Jesus! What are you running that makes that much noise? I have two HP DL360p gen8's (older 1u units with LOUD fans when they get going) and a custom built gaming server in a rack at the end of my bed. Together they're sometimes a bit annoyingly loud when they're hard at work, but with the door closed you can barely hear them. I can't imagine a single server so loud that neighbors could hear it from a basement. You got a supercomputer in there or something?
Well that's unfortunate. I guess different hardware and configs can really make all the difference. In my case I'm using a desktop with no integrated graphics at all, so no chance of that particular problem happening. This build is all-AMD and using Wayland.
I've only had two small issues thus far, across the dozen or so games I've tried on this setup. Both were very easy to fix, though one is worth mentioning as it's loosely similar to yours: in Valheim literally every time I started the game it'd default to the wrong audio output and I'd have to manually switch it back.
Sorry to hear about your own bad experience. Given the rate at which the desktop ecosystem keeps improving, however, and marketshare creeps up, I'm sure in a few more years it might be worth giving it another shot with your setup.
Thanks for the tip (genuinely). Unfortunately in this case I actually don't have arm wrests at all - I literally removed them from my chair years ago. There's just something about this game in particular that really messes up my left elbow. No other game does that (normally it'd be just my wrists, if anything).
They're still a publicly-traded company and are thus beholden to their shareholders, but they seem to have done ok in spite of that. I'm certain it's only a matter of time though - eventually new leadership will come in who will only care about maximizing profits.
I'm down with the sentiment of the comment, but I legit find I get way more arm/wrist pain from gaming than from spreadsheets. I think there's much more prolonged button-pressing involved in the former. Some games are worse than others.
Right now my elbow is killing me from too much Project Zomboid over the last few weeks. A day of spreadsheets and QuickBooks today was almost a break from it (not that I didn't go right back to PZ after work).
I'm with you there. On Reddit I was overwhelmingly a lurker, but here I actually make an effort to regularly comment on things purely because I hope to get others talking. Once my work is done, I'll go back to watching from the shadows. (In the least creepy way possible.)
I'm with you, but it's not even about having to sell their yachts. These leeches have so much goddamn money that they could lose most of it with no materiel impact to their lifestyle. They just horde it out of a combination of addiction and lust for power.
I'm actually shocked at how big that userbase is for Proton. Your point stands that they're comparatively small against the truly big players, but I would have guessed a few million proton users at most.
This is really cool and I'm glad it exists for those stuck on Windows for certain games. That said, I'd still highly encourage anyone interested to give Linux a shot. I ran it as my daily driver for years about a decade ago, but finally switched back to Windows because I was spending too much time trying to get my games to work. I finally got fed up with Windows 11 and moved back last year. Holy hell has gaming on Linux come a long way with Proton. Everything I've thrown at it has worked flawlessly, and runs at least as fast as they did on Windows.
That said, I get that not everyone wants such a paradigm shift or to learn a new tech just to play their games. In the interim of not running Linux on my desktop, I still worked with Linux servers and used the Windows Linux Subsystem, so I get that I'm a little biased in how easy the switch was. You can find distros that are very beginner-friendly, however, or even specifically gaming-oriented.
But yeah, for those stuck on Windows due to games with pervasive anti-cheat or whatever, I get that AtlasOS could be a gamechanger.
This is super cute and wholesome. Considering some of those former students travelled back from out of town just for this event, I bet yesterday was in the running for best day of this teacher's life. I bet it was also an amazing experience for the former students who attended, many (I'd guess) with their spouses and kids coming along. A real multi-generational reunion of those whose minds were shaped by this undoubtedly amazing person.
What a great example of a teacher building community.
Upvoted due to being weird and neat, but I'm not sure I trust the data source of two "cleanroom consultants." They're obviously in the pocket of Big Skin.
I definitely get the point, and would never do that to someone. Buuuuut ... I think I'd personally prefer to be laid off by email simply because if it's happening they've already made up their mind and it's not like I can talk them out of it. Plus, I wouldn't have an audience and thus wouldn't feel the need to pretend not to be super bummed out (or relieved if I hated the job).
Obviously you never know how someone would like to be laid off though, so it's best to err on following the traditional path. Or if you wanna be insane you could start dropping hints. "Say, Fred, how would you prefer to be laid off? Hypothetically speaking."
Jesus! What are you running that makes that much noise? I have two HP DL360p gen8's (older 1u units with LOUD fans when they get going) and a custom built gaming server in a rack at the end of my bed. Together they're sometimes a bit annoyingly loud when they're hard at work, but with the door closed you can barely hear them. I can't imagine a single server so loud that neighbors could hear it from a basement. You got a supercomputer in there or something?