If only I wasn’t such a moron with trying to navigate around Nvidia drivers and Optimus, this sounds fantastic.

I have yet to figure all of this out and get to a smooth and stable state.

+1 on the “don’t engage him or this” gang.

I know, right? But I suppose their reasoning is that my ads are also blocked across the rest of their ecosystem, my subscription isn’t covering those losses.

Still though, a model that requires that customers look at something they don’t want to nor will engage with smells like failure.

I can’t remember what video I watched that talked about the unsustainabilty and likely the late stages of an ad revenue driven internet content model, and this situation reeks of that.

I don’t know what new paradigm might replace it if this is the case, but the current model feels like it’s absolutely failing.

So I have YouTube premium but also have ad-blocker, for the first time yesterday I was noticing absolutely abysmal speeds on YouTube and I suspect this is why. I thought my computer was starting to shit the bed initially it was so brutal.

One can dream.

Smh my head

That number is way too low, we ought to be at more than that right now.

Yes, myself included.

This is good information.

Yeah I imagine the struggles I had with Debian had something to do with enabling proprietary drivers and firmware and leveraging those. Before getting those drivers, the default nouveau drivers were awful, the performance was comically bad.

I’m also not a Linux power user though, so for sure any or all of the above could be meatware issues.

I’m about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I’m admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it’s interface isn’t intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I’ll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

Hollow Knight for me fits this scenario to a t. I got it as part of a humble bundle, but couldn’t get into it for at least a year as the initial part felt really depressing, and didn’t at all grab me.

But once I managed to tough it through to greenpath, and started to get some power ups, it finally sunk it’s claws into me. I proceeded to nearly 100% the game.

Haha, no kidding!

Both of those were game changers for me too. I had a PlayStation 1 memory card with just Squaresoft games. Absolute golden age.

For these though, I would alter the original question to be if I could relive playing this game for the first time at the time that I did. If I tried them for the first time now I’m certain I’d find both to be antiquated.

Stardew Valley or Terraria.

Agreed, Covid ties or is a close runner up for me as well in terms of people showing their true colors.

+1 for the third party Reddit app ban.

2016 US elections was a ridiculously sobering moment for realizing that we had not progressed nearly to the extent that I nievely thought.

Oh man, Hot Rod! Probably among the times I’ve laughed the hardest.

Step Brothers, Talladega Nights and Burn After Reading are three that consistently do it for me.