Heads up: once in a blue moon it’s on “sale” for free on Epic Games.

(Ask me how I know.)

I bought a VR headset solely to play VTOL VR; worth it!

VTOL VR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/667970/VTOL_VR/

I was confused when I saw that it was discontinued. I bought several in 2015 and still have them.

I’m far more efficient with AI tools as a programmer. I love it! 🤷‍♂️

I was looking for this comment. This is it—not AI.

I time it right so that I can run towards the microwave “in slow motion” and pretend I’m stopping a bomb from going off, 1 second before it blows. My kid loves it. 🤷‍♂️

What games are you playing and what hardware are you running?

Linux has come a long way regarding the ability to easily play games made to run on Windows. It’s never been so easy and well performing. However, in my experience, it’s not quite “just works” yet. Yes, some Windows games will “just work,” but for now that’s still the exception to the rule in my experience.

I use Arch btw, with a i9-9900 and an Nvidia RTX 2070. I still have to tweak settings, research what others are tweaking, I have a few hours of research and tinkering invested into stopping up close jitters in VR(still unresolved), my graphic settings have to be lower than normal for decent performance and I do not enjoy the same frames I’ve enjoyed on Windows with this same machine.

I could probably get some better performance squeezed out of these games, but it’s going to cost me time and tinkering.

tl;dr I don’t think we’re in “just works” territory yet, but we’re getting closer and the progress over the recent years has been amazing. I can’t wait to be rid of Windows forever.

This meme is 10/10

Here’s another comment endorsing Signal.

https://signal.org/

Roughly 1-3 time a month.

🤘

I can hear this comment

After experiencing wrist pain, really bad, I moved to a vertical mouse. It seemed to help, but I eventually moved to a Kensington Expert trackball and I’ve never looked back. I swear by them.

https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Trackball-Mouse-K64325/dp/B00009KH63

I ditched it in favor of simple Python scripts, which is fine for my needs. Others at work seem to like it though.

Have you played OpenRA?

Ha, it really was satisfying!

Crazy to see this in my feed, I was just thinking about this the other day. I didn’t steal the balls, but I remember figuring out that I could remove them and clean the crud off of the rolling components inside to smooth my cursor movement. (This would have been 3rd or 4th grade.)

In my experience, Ubuntu and Ubuntu variants make for a great daily driver for someone who is new to Linux. When I started to get into Linux, I just found the most Q&A content and support for Ubuntu as I googled my way through it. This plentiful support was specifically geared towards newcomers, which I felt the other Linux communities lacked in comparison.

Who?