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  • Life of a PC gamer

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  • Ok bear with me here but we're on Lemmy so I think I get in trouble if I don't ask this...

    Have ya tried Linux on the old machines? If not, you can make a bootable USB of Linux Mint and play around with it without changing anything on your system. The UI is laid out like Windows.

    Nothing makes an old machine sing like installing Linux!

  • U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

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  • I appreciate the comment. Thanks!

  • U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

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  • It's funny how often I see a headline like this, then think to myself "now, now, let's be reasonable and give them the benefit of the doubt because crazy situations happen every day..."

    aside: You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them. I have those neural pathways pretty safely contained, but it's important to do maintenance.

    Anyways, I often think to myself oh hey they aren't just mind numbingly stupid and surely there's something else going on. Then I read the details and it's like every sentence pushes my face closer to my silly optimistic assumptions bellowing "search your feelings, you know it to be true" like some really heavy-handed metaphor about feeling the call of the dark side.

    Nah, I guess I do know how stupid they are. But their stupidity isn't gonna frustrate me into being like them again.

  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • When I switched over my home desktop to Mint, it was a very short time before I looked at Windows and said "I'm too old for this shit." I mean, the reason I am a Mint fan in the first place is that I am a FOSS loving nerd but with a family and pets and hobbies and a career and a middle aged energy level. The decades I've spent fixing Windows based PCs is enough for a lifetime, thx.

    I say consolidate old files you want to keep. Shuffle them between drives as necessary to be able to format everything. Go all ext4 on the drives you already have. (once you're ready)

    This is the way.

  • Life of a PC gamer

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  • I think these days the PC value argument is a lot more about longevity and versatility than price.

    Like in my case, I want to have an old fashioned LAN gaming setup in my house. I've already managed to find four PCs stored away, and they are all going to work great. Three are already set up and have linux installed and everything. So they cost a decent amount in their day, but now they're kind of just free extras.

  • Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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  • It's like foveated rendering for the whole damn universe.

  • GN will be President by 2035

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  • "Just vote" is kind of an election day strategy.

    The whole part where the actual work happens to put a decent person on the ballot instead of corporate drone n+1 is right now!

  • ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People's Faces to Check If They're Citizens

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  • Well now I absolutely expect to read a future story about somebody working their way into ICE to do some good. But then before they knew it they were hauled out into the desert and told by masked men to execute a Mexican detainee like some kind of fucked up gang initiation ritual, to prove their true loyalty.

  • My collection is growing

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  • After doing a bunch of carpentry this year, now I have metric and imperial sets of nice long hex bits for my high torque impact driver.

    Something is gonna move, one way or another!

  • Obama calls Mamdani to praise his campaign and offers to be sounding board

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  • Look you guys! I found the time cop!

    This very special hour of the year has revealed you.

  • Bad days

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  • *Upgrayedd

  • Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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  • That's right about observation events. They are often called interactions instead.

    But the wave-particle duality applies to literally everything at the quantum level, per the standard model and quantum field theory anyway. And that's a model with an incredible track record.

    Looking at a particle as a wave is usually in the context of that particle by itself moving in a straight line through a vacuum. There isn't really vibration and temperature; there aren't even atoms! You just have the particle's energy in eV.

    Whether we can subjectively compare the packets of energy in quantum fields with the waves of energy through matter, I have no idea. The math is solid though.

  • GOP strategist tells Americans about to lose food assistance to make ‘better choices’

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  • Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I'd expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.

    They'd just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today's cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!

  • The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi

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  • I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!

  • Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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  • The whole concept in quantum mechanics of a particle's wave function collapsing into a single point due to an observation event is just weird enough, and feels just enough like some otherworldly programmer's hack to save tons of resources, that I am not sure I will ever be fully convinced that we are not in a simulation.

    I'm not asserting that we're in one, and I don't know of any reasons to believe that we are in one, but I think I'll always have that little suspicion.

  • Big Problem 🥀

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  • I agree with everything you're saying.

    And unfortunately as a life-long resident of white suburban america, I know how comfortable life still is for so many people, and how the culture of "ignore that problem and we'll be fine" continues to pay off for people with a little privilege in their life.

  • Sort your trash!

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  • YES!

    It is not always easy to judge how much an activity will benefit you going by how much you want to do it beforehand. It is not always as simple as exercising and eating your vegetables either. Shit's complex.

    I describe it like each of our brains has a long, detailed, and customized user manual -- but we don't get a copy. We can choose to attempt to reverse engineer that manual if we have the right motivation.

  • What the hell happened around 2010? Smartphones?

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  • We children of the 80s were out there in them streets, walking and biking to our friends' houses and dodging the cars. Over the years our skills grew, and the numbers were finally on our side. And while it was sad on the rare occasion that we lost a friend to the streets as if they were an Oregon Trail character, it did help the numbers even more!

  • Unironic Joker Meme

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  • Any incremental improvement is worth it, IMO. Think of it like the flip side of the swiss cheese security model.

    My intentional mindset and positive thinking don't make my ADHD go away. But maybe they give me that last bit of motivation to get out of bed one day, or they flip the script and remind me that whatever activity my family wants to do with me this evening is way more important than that spare bedroom I finally started cleaning after several years.

    When it comes to mental health and enjoying existence, never stop giving yourself the best chance you can.