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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

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.

My expectation of “edible food” doesn’t align with what Chili’s offers, which is why I don’t go there. Everyone has their beliefs, I suppose.

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

It’s all fairly new; within the last year. 9800x3d, 9070xt, and then the peripherals are all I’d say also new. So that also plays a part. I’m sure I will be fine, it’s just the unknown of it all, and Linux has a (imo deserved) stigma in its online support. I think the big worry is I feel like I have to learn it all, then change, instead of learning as I go. Just a lot at once, but I think it’s about time to learn.

I’m about there as well. I’m worried tho, cause I do some Sim Racing and some games don’t support Linux, and I’m worried the equipment won’t work. I know dual boot is always an option, but at a certain point, I fear I’ll just default to Windows because it’s what I know.

I think this has added to the divisiveness more than people realize. We aren’t arguing over facts anymore, we’re arguing over the validity of the information in the 1st place. It kinda ties back to what the person you responded to said; social media and news sources are being merged and combined and continually consolidated, arguably in an attempt to further control the narratives. It’s probably amazing for (both) the DNC and GOP that they can easily point to a news network and say “everything here is wrong, we’re right”, as it tacitly gives their base permission to dismiss the other sides talking points. If the parties can’t even agree on facts, compromise can’t happen. Political lines grow deeper, and meaningful change and compromise becomes harder, so you end up with the chest beaters who are loud and make people feel good winning elections, while the doers and level headed fade away.

From my perspective, it seems like Israel knows what they have with Trump; a willing patsy who will enact their agenda, as long as they stroke his ego. So you have US-Iran talks making some level of headway, then Netanyahu whispering in his ear about how this makes him look week on terror, goading the US into action. And because Trump is Trump, he’s going to do what he thinks makes him look good and earns him and his billionaire friends money, which is wartime. So while the war itself seems pretty unpopular domestically across most political spectrum, this allows him to fulfill his own vain purposes by Israel continuing to stroke his ego, he gets to feel like the big heroic man he wishes he was by saving the world in his mind, and his echo chamber cabinet won’t go against him, so everyone says this is the right thing to do.

And then also what everyone else says; this distracts from Epstein Files, this is part of his lead-in to trying to take over the midterms and reduce election viability through restricting mail in and electronic voting (were gonna have 2 million people vote in a single precinct in New York, LA, Chicago, etc) while rural red districts breeze on through? It’s all a ploy to keep GOP in power. It’s the most thinly veiled coup ever, and half the nation is eating it up simply because it’s “their guy”.

Fediverse and Linux have to be the most unholy tech union in existence.

Insanely well said. It seems like the goal with much of the discourse is just “my choice is right and everything else is wrong, and I’ll work backwards from there”. Not everyone uses social media the same way, not everyone has the same goals, not everyone wants the same features, not everyone values the same levels of privacy. And the running narrative with differing opinions on this seems to just be base-level tribalism. Just look at the insults here, lobbed solely because someone made an account with a social media platform that doesn’t align with your preferences.

I think they mean Voice Chat with VC lol

My recommended is decent but every now and then it’ll try to throw some weird shit in there. Loves recommending me off-shoot Fox channels because I have the main one blocked. Seems like every few months it pops up. But yeah, I get a lot of MTB, Motocross, and OSRS stuff cause it’s what I tend to watch. Some random car YouTubers (Rob Dahm ILY) and random video essays about interesting stuff.

Lmao the governors tell people to run over protestor here if they are in the street. Both methods block travel in the city, Venice is just specifically aimed at inconveniencing Bezos rather than the general populace.

This also fulfills the anti-prophecy of him calling himself the most peaceful president ever. He only ever presides over peaceful times.

You’re free to make your own instance if you disagree with bans or moderation, and others are free to defederate from you if they don’t wanna see it. What exactly is the issue, that you don’t get a captive audience?

I think in your heart of hearts, you know why.

More info for those curious. Seems it’s part of some plea deal.

There were three characters. Ed, Edd, and Eddy in the show. Edd (Double D) was the smart one, Ed was the comedic dumb character. Never heard him called Single-D before, but it’s a funny way to call someone’s behavior stupid or I guess simple lol

Single-D behaviors is a term I am absolutely stealing