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  • Using qubes so can’t say much for gaming, but I imagine it’d be about as well for any similarly spec’d ultrabook. I think they test those listed distros for compatibility, but I ran qubes on it since before they listed it as an option.

    Actually in the middle of rma’ing the board for bad power circuitry (after 3 years), well see how it goes before I reccomend it. That being said the new lemur pro from system76 isn’t made out of plastic shit, but instead magnesium alloy, so that actually looks promising as an alternative.

    I’ll let ya know how I make out with the repair.


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    I daily drive it for non-preformance tasks on a star book mk VI (coreboot, ME disabled). You can do things like GPU pass through, by qubes doesn’t recommend it because of how insecure accessing vram can be (I think, someone will correct me if I’m wrong XP).

    For larger tasks like games or CAD, I have a desktop with a 5950x and a 5700xt. That runs proxmox on Debian (headless). I decrypt it via dropbear-ssh and login via proxmox’s web interface. From there I can start 1 for four VMS I setup which have access to most of the machines resources including all but two threads 30ish GB of ram, and a full 5700xt. I used a VM running on this machine to beat Cyberpunk 2077 @ 1440p mid-high settings with above 60fps, that being said that was back when my host OS was gentoo, and pre-dlc when 2077 was a little lighter on hardware.

    Haven’t gotten it to run that good since, however my play through of system shock (2023) has been p good so far.









  • No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolution TV’s, they need good transcodes that don’t look like shit.

    Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like dookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.

    Who the fuck is gonna buy an 8K oled panel when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, or even content that pushes their current TV to its fullest extant?

    Its not like anyone can afford a GPU that renders modern games at a playable framerate to that either.


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    Okay, politely, fuck off. Its 2026 and I absolutely refuse to believe anyone educated on crypto enough to know what a blockchain is and how it works, even if just a basic understanding, doesn’t know about encrypted blockchains or XMR.

    You get to post this comment like once in your life, and after that we both know its in bad faith. I really doubt its the first time.


  • Admittedly I’m not a hardcore crytography nerd, but I know they’ve been improving things for years, and that message on that mailing list looked like it was 10 years old.

    Not saying your wrong, but Id take it with a grain of salt. Anytime I see a newer encrypted block chain I see it and think whatever improvements have been done here, will eventually bleed into monero because of that. And that unlike the other encrypted blockchain, people will still actively be using xmr for real transactions.



  • IMO xmr kinda saved proof of work by optimising their algo for consumer grade CPUs.

    CPU mining is much less econimcal than GPU because you can’t fit as many CPUs on a single system. Plus server grade CPUs with lots of smol cores instead of a few big ones hurts it too.

    Makes it hard for anyone other than nerds with am extra PC to make money mining, and most of those guys won’t be purposely picking a geographic location with the cheapest/most environmentally harmful electricity source. (More nerds live off of nuclear/solar than datacenters do)



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    Yeah but without anonymous payments (xmr) there’s no good way to easily pay for diy estrogen or hosting for piracy services, or to anonymously pay my mullvad account.

    Granted if society wherent setup as a giant fucking fascist capitalistic panopticon we wouldn’t really need any of that.

    Any who, I mostly agree with the sentiment though. “Career” investors and venture capitalists belong against a fucking wall IMO.