I’m not what I used to be

Someone somewhere along the path to releasing that was clearly thinking

I just use lidarr to rewrite the tags to be consistent and that seems to be enough for navidrome to put the correct cover art 90% of the time.

I know a number of people that have demonstrated all of the required skills at work but the mere thought of plugging unique shapes into the matching sockets scares the fuck out of them.

Having the electrician at work watch me build a computer and ask “how do you know you won’t electrocute yourself?” made me facepalm thermal paste between my eyebrows. He even solders but he seemed serious, confused, and a bit defensive when I said something like “oh fuck off ya turd”.

I think about that every block in the square hole video with the girl crying a lot. At first it feels like its pointing out lousy and exploitable design, but I start thinking that a lot of people won’t be able to solve it and it’s actually showing how most people think and the girl is the outlier dying from trying to teach people incapable of brain cell.

All of them. Put home in a separate partition and just rename /home/kiol to /home/kiol2 before installing the next one and be careful not to format that partition. Also keep a space separated text list of all of your needed programs to paste into whatever package manager command in a file somewhere in your home dir. Go into distrowatch and try the most niche ones nobody has ever heard about too. Become THE distro hopper.

It’s quite excellent even on some pretty old hardware, but I’ve had a couple middle aged laptops consistently fail during installation but I put zero effprt into diagnostics as it was mainly just trying for the hell of it.

Its my desktop daily driver though and its probably going to stay that way for the foreseeable future

Ugh I want it but I just know I’m going to have difficulties with some niche video game or something and there won’t be any preexisting solutions

That’s purely reaction with not even a countdown, plus whatever lag introduced by the browser, display, mouse or touch, phone or pc.

With music games you aren’t waiting an arbitrary amount of time, you are matching a tempo and moving ahead of the actual sound to land on the correct time, almost certainly with visual cues that let you read ahead, and getting scored on how perfect it was. More often than not it will be a song fully memorized and the player is trying to push the limits of how close a human can get to perfection. There is still latency in rendering and display, audio playback, input, etc. and you can end up with visual cues being offset, input being offset by a different amount and direction, and as a result scoring being incorrect.

If a single human can’t do that, then how would an orchestra ever have worked? Its different movements and visual cues but basically the same thing: Match timing with the conductor and between memorization, practice, and the sheet music you get your read ahead of how to move. I’ve never taken dance lessons but it surely comes down to the same fundamentals.

I will absolutely notice it in rhythm games, but everything else my brain auto compensates and I don’t even notice

I usually blame this on the hardware manufacturers for being secretive gatekeepy fucks that make things only work with shitty drivers

how does anything handle raytracing? I watched a friend with a 5090 show off his bullshit money rig and maybe it was a 4k monitor or something, I didn’t check, but it wasn’t performant enough to impress me at that price range. Its probably also lack of optimization and nobody ever leaving the default unreal engine visuals.

Is that around when proton went from 10 to 11? I used proton plus to manually install the last version of 10 for games that had issues with 11.

At a glance I thought it said migraine os and I had to click in for details

I had more aur packages than I thought but none in the list. Is this just known ones and there could be more?

thats like 270 before shipping and surprise border charges

the low low chance of finding these affordably these days. There is someone in the next town over that is selling complete units starting at 600 or so which is cheaper than I would be able to get the parts.

it’s going to be year of the linux vr soon anyway

alvr as in the vr streaming program for standalone headsets? that’s kind of a niche among niches. Linux VR users with standalone vr headsets that use that specific method.

Some companies seem to be able to change the contract whenever they want and bar access if you dont accept. Cell providers in my area seemingly aren’t allowed to do that but it feels like everyone else can, especially regarding digital media.

Oh I’ll have to contact them. I forgot not every company is as bullshit as dell. With them even the bot gives you the runaround and makes you wait for it to ‘asses the case file’ multiple times when literally nothing changed.