Host based means the printer has no real brains of its own and depends on the computer driving it to do everything. Sort of like the Winmodems of the ‘90s. Feature-reduced cost-cutting.

I’ve just been avoiding nvidia the last couple of times I bought a GPU because they were so goddamn expensive, lol. It is just super convenient that this coincided with me starting to game on Linux.

Switched my gaming rig over a few weeks ago (Fedora 43 with KDE in my case). The games I play have generally performed better than on the same hardware under Windows 11. I’m fortunate in that the only multiplayer game I play is Counter Strike 2, and Valve has a vested interest in making sure that their anticheat works with Linux.

In the past week or so I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077 with AMD FSR4 support, CS2, and GTA IV with the fusion fix mod (this one runs ridiculously better than it did on Windows) via Steam, and Fallout London from GoG through Heroic Launcher. The hardest part of that was just configuring the wine prefix for Fallout London to be the same as the one Fallout 4, since it needs to share a bunch of the original game files. I’ve also got my Epic account hooked up through Heroic Launcher, but haven’t tried any of their games yet. I mostly just have whatever they were giving away for free for the past few years on that service.

Really, gaming on Linux has improved in massive leaps and bounds over the past few years. It is unrecognizable compared to even 5 years ago.

My condolences

I finally committed to the switch last weekend. My desktop PC was the last holdout still on Windows in my fleet, because of Adobe Lightroom. I decided to just force myself to learn Darktable, and nuked the Win 11 install and replaced it with Fedora 43.

Fun side note, some of my games run way better than they did on Windows, despite not having native Linux builds. lol.

x64-compatible CPUs have been the norm for a very long time now, which is why most modern distros have dropped support for older 32-bit x86-only CPUs. Debian dropped it with Debian 13, so anything based on that - think Ubuntu, Mint, and others, would be in the same boat. 2GB of RAM would be pretty performance-limiting on most modern distros too.

That’s one of the reasons why things like Tiny Core and Puppy exist, though. Specifically for old/slow-by-today’s-standards systems. I haven’t used any of them because I’m not running anything that old, and I quite like modern KDE. I saw an Action Retro video on youtube the other day where he got Tiny Core running on a Pentium 133 with 128MB of RAM, lol.

2004 has my vote. It was a golden age for PC gaming.

Reddit is trash these days

Rumor has it their garbage AI thinks they are hacking techniques.

Dude, you should review everything. 10/10.

This looks to me like a flyer for a class at the local library

Because of the continual enshittification of Windows 11 with each major update.

Canceled my subscription. Fuck you, Microsoft.

It still is, if you’re a piece of rail freight.

I have a very similar Brother - HL-L2370DW. Just works with any Linux distro I’ve tried out of the box. Has wifi, USB, and ethernet, black and white laser, duplex printing. No copier functionality. Third party toner cartridges are readily available.

Thanks, Hollywood!

The Blue Brother

The only AI tool I’ve found actually useful and reliable is AI denoise for photo editing.

Turn based RPGs. I played through Persona 3, 4, and 5 on an elliptical machine in the past few months, and am now on Metaphor Refantazio. Atlus games seem perfect for this, heh. Not your pre-2005 style, but there’s plenty of old RPGs out there.

I also played through most of the Yakuzas on the elliptical too, although on easy difficulty since they didn’t become turn based until very recently.

Seems insane to run multiple machines for something like this. I wonder if maybe it is virtualized under the hood and one VM went kaput or something?