circuitfarmer

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I had those too, but they have gone away for me on 24.04.

Not the Steam client itself, but some games like to start minimized still. That's a minor annoyance, but it is also completely fixed by simply launching everything in gamescope, which plays very nicely with COSMIC.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

COSMIC now has a workspaces overview which is quite similar.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've been daily driving COSMIC for about 6 months now. It has improved dramatically, and I (mostly) love it. Stable too. It's kept me on Pop and I'm now on 24.04.

I have a triple monitor setup, and I like COSMIC's tiling features and that I can very easily move around between windows and workspaces without the mouse. It's similar to i3 in feel (not as lightweight of course), but with easier setup. I can set tiling on or off for specific workspaces, which is great for differing workloads. Numbered shortcuts work too (e.g. option+3 takes me to workspace 3). It is much, much, MUCH better than the tiling features they added for Pop Shell in earlier versions using Gnome.

There are a couple things I would like: the ability to pin specific apps to specific workspaces would be nice, and I wish workspace numbering could span monitors (at the moment, each monitor has its own set of numbers, but they overlap each other so you can't jump to another display only with the number). But tbh I don't care too much about these since everything else has been great.

I don't really use the COSMIC apps (Files, text editor, etc), but that hasn't mattered either.

Edit: if anyone finds it relevant, I'm running a 9700x with 64GB RAM and a 7800XT. Go Team Red.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Jokes on them, my kink is being left alone by absolutely everyone

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Now they must use this rage. Channel it, into not fucking voting for Republicans.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Peggle. As a grown ass person I still play it at least once every couple of weeks. Stupid fun when you don't want to pay too much attention.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

And it feels like an equal number of people believe it is a failure of capitalism as those claiming it is a beauty of capitalism.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I rememeber when "the 1%" was a thing. It wasn't that long ago.

And no one really cared. The rich just do want they want and entire countries full of people just spend and spend and pretend like a Balenciaga T-shirt that took them 100 hours of labor to afford is worth mountains of systematic injustices.

I'm so tired of this timeline.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren't the main character, and I'll show you Half Life 3.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 134 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They literally control all the government. And they still couldn't govern.

If the roles were reversed, I can't even imagine the right wing media backlash.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

And here I've just been shutting the power off for years!

(That's on me, I should have put a /s by my pun above)

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't say like, I just don't know how to quit it.

 

Hi all, I have been PC gaming for a long time (30+ years), but specifically gaming from the couch for 10+. I'm now going to be having a nice workspace in another part of the house so I'm building a second system.

I have two main goals: I want to set up my flight sim stuff (= yoke, throttle, etc) permanently in the workspace, and I also want to play strategy titles in there, in particular ones which have text that can be a bit small on a TV from the couch. I imagine I'll still play a lot in the front room, mostly titles with full controller support, so I think it is fair to say that strategy (4X, RTS) and flight simming (X-Plane primarily) will be the focus where I need a monitor.

I was considering targeting 1440p, but 1080p is probably also fine.

Thing is, I haven't been monitor shopping in a long time. Curved screens? Ultrawides? None of that existed when I last was using a monitor.

So I wanted to ask the community here for their recommendations or ideas. Pretty open ended I guess (modulo a couple questions below) but anything would be helpful.

Not sure it matters, but the workspace system will be:

  • Ryzen 7 9700x
  • RX 7800 XT
  • running Linux (probably Pop! since I have used it for years on the other system without issue), using Proton for anything without a native binary

Are there any pitfalls with ultrawides? If a game doesn't support the resolution, do I just get bars on the side? Does Linux / Proton handle it significantly differently versus Windows?

I also did consider having the flight sim setup and more standard setup be on different desks (thus multiple screens but not next to each other). This might make sense in terms of the flight equipment but then again it might just be a good way to waste space.

 

(This post was intended for politics@lemmy.world, but as it seems they don't allow text posts, I'm posting it here)

This post will likely not go over well with everyone and some people may not agree with the premise of the question. Mods please remove if not allowed.

I am curious if the MAGA-esque approach to politics is new for the US, or if there have been other examples of similar political movements which may be considered "cult-like". To better define what I mean, here are some examples:

  • Large amounts of signs bearing a candidate's name being shown by single individuals (e.g. big trucks covered in Trump signs everywhere)

  • Use of a candidate name over the US flag

  • Use of a kind of supporter uniform (e.g. the red MAGA hat)

  • The "alternative facts" of MAGA, where debate can be impossible because supporters believe anyone who is a detractor must be lying

  • In some cases, voter intimidation or coercion from staunch supporters

It seems to me that some of this is new but I'd love to hear other thoughts. I have heard and seen many relatively obvious parallels to German politics in the 20s-40s, but I'm specifically wondering if anything similar has ever been seen in the US before.

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