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Nice vid man, but 3 problems.
>Virtualbox
Great for linux VMs, but if you want Windows VMs, VMWare player/workstation is better.
>GIMP
No man, Krita is significantly nicer than GIMP; and it does everything GIMP does, and does it better in general.
>VLC
No man, MPV is superior in just about every possible way. At least for video playback. Better upscaling algorithms, smooth motion support, it's basically media player classic for linux, there's even something called media player classic qt which is a front-end for MPV that looks like mpc on windows. VLC was the best video player... in the 90s. It's not anymore, and hasn't been for a long time. People need to get that through their skulls.
>Playonlinux (this isn't a problem, just additional info)
Yes it helps, but at least for gaming, now Steam's Steamplay/proton is a better solution. (This was not out yet when this vid was amde though)
POL does not suport everything so mileage will vary, didn't know it had a photoshop preset but that's nice. There's also lutris which is mandatory to check out if you want to run any non-steam games, it tends to do a better job than PoL; when you can get it to work. It'll give you better support for games that require a custom wine configuration than pol does (like say overwatch or fortnite)
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Once upon a time I spoke without stopping, I have aspergers syndrome so I had to learn the rules of communication manually (i.e. didn't learn it naturally as a child like most do), only one person can talk at a time, so babbling on forever without pause is among men called being a dick. I haven't talked to a lot of girls but I noticed this with my mother the other day, I went for a car ride with her for like 30 minutes, I wanted to tell her "Mom, I applied for college yesterday."
But she kept talking the entire time (about the most mundane shit, how her dentist appointment went... It was a completely normal dentist appointment, there was nothing special about it) until finally I interrupted her just before she dropped me off back home saying "Mom, you know you've been talking so much I haven't really had the opportunity to tell you this, but I'm gonna say it now. I applied for college yesterday".
Anyhow, if women want to remedy this, here's a simple solution: Make sure to pause between every couple of sentences, if people are interested in what you're saying, they will shut up (or maybe even ask: What happened next?) but if they are not, they will swiftly try to change the subject.
And by pause I don't mean "uh, hmm..." (i.e. don't mumble like you're thinking) but " " you just have to stop for 3-5 seconds man... Just give someone else a chance to talk for 3-5 seconds (preferably 5) every once in a while when you're talking.
If you consciously work towards this then in about a year you'll be a much more pleasant person to be around.
Men obviously have communication issues too, like how we usually don't interrupt others while they're speaking and only resort to it after they've babbled for a while, we do this to be nice and more fun to converse with.
But normally we don't talk as if we love our own voice. When I type however, I can as you can see, go on forever.
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Can we get it? And can we PLEASE get it open source? Just so that the entire world can play with, modify and upgrade this technology at will. And so that this technology won't be wasted on corporate idiots who only think in dollar $igns.
This technology will change the world of video gaming as the last missing piece to the ultimate virtual reality headset, and this technology will lead to the ultimate artificial limbs.
But in the right hands (Everyone's hands!, not just the hands of a few!) it will change the face of humanity and our culture completely. It will do so because this technology can be used to upload data online, store it on a server, and then download directly to another persons brain.
Hook up an artist (or a few) and bam,anyone can learn to draw in 3 seconds. Hook up a historian, and bam, anyone can learn everything there is to know about history in under a minute. Mathematician, bam!, Language teacher, bam!. martial artist, bam!
We're not just talking information as we read it in text, we're talking motor skills and reflex also being taught in instants, we will no longer have to worry about so called "reading comprehension" when everything is fed directly to the brain.
But we're a bit of ways from there,and corporate idiots would either fail to see this possibility, or develop it at a much slower rate than it could develop in open source, and then use it for profitability (i.e.they'd actually sell the skills for a high price point rather than just giving it all away for free, as information should be.)
This would essentially be wikipedia 2.0.
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A very good video indeed, and I agree, this is the way math should be taught. But I don't agree we should discard teaching the calculation process. We'll never understand how the computers are doing it if we do so. We'll never doubt what the computers tell us is the answer. Computers can make mistakes, because humans can make mistakes, and computers were built by humans.
I do however think that calculating by hand is an absurd way to do math, we should be teaching kids to do it mentally. And there are two ways I know we could approach this, one is doing what some schools in Japan, China and Korea among others are doing, teach them to use an abacus (and by abacus I mean chinese or japanese abacus; not the western crap), when you're good with an abacus I hear it is very easy to do math with an imaginary abacus instead of a real one, and that it can be done on average in about 1/10 of the time it would take on a real abacus. Meaning not just mental math, lightning fast mental math. For everyone. The calculating process is important because it is literally teaching kids how to solve problems or puzzles on their own. They need to understand the process if they're ever caught in a situation where they do not have access to a computer, or if they are trying to solve a problem they can't properly express to a computer.
The second approach I can imagine for tackling mental math is looking to mental math geniuses like Scott Flansburg for ideas on how to properly teach mental calculation. Our brains are more powerful than computers, and we have a good chunky part of our brain dedicated to calculation only, it would be an absolute waste of resources not to use it.
As for bringing computers to exams, this is not a problem when we have things like the raspberry pi (easily affordable to schools) and linux (highly customizable), it wouldn't be hard to set things up, computers wouldn't be hooked to the internet, no USB ports to thwart cheating, just offline computers with all the applications the students have learned to rely on (like a set of programming languages, and perhaps libreoffice or something to write answers to the questions on the exams)
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There was a lot of truth in this, and I mostly agree, loving yourself especially is something that's been like a mantra for me for a while, but not in getting others to love me, no it's more like "How could I love someone else if I can't even love myself?".
However the problem begins with the fact that nice people get taken advantage of by just about everyone else, even other nice people, it's one of the ways in which the world just seems to work. If being nice is your defining trait as a guy, girls will see that as submissive and in turn they end up becoming dismissive, most girls seem to be not very into guys who seem "nice".
I did like the point where you said you need other qualities, because that is entirely what it's all about in the end, niceness isn't a quality girls seek (but it is one that guys do seek) this truth is spoken by action, not words. Girls can be pretty complicated and one of these complications is that they keep saying they want a nice guy, when they really want a guy who's all that and THEN also nice on top of it all. They say they want a guy with all the dream features, but when they actually meet such a guy they'll turn him down in favor of a more confident, selfish guy, I even know the reasons why that happens but that's beyond this topic.
I made a point of being nice to everyone for a lot of my life and all it got me were backstabs and disappointments, I was setting myself up for failure by expecting just that people would be nice back (I'm not even talking about girls, far from it, I wasn't doing it to get laid, I just wanted good friends...), and in the end I turned bitter, learned to value selfishness, and now after reaching a bit more maturity, I thought about what I wanted, I really wish I could make someone else happy since I can't do it for myself, and failing that, wish I could end up with someone who will share happiness with me. But I know enough about how the world works, I've seen it, coming back to what I said earlier. If I'm openly nice to someone, I get dismissed for it 9/10, maybe even 99/100... Being a bit of a dick or being aloof at least ups your chances a lot if you're a guy, and I don't wanna be that guy, but if I'm not that guy, I'll end up with some bitch who just wants to use me up and then dump me.
So in the end I'm in a catch 22, where I would like to be in a relationship with a nice girl but that will not happen if I am myself and allow myself to be nice (opposites attract and all that just adds to the point too...) and I don't want to just use someone to get the right kind of girl only to hate myself for it. As a result I'm just gonna be lonely probably for life, finding a good match for me seems so hard I'd rather just dig for a needle in a haystack, for kicks, this world is ugly, and there aren't very many people out there who would join me in trying to make it all more bearable, except for the other nice guys but unfortunately for me I'm not gay, not even bi. But I often wish I was, because this girl shit isn't working out for me, not even one night stands, sex without feelings, without passion, is no better than masturbation anyways (I mean it literally, I'd rather be passionately pleasing myself than non-passionately fucking someone, it really does feel nicer)
In the end the only choice for me is mgtow. Not because I particularly want to, but because there's no other sane fucking option. Damned if I do, damned if I don't. But it's not all doom and gloom, I learned to focus my attention on other things, things that give me qualities beyond being 'nice', in spades too... A lot of guys can't get there, believe it or not, but I did, doors are open, I could go get a girlfriend, but ultimately, I think I'll be better off without setting myself up for heartbreak. I'll just do my thing and deal with it.
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I can relate so much with what this man is talking about. I'm that guy that's been wasting my life away eating junk food, growing obese, falling to such a level where my once great brain is starting to fucking rot, my reaction speed is at an all time low, my thought processes lacking, I've made like a 100 actionable plans to get on top, get rich, get healthy, get whatever but never acted on it, because I'm always caught up in my addictions to media, to movies, to video games, to novels, every day I procrastinate my plans to the point where it is literally killing me; if I don't turn this shit around within the next 2-3 years that's fucking it for me.
But after listening to this man speak, I look at the chrome tab where I have some webnovels and manga open, and despite the temptation I can't bring myself to click on it, I see my video game shortcuts on my desktop, I can't click on them, I see some movies I could watch, I can't click on them either. Because I realized today, before I watched this video, that I've centered my entire life around escaping reality, because life sucks, reality sucks, I don't want it, so I run into a digital world, surround myself with fiction, and close my eyes to what's happening around me, what's happening to my body, what's happening to my mind...
I realized that I've been conditioned to do this, from elementary school we're only given one choice in life, to become corporate drones, and whoever discards or fails on that path is considered a failure, he will be looked down on for failing, or even outright refusing, to become yet another drone; but look, we have video games, movies, and social media, through which you can live through other people's fantastical lives (lies really)... So it's only rational then that before the thought of doing something as daunting as changing the very reality around you, you would instead escape reality, get your next fix of dopamine, consume, consume and consume more! Every waking moment about getting your next fix of meaningless entertainment that will lead you nowhere and add no value to your life whatsoever....
And for 10 years that's the only thing I've done, at all. No, longer than that, it's been 12 fucking years until I finally realized that I was lead to this point, around the nose, my weaknesses exploited, and I swallowed the bait, hook line and sinker, and let myself become something even worse than a corporate drone, a leech. A leech who takes and takes but has nothing at all they can give back in return, nor any desire to do so.
And facing this uncomfortable truth, that I've been played, and that I've actively allowed myself to be played for such a long time, it lead me here. After making the realization, it was not enough to stop at first, but I somehow got led to this video, and now... At least for the past few hours, I am unable to keep doing this to myself.
Now I am slowly coming to another realization, that it doesn't truly matter very much, how I do it, or what I do, as long as I stop running from reality, and start facing it, and changing it into something that I run towards, instead of away from.
Wading through the suffering and tackling all challenges is not a novel idea at all, but seeing that there's somewhere out there who is just doing it, and doing it, and keeps on doing it really makes me think: Why not me too?
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Why give DX12 priority? I mean it does make sense considering it has been released and Vulkan has not yet been released to start working on it first, but Vulkan should get priority considering all the stubborn Windows 7 users that don't like Windows 10, not to mention OS X and Linux? Vulkan could easily be waited on by half your userbase, and after it's support is implemented it can be enjoyed also by the other half, meanwhile DX12 support is practically not going to be needed if Vulkan support is there (considering they're pretty much the same thing, and expected to have roughly identical performance, the only major difference is that Vulkan supports all platforms, DX12 supports only one)
For now it makes sense to focus on DX12 because Vulkan isn't here, but when Vulkan is... I don't see why DX12 should get any sort of priority over it, considering that everyone (including the windows 10 users) can use Vulkan, only some can benefit from DX12 (The ones that gave in to Microsoft's marketing and jumped ship to the quite buggy Windows 10), but everyone will be able to use Vulkan. I am going to be surprised if Vulkan will not become the de facto standard rendering API over DX12 in the near future after they both kick off. Especially since learning to write DX12 code is a waste of time compared to learning to write Vulkan (which can be used for anything on any platform)
But well i'm not opposed to supporting both, it will be nice to have at least one game that can be used to benchmark the two new APIs.
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You know... might as well use gentoo, if one wants to learn to build linux from scratch I think learning to use gentoo would be a pretty big first step, since gentoo is a linux distro based around the concept of being built from scratch by every single individual user. Customizing and compiling the kernel is just another part of the installation process.
Once you have a handle on that, then maybe you'll know if LFS is something for you or if you would just be better off sticking with Arch or Ubuntu.
You left one target group out however, that is people who want to make and support their own linux distribution. If these didn't exist we would never have had Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse or any of those nice things you mentioned, we would only have LFS.
I personally would like to do it, but I would want to create an arch-like distro, and creating and maintaining a package repository of pre-compiled binaries is just too massive of an undertaking for me to actually go ahead and try. (Although I've been thinking about going ahead and trying to figure out a solution to that problem too, and surprisingly enough I am not coming up empty.)
The real problem is taht all major linux distributions have sizable developer teams working on them and volunteers doing things like maintaining package repositories, a nobody creating a linux distro from scratch doesn't have that, unless he's rich and can afford to buy such a team and put them on a payroll.
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4:02 one of the many reasons I think Ubuntu is cancer, I have similar feelings about MacOS, but MacOS gives me even more reasons than Ubuntu, which is not easy to achieve.
You didn't really cover manjaro at all, the one thing that sets manjaro apart from the rest is that it's rolling release, although it has LTS kernel options available like everybody else (and even installs that by default) the third party software and libraries you can install via the package manager will always be the latest and greatest whereas on say ubuntu you may be getting a year old version of every program and you will have to jump through a lot of hoops if you want the latest version, and if you want the latest stable kernel release, for whatever reason, it's just a click away. Manjaro is also exceptionally stable, something that cannot be said for most rolling release distros.
