I am a geek by nature and an IT tech by trade. But my kids still need to help me with basic windows stuff. It dawned on me qhen I entered my 40's that while I'm technically adept beyond most people in many areas, I simply stopped caring about other areas that is still in the same field.
At work I usually say "If your PC has a monitor, I won't be of much help" when I get asked about "normal" IT stuff. I can build you a petabyte-sized server cluster and route it around the world via VPN over maritime satellites, but ask me how to find stuff in any windows control panel and I'm going to come up short.
Might as well. I'm a linux guy, running various distros on a few machines, depending on the machines function. My gaming laptop runs Linux Mint, and I find that to be a pretty good choice. Almost everything works out of the box (I just had to install a newer kernel to make the newest nvidia driver work, as my GPU is pretty new as well).
I have a Win10 install, but I haven't used it in ages. Everything I play plays just fine in Linux.
I have a netflix subscription. But I still torrent netflix series.
Because:
I travel a lot, and my downloads are more portable
Netflix are a bunch of cunts that need to be reminded that their only basis for existence is that they are (for now) slightly more convenient than piracy.
This. Link instability and packet loss is common when the link is being utilized to its max theoretical capacity, as opposed to your ISP having a soft bandwidth cap.
Cap your download speed in steam settings 20% lower than your max download speed (possibly lower) to give the link layer some breathing room.
Mint is my recommendation too for general purpose desktop PC. Debian also works, but I found that Mint has most of the stuff already working out of the box, so I've stuck to that on my laptops since 2014 or thereabouts. On servers I prefer Debian.
I heard this claim somewhere that the reason why Neville Chamberlain agreed to it was because UK was nowhere close to being ready for war. Something along the lines of having been instructed to secure peace at all cost.
In retrospect it's easy to see the Munic Agreement as a mistake, but I have to admit that I am curious if he had any real alternative.
I use it as anti-seize for RF connectors. It allows cables to connect to antennas without getting stuck, even if left like that for years in maritime environments.
EDIT: Just make sure the vasseline is neutral and not (even slightly) acidic. Otherwise it'll cause corrosion.
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