BaconIsAVeg

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had never heard of it either. I had PIA when I was on Windows, still haven't gotten it setup on Linux though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So I don't game a lot and I'm not sure what that car driving game is, but I noticed at ~1:30 his left thumb is moving all over the place and the car keeps driving in a straight line? It doesn't seem like any of his hand/finger movements match what's on the screen, am I crazy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A dedicated KVM would be a better option but I’m not willing to spend that much money.

Honestly the worst part about a dedicated KVM, at least for a home setup, is the 30lbs of thick bulky cables.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

If you ever plan on using a GPU as more than a toy for running games, then stick with Nvidia, though tbf there's not a whole lot you could do with 8GB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How a being of inordinate power and knowledge even exists would 'feel' or 'think' is indeed incomprehensible to us. It's hubris to believe an entity with the power to create a universe could look down, at a single point in time, at a single place in the universe, and think "I'm really angry that creature masturbated" or "That woman showed her face in public, well she's dead to me now".

And that's exactly what religion wants us to believe. That we're somehow special in the universe, and there's some grand entity that watches over every single little thing we do throughout the blip of our lives in the eternity of the cosmos. It's honestly fucking bonkers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I refuse to believe that a being incalculable in power and knowledge, omnipotent, able to see both the past and the future, is somehow, according to what religious people want you to believe, burdened by what we humans experience as emotions or morality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I completely agree, though in that case I can't see what the advantage would be if you already have Windows, to switch to Linux. It's a challenge, you're going to be constantly looking for alternatives to software you've used for years. Let's face it, the software world is still primarily focused on Windows, and while there are a lot of developer and server packages that Just Work Better(tm) on Linux, but if you're an end user who's only interested in gaming, why bother?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This, the difficulty of simply paying for the things you want. I used to pirate music back in the IRC/pre-Napster days, and then iTunes came out. "I can just click a button and the song is on my computer, high quality, no fuss?" That was the end of music pirating for me.

I have Amazon Prime and I've tried Netflix in the past. The amount of time I spent sorting through their shit movies to find something worth watching was abysmal, not to mention no way to filter out the huge influx of low-budget non-English content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You never really said what you like about linux or why you even want to use it. You want an 'easy-to-use' distro, but I've never really run into a 'difficult-to-use' distro, and that's going back to the Slackware/RedHat 4.2 days. PopOS!, Ubuntu, EndeavourOS, Slack, Debian, they're all 'easy-to-use' when you don't specify a use case.

Personally I love the challenge, and that nothing is forced on me. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday researching and trying to figure out how to get spell checking working in qutebrowser, and I got a little dopamine hit when I was finished.

Windows doesn't make me excited to use a computer. Linux does, because it's challenging.

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