This is why I would recommend Manjaro over say Xubuntu (or even mint) for people coming from windows, as windows usually gives you the latest software versions by default (e.g. when you go to download google chrome, you don't get last years version of chrome, you get the latest release of chrome, manjaro is like that too, but ubuntu and most other distros are not)
It's other benefits include exceptional out of the box hardware/driver support (this is compared to every other distro out there) making it the hands down best option for people with more recent hardware (no more spending hours installing your wifi drivers, it'll just work) and of course, it's fast, it's optimized for speed (by modern standards) right out of the box. and it's performance is second only to clearlinux and perhaps some even further tweaked installations (as in when the user manually tweaks the kernel, which is easily done for example in Gentoo, but that shit's a lot of work)
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@Preinstallable This is something that will happen, it is inevitable. An ai that can code as well as a human programmer, will be created by human programmers, only unlike human programmers it's not gonna make mistakes, it's not gonna need to debug, the human programmers worked for years to make this ai, and this ai is gonna be able to make a new superior version of itself in a couple of minutes. But will that newly created superior version be able to create a new even more superior version? Probably not. It just doesn't work like that.
Until you get into AI running on quantum computers that is, then it's probably gonna work exactly like that. Yikes. When we mix technology so complex we barely understand it (neural networks), with another technology so complex we don't understand it at all (quantum physics). That's where this singularity is gonna happen, 100%. That's the missing piece of this puzzle, and you know what, it's not gonna be long from now, in fact I'm sure someone is already working on this. It's just that the quantum computers we have aren't ready yet for this task... But they will be, in just a few years they will inevitably be ready for this. Right now, quantum computers are growing exponentially in power by the year. It's growing so fast it makes moore's law back in the days of CPU transistors being half the size next year they were the last a funny joke.
This is happening soon.
All the AI tech we're using right now is gonna be obsolete within 10 years. Maybe even within 5....
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@wai828 I am not really dissing the scientific method or scientists themselves, my point here really is about people who don't know those things. Properly and blindly believe everything that's said is sourced from science or scientists.
Although you are sorta wrong that there is no 'bible' equivalent for scientists, at least a lot of them, one example of something similar is constants. Constants are a concept many scientists latch onto as an anchor to make them feel like they understand something, quite similar to how religious people latch onto their gods.
But it doesn't take much logic to realize that constants can't be real, for example the speed of light, it's an impossibility for the speed of light to be constant, because light is a physical entity that is affected by outside forces (such as gravity) which naturally means it's velocity is subject to change just like any other moving object.
Constants are assumptions regarded as holy truths for a lot of scientists, at least from what I can see.
Either way, what you're talking about is science from the perspective of a scientist, it indeed becomes a lot less religion-like when you try to verify everything properly instead of just blindly believeing it as you say, but I'm referring to people who entirely fail to do this, and believe everything as long as the label "science" or "research" was tacked on to it somewhere.
I also never said that you had to be an atheist to be a proponent of science (I in fact very much like science myself, it's not like I have anything against it). I just said that a lot of atheists latch on to science as a replacement for the religions they have ditched, this is not a conscious decision either, it is entirely subconscious. Make no mistake, we're not really talking about science here, or the validity of research, but psychology.
The burden of proof for your believes is not on science, or atheism, or religion, it is always on you, is what I am trying to convey. People should not just believe what other people tell them to believe, they should figure out what to believe by themselves, using their own experiences as a guide.
We could argue about proving the existence of god and the validity of the scientific method to death (although I'm not actually disagreeing with the latter at all, I completely agree with you.)
But it's been done. Once people have decided what to believe, their views do not change unless they themselves wish it, and even for the most logical people among us, there comes a point where logic fails to sway even the sharpest of minds. And what some view as evidence others don't view the same. That's why basing your beliefs on what some other guy said; even if the source is a credible research paper, is a mistake.
I'm just saying, everything, absolutely everything should be taken with a grain of salt, is that view in any conflict with the scientific method?
I'm not saying science is bad, or a religion, just that some people behave as if it were a religion even if it was never supposed to be.
Research papers get used as forms of propaganda because the unwashed masses are so ready to believe, it's being treated more and more like the news we see, where people get exposed to research of which the results suit a narrative.
In the end, scientific data is almost as polluted as religious texts by this point, denying this just means it's something you find hard to accept, once again just proving my former points, that we fear to admit the unknown. Science may be our best way to explore said unknown, but like everything else, it is corruptible, and in modern society it has become quite corrupted (not that religions are any better by a long shot or anything, but the end result is the same, both get (ab)used to manipulate public opinion).
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Security through obscurity.... It's not a thing bro.
Linux is more secure default than OS X and Windows not because it is less used/less targeted, but because it is simply more secure at it's core.
And similarly technologies to further secure Linux (many of which Tails uses) extend that making Linux even more secure than OS X and Windows ever could be (mostly because of their closed source nature) for example Hardened/SELinux, the quite strong iptables firewall and it's many possible configurations (which you can use to defend your system much more extremely and effectively than is possible on Windows, e.g. you can configure your system to block all traffic except the traffic you need, massively reducing the amount of attacks you'd be vulnerable to, and this is pretty much a basic security feature of Linux, iptables is the standard firewall...)
Simply put, it's easier to attack Windows and OS X than it ever has been to target Linux. Security innovations also tend to happen in either Linux or BSD first (seen QubesOS? Damn... Security through compartmentalization at it's finest, this approach is growing in popularity as well)
If you put a virus on the net, you generally target windows because that's what most people use. On the Deep Web, you will want a virus targeting Linux because that's what most people are using on there (maybe double up and make a Windows compatible virus that's primarily geared against Linux) which is why security through obscurity (at least as far as using Linux is concerned) is not valid on the deep web. Wanted to call you out on this. (Also being unix like does not inherently make your system any more secure than a windows machine would be. For example, OS X is not as secure as Apple likes to claim (their claim is virus free.... lol...) there are many BSDs that are riddled with security holes, and to be honest Linux has them too, although more frequently it is the software running on top of linux that has security holes rather than the linux kernel itself (unlike many of the BSDs and OS X which simply don't have the same level of manpower to iron these things out))
Also you should probably cover why people should NOT use Tails or whatever they use for accessing the deepweb from a Windows virtual machine (because viruses that can target your windows host through a virtual machine are actually more common than you'd think... and all virtualization software is not created equal, if you want to use virtual machines for increased security, the first security hole that must be handled is the host OS which again brings me to QubesOS that does this all for you).
Also, Rufus > Unetbootin (if you're on windows)
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Yeah, as an artist I see this, working hard for the sake of working hard a lot, like ridiculously much, to the point where maybe 80% of beginner artists are doing it, or more. I always try to tell them that if you practice for 10,000 hours drawing badly, the only thing you'll master is drawing badly. It's usually frowned upon when I say that, although there's the occasional person that agrees.
I think it might be fairly important to mention however that artists are more vulnerable to this idea, learning to draw is hard, it is outrageously hard, it goes to the level of possibly needing to entirely change the way you think from the ground up, how you visualize things in your head, how you actually see things when you look at them in day to day life, how and what you memorize of what you see, and this is before we even get to the difficulties of drawing straight lines, smooth curves, or near-perfect circles (that last one I still haven't nailed, I also struggle hard with ellipses).
The toughest part of learning to draw is learning what is called 'perspective', it's a series of techniques used to create the illusion of the third dimension on a two dimensional surface, an artificial Z axis, at it's core, it's very simple and most artists will look at it and think "Ok yeah that's easy, now I know how to do that." Not realizing that there's 1 point, 2 point, 3 point and curvilinear perspective, the last one being by far the closest to reality, and considerably harder to learn than the former 3 which are all real damn simple, but that's not all. When initially learning this technique, you will typically be taught how to draw a 3 dimensional box on a 2 dimensional surface, and it's undeniable that you pretty much need to master the act of doing so to have any hope of ever becoming a good artist. You will also be partially taught how to draw a cylinder, but probably not completely.
But what they don't tell you is all the complicated stuff, and you have to really dig, I mean really DIG, deep through the internet if you want to figure out how to draw circles and ellipses in perspective (which is mandatory knowledge to draw a successful cylinder). But that's the simple stuff, what's really complicated is when the objects in your drawing are not all facing the same direction, if they're rotated side to side, that's not that hard, hard, but not that hard, if it's rotated vertically, god help you, that's to say nothing of if it's rotated vertically and horizontally.
We still haven't gone into what's called foreshortening (close objects appearing disproportionately larger than distant ones at a certain proximity; e.g. a finger looking bigger than a head if it's pointed right at your eye) which is also a part of perspective but I have never once seen a defined technique for drawing it, every artist just eyeballs it and hopes for the best, they learn it through observation by drawing from photographs, for years, until they just 'get it' more or less.
Now picture, if you can, the difficulty of drawing a human that looks properly 3 dimensional, a human in a pose, with all of their limbs pointing and angled in different directions (because that's actually what people usually look like, and incidentally what's most visually appealing, a guy standing straight like a statue? not that visually appealing, a guy in the middle of a punching motion? Exciting.), you have to essentially reapply your perspective techniques for every limb, the problem here isn't reapplying the technique for each limb, that in and of itself is doable, but understand that each time it's reapplied for a limb pointing in a different direction, it has to be fully synchronized with all former instances of that technique (e.g. used for all the other limbs) and if even one is out of sync your picture's probably gonna look amateurish at best, or garbage at worst. It'll feel "off" to people. And these techniques for synchronizing perspective for objects pointing in different directions at different distances, even if it's just for boxes, you're gonna have a hard time finding that out through the internet, you have to dig really hard for it. But if you wanna get your foot in the door, this is absolutely necessary for you to have a chance at all.
But most artists? Most artists just learn 1 or 2 point perspective, and say "oh that's easy, look I can draw this one box that looks more or less decent, how great, now I don't need to learn anything more about it" and then they try to draw, for years, sometimes even decades, maybe knowing they're bad at perspective but procrastinating learning more about it because it's too 'technical' or 'boring' or something along those lines, or they just care more about the colors (or tell themselves that, rather than admitting their biggest weakness to themselves) and then after drawing wrong for maybe 15 years, they'll ask themselves, and maybe others "where are my improvements? why am I not getting better? I've been drawing for years but it still looks like shit?... What?"
And the only reason, is because they never actually learned to draw, they just drew, they just drew and drew with no regard for whether they got it right or wrong, assuming that if they draw enough, if they work hard enough they will automatically end up becoming good in a while. But it's far from that simple, I didn't even begin talking about composition, gesture, light, color theory or anatomy which are all fairly important things to learn later on, but you gotta start with perspective, it's not an exaggeration to say that your perspective drawing abilities could just be shortened to your 'drawing abilities', because that's what it really is, that is how important it is, you will never draw anything good without it. But most artists don't even want to acknowledge that, because it's hard to learn, and complicated, so they just 'work hard' instead.
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1 measly vpn is nowhere near enough to fully secure your computer lol. It significantly increases the difficulty of directly hacking you through your internet connection, that's all it does. The primary two uses for VPNs these days are securing your device on a public WiFi (never trust a public wifi. NEVER EVER trust a public wifi. Any user on it could be trying to fish for passwords and credit card information and whatever else they can get on through a public wifi, and you will never know. But if you use a VPN, they'd have to be specifically targetting you, and have the capabilities to hack through a vpn in order to get anything out of your device, which are two unlikely conditions for most of us(
The other is privacy and staying anonymous, when you don't want anyone who wants to to know what it is you're looking through right now. It doesn't even have to be anything illegal or anything, maybe you just don't want it to be easy for governments or other malicious entities to be able to profile you, it will make it harder to target you if you ever become some kind of target if you regularly do this.
If you want proper security from being hacked and coincidentally traced easily, think VPN connection, delivering internet to a VM (Virtual Machine) that then routes through a second VPN. And now you have one of the more basic forms of reliable cybersecurity. (even then, it's only truly protecting you as long as you are not using windows 7, 8 or 10, since these operating systems are all in their current state what is known as spyware.)
Using a VM also acts as a layer of defense against viruses, most viruses cannot infect your physical system through a virtual machine (there are ways of course, but there are also ways to make it even harder); so you can safely browse whatever filthy shit you want to see, and if you get a virus, then you'll still be safe unless you have identifiable information in your browser history or files which are accessible to that VM.
Furthermore, if you ensured no identifiable information is on your dom0/host/physical machine, then even if a hacker or virus somehow makes it through your VPN and VM, you still have that one last VPN obscuring your traces and where you're connecting from, and who you actually are, if you are keeping track of network activity and can actually notice attempted hacks or malicious activity from viruses, then this would buy you enough time to pull the plug and keep at least your identity a secret.
This is the only way you can get privacy while browsing the internet these days. If you don't pull extreme measures like this, between google facebook and microsoft, everyone can see everything you do.
If you also want to use social media and accounts that are identifiable as you, then you would need to set up another VM, connecting to yet another VPN so that you can keep your public browsing separate from your private browsing as it would be necessary to hack through 2 vpn connections to fully identify you at all times, and hacking your way out of 1 vm to a dom0 to another vm where your private browsing would occur is convoluted and complex, and nobody's gonna go through that kind of trouble unless you're at least some kind of CEO.
How fucked is it though that if you want to be able to retain any sort of anonimity online, you absolutely can not use the #1 most popular operating system that almost everyone uses?
How fucked, that if you don't want all your digital life (including all your offline activities and files!) to be readable like an open book to any interested entities (governments and spy agencies in particular...) you absolutely cannot use Windows 10. And probably not MacOS either (there's a lot less evidence to suggest Apple is in on this, but a gut feeling tells me they've always been in on it, and all these lawsuits and arguments between Apple and the American government are all just some song and dance to make Apple's fans stay ignorant of it all)
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I'm mildly impressed, it's late, but it's on par with the 2080 and the 1080-Ti. It doesn't have anything that directly competes with RTX (except that their cores were always more suited to compute work than nvidia's which may be enough to compensate, in theory) but it makes up for that with 16GB of HBM2 competing with 8GB of GDDR6. Where the 2080 will barely have enough VRAM to run everything, the Radeon VII has so much of the stuff it's got much more potential longevity as future games will start using more and more VRAM, the 2080 will eventually fail to keep up, but the Radeon VII will not. It'll also be used for CAD work.
