cRazi_man @ cRazi_man @europe.pub

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Must be my filter list then..... 200 blocked communities (mostly porn though) and 50 blocked keywords.....and increasing.

A post this size with this many pictures is slowing down my Lemmy app (Boost) to a crawl. I can't even scroll down the page. Anyone else having problems?

We probably have it pretty great compared to most of the rest of the world currently.

"Naughty publisher"

My current recommended strategy: turn around and look the other way. Now all you see is a sunny beach and nice palm trees.

Lemmy has been one of the best places online for toning down the American emphasis (although I think my blacklist keywords filters help a lot with that.... Highly recommended).

Lemmy has better European/Australian representation, but there isn't much Asian or African representation though.

Context and culture and expectations. I agree with your point, but there isn't a logical/sensible answer to these things.

I'm a man and I don't think it would be acceptable for me to wear a Speedo swimsuit or have my bum exposed the way some thong bikini bottoms do. Communities, societies and cultures dictate what's acceptable in an unsaid way. It is what it is.

Some commenters in this thread are reacting in a pointed way because questions like yours seem to imply that there should be a judgement of control of what women can/cannot do. People can do what they want, but it's also OK to think about the absurdity of society's rules......like why some women with a certain body shape can wear bikinis but others get disgusted looks. Or why it is so socially unacceptable to wear the Borat mankini. Or taking it further: why is full nudity so unacceptable and offensive? My answer is: there is no logical answer and this is what the societal collective seem to have agreed.

Stupid idea. Better to just hot glue the remotes to your hand. I haven't lost them since and never have to get up to get them from across the room.

How many floppies is that?

Helps for a little while. But if you still get drowsy when chewing, then your best bet is to park the car, drink a large serving of caffeine and set an alarm for 6 min and go to sleep. You just need to nod off to actually sleep for a couple of min. When you wake up with the alarm, that feeling of being unable to keep eyes open will be gone. The caffeine will start to kick in after 20 to 30 min and you can keep going much more safely. This adds 10 to 15 min to your journey in total.

Obviously depends on your situation. If you've not slept at all the previous night and still have 6 hours of driving to go, then accept that you're fucked and get a room. Save your life and others.

Thanks for your post. Try more fibre.

You get better at something by learning and practising. Sounds so dumb and simplistic and obvious, but it amazes me how difficult people find it to truly accept and internalise this.

Shit at cooking? You can improve.

Shit at talking? You can improve.

Shit as a friend/spouse/parent? You can improve.

Shit at reining in your emotions? You can improve.

You could literally practice to be a funnier person if you wanted.

I guess this is now popularised as "growth mindset".

This. You're not causing permanent damage to a child by letting them sleep in your bed. You don't need an academic answer on what research says about this.

I don't like it because my kids kick and move around, so I don't want them to sleep in my bed.

The main advice for parenting should always be "you do you".

This is a pointless conversation man. There are clearly plenty of Linux zealots on Lemmy. Noobs like me have had a hard time with Linux. I've never understood the argument that "my experience was different, so your experience is invalid". Once someone learns about something, they forget what it's like to have no knowledge of the thing.

The Linux community was reacting like this when Linus (from LTT) installed PopOS and tried to install Steam and it somehow wiped his desktop environment. Shit happens in Linux and the noob experience is brushed aside, while touting "the year of Linux". I really don't get it.

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Here's the current list I have that I've played/playing/plan to play through.

3DS: New Super Mario Bros 2, Kirby Planet Robobot, Super Mario 3D Land.

Gamecube: Legend of Zelda, The - The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine

GBA: Advance Wars (1+2), Super Mario Advance 4, Kirby - Nightmare in Dream Land

Mega Drive: Earthworm Jim (1+2), Streets of Rage 2, Lost Vikings, Micro Machines 2, Sonic and knuckles, Jungle Strike

N64: Golden Eye 007, Super Mario 64

PS1: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, Grand Theft Auto 2, Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy 7+8+9

PS2: Crazy Taxi, GranTurismo 4, Metal Gear Solid 2+3, Okami, Ratchet & Clank - Up Your Arsenal (all the Ratchet and Clank games actually), Shadow of the Colossus, Tony Hawks Underground 2, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter

PS3: Everybodys Golf 6, Ratchet & Clank Future - A Crack in Time

PSP: Rock Band Unplugged, Blast Off, Disgaea - Afternoon Of Darkness, Final Fantasy Tactics - The War of the Lions, Grand Theft Auto - Chinatown Wars, Half-Minute Hero, Hotshots Tennis, LittleBigPlanet, Lumines 2, Mega Man - Powered Up, Mercury Meltdown, Patapon, PixelJunk Monsters - Deluxe, Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords, Space Invaders Extreme, Wipeout (Pulse+Pure), Daxter

SNES: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Tetris Attack.

