CalcProgrammer1 @ CalcProgrammer1 @lemmy.ml

Software Engineer, Linux Enthusiast, OpenRGB Developer, and Gamer

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Yeah, email was the social media before social media especially in the 90's and early 2000's. I got into Linux in 2005 and that's also around the time Digg and Reddit started growing. I was never into social media like Myspace and Facebook but I spent a ton of my high school days on Digg.

That said I realize most millenials didn't get into FOSS or Linux but we did use computers a ton regardless, and smartphones were available by high school/college for most of us.

I'm generally pro-automation if it can increase efficiency, but McDonalds' ordering AI is terrible. It had issues understanding their buy one get one for $1 deal and then one time I ordered a "bacon McCrispy" which was an item right there on the menu but what I got was a plain McCrispy and a side order of bacon in a breakfast container. They need to send their AI back to training. I'd really just prefer kiosks at the drive thru like they have inside. Voice is the worst way to interact with a computer IMO, but maybe that's just because most implementations suck. Voice is too open ended though, a kiosk can provide exactly what options are available and as long as it has full set of customization options I don't think that open endedness benefits anyone.

Also, over 30? Millenials grew up on the Internet for the most part. I'm 34 and grew up with computers and Internet. It was our parents' generation that fails to understand tech.

For those of us who use Discord primarily on desktop though, this UI is atrocious. I expect Discord to work like Discord, not . I like the consistent experience between platforms.

Ultimately though, why can this not just be a freaking OPTION? Just put a toggle in the menu [DMs in Server List] [DMs in Separate Tab]. Bad user experience is forcing all users to conform to the One True Vision (tm). Especially when that vision is now horribly disjointed between platforms.

I hate the new layout. Why are DMs separate from servers? It makes no sense, and it means extra back button presses/swipes to change between them. Why not just have everything in one sidebar which I feel is way more logically consistent and convenient? This update is trash and Discord should feel bad.

Why do you enjoy having them separate? I much prefer the old layout, it makes a lot more sense to keep everything in the same place and require less swiping to get between them. Having two different sections is annoying and having it one way in the mobile UI and another way in the desktop UI is beyond stupid. I really wish they would just give us the option to pick our preferred layout.

How much is the money worth to you? If you absolutely love the Steam Deck and have the disposable income, I'd say go for it. I bought the OLED Limited Edition though I already had two LCD Decks (512GB and 64GB upgraded to 512GB) because I broke my first one but later fixed it. I love what Valve is doing with the Deck and with Linux and I had the disposable income to buy it. I'm happy. However, I would say it isn't the wisest financial decision I could've made and if money is tight the LCD Deck is still a perfectly fine option. The performance is basically the same.

Performance is pretty good with my Arc A770 on Arch Linux. It's had some growing pains but they're pretty much all resolved now.

Overwatch.

Oroginally I dismissed it as just being a TF2 clone, and being a very loyal TF2 player at the time I didn't want to play it as I consodered it a blatant ripoff. However, I started going to a LAN party group at work in 2017 and Overwatch was the only FPS they played so I got it. It still does feel similar to TF2 but the variety of characters got me hooked and it became my most played game for many years until OW2 came out and ruined everything. Getting back into it now though and they've toned down some of the bad decisions of OW2 since launch. Now I'm dating a girl who plays Overwatch as well and we've been playing constantly so I'm back into it completely now.

I got to be on the Tech Over Tea podcast! I really enjoyed talking with Brodie and would definitely recommend his main channel as well as Tech Over Tea. There is another podcast I sometimes watch called Linux Game Cast too.

Also Brodie's podcast Tech Over Tea. I was on the podcast so I'm a bit biased, but he has a lot of open source developers from different projects on and they are always interesting.

I usually put up my Christmas lights at the end of September if I can. Programmable RGB lights so I can use them for Halloween as well as Christmas. I turn them off between Halloween and Thanksgiving usually, but now I'm seeing tons of Christmas lights already on in my neighborhood and I didn't actually put my lights up this year. Probably will just go without putting them up this year as I hate going up on the ladder, but I have some RGB spiral trees to put up in the yard at least that I'll still put out probably after I get back from Thanksgiving break.

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

True, half of 90 is 45 while half of 60 is 30. The LCD Deck benefits from the 70Hz display overclock tweak noticeably so going up to 90 is huge. I hope the OLED can at least operate at any fixed refresh between 30 and 90.

Definitely sounds like a must upgrade. I don't have a Switch OLED as I barely use my launch model Switch.

But then again I just started dating someone who plays a ton of Switch games...sounds like I might have two upgrades on my hands

Where did it say 90Hz? That sounds like a HUGE upgrade. The OLED image quality will be nice but higher refresh rate is something I've really wanted, though unfortunately I haven't seen anything regarding VRR.

I need that limited edition, it looks EPIC! I already have two Decks but man I need that one. The only complaint I have is they didn't upgrade to a VRR screen, but OLED will be a nice upgrade in the image quality.

Personally, I think anticheat should be optional. At lower ranks, cheaters and smurfs are often indistinguishable, but smurfing is commonplace and usually unpunished. I don't really care if I'm getting stomped by a sweaty tryhard on an alt account or by an aimbot, it sucks just the same. The solution is to move those players up the ranks until the cheaters and the tryhards are in the top ranks. Then you get the people who actually stand to truly benefit from cheat detection, and they tend to be the ones who would want anticheat even at the expense of privacy and system integrity so let them optionally enable it.

Us casuals at lower ranks should not NEED to run anticheat to play games at a casual level. It's a freaking game, nothing is at stake. I'm not competing in tournaments. I care more about my system being free of kernel rootkits than whether some guy who keeps headshotting me from a mile away is a real player or an aimbot. Matchmaking should be able to deal with the discrepancy regardless.

Anticheat is a plague on the gaming industry.

I won't be buying an NVIDIA GPU any time soon for my desktop, but hopefully this move will make gaming on my laptop better. Unfortunately NVIDIA seems to have an almost monopoly on good gaming laptops especially if you don't want giant bulky or cheaply built ones. My 2021 Razer Blade 14 has a 3070 and while the proprietary drivers work, NVIDIA's own implementation of render offloading/PRIME leaves much to be desired, with random screen tearing even when vsync is forced on as soon as the GPU load starts getting high.

Just to make sure, you're using DisplayPort right? I don't think the Arc cards support VRR over HDMI. The HDMI port on the Arc is actually a built in DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and I don't think any converter chips support VRR modes.