Yeah, email was the social media before social media especially in the 90’s and early 2000’s. I got into Linux in 2005 and that’s also around the time Digg and Reddit started growing. I was never into social media like Myspace and Facebook but I spent a ton of my high school days on Digg.

That said I realize most millenials didn’t get into FOSS or Linux but we did use computers a ton regardless, and smartphones were available by high school/college for most of us.

I’m generally pro-automation if it can increase efficiency, but McDonalds’ ordering AI is terrible. It had issues understanding their buy one get one for $1 deal and then one time I ordered a “bacon McCrispy” which was an item right there on the menu but what I got was a plain McCrispy and a side order of bacon in a breakfast container. They need to send their AI back to training. I’d really just prefer kiosks at the drive thru like they have inside. Voice is the worst way to interact with a computer IMO, but maybe that’s just because most implementations suck. Voice is too open ended though, a kiosk can provide exactly what options are available and as long as it has full set of customization options I don’t think that open endedness benefits anyone.

Also, over 30? Millenials grew up on the Internet for the most part. I’m 34 and grew up with computers and Internet. It was our parents’ generation that fails to understand tech.

Why do you enjoy having them separate? I much prefer the old layout, it makes a lot more sense to keep everything in the same place and require less swiping to get between them. Having two different sections is annoying and having it one way in the mobile UI and another way in the desktop UI is beyond stupid. I really wish they would just give us the option to pick our preferred layout.

Performance is pretty good with my Arc A770 on Arch Linux. It’s had some growing pains but they’re pretty much all resolved now.

Overwatch.

Oroginally I dismissed it as just being a TF2 clone, and being a very loyal TF2 player at the time I didn’t want to play it as I consodered it a blatant ripoff. However, I started going to a LAN party group at work in 2017 and Overwatch was the only FPS they played so I got it. It still does feel similar to TF2 but the variety of characters got me hooked and it became my most played game for many years until OW2 came out and ruined everything. Getting back into it now though and they’ve toned down some of the bad decisions of OW2 since launch. Now I’m dating a girl who plays Overwatch as well and we’ve been playing constantly so I’m back into it completely now.

I got to be on the Tech Over Tea podcast! I really enjoyed talking with Brodie and would definitely recommend his main channel as well as Tech Over Tea. There is another podcast I sometimes watch called Linux Game Cast too.

Also Brodie’s podcast Tech Over Tea. I was on the podcast so I’m a bit biased, but he has a lot of open source developers from different projects on and they are always interesting.

I won’t be buying an NVIDIA GPU any time soon for my desktop, but hopefully this move will make gaming on my laptop better. Unfortunately NVIDIA seems to have an almost monopoly on good gaming laptops especially if you don’t want giant bulky or cheaply built ones. My 2021 Razer Blade 14 has a 3070 and while the proprietary drivers work, NVIDIA’s own implementation of render offloading/PRIME leaves much to be desired, with random screen tearing even when vsync is forced on as soon as the GPU load starts getting high.

Just to make sure, you’re using DisplayPort right? I don’t think the Arc cards support VRR over HDMI. The HDMI port on the Arc is actually a built in DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and I don’t think any converter chips support VRR modes.

Hmm, 6.5 should support VRR just fine yeah

What kernel are you using? Debian tends to lag behind with kernel updates which makes it a bad choice when running new hardware. I switched from Debian to Arch when I got my A770 because at the time Debian’s latest kernel even in sid didn’t support Arc at all while it worked fine in Arch.

I upgraded from a 1440p 144Hz screen last month. It works well with 1440p and you won’t need to rely on FSR as much as on a 4K 144 screen.

10000% this. I don’t give a shit how you make money. YouTube started out as a place to let people show off to the world. It was wholesome. It was a community. Then they started paying people for views and it got perverted into this capitalist hellscape we have now where the most popular channels are garbage spewed out by content farms that exist to game an algorithm. Where the highest earners can commit literal crimes and get a slap on the wrist because Google wants the ad revenue their views bring in. This is not a community of the “you” the end users who just want to share interesting hobbies and funny clips with the world. Put the “you” back in YouTube.

I’ve been running an A770 Limited Edition on Arch for a year now and I am happy with it now. It was a rough start, with issues ranging from glitches and crashes to HDMI and DisplayPort audio/VRR issues, but these days it is pretty solid. VRR works fine on my DisplayPort 144Hz 4K monitor. Most games perform pretty well but temper your expectations, the A770 is a midrange card.

I can play Overwatch 2 at 4K 144Hz low settings just fine and I don’t see many frame dips. It’s not noticeable if it does dip because VRR. CS2 performance isn’t amazing, but at low settings 4K I get between 100 and 160 frames depending on complexity. I have FSR turned on. On Cyberpunk I have FSR turned on and it seems to dip down to 20fps when out in the desert and the city is in view, but usually 40 to 60.

I read this as monetization being the bad idea, and that is basically the same thing as being capitalismed to death.

Strange, I have two of the 39W Switch adapters and have used them many times with my Steam Deck, including with dock. I have a third party dock that works with both the Switch and the Deck too that I’ve powered with the Switch adapter.

The Steam Deck charges fine off of the Switch adapter, and most of my phones do also. I don’t think devices without active USB PD chips will work though as I don’t think the Switch adapter outputs anything until a device asks for it.

LibreWolf. I don’t need to see “sponsored shortcuts”, recommended bullshit, abd Mozilla VPN ads when I open my browser. Firefox is by far superior to Chromium based alternatives but let’s not pretend Mozilla are saints when it comes to annoying bullshit in their browser.

Hopefully they do release 1 and 2GB memory varoants which should be $35 and $45 respectively if they follow the pricing of previous models. The performance does look like a big upgrade over the Pi 4 at least.

Same, I’ve wanted a Tesla fpr over a decade. I’ve had my Volt for almost 9 years now and am starting to think about buying a new fully electric car, but Tesla is now firmly off my list and it’s entirely down to Musk’s shitty behavior.