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  • I’m using fedora 42 kde on my new laptop since I couldn’t get mint working - fucking visit drivers.

    Anywho, doom: the dark ages runs like wet ass and I’m wondering if it has something to do with video codecs or mesa )don’t know what mesa is and there’s a 5080 in there.

    I reinstalled tempeh and all my videos work, but - any chance you could point me towards what to do with the video codecs just so I can confirm? If you can offer some guidance on how to install whatever mesa is I want to try that to see if it helps (even though afaik the game should be using the ncidia drivers anyway).

    The laptop has a ryzen cpu btw.

    Also cool if you can’t help. Figured I’d ask. I’m new to fedora.

    Edit: it just suddenly works fine now for no particular reason.





  • this is my take on it too.

    I don’t see why a group of people can’t pool resources and lvie collectively around shared values while also participating in many of the morrundane aspects of modern life.

    like. Why couldnt half of the commune leave to go work and come back? And even if people sre living communally, how communal does it need to be, reslly?

    I am not super knowledgeable on the subject but the little i know seems to indicate that there are always pepple that dont pull their weight - and maybe that is one of the big problems here? Trading the oppressive weight of obligation from contemporary urban living for the weight of obligation fron a more intimate communal setting seems very tit for tat.

    then again I really don’t have much knowledge here. just observations from the outside.


  • way back in the early oughts i was in a tech enjanced learning program - on paper it was a solid idea. Small class size with hands-on support from our schools more tech literate teachers.

    in practice we pretty much just tried to play quake 3 with each other withojt getting caught.

    our teacher was on a years long crusade to find the server hosting the quake 3 installer, as we had software that locked the hard drives so any changes would be undone when rebooted. to my knowledge he never did, and the entire drama around it was hollarious.