Numpty

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[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

You're not the target market for FF16 then.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. You're not a parent are you?

It's not lazy, it's being involved as a parent. I teach them. I council them. I explain the good and the bad.

They don't have unfettered access to the internet either. I carefully limit to what is appropriate to their ages. As they get older and are more able to understand the implications I relax the restrictions.

My kids will survive just fine not playing in an environment that encourages bed behavior.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Roblox is filled with "quality" content like this: https://www.roblox.com/games/8110845141/POOP-WITH-FRIENDS

My kids used to play on Roblox... then they invited me to try it... and I started watching what is going on in there. It's pretty bad. LOADS of grooming going on... shitty games... games that encourage anti-social behavior... horror games targeting under 5s... now they aren't allowed to play it anymore.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

That would explain a lot.. things seemed normal until about 2013...

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like Ubuntu underneath your Plasma. I've had the exact same experience when using Neon, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu+KDE. I install any non-Ubuntu based distro with KDE (like openSUSE) and whiz bang everything is working again.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Linux needs more GUIs for managing complex settings.

openSUSE has YaST which covers almost all complex settings... it's not perfect, but it tries

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t go with Opensuse or Fedora for gaming.

Why? I use openSUSE Tumbleweed for gaming and it's been rock solid. Seriously, I've never really had any issues. It has its quirks, but they are easily "fixed" by adding Packman and the Nvidia repos... and running an update.

I've tried Ubuntu multiple times and it was always a shitshow disaster. Mint was OK-ish, but had Ubuntu-related silliness.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Kinda depends where you work.

I've been working full time in software dev and hardware dev since the mid-1990s. Through that whole time I've worked almost exclusively on (in the early days) Sun workstations, AS/400, and HPUX machines. This eventually transitioned to Linux and macOS (once it became Unix based). Over the past 7-8 years, every company I've worked for (primarily in backend software and "big data") has actually heavily restricted Windows within the company. Most have required high level approval to have a Windows machine... you had to have a damn good business reason to run Windows as your primary OS.

Windows is definitely the leader in generic desktop work, but... there are pockets out there of Linux/macOS-only. And... given the strong shift to browser based everything... Windows has lost its shininess for all but the most specific applications - eg graphics editing in industry standard tooling like Photoshop.

Thankfully the school my kids go to doesn't really give a crap what you run at home on on their laptops they used for school work as long as the kids are able to to their assignments. Almost 100% of what they do is browser based interfaces anyway, so it doesn't matter what the underlying OS is. I've made a point of teaching my kids Linux, macOS, and Windows. They've both asked to run Linux on their personal PCs... it was, and remains their choice.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I've been using Nvidia with Linux for a VERY long time. Currently I have computers running:

  • GT1030 - two older PC
  • GTX2060 Ti
  • GTX 3050 Ti - laptop

They are all working fine with openSUSE Tumbleweed. I install openSUSE, add the Nvidia community repo (a couple of clicks), run updates once, and reboot. Everything just works after that. I can count maybe 3 times in the past 6 years that there was any issue at all.

Now Ubuntu and derivative... I've had a LOT of issues and weirdness... drivers failing, doing weird things etc.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Son-of-a-bitch. I just searched with Google... and almost ALL my old comments are back. The user attribution is [deleted], but almost all the content of 13 or 14 years of comments has been restored. In a few cases, a top-level comment has not been restored, but everywhere in sub-comment conversations, I see my old content... content I know I explicitly deleted.

So, even though I explicitly deleted my contributions, they ignored and restored it. What an asshole move by the Reddit admins. And of course, now that my account has been deleted there's no way to follow up and re-remove all my contributions.

I wonder. Considering that the vast majority of my comments on Reddit were done while I lived in Europe if I can use GPRD and insist they remove it all.

[–] Numpty@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel this so much. I own a property. I rented it out. I ran into that exact same lineup of expenses vs income you note here and... I ended up taking my house OFF the rental market. It's just not worth it.

I keep getting into these discussions with people who yell “It’s immoral to buy a house and rent it out. Landlords must provide housing for renters at a loss so I can have cheap housing” and then... "It's an investment and you as the owner must fund my low cost housing because you might earn equity in the property when you sell it in the future."

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