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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

This is satire but... The Right wanting to privatize fire departments is a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago

Jfc. They'll never learn. We really are all doomed.

Just kidding. We were doomed already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Present it as an alternative to social media -- one without the kinds of mental health issues and corporate controls.

Present things like electronics tinkering as a life skill instead of a hobby. That includes the Tech license.

It's a long shot, sure.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

She sounds pretty dumb. Maybe someone smarter will take over the farm.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)
  • It only flies to Greenland.
  • Gold interior with marble gauges.
  • The flight computer rambles on about someone trying to get inside when no one is around.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

"Illegal"... hm... now that's a word I haven't heard for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I don't think USians should fight this.

As pear shaped as the UK may be at the moment, it must be better off than all the nonsense in the US. Though there really is nothing in it for the Commonwealth, in any event.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm implying nothing. Some things are meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They will and are changing it, to be sure. Whether those changes are positive remains to be seen.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

I know people will quickly balk at this because people tend to balk at new taxes, tax changes, and anything happening in California.

But it's a good idea. Driving electric should not get you out of paying for roads.

The only way out of paying for roads should be not using them. And that bumps up demand for better public transit, which does substantially more to combat climate change than everyone driving electric cars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The people who believe anything an ex-Fox News dope says are largely the same people who get their "facts" from the ex-host of Fear Factor.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. If you want to be useful, convince some other dinosaur Dems to retire.

 

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.

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