• 0 Posts
  • 409 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 24th, 2023

help-circle






  • If you’re not having a good time, stop. Life is too short.

    If you’re still interested in using linux, LinuxMint or PopOs! are what most people would recommend to a new user, not Arch.

    Arch can be perfect for users with the time, knowledge, and effort to perfectly tailor things to suit their needs. They can make it perfectly efficient, without any excess.
    I just want to use my computer whenever I want it to work. I am fine with it having a few extra packages/applications that I might never use. I’ve being using linux as main (or only) operating system on/off for about 20 years, and I currently use Mint.


  • Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

    Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.






  • Lockdowns help highlight a lot of “just because it’s what you do, not because it’s actually good” things for people.
    Theatres are generally awful. They are really only good if you want to do an event as a group, and not one has a space big enough to host.

    The food costs too much, people make gross mouth noises when eating the expensive food, the seats aren’t comfortable, things aren’t clean, people talk, people pull out their bright phones, the sound levels are all over the place, you sometimes have a bad viewing angle, you pay a lot of money but still shown 20 minutes of ads at the start, you need to worry about things like bed bugs, you need to plan a specific time to go, people bring their kids to non-kid movies, going to the bathroom is awkward, colour balancing is all over the place, drunk/high people react in distractingly bad ways, and probably many more reasons.



  • It’s generally the difference between using it as a descriptor, and a noun. Noun bad.

    Compare “I really like watching the female football game” and “I really like watching the women’s football game”
    “Female” isn’t trans-inclusive, but people aren’t going to look at you weird either way you say it.

    Now compare that to:
    “I really like watching the females play football.” and “I really like watching the women play football.”
    “Females” here makes you sound like you’re getting sexual gratification from watching the players, or that you see them as nothing more than a vagina, “women” sounds like you might like the game.






  • Which is saying something, because the main quest in Fallout 4 is awful.

    • Be frozen in time for an unknown number of years
    • Get unfrozen, and watch your kid get stolen
    • Get refrozen for an unknown number of years

    You learn that you were frozen for over 200 years total. It is most likely that your child is dead, just like everyone else you have ever known, so why would you look for them?