Vasco Costa

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AKA gluon. Enthusiastic about computers, motorsport, science, technology, traveling and TV series.
Geminigemini://gluonspace.com/
This is my first toot from MS-DOS 6.22 running DOSTodon on my retro computer! #retro #dos

It's still very experimental, but I'm messing around with #gemini at my new capsule, gemini://hyperborea.org

So far I've copied a few pages from my website and started a #gemlog. Mostly I'm trying to get a good sense of what works best in the ultra-minimalist environment. I'll probably still be moving things around for a while.

The first beta build of #Lagrange for iOS is now on TestFlight.

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-03_testflight.gmi

Join now and not only will you get a preview of v1.3, but you'll also get to enjoy a variety of exciting bugs. Will it crash and burn?

#Gemini

TestFlight

Any particular reason for my home feed to show only my posts and no one else's?

I've been away since mid 2018, but that shouldn't be a reason?

And yes, I'm still following people.

Back to #Mastodon after 1.5 years!

Here I am playing #XPlane11, one of the best and most demanding flight sims, on #Linux, using the Steam client and maximum quality settings.

It might not yet be the year of the Linux desktop but 2018 definitely seems like the year of #LinuxGaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TexYfsYEC9k

Linux Gaming #1 - X Plane 11

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Could anyone experienced in proprietary Nvidia drivers for Linux read my post here and shed some light? Thanks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/8w1hww/do_these_nvidiasettings_mean_that_nvidia_drivers/

r/linuxquestions - Do these nvidia-settings mean that Nvidia drivers for my GTX 1050 Ti overclock it by default?

2 votes and 0 so far on reddit

Gopher is still alive!

To all the #minimalism and #retrocomputing fans out there, what would you think of going one step further than what #Neocities is doing and create an easy to use phlog system using #Gopher?

Gopher is the predecessor to HTTP and it enforced a minimalist menu-document interface, without all the embedded multimedia of the current web, but crucially focused on the content, without distractions, cookies, banners...

Surfing the Gopher Space in 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgMI9xBZjGY

Gopher Space in 2018

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I did a few #benchmarks to figure out which is the top performing web browser in #Linux.

After requesting the input from #LinuxRocks, these were the 5 browsers I decided were representative enough to include in the test:

#Chrome
#Falkon
#Firefox
#Opera
#qutebrowser (WebEngine)

Thank you all for the suggestions, next time I should also include smaller ones. Thank you @kelbot for letting me know about Falkon. I'm sure @hund will enjoy the final winner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5dhwS53gx4

Web Browser Benchmark - May 2018

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I'm soon going to benchmark web browsers on Linux on a regular basis, seeing how they evolve over time.

I need to come up with a list of browsers to test, which are representative enough. Maybe the top 4 or top 5.

Firefox, Chrome and Opera are obvious choices, but what would you add as well?