified for the role.
And that it seems pretty obvious the comments were only deleted by him to hide his own. He had already shown an inability to be measured and collected, as well as a poor understanding of the platform from a moderation perspective. Then, his clear disregard for the only rule for the community by lashing out at something that could have been more easily dismissed entirely. He should have just deleted the comment without a response. My mildly stupid comment just did not deserve that kind of reaction.
It all serves as solid evidence that he was willing to abuse his mod role for something so minor, and a person like that wouldn’t stop there.
The real cherry on top is how pathetic it is to go to mastodon to complain about the public mod logs on lemmy.
It was a single small incident out of (assuming) months of moderation and he later stepped down.
I am asking you to have some empathy, your comments make the situation look like he was being a master manipulator when all he had was an ego problem and a conflict of interest.
We’re humans, we do stupid things. Just because he is a bad moderator (because many people who get moderator status often end up abusing it) and did a single bad incident shouldn’t invalidate his blog nor it should mean he is an awful person.
He was so horny all the time
Thank you! I was pretty fucking sure there was stupidity related to Liam but could not for the life of me find anything in search.
Oh to be a young lad experiencing linux for the first time again
PTSD of wifi and gpu drivers:
dog war flashback meme
Gets super horny
Hol up
For higher throughput in middle age, I recommend Edge-ing every so often, and then going back to a real browser.
Not knowing how anything works, being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with, not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly, wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?
naah thanks mate, hard pass.
There’s also the fact that if you have modern hardware, you’ll find that half the features that you paid for don’t work properly in Linux (or at all). It’s a great OS to keep an old PC alive, though.
That’s less of an issue these days. In the 2000s it was like that, especially since people used all sorts of add-in cards. These days a lot of those cards have merged with the mainboard (networking, sound, USB) or have fallen out of fashion (e.g. TV tuners).
The mainboard stuff is generally well-supported. The days of the Winmodem are over. The big issues these days are special-purpose hardware (which generally doesn’t work with later Windows versions either), laptops, and Nvidia GPUs (which are getting better).
I said what I said because it’s relevant today. I literally had this issue last month with modern hardware, when I couldn’t get HDR working properly in KDE 6 Plasma (colors are washed-out and have no contrast when HDR is on). And features from my GPU are completely missing, like SDR-to-HDR conversion, AI upscaling, and the entire 3D Settings Page (the one where you can change settings not available in-game). When I ask people for help with restoring these features/settings, no one has any idea what I’m talking about. So I gave up and went back to Windows.
Ah, the old Nvidia problem. It’s true that Nvidia’s Linux driver isn’t very good (although I don’t think their Windows driver is very good either, it just has more features).
The 3D Settings page is specific to the Nvidia Windows driver. Even an AMD user might’ve been slightly confused (although AMD ships comparable features, just located elsewhere under a different name). This is indeed something the Linux drivers plain don’t have in that form, although I can’t remember the last time I felt a need to really muck around in there.
Admittedly, overriding game rendering behavior might not even always be possible, seeing that DirectX games are run through a translation layer before the GPU gets to do anything.
I wasn’t able to find solid info for AI upscaling even on Windows, mainly because of the terrible name of that feature and because Nvidia offers both “AI Upscaling” and “Nvidia Image Scaling” and I have no idea if those are the same thing. The former seems to be specific to the Nvidia SHIELD.
Unless you’re talking about DLSS, which is supported.
The HDR one is odd but might again be related to the Nvidia driver not being very good. This should improve in the future but they are admittedly trailing behind.
See this is what I mean. You don’t even know what I’m talking about because these features don’t even exist in Linux yet. Thank you for confirming that the 3D Settings page still doesn’t exist. I won’t be switching until it does.
Furthermore, AI upscaling has nothing do with DLSS or Nvidia Shield. It’s a GPU feature that upscales any video playing on your PC to 4K, whether it be in a video player or your favorite browser of choice. It’s a really neat feature to have (especially for watching older content), and not something I can go without now that I’m used to it. Same goes for SDR-to-HDR conversion. Yes I’m aware that it’s not true HDR, but it’s convincing enough to fool me. YouTube videos look so much better with it on. Whites are whiter and colors really pop. Again, not something I can live without, now that I’m used to it.
It doesn’t matter to me who’s fault it is; what matters to me is being able to use the features I paid for, and for that reason alone I’m stuck with Windows. Believe me, I really want to switch and get away from all the privacy-invading telemetry, but I can’t just yet.
“I want everything on my computer to look shiny and fake and rendered and if i cant have that with linux then microsoft will just get to keep raping my data. Because when im watching my YOUTUBERS i dont want to see people i want them to look like filtered upscaled animations.”
Not knowing how anything works
I mean, that’s how you start learning stuff - not knowing how something works
Being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with
Isn’t that the case for every OS in existence? When something breaks, you don’t know how to deal with it. Enter google/ddg/whatever
Not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly
See point 1 - and yet there are Linux apps that let you do things quicker than Windows stuff. I can’t imagine myself at this point having to use frigging photoshop to crop or add a border to a image when you could do that with a ´magick -crop´
Wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?
Wasn’t that the whole point of live images? Not that they will charge you for downloading them. And hardware support is infinitely better today than back in the day. Just look at what the folks at asahi did - that’s nothing short of incredible
My brother in penguin computers, that wasn’t a negative post. I just mentioned all the things to point out that switching OS can be really hard and the first time getting to Linux ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. 😉
Really just needs one problem with some necessity you can’t fix to screw up the whole experience. Doesn’t even have to be Linux’ fault; just thinking about god damn printers…
I too was there for the release of the 2.6 kernel
Linux 2.6 released in December 2003. Gnome 2.6 released in March of 2004. At that point Linux was truly ready for the desktop and we’ve just spent the last twenty years waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
I was alive during that
Yay
I put off the switch so long because I didn’t know what udev was but I understood that it was important.
Well played. Closest thing we have to okbuddylinux
“I constantly came” is the funny bit ;)
Thank you for clarifying! My brain could only see this as an excerpt and I was not able to seperate it from the assumed rest of the sentence.
Linux exists, so I keep coming
*Cumming
