Usually, my own thoughts are the only ones that matter to me. The exception is the rare occasion when I actually create a post or comment asking a question. That’s when I want to know about what you think. Otherwise, buzz off.
3 Posts
70 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
All you have to do to test this theory out is try a Grand Theft Auto game or just go for Halo. Classic bullshit signing up for shit, having to have a secondary launcher installed. blah blah blah, yadda fucking yadda. Take your friggin' pick. Rockstar, Microsoft, and now Blizzard. Shit's pretty much all bought up, doesn't mean the companies don't act like they always have with their brands.
I'm not showing contempt or lack of empathy. I'm showing that people on here don't care about other workers other than the ones that work in computer-related industries, which salary-wise can afford to be laid off. Cry me a river. Your nasty response shows me that you have no compassion for workers in other industries or professions that are, on average, overqualified and make less money when they are employed. You're the type of person that got an F in High School English class and just like video games. Nothing intelligent here in your comment. I made a real argument about things how they are about the job market. Your response is weak and not convincing me. Most of all because science is always favored over humanities in the world at large. You don't care about anything else except the industry you are into. You're into the video game industry. You only care about the workers who were laid off in the video game industry. Other workers that were laid off, it seems to me, don't matter to you. You're attentive to this news story not because of workers, but because of video games.
You aren't gaming and you aren't supplying info about what kind of computer you're using. If you want to go all linux on your computer, you're going to be just fine because you aren't gaming. You could have stuck with Windows if you had paid attention to the advert thing a long time ago. All you have to do is tell the start-up wizard that you don't want specialized ads and tell it you don't want it to have access to every click you make. Then, you just get start up screens showing you pretty pictures of nature and log in at start up. Choose your linux distro, they're all the same for you because you're renouncing gaming. If you decide to pick up gaming in the future, make sure your distro is ready for 32 bit libraries. On Arch, that would mean finding out how to update with multilib enabled, for example. You don't want to play games, so Nobara Linux and Garuda Linux aren't necessary for you, two distros who make lib32 updates automatic. So, just pick another distro, any distro that suits your fancy, and word process to your heart's content. Check your email, too. Videoconference with people and yadda yadda for maximum productivity and zero gaming.
I'd really love to see this type of outrage for people with PdDs getting laid off from universities who make shit pay and teach lit classes living out of their cars. Cry me a river, tech professionals. Not that I have anything against tech professionals, etc. But, you know, it would be really nice for people to get a view of the world as it is. I'm a humanities professional, and, thankfully, doing quite well today. I was laid off in the stock market crash of 2008 because I was working at a private, Catholic university in Worcester, MA with investments. That year, they laid off 1000 workers. All of us working our asses off for a fraction of the salary those guys were making that were laid off. Sorry, but my heart strings aren't pulled. I'll tell them what they might have told me at the bar or something: "Sorry, bro. A door closes, another one opens."
I'm just, like, whoopty fucking doo. The NVIDIA thing, the Linux thing, the whole megathingy, it never ends. People playing a game on Steam on Linux: Updating Vulkan shaders… People on Windows: Instantly playing the game. Shout out to AMD, to wake them up to make something hotter.
Thanks for writing out how your experience is. It's how I imagined it. I would need to have more battery life to make it worth it to me to buy it. For example, a long trip without any way to plug it in. I definitely wouldn't expect it to run AAA titles.
2·9 months ago
4·9 months ago
32·10 months ago
Yes. With VPN. And so many lessons learned after about how you didn’t have to do it, but you did it.