I have a 3080 ti and haven't had any issues yet, worst that happens is I would just load the previous driver from the cache in recovery mode. That said, I want to get back to amd, I just don't have the money for it
Office - browser extensions when you have to use them, libreoffice when it's for personal use
Compatibility - almost all hardware has Linux drivers, or at a minimum Linux has drivers that will be drop in replacements. My 3080 ti just required me getting the appropriate Nvidia package (which mt distro took care of), and nothing else has needed any configuration at all. My case and motherboard rgb lights are all controlled by openrgb (to turn them off, I don't like rgb) and it worked out of the box.
Steam and steam games - not even close? Steam has official packages on most (or all) package managers so it works natively, and 90% or more games work seamlessly with proton on Linux even if they aren't verified for it. Basically the only games proton can't run are games with kernal level monitoring for anti-cheat, but even those are migrating to support Linux slowly. The steam deck even runs arch Linux lol, they wouldn't sell $400-$650 gaming systems that couldn't run most games that they themselves sell
Ahh I didn't realize some jobs were like that. When I was in my job search last year as a new grad I had 4 job offers and they were all fine with me taking until the end of the month (2 1/2 weeks for the earliest offer, coincidentally the one I picked and am very happy at)
The suitors problem (aka the 37% rule, an optimal stopping algorithm) doesn't apply to job offers unless you have to either accept or decline the offers on the spot. A better solution would just be set a deadline of date x, tell each job offer you'll have an offer to them by date x, look at all of your options together, and pick the best.
The time to implement the suitors problem or 37% rule is when you have to accept or decline each option as you see it. You know what you've declined, but not what is left. A very micro example is you have 3 playing cards, and you want as high of a value as possible. (I'm also adding in the threshold rule, it significantly improves the 37% rule).
Card 1: if it's not an ace (98th + percentile), don't keep it
Card 2: if it's higher than card 1, or is a king (90th percentile), keep it. Otherwise, leave it.
Card 3: you have to take it if you didn't take card 1 or card 2.
The purpose of the 37% rule isn't necessarily to pick the best option, just to pick a good option, and it's the best algorithm for the specific scenarios that you apply it in, and is significantly (and statistically) more likely to give you a better option than other methods. It can be applied where choices > 2, has a set max number of choices, and all of the choices are randomly ordered.
I would go into it more, but my last long explanation and examples didn't post correctly. For some great reading (even if you don't have a math background!) I highly recommend Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christen and Tom Griffiths.
I pirate almost every book, the only ones I actually buy are new ones from authors I love (Brandon Sanderson is the main one) or books I pirated that I loved enough to want to support the author
What I'm learning is that I'm really glad that I told myself I wouldn't be buying it until it was on sale post-launch to see if it was even worth the sale price
Is it possible to change your field of study? I was the same way with electrical engineering, I switched to comp sci and got a minor in math after I realized that a career in EE would bore me to death more than the school work did. After I switched, I actually loved (almost) all of my classes and I enjoy the work I do for my career
Too damn high. Wife and I are trying to get a house since we have a baby on the way, but the only stuff we can even hope to afford is 300k (below that is low income restricted 99% of the time) but with that we would only get a super dated, small, condo or a smaller more dated house. With how old the houses are, chances are good that the electrical and other systems would need a lot of work too.
I feel a bit bad, but I abandoned rimworld basically as soon as I found dwarf fortress. I have about 200 hours in rimworld, got at least that in dwarf fortress before the steam release. Up to 50 hours on the steam version now, I would definitely have a lot more hours on both but work and some side projects have been keeping me busy
That's the idea I think