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Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?

Edit: thank you all very much for your time, thoughts and effort to reply to this. I really appreciate it and I try to find a new doctor. Your questions and encouragement were very helpful and made me realise that my symptoms are too strong, considering my lifestyle. For those who asked questions, here are the answers: I eat...

RiderExMachina ,

I’ve started having issues recently, too. After a work injury, I finally saw my GP, who recommended Physical Therapy, which has basically just been a guided workout with some yoga moves worked in over the course of an hour.

It hasn’t fixed my pain yet, but it’s made it better, and my pain was explained in a way that makes sense (my shoulders and core weren’t as strong as they should have been, placing undue burden on some of my backmuscles).

If you don’t want to go to PT, I’d strongly recommend just slowly doing 10-15 minutes of simple stretching like what you might have done in Gym as a kid. Stretch to the point of mild discomfort, not pain, doing each stretch 3 tines for 10 seconds. It might be worth looking into some basic yoga poses that target your particular pains (or the ones that you want to target first).

I’ll bet you’ll notice good results after a week. If not, definitely go see your GP again.

Obligatory “I am not a doctor”

RiderExMachina ,

Because all the cool people are too busy homebrewing tabletop RPGs instead.

RiderExMachina ,

I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.

Doesn’t make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that’s just me.

RiderExMachina ,

I think there are two major hurdles keeping Linux adoption back (besides the obvious installation bit). The first is that our backwards compatibility is terrible. It is easier to get old versions of Windows software to run in Wine than it is to get some old Linux software to run natively.

If something like Photoshop did finally release a Linux version, even if they only did one release to make 2% of people happy, it likely wouldn’t be able to run natively after 5 years.

The second is a good graphical toolkit. Yes, GTK and Qt exist, but neither are as simple as WinForms or SwiftUI/Aqua.

RiderExMachina ,

I personally don’t use Photoshop but was using it as an example. You could fill in the blank with other tools like AutoCAD, MS Office, QuickBooks/Quicken, etc.

RiderExMachina ,

It tried, but it missed some good context

RiderExMachina ,

Well, you know the old adage: “Good artists copy, great artists steal”

RiderExMachina ,

This might be controversial, but the new Denis Villeneuve movies are much better than the book. Maybe watch the movies and read the book or trawl the wiki after for more context.

RiderExMachina ,

From the article:

there’s still no easy (or legal) way to watch it with English subtitles, and there’s been no updates on when it’ll come to streaming or physical in the US or elsewhere

RiderExMachina ,

Eh, I’m gonna buy it the moment it comes out in the US because the movie is fucking fantastic, but you do you.

RiderExMachina ,

Interestingly, Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnH0KAXhCw

RiderExMachina ,

Are you red-green colorblind?

MacBook pro freezes on log in and crashes (sh.itjust.works)

I just got this Mac from my grandma because she said it wasn’t working. It boots and lets me go into recovery mode but crashes in a similar way whenever a loading bar starts. I’ve tried booting every different way and cleared nvram. I didn’t see any clearly visible damage on the logic board, and I’m willing to try any...

RiderExMachina ,

This is either a bug with the graphics driver (easy to fix) or a hardware fault with the graphics chip (new laptop time).

Check to see if the graphical corruption only happens in macOS using something like a Linux live USB. If it’s still there, it’s a hardware problem.

If it goes away, back up her information using Time Machine and reinstall macOS.

RiderExMachina ,

Modern roads having subscription services aren’t even new: we pay for our roads with gas tax, registration fees, parking fees, and congestion pricing… And it’s still not enough, so we take from income and property tax to make up the difference.

RiderExMachina ,

You get a silver star for trying. This article is just too much for AI to re-write.

RiderExMachina ,

Ehhhhh, I don’t know if I agree with this.

American “culture” has had a whole bunch of definitions, usually changing with the decades. For most of the 20th century, you could point to something and say “That’s American”; things like milkshake bars and greasers, anything surrounding the hippie movement (that we actually probably stole from somewhere else), and… Whatever that strange design of random shapes the 90s had.

After 2000, there hasn’t been really anything that stands out, in part due to the rise of the internet, and in another, the dangerous build environment. In order to have culture, people need to congregate in a place and create something meaningful. Because Americans go to work and then go home, often with little-to-no time in between from long commutes, they have no time to create the next “culture moment”.

Is anyone else worried about the apple vision pro?

i wouldn’t normally be concerned since any company releasing a VR product with this price tag is obviously going to fail… but it’s apple and somehow through exquisite branding and sleek design they have managed to create something that resonated with “tech reviewers” and rich folk who can afford it....

RiderExMachina ,

If Google has an answer, how long will they support it? I bought a Daydream visor and controller, only for them to totally discontinue the project within 2 years.

RiderExMachina ,

This is it. This is the comment that makes me realize that I’m old.

RiderExMachina ,

With my current bank, my return would have gotten me nearly $100 in interest over the last year.

RiderExMachina , (edited )

I haven’t used Tailscale myself, but it seems like it’s basically just a Wireguard frontend.