And another beauty of it is Linux users will flock to buy this. AMD's Linux driver is better than Nvidia's (for a very long time Nvidia's were much better than AMD's on Linux, but that all changed when AMD made an open source driver called amdgpu, when it was new it wasn't up to spec, but over the years it's caught up by now) there are many reasons for Linux users to prefer AMD just for this alone, chief among them being that it's more convenient. You put a (supported) AMD card in any computer and install Linux on it? It will be ready for gaming as soon as you boot it. For Nvidia? It will (at least for recent cards) use a generic driver and require you to install Nvidia's driver manually, which for some distributions is a pain in the neck, especially for the less savvy.
Nvidia put some effort into their Linux driver, their Linux driver is actually all things considered quite good, but they're dicks about certain things, the GUI control panel for example looks like it belongs in the 90s, a lot of their technologies which they use for marketing aren't supported in them; if it requires you to turn on a setting to enable it in-game, it probably won't work (so no DLSS for example, GSYNC support was added in like just the other day, finally. It didn't work for a long time until now... They also occasionally decide to develop their own library implementations for things and refuse to support alternatives (Wayland, a very important developing software for linux that many are hoping will replace X11 for example, is generally implemented with GBM, an API for buffer allocation, Nvidia developed something they call EGLStreams or something and refuse to support GBM. Nobody really wants to use Nvidia's shit when the other thing was already in place and there are no demonstrable reasons why EGLStreams would be any better. But we all know how Nvidia likes to overcommit on random bullshit they develop, like Gsync, despite competing tech being more sensible, like Freesync)
Meanwhile AMD is mostly free of all that bullshit, and since their driver is open source, if support for something is missing, anyone can just add it themselves if they have the desire and skill to do so.
Speaking of Linux anyways, Linux gaming has become a lot more viable in 2018. You can probably expect about 80% of your Steam game library to run without much trouble on it now thanks to steamplay/proton, most of them (especially DX10/11 games) will run at 80-90% native performance too)
The performance of the card lines up with what's displayed here on Linux as well (with AMD's open source driver vs Nvidia's closed one) https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-vii-linux&num=1 the mean result of all the benchmarks combined marks the Radeon VII as 12% faster on average than the 2080 on linux (sometimes it wins by a large margin, sometimes it loses, but usually not by a large margin). It also seems like it's compute performance with properly optimized usage is potentially above the 2080-Ti (although I have no idea if RTX cores were also being used here, but it's semi-irrelevant since if it isn't being used then it's because no one is supporting it yet)
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Yeah, religion never went away, atheists typically 'worship' science, as in just believe anything stated on research papers or studies (despite the majority of them having dubious sources, e.g. sources that have motive to influence the outcome in their favor), and accepting anything accepted as a fact in the scientific community as a holy truth (even if we do not understand the universe half as well as we pretend to and everyone should know this...)
And as for those who didn't go this route, they, as the video claims, went an even worse route and started 'worshipping' politics, what politics? Well whatever sounds nice. What sounds nice? Well social justice sounds nice. As such, we go from one stupid religion like christianity, to another even stupider one like social justice or the modern western political left.
It seems to be very hard for people to acknowledge that they don't know things, that they don't know if god exists or not, that they don't know if what they heard in the news once was wrong or not, that they don't know what's best for everyone on this planet.
Once you start admitting the things you don't know to yourself, well it's a bottomless pit, you will realize you are surrounded by the unknown, and most people have an innate fear of the unknown making it quite hard to embrace it, so this is what we get instead.
It's also very hard to accept the reality that what or who you vote for never changes anything, that it's all a facade, that all democracies have a shadow government that runs things no matter who is 'publicly' running it, a puppeteer if you will, no matter what you vote, the puppeteer is always the same. It's all really just a song and dance of the puppeteer trying to influence the public to come around to the opinion that suits their goals at that time in history, and they now have the perfect tools to do so, media. News, movies, music, tv shows, it's all being used and it's blatantly obvious, yet people are falling for it as if they're paid to do it. It's herd mentality, don't wanna distance yourself from the group, no, must be a good little npc and agree with what's popular today.
Atheism was supposed to represent thinking for yourself, but atheism was always a lie, an atheist does not think for themselves, an atheist just leaps from one religion to another less metaphysical but no less damaging religion instead. If you really think for yourself, what you'll find yourself as is agnostic, e.g. you don't believe in god because you have not witnessed enough evidence for god's existence, but you do not deny god's existence because you cannot disprove it either, even if the bible is easy to disprove, the existence of gods and devils is another matter (and it is actually much easier to prove, if you lower the demands for the criteria of what a god is, e.g. if a god is not required to be "all-mighty" or even a physical entity at all, it goes back to acknowledging what we don't know, for instance that we don't know if what we can see, hear and smell and taste is everything there is, in fact we already know that this is not everything, and as we know this is not everything, is it really so hard to figure out that there's a lot of stuff that exists in reality that we have no means to measure? It's not. And what if spiritual entities such as so called gods and demons are actually one of these things? At the very least it's easy to see that it's not entirely impossible, hence, doubt but do not deny what cannot be disproven. And believe, but do not believe blindly, even in things you believe to have been proven without a shadow of a doubt, we're very good at deceiving ourselves, at missing key observations that could turn our perspectives on their heads (even when they're directly pointed out to us!) so always doubt everything, or you are guaranteed to get mislead.
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Hehehe, people doing the responsible thing punished and people doing the irresponsible thing rewarded.
That's how it always works man. I mean school, education, how many people who manage to graduate from university end up jobless, or even homeless? Quite a lot.
How many people who drop out of school at college level or lower end up becoming well off? Quite a lot.
How many criminals are filthy rich? Quite a number.
How many cops are well off? Only the ones who are taking money from the aforementioned criminals.
How many people did the responsible thing and dismissed bitcoin out of hand as some kind of internet money that would never take off? The majority of mankind
How many people were irresponsible and invested a shitton of money into bitcoin early on? A small handful of now very rich people.
See the pattern?
Doing the right thing only lets you work within a system that's always been rigged against you. Doing the wrong thing lets you attempt to escape from that rigged system, and with just the right amount of luck you just might reach escape velocity and fly off soaring to ever greater heights. At least your chances of swimming instead of sinking seem to be higher when you do the irresponsible thing than when you do the responsible thing, it's almost universally true. The entire point of society, of civilization, of law, is to keep the common man at the level of common man and prevent them from rising above that station by making it into a game filled with traps that bring you back to square zero and other traps that end only in infinite loops of maintaining a status quo (gambling for instance).
The lower you are on the social ladder, the harder it is to climb up to the next level, the higher you are on the social ladder, the easier it gets. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, there are no trickle down economics at play, if it trickles any way, it is not downwards, it is upwards.
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Yeah it's a clear indicator of what kind of music I listened to when I can say I knew every song mentioned for "Aeolian"; every single one, some of them are still favorites (can't say the same for the others). Funny enough today I seem to somewhat lean towards Locrian songs, I actually think they're really beautiful, I really like wherever I may roam, and I sometimes listen to really chaotic sounding bands like Unexpect or The Dillinger Escape Plan and dir en grey; most people can't listen to it, Dillinger escape plan was like a gateway drug that lead to more like it, I didn't like it at first and most people can't listen to it but I just latched on to one song that I somehow liked and now I love it. I think if I were to describe it, it's like the songs create extreme tension with the chaotic compositions, and then they suddenly break it with beautiful melodies, and the contrast the chaos creates for these melodies makes the melodies much more powerful, like a candle in a completely dark room.
After watching this video I am now wondering if my inclination towards Locrian based music could have a correlation to how chaotic my life is, I feel like I can't control anything and my discipline is shot, but I've been working through it. It's like every day is opposite day, the less I care about something the more successful I will be at it, the more I let go of my control the more control I end up having.
When I was overcoming depression I sought out Ionian and mixolydian music, it's surprisingly difficult to find, but to make it easier, just look for upbeat music. Can't go wrong with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M (roundabout!!)
Still, you'd be surprised how hard it is to change your music tastes or to hold back yourself and stop listening to a specific type of music that you know you love, but luckily if you look hard enough there's usually a subgenre within your favorite genre of music that holds what you need. Although if your favorite genre is rap then there's no salvation for you :D
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This is fun, I've experimented quite a bit with this throughout my teens and found that ultimately we don't need all the information in this video to identify which music is good for us and not. Music invokes emotions, you feel these emotions (obviously) and the more you feel the same emotions the more they will become a part of your day-to-day life. So that is how you can identify what type of music you listen to, the rest is just determining which emotions steer your mentality towards feeling in a way that helps you rather than feeling in a way that drags you down. Determining this again is really simple, if those feelings that get invoked are completely positive things that cannot be linked to negative things, you're in the best place you can be, but I don't think anyone is in that place, we hold a strong bias for the music that we like, almost like cult members we most likely cannot even see the evil in it when we look. The strongest confirmation bias you will ever find is in music opinions.
If you say the first minute of this (e.g. morrowind part) doesn't invoke a feeling of yearning in you then you're lying or somehow trying really hard not to feel it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAnQQcIncq0
But is that yearning a positive or negative feeling? This is difficult to decide and normally we will be biased towards whichever opinion suits us, if we really like this song then we will decide it's positive, if we don't, l we will think it's negative. Which is true? I don't know, I'm guessing it depends on the person, so the right question to ask is how does this feeling help or halt you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2m371xLxw (meg myers - go) as a metalhead I was quite surprised by how much I like meg myers, this song for me inspires a feeling of power, energy, decisiveness, all good things, but if you look at it more critically you find that decisiveness is just a pretty word for aggression, so is power (at least as a feeling) but the energy is real good stuff. You will find the answer you want to hear about your favorite music, and the truth? We're not 'completely' at the mercy of the music we listen to if we're fully conscious of the negative aspects of our favorite music we can willfully ignore it or twist it into a positive spin, it's hard to explain, it requires a lot of mental gymnastics to figure out how this can be done. The same method we can use as a basis to shun certain types of music.
If you really want energy though, swing music is the shiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI (Caravan palace - rock it) it can be pretty hard to find these days, but yeah, music that makes it hard to sit still, that's what energy invoking music truly is. No rock nor metal can match up to this for energy, and what's better, it invokes none of the negative feelings often associated with heavier music. It's like a caffeine and sugar free energy drink. There's a lot of better swing bands, I don't particularly like caravan palace, just 2 or 3 songs.
Now let's compare that to instrumental metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm932Sqwf5E (DOOM Soundtrack), it invokes quite a lot of energy, it can almost compete with swing at some parts, but it also invokes aggression and extreme tension, tension which snaps you to attention, but also creates stress, the tension amplifies the feeling of high energy which is how it feels close to swing in energy generation, but like caffeine and sugar, it's harmful in the long term even if it works in the short term. (I'm literally dissing my favorite genre here lol).
But metal isn't all bad, you'd be hard pressed to find a more uplifting song than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ (korpiklaani - vodka) there's no aggression, but it's uplifting, energizing, not a lot of tension, it's a real nice feelgood song... if you can look past the fact that it promotes alcoholism... Other similar bands include Alestorm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-Z_psXODw which... promotes piracy instead of alcoholism, but since fewer people are likely to act on those urges, I think it's a pass as an uplifting energizing band :D when they're not also promoting alcoholism :)
Stepping a little outside the window of metal (but not very far) there's Linkin Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU you listen to this? This your favorite music? I'll bet $100 that you're generally a debbie downer and probably depressed, I loved this shit when I was an edgy depressed teenager, I can't stand it now. Is it a good song? Yeah sure, it's a good song, I'll give it that much, But it doesn't make me feel anything positive. It strongly invokes feelings of loneliness and sadness, things like feeling alone versus the world, it does this on purpose, it does it well, so do bands like five finger death punch (yeah back to metal!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab5FRwM again, loneliness, alone versus the world theme, mixed with self loathing. These songs are delivered in a way that makes them sound and feel empowering, but they're more like a trojan horse that unleashes and reinforces negative emotions upon you, everyone who's had a tough time (and god knows I'm one) can identify strongly with songs like these, there's a lot of shit to latch on to and attach meaning to in these songs, they make you feel lonely at the same time as they make you realize you're not alone with your feelings (since someone had to have written that song after all) creating a vicious cycle of you pursuing these kinds of songs to run from your loneliness chasing after songs like these which make you end up like a dog chasing it's own tail, the thing you seek out to expel your loneliness is the same thing that's causing it. After I stopped listening to music like this despite nothing changing, and me still being super alone, I stopped being lonely. If you have no thoughts feeding your sense of loneliness, your loneliness dies even if you're still alone. This is a good song, but it spreads misery disguised as empowerment.
I normally listen to things that poison my mind with aggression rather than loneliness, because through some mental gymnastics of mine aggression invocation in music has 0 effect on me, kinda like waves hitting against a wall, I am too much at peace to be aggressive so it's the perfect poison for me since without it I'd probably end up as some sorta hippie lol.
Stepping away from this genre entirely if you want truly motivational and empowering music, trailer music is where it's at! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJj2EpC8vg you'd be surprised how much it has in common with metal. Rather than making you feel alone vs the world it makes you feel ready to take on the world, and win, singlehandedly, delusions of grandeur may occur, but like metal it also creates strong hints of aggression, but it provides such incredible energy and makes you feel like the hero of your own story doesn't it? In general people think this sort of music is over the top, too dramatic. I say it's spot on.
