I played through Spider-Man 1 with the puzzles enabled for a few hours before turning that crap off. I'm very glad they gave the option to do so because they are annoying and tedious at best and downright frustrating at worst. They absolutely grenade the pacing and flow of the gameplay. There are numerous puzzle games out there I could play if I wanted puzzles; I don't want half-assed, janky, pace-destroying puzzles in my action games.
I use a 34 inch UW as my main monitor and a 17 inch as my secondary on the side. I mostly have Discord on the secondary but sometimes use it for productivity if required. I try not to rely on it too much because it's quite a stretch for my neck and will hurt after a while.
I find it works great for navigation and the map quality is so much better than Google Maps. My only complaints are that it lacks extra features such as business information, reviews, etc. It's better than it used to be but they still use things like Yelp (ugh) at least in my area.
I think Beehaw being a smaller, less populated community isn't necessarily a bad thing. Quality over quantity, as they say. But I personally feel like Beehaw lacks that stronger sense of community that is needed to make something like that work.
Back when I worked in a grocery store one of my regular tasks was processing unsalable product. There is... a lot that gets thrown away. And from what I hear it is much worse in other parts of the world.
That is exactly the sort of problem that made my experiences with Linux so awful. I also had very bad interactions with other Linux users when I asked for assistance with fixing the problems I was encountering.
I consider myself decently tech-savvy and I have been building and running Windows machines my entire life, but Linux just feels impenetrable by comparison.
I think an arm-operated bicycle might be worth looking into. I don't know much about them, but I have seen them around before. I don't even know their proper name.
Discord and Windows. I have had so many bad experiences whenever I have tried Linux that I am extremely reluctant to give it another go despite all the improvements it has made.
This is kinda my take, too; after reading OP’s post, I was left wondering how much time they spend on here and what they’re doing outside it.
I don't spend much time here at all. I open Beehaw a couple times a day, see nothing that I want to interact with, and close the tab. That was the basis of me creating this post to begin with - that Beehaw is quickly becoming a news feed with no actual meat to interact with.
It’s starting to feel like I’m using an RSS reader.
That is a good way of phrasing it and that is basically how I've been feeling lately about Beehaw. I know other Instances are going through the same thing, it's just that I am most active on Beehaw so I notice it here more.
The Gaming community certainly does seem to have some more community engagement going on, which is good. It would be nice to see more of that. There is some gaming news in there, but at least it's gaming news and, thus, not as bleak and depressing as some of the news in other communities.
That helps with filtering, but not with the actual content being posted on Beehaw. In most communities on Beehaw, most of what is being posted is news. What isn't news is much more infrequent and/or old. Some communities, like Socialism, are downright flooded with news to the point of drowning out community discussion (if there were any).
I played through Spider-Man 1 with the puzzles enabled for a few hours before turning that crap off. I'm very glad they gave the option to do so because they are annoying and tedious at best and downright frustrating at worst. They absolutely grenade the pacing and flow of the gameplay. There are numerous puzzle games out there I could play if I wanted puzzles; I don't want half-assed, janky, pace-destroying puzzles in my action games.