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  • Naaah we still use fetch, just differently!

    I configured this using nixos and homemanager and pkgs.writeShellApplication bashscripts for shell-agnostic commands.

    • When a shareholder is in the room, I run ff for a clean, stylized fastfetch output with a nixos logo.

    • When in fine company, I’ll run hy for a hyfetch prideflag-colored nixos logo.

    • When it’s just the cool people, I’ll run hyuwu for this

    a linux terminal with a lambda symbol prompt and the text output of a "hyuwu" fetch program: NixOS system specs along side a rainbow-colored boykisser-meme ASCII art

    (Of course, then, I send the obligatory nix files I used to configure it)


  • Oh, but you do use them! Because the services you interact with use them. Even the ones that don’t, frequently use alternatives that have been influenced by their existence.

    This might be a surprise to you, my liege; but the world does not, in fact, revolve around you and your preferences. Shockingly, the world seems to exist wholly independent of your uninformed and shortsighted opinions.

    This is like being mad that acetylene welding exists, and saying that it’s pointless because you’ve never personally used it. Obviously if it was good or important, you would have used that technology directly yourself, riiiight? So the world and history would obviously be no different if it had never existed.

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  • I was wondering when something like this would exist, especially since it seemed like SR-IOV was gaining traction outside Nvidia when Intel hit the scene, and before that with mmiou passthrough and stuff like looking glass seemed to the the future way back when. But since about two years ago, Linux has been impressively good for gaming. I don’t even check protondb unless it’s a full-price AAA. Most arguments for virtualization have kind of fallen dead.

    Now, of course, there are other reasons to virtualize, even on Windows virtualizing Windows. But let’s just say that the vision I had 10 years ago about techie people running Linux and virtualizing Windows for games feels almost more dead than before the tech was widely available in consumer grade gear…

    But hey, good that this exists nevertheless



  • It’s trivial, and many hacks for windows required loading unsigned drivers (functionally equivalent to kernel modding)

    However, it’s a bit of a red herring. People also do bootloader and virtualization hacks, some also mod the bios or do spychip hacking (often called negative rings, effectively privilege rings lower than zero, but that aren’t actually modelled as privilege levels within the cpu)

    However however, that’s also a bit moot, because DMA hacking exists. You don’t even need to load the hack into the target computer; you could read and write system memory directly from another device entirely.

    Plus there are other non-invasive cheats, like fake hardware mice with vision-based aimbot.

    This is all just a smokescreen and security theater. Partly trying to ‘raise the bar’ to stop cheap/low effort cheating, but also just as an excuse. This is for corporate and shareholders, not developers.

    The only real solution to cheating is heuristic analysis, peer detection and attestation, and letting players block interactions with people they think are cheating

    Client-side anticheat only exists to spy on you and make marketing departments feel nice.



  • Hate the asshole but I’ll be generous. I think it speaks to a badly underserved market; a desire for a highly curated, opinionated, ‘turn-key’ solution. SteamOS is getting hype for similar reasons; Omarchy is just the techie version of the idea; someone else did the configuration for you.

    Part of why I like nixos so much: makes it easy to leverage the work others have done.