Linux Mint (I'd recomment Debian edition, LMDE) is basically what you want to try out. I've set up a PC with it for my stepfather that hasn't used Linux at all and he's happy with it. It's designed to be as newbie-friendly as possible. You won't have more issues with it than you'll already have using Windows.
Then if you feel unsatisfied with anything about it, you can go looking for other linux distributions (distros) because you have a general idea what's happening.
I hope the internet is prepared for when VPNs will be targeted. A LOT of free access to the internet nowadays hinges on the use of VPNs and I have been dreading the day when corpos and politicians finally catch up to that fact for some years now. Remember when credit card companies removed themselves from Pornhub as a payment method after just one article from about exploiative material on the platform?
Just think about the consequences when you will only be able to subscribe to VPNs through bitcoin. I know, subscribing with your credit card isn't the smartest move in regards to privacy, but it works for a lot of stuff that isn't that dramatic (e. g. circumventing geoblocking).
I don't think we're that far away from the endgame for the free internet. Enshittification is just the first step. When that eventually doesn't work out, they will come for VPNs and stuff like the fediverse.
Yeah it's gone full-circle like the whole situation with streaming services becoming cable. Funny how the world works so similarly in different places.
It would work thousands of years off of one drop of League of Legends solo queue.
Maybe look into Garuda as an additional alternative to EndeavousOS and Manjaro. I'm using it on a gaming rog and haven't had any significant issues regarding stability.
Whamen respected
Lmao what is this? The hard core gamer manifesto or what?
Lmao what is this? The hard core gamer manifesto or what?
That's WB for you. Fucking up DC is their specialty.
Please tell us when you've tried it.
What I don't get is the sissy sub fascists nowadays. The dumb fucks generally want to wage war with everybody and now that there are legitimate threats to their precious Vaterlands they are pacifists all of a sudden. I get it, they a funded largely by russia and china etc, but do they really think they won't get shafted when the west collapses? Absolute omega farts.
Yeah Imma part with my Bionicles and Beyblades for the safety ranch.
The one rogue nuke hitting New Zealand would be a heavy hit to Peter Thiel and his buddies' apocalypse plans as they continue to buy up the whole country.
Tactical dot, because I want to know, too.
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Fuck anybody that goes against open standards.
We're gonna
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pour red powder over the Declaration of Independence!
The Fediverse gives a whole new meaning to "The Importance of Being Ernest".
Whoosh, that was not a serious suggestion. More on the noncredible side, as a fact.
I hope you all are having a day as good as my coffee.
I hope you all are having a day as good as my coffee.
What do you think about the state of jungle?
Greetings fellow summoners of the Fediverse. Imma try to contribute some content to the magazine regarding the upcoming jungle nerfs.
I've heard through that Riot is getting ready for a jungle nerf in the near future (phroxzon suppsedly posted some Xcrement on Musk's dumpster fire). What is the impression of jungle in your games and on which rank are you playing?
I'm in bronze and mained jungle the previous two seasons whereas I play sidelanes now (top atm but adc is fine as well). I get that jungle is very impactful by concept, but I feel like this doesn't transfer two low elo games directly. Here are my reasons:
- In general jungle is behind on exp and gold compared to solo lanes to offset the higher impact.
- So if you just afk farm, you will be behind solo lanes.
- You'll have to make some plays then. Making successful plays depends on your judgment of the map state and what happens next.
- Because you and everyone in the game is dumb and won't behave like they should if they'd understand the game, you can't rely on "proper decision making", even if you make the right call.
- This means it's very random if your calls will work or not.
So here's what I conclude: Your jungler will either play it safe and will be behind all game or he will try to get fed but he doesn't have the biggest agency about it if he's not a smurf that has a way better understanding of the game. So you'll just flip a coin and see if your jungler snowballs or the other.
If the upcoming jungle nerfs will target jungle economy again I'll suppose this will get worse. A better way to nerf jungle in regards to game health would be to reduce the skill ceiling in jungling; maybe it's a "Zeri problem" where better players are just too good for the role.
Don't ask me how to do this, though. Only thing I can contribute is that I've seen both sides of blaming jungle that I think the role is shit in low elo. I don't even jungle anymore but everytime our premade has a random jungler from the interwebs in our team I hear the poor guy playing just as bad as ourselves but of course he's the problem. If we win then of cooourse we carried like hell.
