I wish we had a graduated approval system, going from “limited data, but a possibility it could really help some people” up to “lots of data, massive peer reviews, effective and completely safe”. Let people willing to take personal risk do so, just make it informed.
Whew, switched to Linux just in the nick of time!
I haven’t been, but am looking at it after your post.
I made the switch in January, and it’s been great. The only game I’ve had trouble with is a fully-kitted Skyrim with a bajillion external apps/runtimes, but I’ve managed to get even that working fine. Every other game is just Install/Play from Steam with no tweaks.
Nah, just someone trying to position an image in a Word doc.
I did that just before the tariffs were announced. Kept the old PC (Win 10) but haven’t turned it on since except to copy some files. Games, .NET development, everything I need working just fine. Can’t see any reason to ever go back.
No, so long as the bread and circuses continue to flow.
Am I an oddball in that as a developer, that QA answer is the sort of answer I give? It annoys management to no end.
Danny Trejo!
If I worked there, I’d be tempted to write a program that would scan and replace some characters with Unicode/international similar characters. So for example, instead of “DEI” it would become “DẸI”.
“No sir, ‘DEI’ isn’t anywhere on site.”
15% are dumb or misunderstood the question at this point.
I’ll have to take a look at Warpinator. Had been just doing SCP to the new machine, I’ll check it out.
Same, but I was running an i5-6600K, 16GB RAM, and a 6800XT. Replaced with this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Vraylle/saved/YWC66h
Right now I’m still setting it up for work, so the tooling I’m replacing is dev-related (Remmina instead of mRemoteNG, NetPad instead of LinqPad, etc.).
Also grabbed InputLeap to share the same keyboard/mouse between old and new PC while I do this, and set up a local SSH server on the new so I could just SCP files directly to it over local network instead of popping USBs…
Been a lot of work but disturbingly fun.
I’ve been running Mint about a week now, same story and similar hardware. I came from substantially older hardware than you did.
As I understand it, Mint started using a much better kernel with version 22, so hardware support so far has been perfect.
Also having a great experience so far. Biggest challenge has been finding replacements for done utilities but I’ve had good luck there too so far.
Tech has always preferred H1B workers, since they can’t simply leave the job they were hired for and are effectively in indentured servitude.
This game gave me horrible motion sickness. Something about how the camera moved and FoV. They didn’t seem interested in addressing it, though I saw quite a few similar complaints. I had been looking forward to it but had to just give up and get a refund.
It’s because oil is a global market and exports are more profitable than keeping it here for some types of oil.
(Side note for those that don’t know: the President has the authority to instantly ban all oil exports at any time)
Which is especially galling since the U.S. is the largest oil exporter.
I wish we’d get cheap eggs and gas. But they’ll probably skyrocket like everything else.
True, but you can take that line of thought to some frightening extremes. How far do we go to protect people from themselves and their own ignorance? I tend to be a bit libertarian on this…as long as you’re not harming someone else, do what you want. For that to have any chance to work, people have to be informed, which would require orgs/companies to publish and label with much more information than they do now, and certainly more than they want to do.
Anyway, it all gets complicated pretty fast, which is why I list it as a “wish” instead of a concrete proposal.