Notices by xianc78@gameliberty.club, page 60

Why is the dissident right obsessed with that VHS static filter?

There is no way you can support CPS and not be a socialist/marxist. If there is an organization that can take away your children, then your children are basically property of the state.

@tinosoft @danielhudson @givenup @Fullmetal2255 @jeffcliff Agenda 2030, The Great Reset, or whatever you want to call it is not communism, fascism, or late-stage capitalism. It's a rebrand of an old ideology known as technocracy, which was a proposed system from the 1930s where experts (or people claiming to be experts) are the ones in charge, money is replaced with energy credits (or in The Great Reset rebranding, Carbon Credits), and nation-states are replaced with administrative areas known as "technates". It failed back in the 1930s because it wasn't technologically feasible at the time, but now it is thanks to advancement of computer networks and AI.

https://corbettreport.com/qfc-technocracy/

@berkberkman @BigDawg869789 One more thing about System76 is that they are one of the few hardware manufacturers that disables the Intel Management Engine which is a universal hardware backdoor that is present in all Intel CPUs since 2008. Granted, it is ultimately a band-aid solution as you are still giving money to Intel, who are most likely either going to eventually blacklist System76 as a customer or make it harder to disable the backdoor in future processors, but it's better than nothing.

@berkberkman @blaaablaaaa @BigDawg869789 You should always ask any potential employer if they issue laptops to workers, when applying for a job.

@BigDawg869789 @blaaablaaaa Anyway, if you want a Linux PC for gaming, this is the one you should be looking for. They are designed with gaming in mind.

https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-mira

@blaaablaaaa @BigDawg869789 The only real problem you run into at this point is if you apply for a job or take a class that requires you to run a Windows program that refuses to run under Wine or Proton. In that case, you will need to dual boot (have two operating systems installed on your PC) or have a Windows VM.

@blaaablaaaa @BigDawg869789 Also, if a game is not on Steam (or if it's just a regular Windows program), there is Wine which is what Proton is based on.

If you are into emulators, pretty much every emulator in existence is on Linux as most emulators are open-source. Though emulators for 6th gen home consoles and beyond are kind of hit or miss on Linux, at least from my experience.

@BigDawg869789 They are the only pre-builds I know of that are dedicated to gaming, outside of ones from System76, but they only offer Linux PCs and I don't know if you would want that.

@BigDawg869789 Fine. Just get some pre-build from Alienware. Hopefully, ~$1,300 is affordable enough for you.

@BigDawg869789 It's just as easy as putting together a shelf. You can find some set-ups online that list all the parts they used as well as how to put it together.

If you really can't put together a PC yourself, a lot of companies allow you to specify the parts you want, if you order online. System76 for example sells PCs with base specs, but allows you to customize for more powerful specs, but they only sell computers with Linux on them.

https://system76.com/desktops

As for used stuff. People are selling their custom-built PCs all the time. Just be sure that it's labeled as a gaming PC and that it's somewhat current gen, otherwise, you might be buying some office PC from 2009 (a lot of schools seems to be dumping their 15+ year old computers these days). You can also visit local college campuses and check for any ads on the bulletin boards to see if any student is selling their old PCs.

@threalist @61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb79d1ddbc3e7bff19cf2298f40466f8715e9 The real winners are those who fund and profit from both sides.

@applejack I tried getting my younger brother to use Linux for a while. We had some old custom-built PC that my brother won at some auction at the place he worked at the time. There was no OS pre-installed so I just installed Linux Mint on it.

My younger brother used that computer for a few years until he decided to build a custom PC of his own. He decided to ditch Linux and instead use a pirated copy of Windows 10 that his friend gave him. He thought that it would be better because he thought the games world run better on Linux though in reality the problems he had with Linux was most likely from the old hardware and not the OS itself.

@BigDawg869789 @Hyperhidrosis The online requirement would probably still be there. It's usually meant for copy-protection.

@berkberkman @beardalaxy System76 sells empty cases, but they don't provide bays for optical drives.

https://system76.com/components

@KaiserKitty Not every game is on Steam though.

@KaiserKitty I never made that associated even back when I used Windows. As a kid, Linux was presented to me as the mythical operating system that I always hear about but never see anyone use. I had no idea what it looked like until my brother tried an Ubuntu Live DVD.

The most common complaint I hear about Linux from Windows PC gamers is that installing programs is not what they are used to. I guess EXEs are just more user friendly than packages.

@PurpCat @pwm @BigDawg869789 At least some Falcom devs from the 80s and 90s also worked at retail, but that's because they were also a computer shop at one time.

@Zergling_man I'm talking about the type of PC gamers who will only play games if their PCs allow them to play on max settings. The types who refuse to switch to Linux because their games run slightly better on Windows.

I primarily game on PC, but I'm not some snob that insists that I should play only on the cutting edge hardware with max settings.