There's also soft piano music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TSKgwvHgho this song makes me tear up right from the get go, I have a serious soft spot for pianos. It's hard to identify the feeling this invokes but my gut tells me that this feeling is what we call hope. Such a powerful emotion. I've never played the game, I have no mental association or context with this song. I remember the same feeling (+ some others) occurring when I turned on a hentai game (not a joke) and the menu track was so beautiful I listened to it all the way to the end, cried a little, lost my boner and turned off the game before I could even hit "new game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWfdj0K2Ymg (Rakuen no tobira from Euphoria, a hardcore bondage (aka torture) porn game from what I hear), the song caught me completely off guard I was not expecting that from some fucking porn man!
Last but not least, here is an example of perfect execution of video game soundtracks, you won't find this in modern games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWsICxqgt5w a sense of mystery, a call to action, snaps you to attention, fills you with energy, and makes you wanna do lara croft things; reason this isn't in modern games is cus now we have bigger budgets and this sort of thing is the norm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y&index=22&list=PLA69C1EEA3355844F
Music holds a magic power, it can singlehandedly make us experience the full range of human emotions, it can lift us up, it can tear us down, it can make us happy, it can crush us, it is our best friend and worst enemy, pop & rap music sure has been hard at work to become mankinds worst enemy. And just like beautiful flames burn, beautiful songs can burn you too.
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Krita is not any slower than GIMP... But it can in some cases be slower than photoshop, still, for example in the case of brush engines, krita does indeed have slower brushes than photoshop, but it has significantly more versatile brush engines than photoshop allowing for greater customization, as a tradeoff.
I bet if you had choppiness with MPV, you were using an upscaling algorithm that was just too much for your hardware, or not using the opengl renderer, try an mpv front-end like media player classic qt, see how it works, it should have the gl renderer on by default.
I know, steamplay is better than POL for games though :D that's why I wanted to mention it. To tell the truth though, I wasn't aware photoshop could run properly through wine until I saw this video, last I checked a few years ago it wouldn't work right.
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Damn I feel you man. I had an ipod once, I bought it used for fairly cheap, then sold it for higher after I got sick enough of it. just to buy a 50 buck replacement (i bought the ipod for like 150 bucks or something and sold it 2 years later for like 200 bucks, was an ipod touch)
And it indeed took me ages to figure out that I had to use iTunes to interact with this shit at all from my computer. Thing is, iTunes is fucking cancer, I hate it, why should I have to use their shitty as fuck media player to use their freaking mp3 playback device? Why do these fucking morons have to be annoying like that?
But yeah that's just one of my experiences with them, I have several more (ever get a virus on a Mac? Yeah it's no fun to have a virus on an OS advertised as 'virus free', there's no market for antivirus solutions, how do you even clean this shit out? when the entire 2 free antivirus solutions available for the OS couldn't find anything), most of them even worse, the problem with Apple isn't their hardware really, hardware fails no matter where it came from, it happens, no the problem with Apple is their software and their cancerous attitude of wanting everyone to do things 'their way' and no other way, ever. Apple is all about 'only one way to do it' everyone else in everything is always about 'many ways to do it' even if there is a 'de facto way to do it' there are still other ways.
But you know... The Apple tards are actually better off than the Windows tards because even if apple hardware is more expnsive and in no single way shape or form better than anything else in any single case, and even if apple's software is quite simply inferior to all it's competition on any OS (like if you do it worse than Apple, you're a doofus, ok ok LLVM/Clang is ok, but it's the only ok piece of software I know developed largely by apple)
At the very least, the one bad thing Apple still isn't doing that Microsoft are, is spying on everything their users do, and all their files, for teh lulz... Unless I missed something, I mean they 'can' they have backdoors like windows has had since the 90s, but these need to be targeted hacks, they're not mass surveillance like that windows 10 crap. Even if Apple practically hasn't done a single damn thing right since Macintosh, at least they haven't stooped to that level just yet.
But mark my words, it's only a matter of time before they start doing it just like Microsoft are, and while all of their users get to be complete cucks, at least guys like you and me can be happy with Linux. Not because Linux is so great, not because we're Linux fanboys, but because Windows has already turned into complete cancer, MacOS has always been cancer for people like us but since it's liked by some people then I guess it's allright until it follows in Windows 10's footsteps... Pretty much only Linux and the BSDs remain, not great, but simply good enough and not doing things we don't want them to do. But man do I wish I could call at least one operating system 'great', instead of just 'good'. If it wasn't for the bullshit, that would be Windows.
Edit, ok LLVM ship sailed quickly, 5 minutes after I wrote this news circling that Chris Lattner is leaving Apple. Oops, there goes their only good software engineer. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chris-Lattner-Leaving-Apple
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4 million views? what has mankind come to? Also did you have to explain everything? And you even allowed us to hear the terribad dubs, thanks for that, I will have nightmares now about luffy being voiced by a total amateur... Oh my god lelouch is speaking in a funny tone...
Sharingan can technically be artifically created if all it does is cause specific hallucinations.
Who named magic hands vectors?
Why would we want zanpakuto? to kill ghosts?
I only agreed with FMA Alchemy. Why would I want any of the other to exist? sure they are cool, and would be cool if I had them, but I would not want them to be real if they were somebody else's. Alchemy however would be really cool.
Oh and you forgot about Hamon (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) and Vampirism (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Hellsing) and Magic (from zero no tsukaima, magi, all the mahou shoujo animes, Fairy Tail, and many many others), Living clothes that are outrageously sturdy as well as lightweight (Kill la kill, which was in fact being aired when this video was uploaded and as such hard to miss) All disputes must be solved through games, violence is impossible (No Game No Life), Immortality (Rin Daughters of Mnemosyne, although that one is real, it is scientifically possible), time travel (Steins Gate), Berserker armor (Berserk, although it hasn't appeared in any of the animes yet)
I am just not amused...
4 million views on this? why do people waste their time on this obviously shit channel?
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Made a mistake, you should pick the CPU with the highest single thread performance, which back then was (and still is today) the i7-4790K.
This is because DirectX 11 and lower and OpenGL are not good at multithreading (even if they've been made capable of it over the years, they originally weren't) but they're pretty good at using one of your cores well, they will never efficiently utilize more than one core (good game devs try, they just fail without exception, this is what DX12 and Vulkan are basically fixing, the main thing)
Also for budget gaming you want to buy the best AMD card rather than Nvidia card (better performance per $$, today and back then) but I guess a 780 (or today would be 980-Ti) are a pretty good buy (if I'd buy today I'd go for the Fury X which is cheaper than 980-Ti but at the same performance level)
Also while 8GB was enough at this time, time flies and you want 16GB today; people are running more and more dumb shit in the background, and games are simply using more RAM. You probably woulda gotten noticably more performance out of metro last light with that CPU; not to mention if you'd overclocked it.
CPU Watercooler was pointless, unless you want to overclock the CPU. Put it on the GPU? Well shucks, it's pointless there too because GPUs aren't very overclockable to begin with and can often reach maximum overclocking capacity with just the stock cooler depending on who you buy from (never hurts to cover your bases though I guess)
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BlindingShotz Just because you didn't doesn't mean nobody did. I can hardly use the bloody thing on my new laptop. Can't use W7 either (missing drivers) and I loathe W8 which left me with limited options, so I use Linux on that computer most of the time, W10 when it can't be avoided, I can hardly playback video in Windows 10 (Random freezes and BSODs hoy!), you have no idea how much of a pain that OS is for me, I guess it has somewhat limited hardware support and faulty drivers for much of supported hardware unlike it's predecessors.
I know a couple of people that use or have used Windows 10, all of them hated it, most of them are back on Windows 7 because it was just a buggy bloated piece of crapware, it's like it's barely worthy as a beta release. One of my friends hated it because he was getting significantly worse game performance out of it than 7/8, and another gave a vague reason of "buggy and shitty, I'm going back to 7" after using it for a handful of months.
If you have just the right hardware and software combination pretty much anything will work, but as soon as you go astray that anything can be as broken as my grandmas ancient volvo.
It speaks volumes about how much faith Microsoft puts in the OS itself when they all of a sudden stray from their traditional business practices by giving it away for free, and dangle DX12 as "Windows 10 exclusive" bait to lure people to their new platform. They wouldn't have done any of that if they were actually convinced people would like Windows 10 from the start.
It is an obviously rushed bloated spyware ridden crap OS, currently in no better than beta state, works fine for some users, doesn't work at all for others. And a lot of people aren't quite convinced and do not bother switching to 10 at all (boy do I understand them) and it is these people that need Vulkan support, these people are right now the majority everybody so loves to talk about in business.W10 is seeing relatively slow migration, by the looks of it the vast majority of people using W10 right now are people who bought new computers that came with it pre-installed.
All the people that are sticking with 7 and 8 have good reason to stick with 7 and 8 and these people won't be able to make any sort of use of DX12, but they will be able to use Vulkan, and so will OS X and Linux users, a nice bonus, Windows 10 users will also be able to use it making DX12 in the end redundant.
But like I also said, supporting both is nice, at least for benchmark purposes.
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***** Don't forget PC-DOS, 86-DOS, FreeDOS, OpenDOS, Concurrent DOS; DOS Plus, Multiuser DOS, ROM-DOS, a bunch more and the very original first of all, QDOS (quick and dirty operating system, not the motorola thing which is Qasar DOS) by Tim Paterson, later continued as 86-DOS which was then bought by Microsoft and well, then they turned into MS-DOS.
But my point remains that there was never at any point in time "Windows DOS".
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I don't know what you were taught in martial arts class but what I was taught was that if you come up against a knife, if you fight, you will almost without exception get stabbed at least once. The point was proven to me further in the showers after the class where an old man who used to be in the french legion who happened to be taking these same classes (just to stay in some sort of shape) showed me his torso, he had post-stabbing scars all over his chest, it was insane that he was even alive seeing how many times he must have encountered a knife. Point taken, if you decide to stay and fight against a knife, you're gonna get stabbed almost every time. Your survival depends not on if, but where you get stabbed. So better run, if you can.
Also, you say that most knife attacks will be with the knife used as a concealed weapon in an attempt to kill you. Where do you get this information from, where's that data from? Because the way I see it knifes will be most commonly used as an intimidation tactic for muggings, rape and other similar situations where the assailent only intends to scare you into submission, not kill you. They will only actually stab you if you try to fight back. I'd actually guess that the most common use of knives is to be used in the middle of a fight, some two guys are fighting, and for various possible reasons one of them pulls out a knife to increase his chances, and in that situation if you are paying attention to your opponent you will see him draw the knife and thus have time to react unless he himself has trained or exercised drawing the knife quick with subtle or concealed hand movements.
Using martial arts techniques against a knife as you say isn't anything like in class under controlled conditions. You'll be under psychological stress and thus your success will depend on your ability to manage said stress, to avoid panic, to keep calm and most importantly you have to not fear the knife. If you can see the knife the same way you'd see a fist, you'll have some chance just for being level-headed.
But your bottom line is absolutely correct, if possible, when you see a knife before it'll be used to stabbed you, just run like a motherfucker and aim for the next corner (in case your assailent knows how to throw a knife and is in fact here with the primary goal of killing you). And also as you say, even if you're cornered, your best bet is to try to make a run for it anyways. Find a way out.
There are some very good techniques to use when coming up against a knife barehanded (you'll find them in traditional ju jitsu (not brazilian) and in krav maga) but real combat is nothing like practice and just because you know how to perform a move doesn't mean you know how to effectively utilize it in a real fight. And even if you do, again, you're gonna get stabbed and this is simply because practically no assailent will attack you from the exact same angle as you've been practicing against. Some will slash, most will stab. Some will be left handed, some will stab from below, others from above, and the other problem is that you can't predict the timing of their attack very easily, watching any martial arts competition involving punching you will see that everyone always misreads an attack at some point... And usually in these competitions both participants have had time to study their opponent through recordings of their older fights way before their match, in real life you don't know anything about the guy attacking you and how he's gonna do it. You don't know if he's a skilled fighter or an amateur until after your first bout. There are too many variables. Always run...
Unless you're a nutter that wears chainmail all day every day, then you'll be fine, I mean you'll get stabbed in the arm probably, but that won't kill you, it'll just incapacitate you.
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The whole option thing, is used in another context too within advanced government (governments that are in the know) they give people two lies or "options" (like leftist and rightist; communism or capitalism) when the option that would be good for them is a third unpresented one, e.g. the truths that are really important are always hidden by a set of at least two lies.
This indeed is a key aspect to power, whether you see it from a social/persuasion point of view, or from the view of someone who has to hide something in order to hold on to it.
(You can easily see this if you look around, world ain't as black and white as politics like to claim, one politician promises lower taxes and the other promises higher minimum wage, both have an ulterior motive that neither one shares that they will prioritize much higher, and often this will lead to them not fulfilling their promise at all, sometimes even just one politician will tell you he's going to 6 things when in reality his plan mostly involves 3 other things he doesn't tell you, that's the next level that this game is played at, and it's a little scary to know it... but this technique has been around for a few millennia, passed down from one ruler to the next and their underlings to make them more effective, underlings then switch sides a lot so it spreads... and now I would imagine all the biggest governments know this, although I doubt that my own has it, all the politicians here are just so incredibly dumb people, right lies, the left can't deliver to begin with, where does that leave us, right?
But you can count on it that the politicians who are in on this are the ones who always come out on top. That's one of the ways in which our system is broken today. It breeds and encourages corruption with no real restraints whatsoever)
One example of this I'm seeing today is Iceland's presidential election the other day, while there were many candidates, it was made out like there were only two real ones, one a known asshat (but known nontheless, that's the trick) and another one (the one really meant to win by this scheme) who puts on a really friendly face (but I imagine they're both just muppets, whereas all the other candidates haven't been in politics and probably don't know the game, that's why they will lose, and that is also why they would make better presidents, counter-intuitive right?)) something similar is also happening in the US (I belive there the two lies are Connor and Trump, but both of them are really just puppets of bigger players; and exactly because of that... they become the two lies, because the public always chooses one of the two lies, and never the truth; a similar thing is actually going on on the other side of the fence as well with Clinton and Sanders, they're really not much better choices... It's basically everywhere, if you choose to see it. Of course not all of it is deliberately instigated, but mark my words that it often is, and for something as big as a presidential election? Always. However a difference for example between Iceland and US is that in Iceland there's only one set of major players as puppeteers, in the US there are many more vying for control, so each representitive may have different puppeteers there)
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This is an extremely good video, and a very important one . I've had a hard time finding videos on this subject that actually help, this might be the only one.
