DreitonLullaby @ DreitonLullaby @lemmy.ml

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Yeah, it's like when I'm by myself out in the wild away from people, houses, or roads. I suddenly realise how constant noise is everywhere else in my life; especially because my house is right next to a highway which has cars and trucks passing constantly, and a train track right next to it too. And because I live in a country area of Australia, the night-time traffic suddenly becomes so small, that the difference in noise between day time and night time noise is massive. Even so, there's always noise coming from somewhere: right now it's from my keyboard and my computer fan, and it's night, so I can't hear any vehicles passing.

Maybe. But I'm not really sure if the definition fully matches up with the feeling. Assuming we are both talking about the same feeling (and I think we are), you seem to have experienced it from a couple of different things I've never experienced it from before. Namely, the one at the airport, where you got the feeling from knowing how far apart everyone will be from each other in only a matter of hours. I've never gotten it from anything like that before. I don't really get the feeling from thinking about something or realising something specific like that, I just get it when I begin to "take in" my environment. Almost like I'm absorbing the atmosphere itself. And while I didn't mention it, I myself am also capable of getting the feeling within a loud environment, like you. It's just far less common for me.

Definitely not, but thanks for the suggestion. If that was the case, I would personally call that "relief"

Interesting. I'll try and remember to look them up. Thanks.

Absolutely. The abrupt change from loud to quiet certainly does it a lot. Maybe the reason I got the feeling when watching the clip from Breath of the Wild I linked was because I had been watching (and hearing) the whole process of the player climbing the cliff-face, from the ground up to that point of the cliff. It wasn't loud, but there was the constant rustling sound of the main character, Link, climbing the cliff-face, until he suddenly stopped. That combined with the beauty of the view he stopped to take a look at produced that really strong, calm feeling.

Maybe. But from the definition, it doesn't really sound like what I'm experiencing, since I wasn't necessarily experiencing any agitation of mind or spirit immediately prior to the feeling.

I like your uncle. He sounds like a wise guy.

Doesn't contemplation usually involve thinking carefully about something though? I don't need to think about anything to get this feeling, I just get it by "taking in" my environment.

That is outright neglect. That level of strictness is just ridiculous. If they really wanted you to sit and listen, and take the sermon seriously, you certainly can't do that while sitting on a turd, while also having the attention span and understanding of a six-year-old.

I wasn’t aware that odysse was originally a crypto video sharing platform, I thought it operated more like YouTube.

Hey mate, It's not exactly a crypto video sharing platform, but it does incorporate crypto in how it operates. Odysee isn't the blockchain itself, it's a website frontend for the blockchain, which has previously always been the LBRY network. How it works is that you would receive small amounts of LBC (LBRY coins) for watching some content. You can than use the earned currency to upload videos and articles onto the platform, and it can be boosted by other peoples channel donations to support individual content creators, which are optionally either more LBC or using traditional fiat currency if you so choose. I know it's very easy to upload stuff because I have my own channel, you practically aren't even paying for it since you can upload a video for as little at 0.0001 LBC. My understanding is that they're moving away from LBRY and towards Arweave, though I've not looked at the FAQ yet (linked below). If you check their channel, they posted more a lot of info at the same time as this video. The Odysee community has been waiting for details on an announced update for a few weeks.

The Future of Odysee (Article)

FAQ concerning Odysee's new tech

Yeah, I'm on Linux too, and you're right that GOG isn't as convenient as Steam on Linux, but you don't have to mess around with bottles to get them working. Heroic Games Launcher is excellent and has Wine and Proton built in, so installing GOG games and playing them through that is almost as convenient as playing through Steam on Linux.

I find that compared to Steam, I have to tinker slightly more often than Steam to get them working; otherwise, most games install and play perfectly just like on Steam. There's an official GOG client called GOG Galaxy, but it's only on Windows and Mac, so third-party launchers like Heroic are the best options on Linux. Plus, somewhat recently GOG officially partnered with Heroic Games Launcher which improved the compatibility quite a bit. There's no achievement support in Heroic yet, but they are working on the feature for it, as far as I'm aware.

I can't remember where the option is, but you can also add the GOG games from your library in Heroic to Steam as a non-steam game.

As for sales, like I was saying before, the sales across GOG and Steam seem to be very similar to each other, having the same price cuts at the same time as each other.

One thing to be weary of when buying games from GOG on Linux is when you buy games that are playable online, such as No Man's Sky and Divinity: Original Sin II. These games rely on GOG Galaxy to connect you online, which currently isn't functional on Heroic Launcher (but may get support in the future). One other thing to note is that occasionally I've noticed that a game publisher releases an official Linux port on Steam, but ignores it on GOG. I was disappointment when this happened to me. I bought the whole Metro series in a bundle from GOG, but I only found out afterwards, that on Steam their are actually official Linux ports for the whole trilogy. I use ProtonDB to quickly check which Steam games have Linux ports

Yeah, I did have that problem in the past with the comment data being demolished if I transferred the files with said comments onto my NTFS formatted external hard drive, though strangely, I'm still able to manually write a new comment on those files after the transfer.

In other words, what I find is that transferring a file with a comment from one ext4 drive to another ext4 drive retains the comment data, but transferring it from one ext4 drive to an NTFS drive deletes it, though it still allows me to rewrite a replacement comment regardless.

I've solved my issue by installing Dolphin, which allows me to see the comments now, and updated my post.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. I couldn't figure out how to use the command because it was giving me errors (which is probably just something I did wrong). But I'll try to figure that out for the sake of learning.

What did work for me, was downloading Dolphin (it looks so messes up in Cosmic though, lol) and the comments are absolutely there, thank God! So now I can recover them and I think I'm going to try to find an alternative solution for making these records that works easily across distros (because I don't plan to stick with Pop! forever)

That's fair. I'm not sure about Ubisoft games in terms of pricing comparisons. But no, most games are the same price on GOG as other places like Steam, though unfortunately GOG doesn't have regional prices so that may not be the case for you. Some publishers decide to up the price a bit, annoyingly, just because they know that users are willing to pay more.

Have you not heard of GOG? They only sell games DRM-free, and have similar sales to Steam. Ubisoft particularly don't seem to like publishing much from the past 10 years though.

If we're talking in the realm of privacy, it's technically better than the other popular PC storefronts because they provide an optional offline installer for the game that, once downloaded, can be preserved into an archive and installed at any later date without internet (and can still be used if the game is taken down from the store). As far as I remember, they collect far less private data too, so that's a plus. They have a giveaway going on at the moment that ends in 10 hours for an old game called The First Templar if you wanna try out the platform.

Nope, but people should be aware. It seems most invasive policy changes in the tech industry fly under the radar because no one reads them to begin with.

I just only get Ubisoft games pre-owned physically on consoles. It wasn't for privacy reasons but just because I don't want to support them. The only exception is DRM-Free copies on GOG.

Thanks, I'll try to do this tomorrow. Do you think that loading Manjaro KDE or any other distro using KDE into a VM, and connecting my drive with the files to the VM would allow me to view the comments just as I previously could using KDE?

Ah, apologies. Yeah, I know what Watch Dogs is, it just didn't come to mind. Knowing Ubisoft, I don't even need to look at their privacy policy to know that you're probably signing away your soul with them.

By WD are you referring to Western Digital?

Yes, I was mainly using it for photos and videos. I wrote a lot of text in old photos from when I was a very young child or baby in order to record as many memories I still have in relation to them as possible, so these comments mean a lot.