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Okalaydokalay , to asklemmy in Who is an everyday someone who is very interesting who you know?

It’s been a few years, but at my old job, there was this woman who came to do a training for us at our job. When all was said and done, I went to thank her personally for coming to do the training for us.

Can’t remember how, but we found out that she was 92 years old!! Not lying, she looked early 60’s at most! Me and the few people who stuck around were shocked and amazed and asked her questions.

She told us that she was currently retired but she still loved the field so she would do trainings for a little pay here and there. She told us that she was a nurse in World War II. She didn’t go into too much detail but that was really awesome to meet someone in person who could say that. Not every day you meet someone from that time period or directly experienced the war, especially as an adult, no less.

I asked her her “secret” to getting to her incredible age. She said she hadn’t had an alcoholic drink since she was 22 years old.

I’ll never forget that woman. I always think of her when I see alcohol and contemplate my life, to be truthful.

Okalaydokalay , to linux_gaming in Finally had enough of Windows. I'm packing up. I'm nervous!

You should “distro hop” when you make a decision like this.

This is similar to having a Chevy truck and getting tired of all the problems it has had over its time with you. So you decide to look into Dodge, Ford, Toyota, etc. Of course no one wants to “hop” from vehicle to vehicle; you want to find the right truck for you now! But that’s unrealistic and your best bet is to go to different dealers, look at the different trucks, and take them for test drives.

You should be doing the same to figure out what you like, what you need, and what you want in a distro. Since 99% of them are free, install them and boot them up. Go for live installs on a USB first to give each one a try without having to go through the installation to your machine. But do know that some times, you may experience different results on live USB vs install on SSD. I experienced this with Zorin and its Nvidia drivers that allowed dual screens on live USB but didn’t when installed and I never got it set up correctly.

You’ll get a lot of recommendations here and you should take them into account and the pros that people suggest and see if they fit your specific needs/wants in an OS.

Despite what I said about my experience with Zorin, it was a pretty nice setup and a good one for someone that wants that Windows feel still but without the added Microsoft bullshit. My display issues seem to be a rarity and even despite that, I enjoyed it and have it currently installed to a Chromebook I have for any little Linux needs I need from time to time on the go.

Okalaydokalay , to asklemmy in Those of you who share a name with a celebrity, how do you deal with it?

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch because Chuck Norris decides what time it is.

Okalaydokalay , to asklemmy in Those of you who share a name with a celebrity, how do you deal with it?

My cousin apparently looked like Chris Brown when we were younger (before the whole Rihanna beating stuff) but I never saw the resemblance.

But we went to a Game Crazy (now you know how long ago it was) and I remember some girls pointing at him and giggling saying “look it’s Chris Brown! Who’s that next to him though?”

Okalaydokalay , to piracy in It has finally happened. HWID activation for Windows 10/11 has been patched by Microsoft after 6 years.

Yeah, maybe my phrasing should have been “you should not be able to have it both ways”.

Okalaydokalay , to piracy in It has finally happened. HWID activation for Windows 10/11 has been patched by Microsoft after 6 years.

It’s absolutely bonkers for Microsoft to even consider that paying $99 or $199 for their ad ridden software is fair and reasonable. If you’re going to bombard me with ads, the shit better be free. You can’t have it both ways. Ads are riddled in the OS whether it be in the Start Menu, notifications area, File Explorer, Microsoft Edge, and even other paid products like Microsoft Office.

It’s so fucking frustrating seeing shit like Candy Crush being forcefully installed onto a system you paid for, especially when it’s supposed to be the “Pro/Enterprise” tier. Windows is a fucking joke and they deserved to have people using this exploit to get “free” activated copies of their OS.

Hopefully this is just another thing that pushes people to other OSes, whether that be Linux or macOS. Just get the hell away from Microsoft and take some of that monopoly power from under them little by little.

Okalaydokalay , to gaming in Capcom President Says ‘Game Prices Are Too Low’

Borderlands is another good example of this. Cartoony but fun gunplay and fun dialogue made the games (mostly) good.

I think games in that sort of style that don’t aim for realism typically have the best long term play. Jet Set Radio is another series with that sort of non-realism style and has aged fantastically.

Okalaydokalay , to pics in Life finds a way

I have some flowers that have done this every year in a pile of rocks I have in my backyard. Every rainy season, they spring up right in the center of those rocks and they are some of the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever seen. It’s always sad to see them go when the rainy season ends.

Okalaydokalay , to asklemmy in Are you cancelling streaming services?

Well Plex does offer some content too. I was able to watch Sister Sister and some other shows that are not on my server but offered by them.

I have a Plex Pass I pay for monthly, but not sure if that’s the reason I could or if it’s free to anyone with a Plex account.

Okalaydokalay , to selfhosted in OpenSubtitles Hostility

This so much. I have so many users who include a screenshot and cut off parts of the screen. Sometimes the time is relevant, sometimes the URL is relevant, sometimes the web browser is relevant. I get if you have confidential stuff, you can block that out, but leave everything else in.

Okalaydokalay , to games in PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?

It’s a little easier when the machine is dedicated to that and only that. The OS doesn’t have all this extra crap running in the background that takes resources from the game because it was designed for that in mind.

That and devs have just one machine to design their game for versus trying to make their game run on hundreds of machines with very different specs.

Some devs, especially first party devs who work closely with or directly for the manufacturer also have insider knowledge of the system they’re developing the game for. The Crash developers did this in the PlayStation 1 era by tapping into resources that other games weren’t using to push out even more performance from the hardware.

Okalaydokalay , to asklemmy in What brought you to Lemmy?

No longer being able to access Apollo. Had that been allowed (and no extra fees for using it), I would have kept browsing Reddit. Hell, I wouldn’t have minded some ads in Apollo if that meant keeping it.

But damn using that garbage official app. I tried it once again and it’s garbage. I tried it once before when Alien Blue stopped being viable and didn’t go back when I tried Apollo.

Okalaydokalay , to samsung in Samsung's SSD Firmware tool is asking me if I live in a European country

I updated today and noticed this as well. What came after were some EULAs to agree to so I’m guessing they add one extra one for those who mark yes on this prompt.

Okalaydokalay OP , (edited ) to techsupport in Windows suddenly loses video and needs a restart

Not sure how to edit this on Memmy, so I’ll add a comment.

Appreciate all the suggestions here from everyone! I tried them but had no luck.

I think I had my GPU fail on me.

I think either it was a bad batch. The guy at the store tonight told me stories of other customers who have had some bad GPU issues from new GPUs, which makes me think maybe production has been crappier than usual lately and I got unlucky?

Second thing I think may have happened is I cheaped out on a PSU and I shouldn’t have. It had decent reviews on Amazon, but I should have shelled out the extra $10+ for a name brand PSU with some years behind it and dozens more reviews and a bigger company to back it. Idk, maybe.

So I ended up replacing my PSU with a name brand PSU and also returned the 4070 Ti under the extended warranty. The store I got it from actually let me basically get store credit, so I put down some extras for a beefier GPU from AMD.

I got everything set up tonight and have been using it for a little over an hour with no issues so far. Thinking the GPU was the culprit. I also put on a new dose of thermal paste for the CPU and did some cleaning during the installation, but don’t think that was really needed or contributed to this, but figured I’d throw it out here for anyone who happens to find this in the future.

Okalaydokalay , to piracy in What are some hidden gems and rare pieces of media? Maybe even deleted or lost on all legal distribution platforms?

On that note, I really wish we could see the Topher Grace cut some of his friends have talked about.

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