This is the only other really good video I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU
It describes the issue really, really well, but doesn't really give many hints how to solve the problem. (Deadlines to invoke panic? Sure, great in theory, but when there are no hard set deadlines made by third parties, there won't be any repercussions if you fail to meet your own set deadlines, so it does not successfully invoke panic)
I'd love it if you could cover this subject in greater detail since I've quite literally been stuck in life for 6 years (and remain so today) with a mountain of great, great ideas all of which I want (and am ready) to execute, but instead I rarely if ever can get myself to just start working. This video is one of very very few that have given me any sort of ideas on how to act next.
It would be really cool if you could cover this topic in more detail.
Also for discussion, is willpower really finite? I don't think so, or at least if it is my pool would be insanely large (the shit I had to suffer through as a kid; a finite or small pool of willpower wouldn't have cut it, no matter how efficiently I was using it at the time). It's not a matter of lacking willpower, it's a matter of inability to tap into it. I've also personally found that willpower might be only effective for some things, for example "not doing" or enforcing rules like you described in your video. Rather than a spontaneous "I am going to work now" or trying to stick with a schedule. With willpower I can indefinitely get myself to stare at a wall, and it won't end until I get so sleep deprived that it physically hurts and I just want to go to sleep. But it's harder to use willpower to stand up from in front of a tv or computer and do something else. To stop doing something you're already doing, or initiate something you don't particularly feel like doing but know you want to anyways (like homework).
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Dude this video is amazing. And it surprises me how many people there are who just let this go over their heads. (Like on one hand, guys who have never had a girlfriend who think this just applies to people who have, and guys who think it's right to be mad at girls for being with other dudes) It's not that their perspectives puzzle me, I understand it, I do, but this is more important than having a spouse, way more important, it allows you to stand on your own, to have a rock solid yet healthy foundation that allows you to stand firm yet at the same time be very emotional.
As someone who has been struggling in life in general over the past years, fighting myself at every turn, thinking I know what it is to love myself the same way you did, I have too found (and can attest to it) that your emotions and emotional responses to things can be changed, they can be altered, you can reprogram them. It's not an easy task at all, but I managed to do it for example to draw, I've been trying to learn to draw, and I kinda suck at it, and my favorite artist keeps saying that he draws because he loves drawing, the drawing process, not the results (and boy does he hate his results... even if I love them), so I recognized the problem here, one fundamental difference between me and a great artist, I didn't love the process, I was drawing for the results and hated the results so I wasn't having a very good experience. So over a little bit of time, I've managed to turn that around, to love the process, and to be less worried about the results. And it didn't take long after that that I started drawing a lot more regularly, I've been drawing every day now for longer than at any point before, and I've been improving by leaps and bounds incredibly much every day, finally feel like I'm getting somewhere, and all it took to get to this tipping point (where I reached the top of n00b hill and the rest of the path is slowly tilting downhill, only a matter of time now before I start rolling!) was to change my emotional response to drawing, and to accept my mistakes in drawing, to not be disappointed by my mistakes. To know that I have another shot at it and a mistake is ok, I can just do better next time.
I don't know very many other examples of this that I can give, this is the only time I've intentionally altered my emotional response to something, but I know that over the past years my emotional response to gaming has changed a lot (I thought I was wasting my life doing too much gaming, I was wrong, there were worse things I could be doing... But it was too late by the time I realized that, the damage had been done and I now have a dulled emotional response to video games, and it really just hurts in my heart not to be able to just lose myself in video games anymore, there are few things that I love more to do... Now I'm sad because I've lost it.)
This eye scrambling trick if it indeed works is going to be an amazing tool for me in the coming months, and it's time for me to start pursuing unconditional self love.
Thanks for this!
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Not ninjato, but wakizashi. The samurai had them too (yes the same sword that is used for seppuku), they're short katanas, just as sharp.
It's a bit of an overstatement that knights were the most capable fighters of the middle ages, they were not, they certainly were the wealthiest though which is what allowed them to buy expensive armor. Vikings are also not as unceasingly violent brutes as you claim (I should know, I'm their descendant), they can easily be compared to the pirates. They were foremost tradesmen, certainly strong, but not particularly well trained or organized in combat, but they were probably fearsome for the same reason as the samurai, they had no fear of death in battle, in fact they wanted to die in battle, it was dishonor to die outside of battle, which is why they actively sought battle. But they didn't do so unprovoked unless they were doing the same things pirates are best known for, which happened.
Lastly, you forgot a very formidable force in this list of yours, which probably belonged in second place rather than knights, and that is the templars. Sure they were also knights, but they were arguably the most powerful knights in history, they were so feared that their very masters (the church) had them executed out of fear of being unable to control them. I doubt they were even second to the famed spartans, they trained just as hard.
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This is a good thing, intel did not do the smart thing and lower their prices, they did the stupid thing and went for a quick cash grab. I hope this will hurt them so AMD can thrive a little for a while.
I want to see the companies compete, seriously compete, especially in the pricing department, but right now with Intel's resources if they would aggressively lower their prices to compete with AMD, Intel could probably crush AMD as it is due to the sheer difference in available cash money.
I've had issues with intel for years now because of their absurd pricing I still used their products of course, there was no other choice but now that there is, I'm gonna switch over to AMD first chance I get. Then again I was gonna do the same for the AMD RX line of graphics cards since they've got comparable price to performance to Nvidia's competition, but then Nvidia went and chopped the prices of the 900 series by half so I got myself a 980-Ti instead (for just a bit more than an RX 480 or gtx 1060 would have cost!) that was a deal too good to refuse.
Truth is I want both companies to succeed so that they can compete, intel going all suicidal for a while is a good thing because it'll level the playing field between intel and AMD a little.
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Damn overclocking is pretty fun, taking an old processor and squeezing it to the performance of new processors, feelsgoodman. My new 4790k is outperforming stock 6700s by a noticable margin on benchmarks. I just tried to get the highest performance I could within the 1.3v safety limit I hear 22nm processors tend to have. (I could only get it to 4.76ghz stable though, with 4.14ghz base clock, I almost got 4.44ghz stable base clock though, almost. but I'm pretty happy, 947 multi threaded and 196 single thread scores in cinebench, definitely worth it, I started out with like 805/170) but it's my first overclock, think it's not bad.
Cache and RAM are a pain in the neck to tweak though oh my fucking god.
The hardest part was finding the right aircooler that fit in my case.
Although I?m not sure what safe operating temps are, my idle temps go pretty high (~50°C) but my load temps hover around 75-83.
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WhiteRabbit Well to be fair... the world is going to the hounds, had a look at Germany, Sweden and Greece recently? How about Spain, where do you think Spain will be in the next decade?
Murica going to the hounds won't help anyone, it'll plunge us all into even further chaos. They may not be very nice, or important to any of us, but they are a world power actively participating in balancing the world, maintaining the status quo for the west is basically their purpose which makes them a necessary evil, although right now they are finally starting to fail that purpose anyways. Their fall would just hasten Europe's fall a little bit.
They definitely matter in maintaining the balance of world power, to prevent some of the nice things in life (like World War 3; and then if World War 3 happens they'd also be important as a leading combatant which with enough support would stand victorious at the end of it (although I'm rooting for the Russians personally) the faster such a war would be put to an end the better, and more fighting power on one side means faster conclusion; I care more that the war would end fast than who would win it)
But yeah, it's always funny to see how muricans think they're the center of the universe. Snowflakes.
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Brazilian Ju Jitsu and Ju Jitsu is far from being the same thing, don't say ju jitsu, say brazilian ju jitsu or gracie, whichever suits you.
Also this video is pretty great, I've been figuring most of this stuff out slowly over the past ~2 years as I've tried to learn drawing (I really need all the tricks I can get to learn faster because at the usual pace of other people learning to draw it'd take me like 10 years minimum, and with the rate at which I slack... probably like 30 total; to get where I want to be, my goal is like 5 years.) Wasn't long ago that I started properly applying this as well, or parts of this, what I think would be best called this iterative approach, the technique of doing something, not being satisfied with the result, going back and asking "what did I do wrong" but for me I've found for self-learning (when you don't have a second person to tell you stuff that knows better than you, you don't have a mentor) is not to ask "how can I do this better" but "how can I do this differently?"
And look over the course of like 2 weeks, dat progress: http://orig14.deviantart.net/1c16/f/2016/181/f/9/skull_and_rendering_evolution_by_cestarian-da6yaor.png
I did these often less than 30 minutes a day of practice for just about 2 weeks (With the exception of a couple of failures I did on paper for the 3 weeks before then, but all of them weren't actuall earning, they were just scribbles) Like the highest time I spent was 1-2 hours a day once I got near the end which was either because it was how long it took me or how long I had to finish one of these renderings. You can see all the works I did from first to last here, all my practice...
http://cestarian.deviantart.com/gallery/59291826/Skull-Exercises
By the time I was drawing the orange skull, things got a little scary, my mind freaked out because I was drawing so high above my perceived class, my "level" that it was like "no I can't do this, I can't draw like this" but I was... and I got this strange feeling because I was improving faster than my mind could handle apparently, it felt surreal. But that's how good this really gets, even if you're just self taught. Now admittedly the only thing I can draw properly right now is skulls, but considering the rate at which I learned that, time to learn other things one at a time.
To remember your skills, look into how spaced repetition works (it tells you how often you have to recall, how often you have to repeat the action and at what intervals (like which amount of hours or days you should wait maximum before you next do it based on where you stand right now)) this also applies to any other type of memory, so use it for long term knowledge retention.
If you're too lazy, what I've found to work is...
learn thing
Remember again that night
Remember again next morning
Remember again second night
Remember again third day (not necessarily morning or night, just at some point)
Remember again within 1 week for 1 month
Remember again once per month for 3 months
Remember again once per 3 months (You can bump this up to 6 months but honestly if you only need to remember it this few times, only every 6 months which is basically twice a year; then maybe you can let that information go by now hehe)
It's things like this that are the definition of work smart, not hard.
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I'd buy this if I could afford it. My Phanteks Enthoo Mini XL DS is a bit cramped.
Btw synergy is not a good solution because if you have a sick dual machine config like this (like me!! but I'm a hobo so I couldn't afford the watercooling n shit) I bet you also have one of dem fancypants gaming keyboards, and if you want to fully utilize them under both systems then you need a USB switch (probably coupled with a USB hub) which is what I do. (Or you could use a much more expensive modern KVM switch... your (wallet's) funeral tho)
I also set up a script to turn off the screen when the keyboard and mouse are detected to have been disconnected and turn on the screen when it is detected to have been connected, on both systems, this basically allows me to press a button on the USB switch and woosh, I'm on another computer, all done on hardware.
The biggest problem with a setup like this is really to use the same set of speakers or headphones for both systems, ideally you'd want some software sound streaming solution since they're connected by LAN and all and that shouldn't be a problem, but the problem is finding said software, I can't find any, and the ones I found have like ridic weak documentation and are incomprehensible to everyone who didn't write it themselves.
(PS: I run both my systems off one power supply to save space, be very jealous)
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I bet a lot of handyman type guys got very triggered watching this.
Also Jay, it's ok if you don't know how to make things look pretty, here's what you do: Go minimialist, and then just buy one potted plant (fake plant, you know, so you don't have to water it), and put it somewhere, and you're good, it looks great. Only other rule is that everything must have the same 1 or 2 (max 3) colors, except the potted plant, which can only be green.
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2:40 tfw I started in gentoo and have never used ubuntu.
Normal progression: Ubuntu/Mint -> Fedora/Debian -> Arch -> Gentoo
My progression: Gentoo -> Mint -> Arch -> Fedora -> Antergos(arch...) -> Manjaro(also arch...).
I think distro hopping is important, I think people need to experience different distros to find out the right fit. I tried mint and fedora, and I couldn't live with the release model because ever since windows, rolling release has been the norm for me, and if I can't have the latest and greatest versions of software and drivers I just get mad! >:(
Arch is cool, a fantastic learning experience, as is gentoo, but both are wayyyyyyy too high maintenance, even sometimes releasing updates that break the system and you will have to fix it somehow afterwards. Which is when I found manjaro which offers more or less everything I want, the perfect distro just for me, all the benefits of arch, none of the bullshit. Also arch being difficult to install is an absurd stigma, it's fucking easy; The installation guide is like 1 small wiki page, you only have to type in like 6 commands and configure 3 config files or something (by configure I mean add/change one setting per file)... And learning all that stuff is quite important for your future experiences on linux, so it's worth the time investment. Ubuntu gives you wings and pushes you off a cliff to glide, arch teaches you how to fly, and after learning to use it once, it won't really matter what distro you're using because you'll always retain the knowledge, and it more or less works the same on all distros. (I mean even if it doesn't, you will know what you're looking for)
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I believe that the problem with RTX, and why more developers don't implement it, is that it's Nvidia exclusive tech, this means it's extra work being done only for Nvidia card users, the AMD customers won't get to enjoy it even if they have cards powerful enough for it, and also, perhaps most damningly, it cannot work on any platform other than PC, and a lot of games get most of their players from consoles making it a wasted effort.
Additionally, further down the line in the future where we don't know if people might even end up gaming on integrated graphics (I mean AMD's integrated vega series was a pretty huge thing since it allows you to play a lot of games decently well already and I imagine this will only improve over time), there won't be any forwards compatibility with any such advances because of the nvidia exclusivity.
