i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Kids should not be riding electric bikes around
This is my first old man opinion and I don't care who knows it. The habits of sedentary lifestyle get formed early. Learning that physical activity can feel good, make you feel accomplished, and is worth it does not happen overnight. The sheer amount of kids I see getting carried around at 45 mph on a sidewalk meant for slower things is astonishing. Half paying attention to the road while texting on their phones with ear buds in blowing past me walking my two dogs and kids just drives me nuts. Using your freaking naturally given legs and braking a sweat of some kind is good for you. No kids should be scooting their perfectly functional bodies around building a habit of being a lazy bones to go and play video games at a friend's house. We have enough unhealthy people the last thing we need is an easy out for the one last vestige of useful physical work we have left.
Some notes I have for this. If you are in sports going to a sporting thing, ride your e-bike without shame. Obviously any physical or health reasons, great, glad you can get places. If you need to go really far or are commuting for a job, sweet, live your little life. Final admission is that given the same chance I probably would have gotten an e-bike and happily ridden past judgey millennials with a smile. I'm just trying to get places old man, don't be a hater. But being on the other side I just hope kids can get exposed to using their physicality to do things for themselves and it makes me sad that potential biking fans could never discover their passion for something that is good for them and their environment.
The vast majority of people just want a computer to do computer things and could care less about what it does other than that. Microsoft will continue to make installing Linux a huge pain and the manufacturers of hardware will continue to prefer windows for kickbacks and internal politics. There will be an uptick, but the fragmented ecosystem, lack of support for even just a handful of programs (thanks anti-cheat), and the fact they dominate the market will mean windows users will almost all use whatever windows forces them to use.
Anyone who thinks this is the last straw underestimates the tolerance of the general population to anti user BS. I would say the only thing that would meaningfully change market share would be if somehow MS changed every background to a dick and refused to change it because that is what their product team said people wanted. Even then it would only be like 5% who would string together both the will and the know how to switch their OS.
Yay for Linux because it feels like the easiest way to upgrade, search and install. Scoop for windows because it is sane, only user level permission, and is surprisingly up to date with a large catalog. Also easy to add new entries.
I thought the vehicles handled better in BF2 and 2142. Destruction mechanism is fun and engaging. Wish it had the ability to host servers as I do feel queuing can be a pain. Gameplay is extremely smooth and the graphics do not bother me one bit.
Given it is still under development I am super excited to see where it ends up. All my comments are nit picks of an otherwise excellent BF game with developers that are not EA.
Have had dark thoughts of some sort. I am reminded that I am an animal with the benefit of societial carrots and sticks to have raised me in a way that is morally good. But deep down, given a different upbringing, I am probably capable of things I would find appalling and shameful.
I feel like every guy has had those kinds of moments. I feel like it is a slightly rarer occurrence in women given they have less of the horny rage hormone of testosterone. Obviously your milage may vary, but those teen years are a hell of a ride.
It is a function that encodes or decodes video data into various formats. Usually this is done by a specialized chip on hardware or a dedicated function of the CPU. The purpose is to compress the data into a manageable stream. Raw video data is gigantic. H.264 is an example of a codec commonly used all over. MJPEG is another.
Codec differes from format or container. The container is the file specification for which the data is contained. Avi or mp4 or mov are examples of file extensions for various containers. Containers have a set of codecs they support for a variety of reasons.
To muddy the waters even more there is also another layer when streaming the actual data. RDP is an example protocol for converting the data into TCP or UDP packets so they can traverse the internet.
Video transport and storage is an infinitely complex and fun topic with a lot of history. All of this is because video data is so dang huge and so prolific. Saving on data storage and transport costs can save a lot.
Just got Battlebit. Really reminds me of the good ol BF2 and BF bad company. Just a fun time.
As long as anti cheat keeps only supporting windows you will need it to experience all games. You can go through the labor filled process of trying to VM windows with GPU passthru, but at that point are you really much better off? I swear one day we will get to a market-share that is worth supporting, but it just isn't there yet. Even fresh titles like Battlebit support anticheat that is incompatible with linux.
Linux mint has delivered me a consistent experience on the verge of boring (Good for an OS) with great driver support and minimal intervention. I have wandered a long path of distro hopping and can say if you want to screw around, learn linux, and have to care about maintaining it (Like a car or house) try EndeavourOS or other major distros. If you want an OS that works for you without much intervention, give mint a try.
The default Cinnamon DE is quite light, but it also comes with an even lighter XFCE version. I prefer Cinnamon because it just hits the right spot for what I knew computing to be.
Been hosting for a hike and not had anything happen.___