Lemmy/instance performance problems? - midwest.social

Has anyone else been experiencing performance problems for the last few weeks? About half my requests time out when using Jerboa. The site on desktop is a little better but Lemmy still performs pretty poorly compared to how it has in the past. Is this an instance issue or an issue with Lemmy itself?

AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis - midwest.social

Kansas City evens Kelly Cup Finals with 5-1 win in Game 2 - midwest.social

I went to this game last night and it was one of the best hockey games I’ve ever been to. The boys battled hard, especially during a crazy 2nd period.

steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord - midwest.social

I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it’s a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It’s a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord’s API. The “installer” sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script for you. It requires you to get your own Steam API key which was a trivial, though slightly buggy, process for me. You can optionally use your own Discord app ID, or just use the one owned by the guy that created this script.

RIP James Randi - midwest.social

RIP James Randi who died before anyone could claim the his prize for playing RB1 over the board against Levy.

I can't use AMD - midwest.social

It’s necessary for my very important hobby of generating anime nudes.

Ihsahn - THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US (Black Metal) - midwest.social

This song popped up on Sirius XM this past weekend and I loved it. It’s like a blend of Dimmu and Wilderun.

And the whole chess club watched - midwest.social

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Anyone have Garuda experience? - midwest.social

I’ve been gaming on Kubuntu for over 2 years now but recently have been getting interested in Garuda. I’ve booted into the live Dragonized Gaming iso and was really impressed with the out of the box gaming-centric setup. I’ve also been looking for more reasons to switch away from Ubuntu, and have been hit with the EOL countdown for plasma in 23.04, so the time is right for a distro hop. With the latest Garuda release they added an official Hyprland variant which looks really cool too. Does anyone use Garuda? What are your impressions/thoughts/experiences? What should I expect from switching to an Arch base? Same questions for Hyprland too. I have 16 gigs of ram, an Intel i7 something and an nVidia 2800.