RTX is great technology. However making the software/engine end of things Nvidia exclusive as well is a huge fuckin mistake; what's more, it makes them look like complete jackasses, especially since AMD has a strong tendency to do the exact opposite and make all software solutions open (even going as far as open source a lot of the time) and not directly dependent on their own hardware (e.g. works on nvidia cards too).
As for DLSS, DLSS is also great technology but it is severely limited, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to implement, more of a pain in the ass to maintain said implementation and is potentially incompatible with modding (e.g. things like texture replacers or model replacers in particular, or new added content via mods; DLSS requires a deep learning AI to be trained to do the (honestly amazing) upscaling on a per-game basis and it needs to be accordingly retrained if any textures or models change or new content gets added, which is why I call it limited)
I understand how they like to advertise their cards at their best with DLSS enabled, but it's honestly misleading, the 3090 is not really an 8k capable card as they claim, it's only truly 4k capable, at least from the gamer's point of view, unless the game supports DLSS 2. Great thing to have, when you have it, but most of the time you probably won't have it.
These are no doubt impressive cards, but the way they implement RTX makes them look like morons, and the way they rely on DLSS to falsely advertise their cards as superior to what they actually are makes them actual assholes. The only saving grace is the more sane pricing strategy and elevated base performance. The nvidia exclusive tech is still, as always, a letdown in some way or another.
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Feel like you should have mentioned some things, like how the lib equivalent on windows is C:\Windows\System which can be used to host .dll (dynamically linked library) files which are the primary format windows uses for libraries. On windows those dll files are always either buried somewhere in C:\Windows or shipped with the program that uses them on an individual basis, whereas on Linux, in general, all software refers to the lib/lib32/lib64 directories to find their library files which has some notable pros and cons over the windows method.
Also, in /boot you didn't explain what bootloader is, which is the same as 'bootmgr' in windows; it allows the bios to detect that there is an operating system on a hard drive when it attempts to boot it. Also in /boot is the actual linux kernel.
Apt was possibly not the best example for a program that requires system-wide configuration. Xorg, Alsa, Pulse or Systemd all would have made somewhat better choices probably.
A really quick way to explain the /home folder would have been "this is exactly the same as C:\Users" (because it is, it is exactly the same)
Overall a great vid though, definitely favoriting this one and sharing it around. This is one aspect of linux that is a real struggle for superusers from windows to figure out.
It remained a head scratcher for me for years until I realized it had a structure of some kind and even after reading up on what's what I still managed to learn new things from this video. I didn't know /run was tmpfs, i ddin't know what /proc was, I didn't know the difference between /bin and /usr/bin, or /lib and /usr/lib...
Honestly, if I really think about it.... It seems like an outdated filesystem structure in some regards, the entire /usr directory and it's subdirectories only create needless confusion to be completely honest, especially /usr/local it's like a redundancy within a redundancy for like no reason,´and thanks to that whenever you're looking for something, you have to search in 3 directories instead of just one (program files) on windows, why do we have /usr/share when we already have /opt?
After looking deeper into FHS I found out that there's an OS called GoboLinux, it's filesystem structure is beautiful compared to this ugly mess; why hasn't something like that been adopted by now?
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Excellent video, I share the exact same view, sports are not martial arts. The best that martial arts have to offer is illegal in any actually legal ring fight, to dfetermine the strongest martial art you need literal life or death gladiator matches, originally martial arts were designed to kill and incapacitate with no mercy in real life circumstances and real life is not so kind to let every fight be 1v1. You throw a traditional ju-jitsu user in a mma or judo competition and careers will be ended, possibly lives lost, and that is a TAME martial art, what brazilian jiu jitsu is based on. Ju Jitsu is far from being the most brutal martial art, but in a ring it would play out like a horror movie, and there would be no showmanship or sportsmanship, just dislocated joints and broken bones within a matter of seconds, worst case lost lives.
Fighting with rules, fighting without rules and fighting to the death are 3 different situations and the top martial art for each one of these categories will not be the same, you can not test killing arts in a ring, and you can not test street fighting capabilities in a ring either. Kung Fu is an excellent collection of martial arts and there are styles of kung fu to match every scenario, but you can only master 1 or 2.
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I am quite impressed, not as good as advertised; but especially that last one, wtf, that's some real armor there. You can pretty much rest assured that nothing's gonna go through it, because people generally aren't gonna carry around 50 cal sniper rifles.
I'm particularly impressed by the first vest though; I mean that thing was made out of garbage materials but it stopped most pistol rounds; not quite reliably but it would help quite a lot if you got shot by a pistol; and it's only 45$! I might not be enthusiastic about entrusting my life to that, but I would definitely choose it over no protection.
That thin little steel plate too, it was surprisingly proper armor, won't use it against rifles but it'll stop pistols with a good amount of certainty. Also, considering how cheap it is, and how light it looks, it might be possible to layer two of them together, I'm curious to see how that'd work out.
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Does apple have a monopoly? Yes. Should they burn for it? Yes. Should companies be sued for being 'too big'? No. Should there be a limit to how much market control companies can have for long perieds of time? Maybe. It is definitely not good how Microsoft has maintained 80-90% market share on desktops and laptops for like 2 decades now. They're abusing this position to squash competition, making it harder for developers to develop cross platform programs by using exclusive APIs like DirectX and .NET and this should definitely not be allowed. But is suing them for their size the right course of action to solve it? Maybe, maybe not, maybe we just need laws about software APIs so that they must be either open source or cross platform compatible between 3 operating systems on each target device (e.g. on desktop/laptop/server space it'd have to be compatible with 3 operating systems, which is easy, on phones it'd have to be compatible with 3 mobile operating systems) 3 is a reasonable number because there is a strong tendency for there to be 3 main players in the operating system market for consumer devices.
The big one, the fashionable one, and the underdog (on desktops it'd be windows, macos and linux, onmobiles it'd be android, ios and one of the many underdogs there (librem/tizen/kaios...).
It's important to note that making a software open source is not the same as making it free or giving away all your control over it (for example UE4 and Cryengine... and even Android)
The goal should be to make it easier for underdog competitors to crop up and be actual competition rather than remaining vapourware. This should make it so that as long as the developers of the underdog operating system are competent enough in their OS development skills they should have a rock solid chance of competing against the biggest mainstream competitor so that the 'favorite' os of consumers will ultimately be decided by the consumers and what they want rather than being decided by which company succeeds in locking down more exclusive software.
Today, exclusives are the king of shady business practices.
What determines the most popular music, tv or movie streaming site/software? Who has the most exclusives.
What determines the best selling consoles? Who has the best exclusives
What determines the most popular operating system? Who has the largest collection of exclusive software
What determines the most popular graphics hardware vendor? Who has the largest collection of exclusive APIs (and manages to get developers to actually use them to market their cards to gamers as 'hey, if you don't buy our card, you'll miss out on all these cool featuers in all those games!')
Before the digital era, exclusives made a lot of sense, but in the era of digital goods, exclusives bring way too much power when enforced in the digital space.
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Pamac, not Pacmac. Manjaro is great, it's rolling release so you can always access the latest versions of everything unlike most distros (which will feel familiar to windows users), AUR massively simplifies installing obscure software (like a community driver for that off brand gaming keyboard or something, need something like that, it can be a massive pain on most distros, but on Arch/Manjaro it is a breeze)
The installation is really easy and effective, with some of the best out of the box hardware support among all distros, and also a key point is that it allows you to install it out of the box with proprietary video card drivers (especially useful for nvidia users). Also unlike other distros, you don't have to reinstall the entire OS everytime there's a major update, it just keeps on rolling.
Perhaps best of all though, is that it's user friendly enough for a beginner to get comfortable with it quite easily, but it's also advanced enough to allow you to dive into the deepest depths of linux customization and administrations (just shy of Gentoo maybe... you don't wanna go that deep anyways...) if you want to, so it's a great distro for someone to transition from a beginner to advanced linux user.
However, I am an advanced linux user, I used gentoo once, got tired of compile times so I went to arch, got tired of everything breaking every few updates if I didn't keep track of the arch linux news so I went to manjaro, which provides me all the benefits of arch with none of the bullshit, I haven't looked back for 2-3 years.
And with these years of experience I finally managed to pinpoint the biggest downsides for a beginner on Manjaro in the long term, which is Kernel and video card driver updates!
Manjaro has this special way of installing the kernel and the video card drivers (MHWD it's called) and the GUI for it is kinda meh, when a major new kernel is released (e.g. from kernel 4.x to 5.x) if you want to switch to it it must be done manually. And while switching between kernels through the GUI works great (you have to be careful what you pick though, e.g. picking the right kernel actually requires a bit of understanding on the subject, usually it's safe to just pick the latest LTS kernel though), the problem is that doing so can break certain things (especially gpu drivers, which are also installed through MHWD).
Updating or reinstalling the GPU drivers through the MHWD GUI is a pain in the ass, it doesn't really work that well, and if you updated your kernel you're somewhat likely to find yourself rebooting to a TTY. And that's a bit of a bummer, usually the solution is reinstalling the GPU drivers so that MHWD can install the appropriate driver for the new kernel version; but that requires some very specific commands (usually you have to first uninstall, then reinstall the gpu drivers and MHWD is not a utility you will use very frequently so it's unlikely you'll remember or even know about this stuff if you're caught in this kind of situation!)
So in a nutshell, as long as you don't decide to update your kernel on manjaro, you're gonna be fine, but updating your GPU driver may actually require a bit of fiffing around in the MHWD GUI and will not happen automatically with a systemwide update, unlike say arch which auto updates both the kernel and the gpu driver if there are updates available to either during any systemwide update.
That is a possible eventual point of confusion, but it only really applies to proprietary driver users, for others it's most likely not gonna be an issue, but gamers are people too!
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It astonishes me how astronomically unlikely advanced civilizations (like humanity on earth) are. Not only do they require life to exist (which is not just rare, as in the universe contains relatively few places where life can exist in the first place, but life is also only possible for a few billion years in the lifespan of the universe out of something like a googol googol googol googol years (actual estimated number from somewehere about the rest of the universes lifetime, that's right, I'm not even counting the years before today here).)
But there are also fragile ecosystems where things like sewers and garbage heaps produced by advanced civilizations can become breeding grounds for potentially world ending pests. Humans might be a bit of a parasite for the planet, but rodents? Rodents are clearly worse considering the amount of time it took them to make an entire island from lush to barren. We exploit the planet, but rodents exploit the life on the planet. The most valuable resource a planet can have.
Now imagine this, a planet that has something like rats sees civilization develop. and amidst the garbage heaps end sewers, they emerge, but wait, they have natural predators, something like cats. Sadly though, that planet's cats are actually the kind of lazy we envision our cats to be and only hunt these things down when they're hungry or don't have anything better to eat. Bye bye civilization, also, game over for all lifebound life on the planet.
Now imagine this same scenario but for an underwater civilization, that would be game over for all life on the planet. These things work fast, it doesn't really take them as long to wipe out everything as it takes mother nature to develop a countermeasure.
And yet here we are, the only reason humanity still exists is because cats also exist. It's funny how all these people are trying to defend nature, when really, all the power is in the hands of nature. All it takes is a little epidemic that kills off most of the worlds cats and bam, no more humans. Sure, a lot of other stuff would be lost in the process but life could thrive again starting from scratch, or rather from underwater, over a couple million years. A drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things. Humans apparently only still exist because they are allowed to exist.
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If the problem is the synchronization of the 2 clocks, it's not that difficult of a problem.
You need a third device.
2 clocks
1 device that sets and synchronizes the clock.
Just think of it like this.
The 'synchronizer' is position in the middle between the two clocks, it sends out a pulse to both clocks at the same time, the clocks then after a little time send a signal back, and the synchronizer compares the signals and if they match, the clocks are synchronized, if they don't match, the clocks are desynchronized.
The problem in the end though, is that this experiment can't truly be executed with perfect precision, because perfect precision does not exist. Even if you manage to perfectly position the synchronizer between the two clocks, one side's wire might still be just a few millimiters longer than the other; which is enough to cause a delay in the signal ruining the accuracy of the synchronization.
There's also the problem that you cannot verify that the clocks are exactly identical down to the atomic level, due to the precision we are aiming to achieve, since the speed at which light travels is no damn joke after all, this would be necessary. Even if all parameters are perfected, the clocks are identical, the connectors between them and the synchronizer as well are identical, there would still be a margin of error because we simply do not know everything.
But there's another way we can measure the one way speed of light.
With more precision, instead of measuring how fast light travels over 1km, you could just measure how fast it travels over a few meters or centimeters using only one clock that's started and stopped by the light.
However, ultimately, if we want to assume that the speed of light is constant, we need to measure how fast it travels in all directions, and in different environments (air, liquid, vaccum...), and over different distances (1 meter, 1km, 100km, etc) in order to truly confirm it, and we need to do this with outrageous levels of precision for it to hold any weight.
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Top 5, allright in no particular order, and excluding browsers and the basic shit like steam and discord...
1: K-Lite Codecs Standard (Configured to use madvr, and then I configure madvr a little extra to get some smooth-motion and that nice ass upscaling algorithm all tweaked)
2: QBittorrent (Like utorrent, but not crap)
3: 360 Total Security (Configured to use all the available active antiviruses), it's probably the best free antivirus software. I always used avira before this which is probably still the second best.
4: MSI Afterburner, I use it both to OC my gpu and to monitor my hardware when in-games with the OSD, quite useful.
5: Autohotkey (besides it's various uses in games (for example remapping your arrow keys to WASD for games that don't support changing your keybinds (like rpg maker and various older games) I also use it to keybind switching between desktops the same way I do it on linux, e.g. ctrl+f1 through f6 changes to desktop 1-6, which is a fairly vital function for me to avoid cluttered windows all over the place...)
