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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • I rip all my CDs to FLAC so I can listen to them easily while working or driving or walking or otherwise where having headphones and a phone is easy but carrying a book of burned backups and a CD Walkman would be hard.

    But I also have a humble collection of vinyl because I actually really like the ritual of placing the stylus and listening and turning the record over when I want to just… hear the music and enjoy it for itself.







  • I’m about a week off coming back to Windows from Linux.

    Some things that chased me off:

    • Alan Wake 2 used too new of GPU features
    • Once after playing a game, my cursor was just gone—not invisible, just not there. Only keyboard.
    • A few times after quitting games, something was broken about the desktop experience and I had to reboot the machine to get things working again
    • Discord crashed any time the machine went to sleep (or woke up? Hard to tell which)
    • Several games only worked if I manually put in Proton launch options
    • No support for DLSS framegen
    • Cyberpunk had to be given a fake driver version to support ray reconstruction
    • No support for GamePass games still, which is how I’d been playing Starfield and Lies if P, and planning on Cities: Skylines 2.
    • No native support for middle-click scrolling without pasting (I don’t count editing low-level X config files)
    • [edit] Also Lords if the Fallen thought I was using a modified game and wouldn’t let me online—solo play only, thanks to EAC

    I keep feeling like Linux is just a year or two away from being good enough for common folks to switch over, and I guess if all you need if Firefox, it’s probably there. But the experience is just so subtly, but consistently, bad year after year.

    For reference, I was on Pop!_OS (whatever their latest stable was, I think based on Ubuntu 22?). I had read that Pop!_OS was one of the better distorts for games.