RiderExMachina ,

“Technically correct” is the best form of correct. Though having tried setting up Wireguard in the past, having a dead-simple solution like Tailscale might be worth trying it out, especially with the 100 device free tier

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With the enshittification of streaming platforms, a Kodi or Jellyfin server would be a great starting point. In my case, I have both, and the Kodi machine gets the files from the Jellyfin machine through NFS.

Or Home Assistant to help keep IOT devices that tend to be more IoS. Or a Nextcloud server to try to degoogle at least a little bit.

Maybe a personal Friendica instance for your LAN so your family can get their Facebook addiction without giving their data to Meta?

RiderExMachina ,

IoS - internet of shit

RiderExMachina OP ,

I don’t actually agree with this list, I just saw it pop up in my Google feed and wanted a discussion around it. I didn’t realize people would have this visceral of a reaction to it.

RiderExMachina OP ,

It’s all good.

I did wonder if the article was AI generated, everything just seemed absolutely idiotic.

RiderExMachina OP ,

I actually want to have someone try the shelving bit to see just how bad of an idea it is

RiderExMachina ,

Are you sure its removing those packages and not updating them?

RiderExMachina ,

This makes sense to me, actually. Letters are usually taught with false sounds, and N and K could phonetically be taught as “nuh” and “kuh” by a teacher.

RiderExMachina ,

This was my first thought as well

RiderExMachina ,

If you take out the star, there are only two lines; one connected by the upper two circles, and one connecting the “dog nose” on the right to the lower bouncing circle.

RiderExMachina ,

What’s your degree in?

RiderExMachina ,

I’d recommend finding some FOSS projects to contribute to so that you can stay sharp and also add stuff to your resume. Plenty out there that needs worked on, and not all of it can be done by people working full time at another job.

RiderExMachina , (edited )

I mean, you could probably put a short version of your title like “How Polluted Are Our Waterways”, but you should have a tighter title that’s not a question like “Our Polluted Waterways and the Threat They Pose”.

RiderExMachina ,

That’s a good one, but I believe OP wants it to be personalized to their area

Linux video editing and Kdenlive tips and tricks for a returning user?

Just recently switched back to Linux after more than a decade away. (I’m currently running Mint Cinnamon if anyone is curious) On Windows I was using the free version of Davinci Resolve for all of my video editing. I quickly discovered that the free version of Resolve for Linux doesn’t support H.264/H.265 so after trying...

RiderExMachina ,

I would say one of the few downsides Kdenlive has is the lack of the premade templates. I feel like there’s gotta be a site out there for those premade templates that us hobbyists can download and use, but hopefully they’ll just bake that in directly in the future.

The other issue I have is the effects plugins aren’t always up-to-date, so not all plugins work with the latest version.

RiderExMachina ,

You might have been thinking Steam gaming. Mac was at ~5% and has dropped to ~2%

RiderExMachina ,

Sinkboat Willie

I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage

Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought....

RiderExMachina ,

Linux is great about providing that feeling of discovery. New tools, new processes, new paradigm… It’s the best way to breathe new life into an old piece of hardware.

If this is your first major step, congratulations! If you’re a regular, great job, keep it up; eventually you’ll be a grey beard with the rest of us.

RiderExMachina ,

Not quite “time loop”, but related: Return of the Obra Dinn. I need the developer to make another game with exactly the same mechanics.

RiderExMachina ,

They have a lot of practice from all the dropbears

RiderExMachina ,

There are a lot of interesting things in your post.

First, League typically doesn’t work well on Linux because Riot doesn’t care about Linux users. If League is going to be a deal breaker, I’d recommend getting a dedicated Windows system for the best time.

Second, your CPU has a known hardware bug with C-states. If you’ve been noticing your computer freeze often under Linux, disable C-states in your BIOS.

Third, are the games you’re trying to launch purchased through Steam, purchased through a different store, or pirated?

Are you able to play any of your games, or is it just these few that have been giving you trouble? If it’s every game, you may not have the nvidia driver or vulkan installed. Just to be sure, you can try running nvidia-smi in a terminal, which will show you which driver the system is using. If you are unable to run the command at all, you’ll definitely need to install the nvidia driver

Slow Steam downloads via USB-Tethering on Linux only

For the past few weeks, the download speed on steam via USB-Tethering on my Linux distro (Arch, btw) has been steadily going, barely reaching 2 MB/s right now. I thought it might be the ISP slowing Steam specifically down, since every other download worked at the expected speed (~15-30 MB/s)....

RiderExMachina ,

Check your server sources. It could be that Windows Steam is using a closer mirror than your Linux Steam.

RiderExMachina ,

Darn

RiderExMachina ,

Me, whose going to start studying EE: 😭

RiderExMachina ,

Luckily I have 6 years of Electronics manufacturing experience, so the math and theory are the things I’ll need to learn most of. Unfortunately, those things are the hardest part…

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It’s fun, but I found the combat to be slower than most Metroidvanias

RiderExMachina ,

it’s clicking non-stop Time for a new HDD, friend. Preferably an SSD

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