Linux edition:
1: mpv (the tricky part here is finding the right configuration to get the best image quality, enable motion interpolation and whatnot, but the result is more or less equal or better than k-lite)
2: QBittorrent ( :D )
3: Conky (and I set it up so I can monitor my cpu/gpu temps from the desktop, cpu usage, memory usage, which applications are using the most cpu/memory, and my active network usage, it's real freaking handy but configuring it just right is a bit of work)
4: Lutris (wanna play windows exclusive games? Use steam & it's proton. Game not on steam? Use lutris)
5: Audacious (There's a lot of music players available on Linux, but I prefer this one over all of them, the reason being that it's not a music library app like itunes or whatever, it's functionally closer to winamp or windows media player, there's no extra complicated bullshit on top. Just a music player, and some basic tools like an equalizer)
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You don't need to be a doctor to be able to talk about this, you need to have experienced it, depression is not just regular sadness, it's long-term, lingering and unyielding hopelessness for most, despair for some unlucky bastards. I've experienced it, I get your views and I agree that depressed people will always stay depressed if they never stop whining about it, I even agree it can be dealt with without the use of anti depressants.
But it's not a minor deal, it's a monster, and it's not a monster tied to your depressing circumstance, it's a monster tied to your depressing way of thinking. It's a self-made mental prison, and breaking out of it is not easy because to truly make it out you have to literally change the way you think. As somewhat subjective evidence for this, my situation when I was depressed and my situation when I was not depressed, at least speaking physically, were identical, the biggest change was that I chose to view my situation as good instead of wallowing in how bad it was. This also somewhat explains how it can be that the have-it-all celebrities and rich folks can still be depressed. It's not what they have or don't have on the outside, it's how they see it from the inside.
That said, you're not wrong that it's shockingly common that people cry about how they're depressed when they're really just a little sad or unsatisfied with their life.
I have split views on this, on the one hand I agree that depression is something you get over and one of the major steps in doing so is just accepting it as a part of your life, moving on and not dwelling on it, but at the same time, you don't get over it in a day, it's a much larger beast than that.
Your opinions on depression clearly come from a place of lack of understanding, but the people on the other side of your argument ALSO come from such a place. Depression is real, it is a problem, it can be a crippling problem, it is common, but there are solutions to it, and while it depends on the person perhaps, drugs are usually not gonna permanently solve it, the only solution I found was a radical 180° personality shift/attitude change which in a nutshell involved going from pessimistic/negative to optimistic/positive for like 80-90% of my thoughts, this shift took a few years and my method of doing it probably wouldn't even work for most people, but it can be done, and I never used drugs.
You're making too much light of depression, and unless you shift your attitude to acknowledge that it indeed is serious, no one will take your opinions on it seriously.
PS: Churchill is a shit example, the guy was a crazy warmonger and all but invented the bombing on civilian cities, he was an even bigger monster than hitler himself. Clearly he did not function very well, guy was a psychopath!
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I like to tune out from news most of the time, just to get away from all this shit, because there's nothing I as an individual can do about it anyways, but everytime I tune back in the situation seems to have gotten 10 times worse than last I checked. The dystopia we often see in sci-fi films is already here, we just can't see it, cuz it's nowhere near as glamorous as in said films.
The surveillance state is already 100% in effect.
Microsoft? Spies on you through all products.
Google? Spies on you through all products
Absolutely any Social Media product? Tries to spy on you beyond the bounds of it's platform (e.g. facebook using tracking cookies to track your internet use outside of facebook)
Apple? Spies on you through all products. (You could have argued against this before, but since maybe around 2018 or so, there's no argument anymore, they're selling your data too!)
What is the most used desktop operating system? Windows 10, spyware galore.
Second most? MacOS, now also spyware.
Most popular search engine? Google by very far.
Most popular social media platform? Doesn't really matter, they're all out to get you.
Can you get your computer to stop spying on you? Only if you're one of those super nerds over in the land of Linux desktops (and even they will struggle a bit...)
Can you get your phone to stop spying on you? No, it will spy on you 24/7, as long as it's microphone is in hearing range of your voice, it's listening. But you could get an outdated model like one of those old nokias, that will actually work.
Beware though, all your text messages and phone calls are listened in on by someone, you have an old nokia? Well does the person you're calling also have it? And are you sure they're not just following you by listening in through the cell tower in the first place? (e.g. even if you can make your phone stop actively spying on you by getting a model that's incapable of it; you can't stop your text messages and phone calls from being listened in on)
Is the minimum wage high enough to cover rent and food for one person for a month? In most countries it is not. Especially rent, there are countries where people with jobs remain homeless because the jobs are only paying enough for them to eat, not for them to sleep under a roof...
How far are we going to allow ourselves to fall before we do something about it? I already see the answer, I can read it from the market share of Windows 10, the just under 90% market share, followed by just about 10% for MacOS is telling me that about 98% of humanity is entirely willing to see us fall all the way to the bottom, so long as they don't have to give up any conveniences on the way down.
It's fine if the world's gonna end, so long as I still have my facebook and google; is basically what 98% of people seem to think.
They think we're stupid? Are you trying to tell me we're not?
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That was more complicated than I expected. But imagine, if megalodons were still around, they would probably attack boats and ships, it's only because (wild) Orcas for some miraculous reason do not (ever) attack humans under any known circumstances, that we have been able to avoid needing to fight with large marine predators for dominance whenever we go out to sea on anything smaller than a tanker. (The worst that can happen is that if you're on something like a kayak or rowboat, a shark might swim up and say hi, but they're not particularly likely to actually attack)
Megalodons, like sharks, would be more neutral about this, and since they would see something big floating up there, especially if we consider how scarce food is for them, they would definitely attack every ship small enough for them to chew.
Now imagine how far back that would have set civilization, we wouldn't have been able to safely navigate between continents or island nations until this problem would be dealt with.
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What the fuuuuck...... I knew they were idiots and terrorists, but pedophilia? Oof, that's a hard blow man. I do agree with people defending loli art cus that is in fact just harmless art, and I believe artistic freedoms should be protected even if I am not a fan of the actual content in question, a lot of haters of that just call its defenders and fans pedos as an insult, but these are bona fide pedophile sympathizers, there's no redemption for this scum, they would never defend the act of pedophilia were they not at least closet pedophiles themselves, the law is there for a reason, the age of consent can be questioned, argued and debated perhaps, maybe 14, maybe 16, maybe 18, maybe 20 (if I recall correctly it was 13 or 14 not so long ago in my own country, I believe it's 16 now) but the fact remains that whatever is below the age of consent is an inexcusable crime socially viewed as second only to murder, and by some even murder is viewed second only to pedophilia, that is how serious of an offense it is to pursue relations with a child and there's no sympathizing with it. I can forgive closet pedophiles, but only as long as they stay in their closet and make do with what can legally be found on the internet and their sick imagination as no one is harmed in that process, everything else is out of the question.
Antifa are now officially as negative an existence for society and civilization as isis. Let them burn.
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You know, you're right, that for maybe 80% or so of users, linux would do the trick just fine.
But for the remaining 20% which includes professionals, gamers or any kind of more advanced user that may have a more complex setup than the laptops most people use...
The "It's free if you don't value your time" starts becoming a lot more accurate. Multi-monitor support is absolutely atrocious for instance, as is printer support. There are literally monitor setups that WILL NOT WORK on linux no matter what you do, they will not work on any Xorg or Wayland based environment. If I recall correctly for instance there is no environment that supports different DPI scalings for different monitors, so if you have say a HiDPI monitor and another monitor with a lower resolution, you're screwed. Also if you have 1 'gaming' monitor with something like 144hz and another regular 60hz monitor, you're gonna have some serious problems.
I have a friend that literally couldn't use linux because of multi-monitor issues where he had a 4K@60 TV and a 1080p@144 screen for aforementioned reasons. I tried just about every desktop environment and window manager out there, nothing would freaking work, I almost couldn't believe it really, that after al lthese years multi monitor support is still universally broken on linux... (I'm not some casual user of linux either, I've had my experiences with gentoo and arch, years on each distro; and this was a problem I could not solve.)
There's also more common use cases which linux may be harder to set up for.
For instance video players, some users like being able to download say a 720p video file, then play it with high quality upscaling, they might also want features like smooth motion and other nice things, for years Linux just did not have an option for this, now it has MPV, but MPV has no real GUI and can only be configured through settings files which are poorly documented; There is still in my opinion no proper front-end for MPV either, there are times when new great front-ends are made for it but they quickly fall into obsolesence as their developers stop maintaining them and mpv adds in new features which the unmaintained frontend now doesn't support.
I guess it's good that we now have Office Online and Valve's Proton (and also lutris) to largely solve the issues with gaming on linux, I mean it's pretty great for gaming right now, sometimes better than windows even, but there are still games that can't be played, and games where you have to do some tweaking in order to make them work, and that is too complicated for the majority of gamers who don't want to spend their precious 5 minutes learning how to do that.
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He became an expert competitive shooter; and an expert at firearms handling, calling him an expert shooter is a bit of a stretch, he's not trained for real combat, and I'm pretty sure the man himself is very aware of that fact. Ultimately he is trained in shooting, but not trained in getting shot back at, or doing all those things under the kind of pressure you have to deal with when in real life or death combat. It only takes one bullet to end you, and it only takes one gunman sneaking up behind you to get shot, or just a moment's hesitation when you have to decide to kill a man.
There is just so much more to combat than firearms handling, and his martial arts while they are cool and probably at least somewhat useful (the guy is a legitimate martial artist too), remember that in the movies his opponents aren't truly resisting, they aren't truly fighting for their lives, they're just rolling with whatever Keanu does. In real combat his biggest weaknesses would be lack of tactical training, and lack of real experience. In the end, no plan survives contact with the enemy. There are too many things that can go wrong, and he has not been trained to maximize his own odds of survival, he's just been trained to efficiently take down opponents that are not truly fighting back.
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A quick internet search will make you realize that several people are in that situation on ALL distributions lol, tearing issues are nothing new with X11, and has only been recently fixed for the various drivers, most distros will default to a configuration that minimizes tearing for open source drivers (intel, amdgpu and nouveau and a couple of others) but for nvidia proprietary drivers, you need to fix it with the nvidia proprietary driver configuration lol :D
If you went back to manjaro right now and didn't even install the nvidia driver on it, I'm pretty sure you would have exactly the same amount of tearing as you have on opensuse now :P
Also @Fubar, jesus christ that sounds like a fucked up experience, I would like to say it was just your hardware breaking on it's own but if the same thing happened to another computer, maybe that wasn't it after all... I only tried suse once, it just was not working for me, after problems installing it I had problems running it altogether hehe, never even considered going back to it after that. The default on Manjaro btw is xfce, it's what I'm using and I'm quite happy with it, functionally speaking it's more or less just as good as kde, but a lot faster and a lot less buggy.
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Oh, it's finally happening, the uh, so called, conspiracy 'theorists' called this wayyyy back in the early days of the epidemic.
There's a lot of suspicious things about the vaccine, particularly how all the vaccines are experimental, not properly tested (I mean come on, they haven't had time to properly test 'em), and how despite all that they are being pushed on people to a degree that can be called violent.
Maybe it's just governmental panicking, but you can't really blame people for being suspicious about these vaccines, they're just inherently the most suspicious vaccines to grace the modern medical industry for as long as it has existed.
As for the question of what it'd take for me to consider becoming vaccinated... A properly tested vaccine without suspicious ingredients like quicksilver is what it would take. This kinda means there will be no taking of any vaccine for me until at least 2 years from now, that I'd rather take my chances with covid and permanent lung damage, it's simply because I trust Covid to do the damage we've been told it does, I don't trust the vaccine not to do worse damage and that information being withheld from the general public to further the agenda of getting more people vaccinated.
Artificial though it may be, the virus i just a virus. The damage it can do is limited to what a virus can do, but if I get injected with some shady concoction, the limit to the damage it could do doesn't really exist. I would need a vaccine I can trust, from a company that I can trust, and there is not a single pharmaceutical company in existence that is trustworthy so this is simply an impossibility in the first place, and the only alternative is long enough time for me to be reassured that the vaccine is safe.
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@HÆVYBVSS Now that's just mean, you don't have to be an idiot to like Belle Delphine, you just have to be an idiot to buy gamer girl bath water.
It's easy to point and laugh at her, but just remember, that even if it's through thirsty simps, she's filthy rich now. And 'Belle Delphine' is just a persona, not a real person, behind that persona is almost definitely a pretty normal (if genius) girl.
Which brings us back to Belle Delphine T-shirt...
I mean it's a nice T-shirt, that is an impressive fake mugshot. Probably wouldn't wear it in public, but I have friends who wear worse when they're in the privacy of their home... At least, unlike the bath water, you can wear the shirt :D
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I like the idea of how EU unified many countries so that we all have a pretty much shared identity, we're neighbors and drinking buddies instead of potential enemies,, I like how they successful created more trade between these countries, and I like the idea of a unified european military institution, but I don't like the EU's political agenda and incessant meddling in each country's politics, and how it's trying to tell everyone how to run their country leading to the refugee crisis being a lot worse than it had to be if countries had had the freedom to tackle it on their own without the EU's meddling., most eu countries also owe the EU as a company... a large debt from literal loans, the EU is trying to control europe by creating the € which bends all countries that use the € to their willl because he who controls the money controls everything, and they're the ones who print it.
The EU is not doing a good job anymore and is not needed anymore, it has served it's purpose, for example Iceland has never been a member of the EU but it's trading just about as much as everyone else, and it feels just as strongly a part of the european identity as all member countries. The UK left the EU, and I think I can speak for everyone when I say that the UK is still just as much of a part of the european identity as all EU member countries despite it. Do european countries benefit from having a shared identity with one another with opoen trade and borders between themselves? Yes, greatly. Do we need the EU for that? no, we do not, and that is my answer, I think we should put an end to this gargoyle that the EU has turned into.
