I feel like Discord fills a different need than forum type systems.

The one API I have on discord, likes Discord as a place for casual chat about the system. I think the devs prefer it because it is an active place for the community; to word it better, ‘hey look at this cool thing I did’ > response within a few minutes ‘that’s cool’ heart^5 fire^3 thumbs up^7. Whereas on a forum you’d be waiting for hours, or just not have that casual of a conversation.

It replaces the old usage of IRC servers.

The help channel is highly responsive, and great for things you want a quick chat about, need a response now, or if you get help now great, but if not, you’ll figure it out on your own before you would ever get help on a forum, so it’s not worth posting to a forum.

Threads really do help organize when a discussion is going to be large, and discord is very much searchable, just not from your browser search engine.

For changes to the API, ideas, issues, or bugs, they direct you to github “Discussions” or “Issues”. They do have an idea discord channel, but it’s a more casual thing, or far out there discussions.

Discord does get a lot of hate for it’s searchability, which is valid, but I don’t have a problem with it as long as places like Stack Overflow (or what replaces it) are still around.

Thanks. They either wisened up that people don’t like change and need to force it, or didn’t add the option to android.

The “New Layout” section exists on android, but they got rid of the toggle; now you can only give feedback or learn more.

I would like the option to toggle off new layout, but do agree if that is the layout going forward, they should have it as the default so new people learn it out the door, but those that don’t like the change have a choice.

I’m sure the change is fine, I’ve just spent the past few days too busy to realize it was an update change, and that my app was buggy, having trouble finding DMs, and switching back to servers.

I’m sure it was an announcement/dev notes, but they’ve trained me to not read those and immediately close them, because they happen every few days, and they always pop up when i am opening the app from notification, and I just want to reply to the notification, not deal with adverts for Nitro, or to subscribe now while there is this super special discount, or learn about 3 new features I will never use, nor care about.

That SELECT and WHERE are all caps, but from is not is bugging me.

I don’t care if you choose to uppercase keywords or lowercase, but consistency please.

Also, great, love it.

I’m sure there’s lots of solutions, but Steam with Proton for any windows only games has generally worked great for me.

Where I encounter issues, the Lutris flatpak install has worked well for me.

Both I believe use wine, but it is probably easier use downstream solutions like the above when getting started, instead of learning wine. Not that there aren’t benefits to learning it, just in a immediate issues -> lets go back to windows VS it just kind of works pretty good comparison.

Steam having a fair number of games that are directly Linux compatible now days is nice too.

I actually am in the market for a new mobo and cpu.

Are there any mobo’s nowdays that don’t use UEFI? I just want an old traditional style BIOS with a jumper to restore it from a ROM chip if I get any malware, so I can actually trust my hardware.

I did force myself to deal with UEFI for the sake of windows, but gaming has gotten good enough on Linux, I don’t actually need to dual boot windows anymore.

Am I asking too much?

While there are many other pressing issues about our democracy (from an American perspective), this is the strongest issue I take.

I can’t see things turning out well with Trump as a wartime president, particularly if he just keeps America out of important matters on the world stage (or worse yet, panders and sides with those who seek harm to America and the ‘West’. Let your allies weaken enough/succumb to your ‘enemies’, and it ultimately weakens oneself.

I normally buy Charmin ultra soft at Costco.

I was at target and we were low, so just grabbed some there.

Turns out the rolls (cardboard tube and all) were like an inch less wide. For some reason that extra inch makes me comfortable, and I’ve been so angry at the Target rolls while I try to use them up. I have big hands… this kind of shrinkflation can get messy.

I love 3D movies.

That said, I refuse to go to a movie theater now days.

I’d rather just buy the movie on Streaming and watch any time I want, as many times as I want.

But I don’t have 3D at home, or a home theater type setup, so, it is just something I go without. Would of course love a home theater with 3D capability, but that ain’t happening, so, life goes on.

If you are an adult, and clearly an adult, then it’s probably too old.

I’ll still give you candy if I answer the door, but that is probably where you might creep some people out, or they give creeper vibes and don’t trust answering the door.

That said, in my own experience, you are too old to trick or treat once you pass about 5’6" (~165 cm).

I remember finding out I was too old. After an event, some friends wanted to go trick or treating. I was in high school still, but just shy of 6 feet. Female friend the same age was just over 5’, and another female friend that was a few years older was about 4’9".

Anyways, they trick or treated fine, and I got stares, and clearly treated differently. Clearly trick or treating is not about age, but perceived age. (and effort. If you’re short and all covered up in your costume, no one will know or care… long as your voice isn’t boss baby)

“Proton shader precaching eliminated the stutter that plagued that game at launch, so it didn’t happen on Linux.”

I’ve been meaning to ask, and it probably should be it’s own thread, but when launching a game and it says ‘Processing Vulkan Shaders’, does allowing it to partially process do anything.

Warframe for me will quickly jump to 33%, then do about 1% per 10-20 seconds. I don’t want to wait 10+ minutes to reach 100%, but does letting it get to like 40-60%, then hitting skip, at least keep the processed sharers, or does it skip/dump and process on demand? Basically, is Immediate skip vs giving it a minute or two before skipping worth anything?

That their local representative was anti-gun control before this shooting affected his own local area, only proves your point more. That he changed his opinion is a good thing, but too little too late.

Very impressed that he publicly came out to accept responsibility for the Maine shooting with his previous opposition to gun control though, and is now advocating for it.

Unfortunately, it may take several shootings in all the representatives’ and senators’ home towns that are in opposition to actually flip them (even then, it wouldn’t change many of their minds, unless it actually personally affected them), and the country shouldn’t have to suffer that. It likely will literally take a constitutional amendment to prevent the supreme court from overturning any legislation enacted (or at least stripping it down to become fluff legislation with little meaning, or effect).

Oh yeah, Release Candidate is here. Does that mean they’ve fixed the heating issues of the Beta (Original PS5)?

In all seriousness, it’s essentially the same console, just a little smaller. Nothing to be excited about, as if it’s the PS5 Pro. Not only is it a little smaller, but it also is more expensive. Might be better in some aspects, might not, I don’t know that at this point in time.

I guess if anything, it has slightly more storage… but I’ve already paid for a faster and larger capacity M.2 upgrade, so kind of a moot point?

I’ve not played counter strike in 20 some odd years, or so, but if it’s anything like I remember, then yeah, that sounds accurate.

The Counter Server community was friendly enough though.

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