I love the whole macro aspect of jungling but I won't touch that toxic role anywhere soon. Toplane is so fun in comparison: You'll fight mano-a-mano and both of you are still reasonably fed after lane if someone didn't run it down completely. You'll get to play your first 15 mins in peace and then you'll join clown-fiesta and see how it goes lol.
Thanks for coming to my FedTalk
How do you write the music you actually want to write in regards to styles/genres?
I hope I am not the only one with this "issue", but whenever I pick up my instrument (most of the time guitar) with a specific genre or style in mind, I struggle to write just something like that.
To give a little background info: I listen mostly to blues rock, hard rock, and alternative/garage rock I'd say. But for the longest time my music leaned more towards the blues rock side; slower (e. g. 80-100 bpm), very focused on the blues scale. These days, I want to create songs more in the vein of Guns N Roses, Van Halen, Motley Crue and the like but I struggle with the general feeling of those styles.
What are your tips regarding this? When I look up some actual songs, it's just I-III-IV power chord stuff or basic pentatonic scales again. So why do my powerchords not sound like that as well? Phrasing it that way makes it sound ridiculous, but I hope you get the point. It feels like I am missing the point that distinguishes let's say sleaze rock from classic heavy metal. Maybe I'm m overthinking it but it annoys me that my writing process seems to be very trial-and-error.
What's the most comfortable underwear type?
As the title says, let's hear it. What's the best underwear type for you? I'm wearing boxer-briefs and while they are generally fine, I hate it when the legs roll up and start to pinch everywhere.
Are musicians just bad at connecting through the internet?
What made me write this thread is that I am in the process of starting up a new rock band after a one-year hiatus.
Is it just my social bubble or are musicians especially bad at connecting digitally? I've been looking for bandmates for half a year and I am VERY happy with the mates I am with now, but the process was again tedious. In that timespan I found two drummers, one singer and two or three guitar players. The one drummer I've continued meeting with fortunately had a bass guitar player friend, phew.
Either I am too dumb to find them or there are almost no sites that connect musicians locally on a big scale. I've seen something called "Vampr" which was like Tinder but instead of fucking your fingering a minor together. Unfortunately that site was more or less dead in a 250 km radius around the area I'm in, as it just seems to be a thing in the states.
Then I tried to look for local Telegram groups that are for connecting between musicians, but those were also more or less dead.
Social networks like Reddit (rest in piss) or kbin.social do have communities around music, but they tend to have a global focus.
So do you agree that there isn't a consistent thing to connect with local musicians rather than walking around looking for jam sessions or similar stuff? I would be so happy I we musicians would be more connected through discord, kbin, mastodon, whatever. I'd love to hear your personal stories about this.
This thread might be a little ranty, but I am genuinely curious about the topic and a possible solution. Maybe I'll start a small magazine for my scene here, but god knows when this would take off.
Is it possible to access a 3rd-party link in a thread directly from the magazine page?
Either I am too dumb or I would like this feature to be added. It would be cool if there would be a button where I can directly jump to the source link if I want to read the article first, after diving in the discussion or if I don't want to open the thread altogether.
Heavy stuttering/freezes with Street Fighter 6
Heyo, does anybody play Street Fighter 6 on the deck in here? I'm having trouble with really heaving freezes that last roughly 1-2 seconds every few minutes that won't go away when I turn down graphic settings.
It happens during arcadeode offline as well as in menus and cutscenes. The deck just stops doing anything for a short period of time the everything goes back to normal. Performance in genera would be absolutely okay so I don't know what this could be.
Heyo, does anybody play Street Fighter 6 on the deck in here? I'm having trouble with really heaving freezes that last roughly 1-2 seconds every few minutes that won't go away when I turn down graphic
Heyo, does anybody play Street Fighter 6 on the deck in here? I'm having trouble with really heaving freezes that last roughly 1-2 seconds every few minutes that won't go away when I turn down graphic settings.
Hello, quick question about the interconnection between instances in the fediverse. I now have my account here on kbin.social and I have also created an account on mastodon.social some while ago that
Hello, quick question about the interconnection between instances in the fediverse. I now have my account here on kbin.social and I have also created an account on mastodon.social some while ago that I've reactivated now since the reddit blackout. I have read that kbin can access mastodon, so do I need a Mastodon account at all? Can I possibly log in to Mastodon through my kbin.social account and use the Mastodon interface when I feel like it?
Also another thing: would this question better fit into the threads section or is it fine here with the microblog?
Greetings yall
Greetings yall
So I just joined kbin as a redfugee and browsed the list of magazines here. It gave me a solid chuckle that GW2 is already in here lol. Cheers everyone!