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Doing my first BMX race next weekend. Really going into the deep end, and going to a National-level race. I’ve been on a track 1 time previously. Now I’ve done a loooooot of MX racing in my life, so I’m comfortable on any kind of bike, but I haven’t raced anything in over a decade probably, so the nerves are there.

I’ve been having similar issues, and when I am given an answer or find it way back in comment histories, I’ll copy and paste it into mine and reference the older post. This seems to help a lot in Discords where it serves you results based on date since post.

LEMMiNO is my favorite bi-annual creator.

Nexpo does some really good stuff too, but I think recently he’s just been doing like Reddit deep dives, and that is only so interesting.

I missed those, I go through phases with him. I get it though, guy cranks out videos and probably gets old using the same cave diving stock videos lol.

Scary Interesting does some horror documentary stuff about, idk, scary situations people have been stuck in. No AI images, which is saying something, cause he always has some kind of background or graphic going.

They have venture capital backing as a direct competitor to Twitter. I’m sure there are other sources as well, but that’s the big one, I think.

Depending on the age, you may need a new drum unit, but I think that may also just be a deficit of laser.

Echoing others, Brother laser printers. Cheap, reliable, and toner lasts forever. Initial one with purchase is like…40% of standard, and will still get you a few hundred pages. The regular ones are like 1200+, and the large ones are I think pushing 2k for like $70.

You can do stickers on sticker paper with lasers, but idk the quality. Is it like…address labels? If so, lasers are perfect tly fine for that. Fine details? Idk.

Yeah, this would be good in my mind. I don’t even care if it’s just the communities my instance is federated with only; I would imagine I land with an instance that shares my values, so their federation I’d be OK with (hypothetically). I just don’t want to feel like I’m missing out by being somewhere else and not knowing/being aware of a portion of the community. I want the discussion just as much as I want the information presented.

I’d say for the most part, yes. I am not actively researching bands or authors that come up on lists and other things beyond just “do I think I will like this”. And if it’s, idk how else to phrase it, not “major” grievances, I’ll still likely consume the media. I tend to pirate books then buy them if I enjoyed them, and I pay for YT Premium so the music just comes along with it. However, for the more serious stuff (a la Lost Prophets), they are skipped and removed from libraries. If stuff is brought to my attention about new artists, I’ll also act how I feel accordingly. I don’t take it upon myself to push others to share my view, but I do appreciate when others inform me, so I try to do the same.

If it’s just humor of creators, I would probably still watch it, but when it skews toward hateful, it becomes less funny. I don’t need an agenda, I want something smart and funny. Humor that is reduced down to slurs or just trolling is not funny. If I was 12, maybe, but those days are (long) gone.

Oh cool. So now they will offer a service for customers (e.g. Palantir, US Govt, whatever ABC agency) to accurately pinpoint locations of people based off of images. Luckily our phones don’t have backdoors into them and surely won’t have a way for Face Unlock images to be seen, and functional real-time updates on any given person’s location? And with how much these phones are used for communication, surely they won’t also have evidence of perceived dissent, all in a nice little rectangle package.

I understand that Apple and, I guess sorta, Google aren’t necessarily willing to allow this, and it might not be legal, or any number of other hurdles, but it’s just one step easier for actors who want to and have the means to do so. Good lord this place sucks.

Hah thanks! I’m gonna slowly swap stuff over. Dual boot seems the way, and I’ll always have that fallback available if needed. Feel like I need to get on 5er or something and how A Linux guy for a few hours just to talk to em…lol

True. Gaming landscape feels weird rn, looking at it from current standing. Tough sledding for aspiring devs. I’m also right about that age where nostalgia tends to make everything new look a bit less shiny, so I may be choosing not to see the best current offerings.

Whew this was pretty accurate! I was gonna wait for the weekend, but I was feeling some type of way last night and just said “fuck it” and it was up and running within like 20 min. I’ve done basically nothing else tho; I had display issues (an HDMI switch I have was defaulting 1 screen to 4k (it’s a 1440 screen) and 60hz (it can do 240 I think?). So I tried to force resolution on it, which worked, but frame rate wouldn’t go. So I just bypassed the switch entirely, but now the 3rd monitor is always on, even when it’s off. So I need to find a way to kill the input when the screen is off.

I only ever use 2 screens, Screen 1 and 2 for regular use/gaming, or screen 2 and 3 for sim racing (screen 2 is just the discord/whatever screen). But with screen 3 always being active, the cursor and windows get lost over there, so that’s problem 1, sorting that out.

Problem 2 is probably more easily rectified, but I’m stubborn. Do I have to mount every partition before I use it, and does it have to show on the desktop? I have a 2tb and a 4tb SSD, and I was just going to split them evenly; 1tb for Win10 and Mint, and then 2tb each for storage. If it comes down to it, I’ll just run Linux on the 4tb cause I assume it will do most of what I need, then 2tb for Win10 for the special use cases. I just had a plan and I can’t get it to work now lol. Guess that’s what the weekend is for!

Peripherals all did mostly work; didn’t test the wheel or anything, but controller and Azeron controller worked natively, Bluetooth all seemed fine. No USB issues. Really smooth process all tings considered, outside of my personal setup issues.

I feel like you’d have to control for the obvious asset flips or just random, I guess, spam games thrown out on a daily basis. I don’t think it’d move the needle that much tho

Yeah, saw the previous post. I’d argue that is a pretty good use-case for AI. Throw together a quick reference, see how you feel about it before putting 2 dozen hours into making the image yourself, just to find out the concept doesn’t work. Just make sure you do the work yourself at some point lol

I’ve been considering it for a while, mostly out of fear of the unknown. My worst case is something like I put Linux on, it breaks or messes up, I have no internet access and USB doesn’t work. So I can’t make a new Win10 ISO and I’m stuck shuttling back and forth between a working PC and mine, having to chase down issues and little details to get it working again. Is it a founded fear? Probably not, but it’s just the details of it. Like I just got some decent OLED monitors, and there seems to be some issues with HDR support in some distros, namely the one I was thinking of using. I have an Azeron controller I use because of some hand issues, and I worry that won’t work (although I’m almost certain it’s fine). I do sim racing stuff, and I want to be sure all the peripherals work as intended without spending 6 hours chasing drivers and force feedback settings. Some pedals I want to get seem to have the same issue on Linux. It’s just little things like that, where I have a thing working how I want it right now, and a swap to Linux makes it work, but missing something because it’s poorly supported or limited in some way.

I’m probably going to do it and just dual boot; but even then, I have some games that rely on mods (skins and tracks, etc). Do I need to re-download everything into a new partition? Or can Linux natively just use the pre-existing folder without issue? And it’s a niche game, so unless I find one of the dozen people who have migrated to Linux on that game, I’m in the dark.

This works across streaming platforms! Peacock is a reliable one, nothing there is really worth watching, but what if you wanted to watch The Office again?

Someone else responded that does some sim racing. It has limits, but it seems it’s game specific and largely by dev choice. More confidence than I expected, but I have liked at literally nothing for the process yet. Free weekend though, so hopefully 48 hours is enough lol

Yeah iRacing was my worry. I haven’t played it at all yet cause it’s just so much to get started, but that’s a goal, so it’s kinda at the forefront of my thoughts. I have a Moza R5 with just the stock pedals, but I have been eyeing some Simsonn pedals something fierce. How do you like them?

And awesome, I’ll look into that! I’m sure I’m gonna have questions, but from what I’ve seen, the Moza stuff is pretty plug and play. I have a bunch of random peripherals I need to look into tho