PS Vita: Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, Geometry Wars 3

Wii: Bully, Cave Story, Donky Kong Country Returns, Geometry Wars Galaxies, Kirby's Epic Yarn, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Super Mario Galaxy (1+2), Super Paper Mario, Tetris Party Deluxe, Zack and Wiki

Arguably one of the best genres that retro games excelled at were longdrawn RPGs and I haven't even started with those....if that's your thing then I've missed off that entire genre here.

I'm glad it works well for you.

OpenSUSE is what helped me get past even more basic problems with getting my PC up and running, that's why I stuck with it because I couldn't even get this far on other distros. I'm on CachyOS now and can manage better now that I've learnt to troubleshoot some of the main issues.

Horizontal page scrolling. I want to be able to read massive documents by scrolling through side-by-side pages rather than scrolling up/down.

I'm glad it worked smoothly for you and it sometimes is a smooth effortless experience for some people; but if you want to "convert" people then you've got to be honest about the fact that people commonly face difficulties. I've commented about my Linux issues before and I can paste the comment again here to give an example:

One of the first issues I had problems with was figuring out what was wrong with Street Fighter 6 giving ultra low frame rates in multiplayer, but working fine in single player. It needed disabling of split lock protections in the CPU.

A recent update in OpenSUSE made the computer fail to boot half the time and made the image on the right half of the screen garbled. I rolled back to before the update and am using it without updating for a few weeks to see if the GPU driver problem gets ironed out (AMD GPU).

I installed VMware Horizon for my job's remote work login and it fucked up my Steam big picture mode and controller detection. I didn't bother trying to figure that out and just uninstalled VMware remote desktop.

I managed to install my printer driver, but manually finding the correct RPM file to install would not be tolerable for normies. Update: I'm using CachyOS now and the Brother website says Arch plainly isn't supported. When I install the driver from AUR that's specific to my printer, then it doesnt print and just spews out endless blank pages.

I still can't get my Dualshock 3 controller to pair via Bluetooth despite instructions on the OpenSUSE wiki. I've stopped trying to troubleshoot that and use my 8BitDo controller instead.

I still can't find a horizontal page scrolling PDF app.

Figuring out how to edit fstab to automount my secondary drives is not a process normies would be able to execute. I still can't figure out how to use this to auto-mount my Synology NAS.

Plasma added monitor brightness controls to software and these seem to have disappeared for me now, and I can't figure out why. It reappears intermittently, but then disappears when it feels like.

My KDE Plasma task bar widgets for monitoring CPU/GPU temp worked till I reinstalled OpenSUSE, and I can't figure out why they've decided to not work on this fresh install. System monitor can see the temperature sensors just fine still. Update: this seems to have fixed itself (maybe through am update?).

Flatpak Steam app wouldn't pick up controllers for some reason. Minor issue, but unnecessary jankiness.

My laptop fingerprint reader plainly isn't supported.

Trying to set up dual boot kept destroying (I.e. making unbootable) either the Linux install or the Windows install. I have up eventually as I couldn't figure out how to fix GRUB from the command line.

I've been trying to find a solution for keeping a downloaded synchronised copy of my online storage (Mailbox.org). Can't figure out rsync. I get an error with Celeste and it doesn't sync after the initial file install. Having a 2 way sync for online storage could be considered a pretty basic requirement these days and something Mailbox can easily suggest an app for in Windows.

People do not tolerate this amount of jankiness. And this doesn't include the discomfort with relearning minor design differences between OS's when switching. Linux is a bit of a battle with relearning and troubleshooting things that would never be problematic on Windows. I know we all love Linux, but allow people to be honest rather than being dismissive. I had over 2 decades of experience with Windows and it had its quirks and problems, but my preexisting familiarity with it made it much easier to use and troubleshoot.

Sure I know I'm a noob and not doing this right. But that's the point.....can someone with limited knowleddge still work this OS?

Linux is perfect for hardware that is old as hell.

I was you 18 months ago. It's certainly achievable, even with a crazy busy schedule. Highly recommended that you go for it.

Here are the unpopular opinions that attract downvotes:

• adopting Linux is painful. Stuff breaks. Stuff doesnt work. You will be battling uphill, but hopefully you'll find it worthwhile in the end.
• moving to Linux permanently wouldn't have been possible for me without AI. Now you can ask AI and it will almost always solve the problem for you. In the old days, you'd just have forum posts saying "just compile the driver and do a 10 step process with terminal that you need to figure out from the wiki....noob". But now, these previously system breaking problems are now easily solvable without spending the whole weekend on a single issue.
• don't let go of Windows to start with. Put Linux on a secondary machine. Do not dual boot, you will break your installation and won't be able to troubleshoot it and will have to do a full wipe (along with the time and data loss that comes with that).
• Don't get caught up in the distro wars. Pick Linux Mint, or a similar very beginner friendly distro. I prefer KDE desktop so I would recommend something else..... But don't go for anything with even moderate difficulty.
• Check protondB.com for the games you play. Some don't work on Linux (e.g. Apex Legends).