I keep a Windows install around because of CoD Warzone not having anticheat support on Linux but I have multiple Linux machines. Two Fedora and one for Kali but I’ve considered just making that a persistent bootable and putting mint with xfce as a DE on that machine instead.
I just snagged a recycled slim client from work and was going to test out EndeavorOS on it since I’ve heard good things about it’s resource use compared to bare minimum Arch installs with much less user hassle.
Right now Nobara (Fedora based) on my gaming laptop but was curious about Endeavor and planned on testing it out on a POS slim client from 2012 that I just got. Steam deck just has stock SteamOS.
My main desktop is still windows because I play CoD warzone a lot with friends and that’s still a complete non factor for ricochet anticheat but if they fixed that I’d probably move off of it entirely assuming i could get my peripherals/davinci resolve/stream Labs/oceanaudio all working and get used to GIMP/Krita instead of Paint3D.
So yeah there’s a few reasons I stick with windows, plus I like to keep up to date since I work IT networking and we are a windows shop primarily.
I appreciate it, I’m not a Windows Stan I just hate that every community here has the same memes and conversations. I don’t want to see lemmy die but it feels like it’s just for a very specific person and I’m not sure it’s going to last.
WEBP images. The worst image file format on earth to deal with metadata and timestamps. FFFFUUUUUCK WEBPOOP (and no AVIF please).
XNViewMP is a saviour on all OSes though, thankfully, being the only tool that can batch convert webpoops to any proper image format with preserved metadata.
Atleast with renamed ZIP files, I literally do not need to care as long as 7-Zip or PeaZip is installed, so I can just “open as * archive”. And for video/audio, have MediaInfo installed on any OS. You will thank me someday.
WEBP is very weird to convert to other formats and retain metadata. This is not a problem with JPG, PNG and other formats. And only one tool I mentioned solves that problem.
Google is responsible for this problem. They created WEBP, which was not necessary to adopt, but shoved it in our throats via Chrome saving images as WEBP by default, and making websites that use their cloud as CDN serve WEBPs in general.
So I decided while playing Fallout 4 (around the time it came out) that I was going to try to break this habit, because it meant I never got to use any of the cool shit.
I made this decision while retaking the castle, fighting the queen crab thing. I used all the mini nukes I had on it.
Those who have played the game knows what happens next... after killing the queen, the king emerges. Way bigger, way harder to kill.
I've been a hardcore no exceptions hoarder ever since
Maybe I’m having a mandela effect moment but I don’t remember a “way bigger, way harder to kill” mirelurk king after the queen. The mirelurk king in-game is the size of a deathclaw tops and I think it’s stats are definitely weaker when compared to the queens. Is there a special one that spawns after the queen that I am forgetting?
That’s just a higher level variation of the normal mirelurk king. Just like an albino deathclaw is a higher level variation of the normal one. Also the mirelurk deep kings stats on the wiki are still lower than the queens.
Me after finishing every RPG I’ve ever played ever: "Well I guess I could have used all those really powerful items I’ve been saving the entire game in that last fight if I had known it was the last fight… " If you tell me an item is super powerful and in extremely limited quantity, I will essentially never use it before the game is over out of fear of needing it later.
Lol what. I dont believe in any religion but I wouldnt say Im atheist either. I dont understand the need to talk about it at all. Like let people do as they want and judge them by what they do?
Blood alone moves the wheels of history! Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation, which everyone finds during the day, how long we have been striving for greatness?
“And the behaviour of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses , and purred so affectionately , that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.”
I wanted to do a "to be fair here, Cash had songs with stupid lyrics, too", but all I can think of is "Ring of fire" and that one is just a harmless metaphor about love.
I’d argue that Ring of Fire is a metaphor about forbidden love that you know is damning you but the feelings are too powerful to resist.
Rather than a harmless metaphor, I find it an incredibly powerful metaphor about the pain and suffering caused by helplessly loving the “wrong” person.
I don't think modern country even uses metaphors anymore. Before anyone comes at me, I'm well awair that there's some fantactic country writers out there.
That's because modern country is squarely focused on (far) right leaning people and they are utterly deaf, dumb and blind to any sort of metaphor, sarcasm and subtlety.
It's why these pricks go nuts for songs like Killing in the Name, not realizing it's a song that explicitly hates on them saying stuff like "some of those who work forces, are the same that BURN CROSSES".
They only see and hear that title and have no fucking clue what it and the rest of the song is actually about.
They don’t bother me like that, probably because I know that they’re always outside just chilling in their web…I think I’ve managed to overcome my primal instincts regarding creepy crawlies and snakes and so on, in that I’ll try and catch them and pick them up for a closer look
It probably helps that I live in the UK though, and not Australia or other tropical place…they have some mental things there
Yeah, I am Australian. Honestly the dangers are overblown, but there are still a few spiders that make me go a bit wobbly inside.
Orb-weavers (different genus though) are one of them to a tiny degree, not because they're dangerous, or even fast. It's because they have thick webs that they spin every single damn night and you accidentally walk through them. And then they freak out while you're freaking out... and they can really grip on to you.
I don't go walking through gardens at night in some areas anymore, I'm happy to appreciate them from a distance. But I still feel that instinctive "do not want" deep down.
You are probably dealing with Hortophora transmarina, the “Australian garden orb weaver spider”, though you probably don’t call it Australian in Australia.
I always thought they were very considerate spiders because they are nocturnal and, as you said, build a new web every night. So they actually take it down during they day. Most orb-weavers won’t do that for you.
Some of them are definitely those, but we get a bunch of different ones.
The night thing is polite, until you come home after dark one day, and there is limited light on a pathway. Keep in mind that wintertime daylight hours makes that "most of the time" in many places too.
You'll be tiredly fumbling for your keys while peering carefully to see the reflections of webs, and they're completely unpredictably placed because of the nightly rebuilding. Your morning memory of their location is now useless. This was admittedly a much bigger problem before mobile phone flashlights were a thing.
The more permanent web-builders you can at least reliably coax into more convenient places with a little bit of strategic web destruction. You might get a badly placed solitary structural web strand from that spider the next day, but those are not sticky and usually spider-free.
It wouldn't be such a bother if paths weren't one of their favourite places to build. And they didn't have widespread communities that have thrived with human occupation.
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