FabledAepitaph

@FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the stock market? Are people with 401ks parasites?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨billions & billions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert, but an enthusiast. The universe can typically be considered homogeneous and isotropic on a large scale (it looks the same in all areas, and also looks similar no matter which direction you happen to be looking) for the sake of understanding and performing physical calculations. The beach may also be considered homogeneous and isototropic, but we know that if we dig down, we’ll find interesting materials, organisms, and even various grades of sand (for context).

  The universe is roughly symmetrical even though there are structures and features of great complexity when you look close enough (such as atoms, you, me, horses, and icebergs). This is probably because the universe originated from a single infinitely dense point where there wasn’t room for much diversity or clumping of matter. As the universe expanded, random quantum fluctuations and coalescence, perhaps due to gravity and the various electrical and atomic forces, is to thank for the formation of elements, stars, and galaxies, over the last 14 billion years (or however old the Universe is supposed to be).

  Anyways. It’s represented as symmetrical because it’s convenient and true on a large scale, but its always more complicated the deeper you look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every county, city, or location has this rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I am a little concerned about that too, but I can tell you that it is going to take YEARS of work to gut legislation like that. I am hoping that even with a Republican trifecta, they still won’t be able to agree on and accomplish anything because they all hate eachother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait until they fire the employees i need to review my environmental permit submittals and then can never get another project started legally ever again without risking insane amounts of fines four years later when the next administration comes in and hires new people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. I should just not go there at all, watch the business collapse, and see them beg for jobs at the next shitty restaurant. That’s the better option apparently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares his dating preferences⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the dating apps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will continue to never give Nintendo any of my money on account of their litigiousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She Didn’t Like His Song, So She Tried to Eat Him⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨By Burning Down Buildings, Insurers Want to Change How They’re Built | Property insurers are trying to force changes in construction standards that they say are necessary to protect against wildfires.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Powerful prediction models” = some guy’s spreadsheet with a few filters set and sorted by “amount paid to insuree” lool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the US and I have a professional career. I’ve had many jobs where I’d travel around the US for short trips, or just have to work in the mountains for weeks on end, followed by trips back home via. plane or by car.

  Carting a desktop and monitor around is impractical, and asking for trouble, and certainly wouldn’t fit in the carry-on luggage shelf or under an airplane seat. Additionally, gaming laptops generally have way nicer screens for watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever. I have a 17 inch Omen with a 1070 from like six+ years ago and it’s spent most of its life just being a way to use Excel, watch my favorite shows, and more recently, finally do some gaming.

  Now that I’m more settled at home, I’m probably just going to buy a new gaming laptop because they’re so much more flexible than a desktop, and who cares about the most modern, graphically intense games nowadays. There are a few exceptions, but I could stay occupied forever playing games from five years ago, or whatever interesting indie release is coming out tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We thought he was hiding a knife in his bullet wound.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices what they've taken from us⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices what they've taken from us⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Controversial: it was much easier and safer to text while driving with a physical keyboard. You could type with one hand, hold the steering wheel with the other, all while still looking at the road because you could feel where the buttons were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW owners are Built Wrong, not Different⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I will remember this when I buy my next BMW hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seek relief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is everybody taking a meme so seriously? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip your gas station⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to an OnCue a few months ago, made myself a fountain drink, and went to the self-checkout to ring myself up. The self-checkout asked me for a tip. I have never been back to that OnCue ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding, there’s definitely driver support all the way around. I have a 1070 in my laptop, so it’s old enough that everything is probably about as developed and compatible as it can be. Theres an open source driver available, but most people say to simply stick with the proprietary Nvidia one, which is what I’ve done. The OS/driver manager should pick out the most stable and best tested release version for your system. I would guess all the distros can use the Nvidia drivers just fine, it’s just a matter of getting it installed one way or another, if the distro doesn’t have a driver manager. I’m just the newbie, so, I don’t have a lot of experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda like installing windows, but the process is way faster during the actual install, and the initial setup. The OS is much smaller and took maybe 20 minutes to install after I got my partitions set up properly. After Linux is booted up, every program I needed to get going was easily located in the built in software package downloader. I didn’t have to go to NVIDIA’s website to download drivers because they were already accessible from the built-in driver manager. Telegram, Steam, and whatever popular software you want is just a quick search away and a button click from being installed as a flatpak application. Firefox was already installed. It didn’t ask me to log in to a Microsoft account before I could move on to using my computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have numbers, but I’ve seen comments/reviews that suggest they’re all within a percent or two in terms of frame rate. Like, how much thought should someone put in to getting 101 fps instead of 100 fps, you know? After using Mint for a bit, I’m probably going to stick with this for a year or two before trying out other distros, if I even feel the need. I think there is also value in giving a couple of them a try as you learn more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What would make Nobara better for gaming than Mint? All of my Steam games have worked fine. Do the things you’re talking about matter for games that are not in Steam/Proton? Just wondering!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmhmm. I’ve started doing this and it does work fine. I think I saw a comment once that noted they compile faster in-game anyways. So that makes me feel better about skipping lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am new to Linux and never used it regularly before a couple months ago, but I’d recommend just going with Linux Mint to start off. I don’t know much about Arch, but from all the jokes I see on Lemmy, I get the impression it may be a more advanced distro for people who know what they’re doing? I wanted to try PopOS! because people said it was good for gaming, but the install wasn’t as streamlined for a dual boot Windows/Linux setup.

  Linux Mint just kind of works and installed super fast. And my Windows partition is still intact and functional (but I’m wondering if I even need it tbh). My only holdup is Microsoft Office. I still haven’t tried to get that working inside of Linux, but if it’s possible, then I will certainly delete my Windows install.

  But anyways, don’t over think it. Just do Linux Mint and then after a while, you’ll be able to understand why or if you should consider another distro I would guess!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I play mosty either indy games or just older games on an older gaming laptop (geforce 1070m based HP Omen) and Steam/Linux Mint work pretty great. Outer Wilds works even better in Linux now that I’ve begun using CoreCtrl to disable CPU power throttling. Otherwise, it runs about like it did on Windows. The MCC runs flawlessly. Recently purchased No Man’s Sky and it runs pretty well and is actually incredibly smooth–no idea how that one runs in Windows because I’ve been just using Linux full-time for maybe two months now.

  There is some weirdness like having to process Vulcan Shades before games boot up which can be annoying, but it hasn’t discouraged me yet. You can also skip that and the only difference is there might be a bit of stuttering for the first bit of game play. After going back to Windows to compare performance, I think it does this stuttering thing anyways?