The EU did a lot of good for us but now it's starting to do more harm than good and has thus outlived it's usefulness, when millions of lives are on the table, you don't play favorites and follow the guy who was good once, you follow the guy that is good now, or everything goes to shit out of some pointless sense of political loyalty. Loyalty and honor in politics are an illusion, don't be fooled into thinking it's worth holding on to, countries that are members of the EU may have a lot to thank the EU for, but they owe the EU nothing. It's time to cut off the rotten bodyparts before the infection spreads.
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"This will break the dam - governments will demand it from everyone," said Matthew Green, a security professor at Johns Hopkins University, who is believed to be the first researcher to post a tweet about the issue.
Is whoever wrote this article serious? People have been talking about this for decades man! I mean sure, he's not a researcher but try Richard Stallman maybe?! Edward Snowden at least? (Sure, I'm twisting their words a bit here because of the phrasing but I mean they are kinda implying that this kind of mass surveillance is actually fucking news when Windows 10 and Android have been known to do so much more mass surveillance than this since their initial releases. No this is just one of the small handful of times where we have a company openly admitting that they're doing mass surveillance on you. MacOS and iOS have almost definitely been doing it all too, all along, I just don't think I've seen anyone prove it yet.
I will never forget though, how with the release of windows 10 and very quick discovery of the mass surveillance component of it, almost everyone who even heard of it was in denial about it, but now they're no longer in denial about it, they just don't care about it.)
And come on, who's this guy kidding? 'Governments will demand'? They will demand nothing because they don't need to, they've been doing it behind our backs for at least a decade now en-masse, and for several decades if we only include targeted rather than mass surveillance on-demand with backdoors and compromised hardware (like the TPM module which exists entirely just to spy on your PC).
This entire article, this entire discussion about the topic from official media outlets, this entire thing is just a song and dance to ease us into the idea of accepting mass surveillance over us, just like Louis says, it always starts with "But think of the children!", that's the oldest trick in the fucking book.
PS: A guy who worked for Facebook saying Apple's move was a regressive step for individual privacy? Pot calling the kettle black?
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I do believe that apple's repair techs are incompetent, I also believe that they're lying. It's most likely a mix of both.
It actually reminds me a bit of wacom, I like to draw parallels between wacom and apple, wacom basically only sell their products due to marketing (the only difference is that at the top-end their products actually are the best available) in general they sell products for 2-4x the price of competitors, most of the time these products are vastly inferior in quality. There is however one thing that all drawing tablet companies have in common. Incompetent programmers.
I shit you not, there is not one company that sells drawing tablets with good drivers (regardless of if we're talking about their windows or mac drivers). The only truly good drawing tablet driver is the community developed linux wacom tablet driver (often accessible for non-wacom tablets through another community project called digimend to make non-wacom tablets linux compatible) and I guess there might also be some hope for the linux libinput driver which is a general purpose input device driver (mostly used for keyboards and mice but supports drawing tablets too, just not sure how well it supports them as of yet but it's time will come I hope). Linux is also the only operating system where you can have two different tablet devices plugged in and used at the same time, or just having the drivers for two different tablets installed at all in the first place. The first thing you have to do when you get a new drawing tablet on windows or macos is uninstall the old drivers (even if it's from the same manufacturer you most likely need to do this) I've never seen a better example of incompetent programming than drawing tablet drivers.
I like to draw this parallel because apple actually has the same problem of incompetent programmers. If you look at benchmarks between windows linux and macos, you will see windows and linux mostly neck in neck (linux wins some, windows wins some, but both score pretty good across the board) whereas macos will fall behind sometimes scoring as low as 20% performance speeds of competing operating systems on the exact same hardware, even if that hardware is apple certified (e.g. a macbook) and overall macos benchmarks will score abysmally low compared to almost any windows or linux benchmark of the same kind with extremely few exceptions (most of such exceptions are either flukes or actual problems, like where macos doesn't support some sql security feature and scores much higher in certain sql tests or something along those lines... which is just very bad even if it helps fudge some numbers.)
It's very likely that apple has incompetent repair techs for the very simple reason that they put no emphasis on this division of the company, they also put very little emphasis on the programming division I bet because they have always made their sales through superior marketing, and they know that, so that's where lal their resources and attention get funneled to.
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I noticed this shit (or at least came up with a theory that this was a thing) when I was about 14, as in 10 years ago, and I used this to my advantage. I was dealing with depression at the time, I started to slowly shift the music I listened to, and it was a major contributing factor in me curing myself of depression I'd had for 9 years or so. I simply tried to listen to more happy and positive music, and think happy and positive thoughts until I had a psychological shift of some kind where my world view shifted and instead of the world being an ugly shithole, it was beautiful. It felt euphoric, and for 8 years no matter how much shit has hit the fan I've been flat out immune to depression, I got sad or disappointed sometimes, but traumas that people are known for taking years to recover from (such as breakups) took me about 3 days.
I used to listen to a lot of metal usually with depressive lyrics, but it was more depressive as in when you're looking for a certain meaning in something, you will find it, rather than it actually being depressing or angry or sad lyrics, I broadened my musical tastes to include more genres and sought out songs with happy or positive or energizing or motivational lyrics, and then actively tried to force myself to be optimistic and positive every waking second until that shift occurred. After the shift I have started listening to metal again, but it feels completely different, the same songs hold different meaning, I see the world and everything in it in a different light, a better light, and all I really had to do was to choose to do so, to decide that this was how I wanted to see things. The circumstances of my life did not change much at all, the lifestyle that I once considered absolute shit and beat myself up over, became a lifestyle of luxury free of stress, it's amazing how much of a difference you can make in your life by changing how you think, and one of the most effective ways to change it is indeed through music. I would have never had this shift had I not happened to be listening to the exact right type of song at the exactly right time.
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This woman was using manipulation tactics left and right, trying to make you feel sorry for her for all the times where someone walks away without closing a deal through her, to guilt trip you into not being one of those assholes that would just leave after she tried to pitch them all kinds of shit that they weren't up for buying.
She tried to lie to you that she's your ally, that she's on your side, to try to deceive you into trusting her more easily, even if she pretty much confirmed that she's more likely to be on the owner's side by telling you that the more you pay, the more money she makes. Her objective is clearly to make you pay as much as she can make you pay so that she can squeeze as much out of her percentage commission cut as possible.
She tried to trick you into sympathizing with the owners you are renting from, that they have to pay taxes and shit (Sympathizing with the other end of a negotiation is pretty much never a good idea, a trade must be fair to both sides, it's not really more complicated than that.), that you're supposed to pay the more because they have shit to deal with too, which apparently makes them entitled to more of your money than their property is really worth. That this is why it's ok for them to lie to you, to inflate the value of the property artificially under false pretenses.
She tried to brush away all your grievences under the pretense that "this is just how business is done.", she kept saying she agreed with you, but besides those moments when she claimed to agree with you every word she said indicated that she strongly disagreed with you.
She tried to inflate your sense of value towards the properties, by constantly complimenting every little thing about them, and giving you all kinds of crazy sales pitches that sounded like she honestly just pulled them out of her ass as a ready made script she just throws whenever she's trying to sell anything...
Worst of all though, she tries to trick you into feeling a sense of loss for not buying a space. Telling you that you will "lose the space" if you insult the owner with a lowball offer. This is a pretty strong strategy that most people are vulnerable to, nobody likes to lose things, she's trying to make you feel possessive of something that's not even yours yet, to make you feel like you must get this space. She's making 'not buying this space' feel like a punishment to you to drive you mentally into a corner where you will feel like you have no choice but to buy it, because if you don't buy it you will lose it.
I understand that this is pretty much what her job entails, either way though, she is being a manipulative bitch trying to force you into making decisions that suit her rather than allowing you to make decisions that suit you. That's why she's bringing you to these more expensive places, it suits her, because she gets a bigger commission if you pay more. Overall, her presence is not benefitting you at all, if anything, she's detrimental to you, as she's weighing you down with these ugly little mind games that you shouldn't have to deal with on top of all the deceptive business practices you're already dealing with. She's useless baggage, I hope you just got rid of her.
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I'm Icelandic, while the argument about natural disasters in iceland is bullllllllllllllllshit (lol, we've been doing pretty great for the past 1000 years in that department, our only natural disaster is basically volcanic eruption, but that seems to bother the rest of europe more than us), in a war between russia and the US we're a strategically important position that could be bombarded to hell easily, the first thing the americans would do in such a war is barge in here and set up all the bases they could.
Like they did in ww2. It is not unreasonable to think Iceland would be one of the first battlefields between the US and Russia in such a war. I'm pretty sure if such an event happens, the americans will strike first, and a battle will commence wherever that strike is, but after that we are free game, so if that happens I intend to get out fast and go far east.
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Louis, there's something you missed in the article phrasing that's super obvious when you think about it. They say they do hashing to check for identical images (a process that's btw super fucking easy to fool and only the dumbest of all pedophiles would ever get caught that way; also, to actually send out a 'net' to catch those pedos they'd have to be disseminating these original files somewhere just in case to make sure at least somebody gets said files heh, makes you think, right?)
'Once a certain number of photos is marked as suspect, Apple will enable all the suspect photos to be decrypted and, if apparently illegal, passed on to the relevant authorities'
That is some interesting phrasing right there, because when you are comparing hashes between files, you cannot work with an encrypted file. If you have the original decrypted file, the hash will not be the same for the same file but encrypted. This means that this 'hashing' must be done either before your file is encrypted (most likely) or that your file needs to be decrypted already for just the hashing so there's really no need to enable the suspect photos to be decrypted to the government, they already have the decrypted files and they never did say that they're not saving and sharing those files with said governments anyways, did they?
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True story:
I saw all the jokes about exiting vim in this video, so i fired up a terminal and typed vim. I thought "hmm, ok, i remember having had this problem sometimes in the past (looking at visudo in particular) let's see if i can figure this out"
I learned from the video u press esc to pick a mode, so i hit escape and q as a guess. Nothing
Tried a buncha things. Nothing.
Spammed Ctrl+C, and it tells me: Type :qa! and press <Enter> to abandon all changes and exit Vim.
I press qa, it does weird shit.
I hit esc, type :qa and hit enter, it gives me a bunch of errors and tells me to press enter to continue.
At this point i'm about ready to ragequit and just close the god damn terminal, but then i noticed something. There was an exclamation mark in :qa
So I hit esc, typed :qa! and hit enter, and vim closed.
Thanks to this video, I learned how to close vim. God help me if I want to do something else in vim.
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Yeah the reason mpv has issues has to be poor configuration, if you have a dedicated gpu set the rendering profile to gpu-hq, if not opengl-hq and you should be good to go, at least on modern hardware. PS hasn't really had any serious updates since CS6 (surprisingly) so CS6 is fine, at least for a certain group of people that shall go unnamed.
Here's my tweaked ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf; it's tuned for quality over performance, I have no idea how it would perform on mid or low end hardware (it shouldn't require high end hardware, but the interpolation actually might I have no idea what kind of specs that demands) https://pastebin.com/JqTa5LLg
It was heavily based on this slightly outdated file https://gist.github.com/Hikari9/15ae5d31664ef761df4aa70778c2c0a7
Here's my input.conf with some tweaks to make it more similar to MPC-HC on windows https://pastebin.com/bzuSAiQV
Line 16 and 17 are commented out in favor of this script https://pastebin.com/FAFAE8JZ (to be placed in ~/.config/mpv/scripts) it is configured by me to use the mouse side buttons for the function of skipping to next chapter or next file on playlist if no chapters are present, here is the original using pgup/down instead https://gist.github.com/Hakkin/4f978a5c87c31f7fe3ae
Without the script if you uncomment the lines it will skip to next chapter or do nothing if no chapters are present.
A complementary script I also use would be one that auto-loads all files in the playing file's folder into the playlist to make it behave more like mpc-hc which has this same function https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/lua/autoload.lua
And the last script I'm using is stats.lua https://github.com/Argon-/mpv-stats which gives me similar stats as ctrl+j in mpc-hc (keybound to i instead, because ctrl+j is a stupid keybind)
MPV by itself does have some issues for new users due to lack of GUI and the fact that you need to tweak it through a .conf file which is not really well documented enough. And some basic functions need to be implemented via scripts, however the only functionality that I'm still missing is a recent files list/file history to make it functionally equivalent to mpc-hc for my purposes, it's video playback is already superior, although the upscaling algorithm is only one of the more basic available in the madvr renderer, it was the best available not that long ago and alternatives are only extremely much more resource intensive without giving really noticably better results anyways, on the other hand it does not have a motion interpolation option, it has video smoothing but it's not as good as mpv's motion interpolation which is where it shines through.
The reason I am not using a gui frontend is quite simple, none of the ones I've found allow me to tweak the settings to the same extent as just mpv and while the initial setup may be a bit of a pain, it's all worth it in the end. There's no use for a gui in a video player anyways except for making it easier to configure settings.
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Why would you need a playlist function for watching videos? (Also even recently I recall having issues where VLC used an incorrect color range by default, e.g. all content would be displayd with wrong colors/limited colors whereas most players default to full range. I think it's been fixed by now, but that is a SERIOUS problem and I remembered I had to change some obscure option to fix it, can't remember which one) anyhow I listed my reasons for mpv being superior, and it has nothing much to do with file compatibility although that is indeed a part of it, there will also be corner cases where vlc can play files that mpv can't... probably. It's more to do with playback quality, especially for upscaled content, but also the option of motion interpolation for smoother playback. Both features can massively improve the quality of compressed media (like if you play a 720p file on a 1080p screen, or god forbid UHD screen; or if a video file has low bitrate which is extremely common for just about every video you'l lever download from the internet as the bitrate has the most noticable effect on file sizes out of all encoding settings, low bitrate = choppy video, motion interpolation = no longer choppy video. The feature can even further enhance quality of high bitrate content like if you're playing directly from a bluray disc)
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