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  • The ol' IT person magic touch - the second you touch the machine, it works flawlessly!

    Only problem is if it's one of those problems that's workflow-based. I can't tell you how many times I've said "well it seems to work fine for me" only to watch the user do the same task in the most janky, roundabout way, and that is the source of their problem.

  • Of course Win11 ran slow, the CPU the tests were done on is 6 generations behind the official cutoff. I'd rather see the results from the same experiment run on a i5-8400, which is min specs.

    It'll still be slow, but at least it won't be an unsupported platform.

  • I've used Ninite for years on fresh installs for programs if I'm not doing enterprise stuff - all you do is pick which programs you want, it spits out an installer, and then you run it and it loads everything up, no sweat.

  • Original Lord's of the Fallen because it was so bland, I made it about an hour in.

    The Surge like 75% of the way through - I slogged my way through most of the game, but the level design towards the end was lacking and I wasn't interested in continuing, it was too difficult.

  • Generally you should be considering which desktop environment(DE) you want to use as well, cause it's the main thing you'll be looking at.

    Mint is a good beginner, no fuss distro that runs the Cinnamon DE by default. It's also based on Ubuntu, built on top of the normal version of Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu has several different options for DEs distributed as 'flavors' - Ubuntu itself comes with GNOME, but there's also Kubuntu which has KDE, and multiple other options available.

    If you've got the time and a free USB drive, I'd recommend making bootable media for a few options to try them out - both Mint and Ubuntu(as well as many other different distros) have live environments to play around in when you go to install them, and it's worth trying out a few different DEs to see which one you like.

  • Basegame CS's traffic system is notably bad - if you wanted anything realistic you needed mods to change it. No clue how CS2's plays, but I can't imagine it'd be much better.

  • Seeing it live was a bit of a fever dream - the realization that the intro is going longer than normal + the shift in tone hit harder at 3am

  • This is how I feel, and I know a lot of folks who are in a similar boat. We're sold this story of being financially stable, having a house, a car, and being able to retire, but for a lot of Americans that is looking more and more like a pipe dream each day.

    The poorly educated/informed people eat up the propaganda like candy, vote against their own interests, and tear down everyone around them in hopes that they'll be on top one day, and it simply won't happen in the present state our country is in.

  • I'm not OP, but I also prefer KDE over Cinnamon. The size/spacing of the buttons on the left side of the start menu/application launcher looks weird to me, and while I'm sure there's merits to Cinnamon that was enough to sour my tastes.

  • I didn't hear a single thing about the game until after it was already dead, and that's why I'm not surprised it flopped.

    If they'd done better(read: any) marketing or public testing, then it might have been at least salvageable, but from what I've read it seems like people weren't fans of the character designs and gameplay either.

  • The thing about IT for older folks is you have to be up for conversation too. Most of the customers I have only get out for church, so if I come out to see them it might be the first conversation they've had in days.

  • By definition? No.

    But if there was a situation like that, I'm willing to bet people would default to using the "first" title anyway out of custom.

  • "First Grandchild" has been used previously (mostly tabloids), but I think the "first" term is usually limited to immediate family

  • I'm surprised they thought it was going to do well. I heard absolutely nothing about the game until after it launched, which is never a good sign to me.

    If it was free, I'd definitely give it a try, but paid multiplayer shooters just aren't worth it to me anymore.

  • I get why people downvoted this, but you're not entirely incorrect. The two "sides" do exist, they just both happen to be on the same side and aren't entirely opposites like "left" and "right" would imply.

    Until we see a socioeconomic party platform that wants similar reforms to what is seen in the Nordics presently when it comes to policy, there's no true "left" party in the US, IMO

  • I will forever miss the old pepper and onion mix that CFA had before the breakfast revamp.

    The chicken salad recipe was pretty basic, if I remember right though. They have it listed on their app, too, I think; The only important note is you have to use debreaded fried filets, not ones with breading on. Grilled will change the flavor a little because of the marinade.

    Link to the CFA Recipes page (may open in app)

    They've got the coleslaw in there too, but I didn't work prep when we had it and cannot vouch for the accuracy.

  • Hands down my least favorite companion.

  • Independent IT Contractor: I have a 4-wide 1080p screen setup. I keep Slack/Teams on one screen, the semicircle setup means I can only really look at 3 at the same time. I upgraded from 3 screens because I kept having to juggle windows around while troubleshooting someone's webserver.

    Also used this setup when I was really heavy into FFXIV- I like having wikis/alerts open and visible, so one screen for that, the game, discord, and then the last one was just for youtube/netflix.