I recently rebuilt my home rig with some hardware upgrades, including a motherboard and cpu upgrade.
I use a MacBook and spend a majority of my workday in Ubuntu Linux.
The absolute only reason I installed windows on the home machine is because gaming is still essentially nonexistent in the Linux sphere.
If a flavor of Linux can catch up and run everything that can be run on windows I’d happily switch. I imagine a good chunk of the windows market would as well.
Gaming on Linux is so good now I know multiple people who switched their gaming PC to Linux and have no intention of going back. Then there's Steam Deck, which has 3million+ users alone. 3.6% of Steam users are playing on Linux[0], which is kind of insane if you ask me, especially when only 2.2% are playing on MacOS.
Install Steam in Linux and notice you can play the vast majority of your library. There are some online multiplayer games that won't work due to anticheat[1] though that seems to be improving over time as well.
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I’m all for monetizing our own work, but mastering a skill in 30 days is a wild claim. I’m interested to see what kind of rubric for learning it can generate for various topics, but not for the price of admission.
Hello ! Thanks a lot for the feedback. I totally understand, even if it's a wild claim the thing is really to start doing everyday and practicing. It's a lot connected to the 1% rules where you improve 1% everyday. At the end of the year you're in theory 37x better. My goal here with this notion template is really to help people start doing what they want to do everyday and giving them the framework to change. (I'll take a step back and think of the price also)
I used to occasionally watch JRE and at the time found some of the episodes to be interesting thought experiments. But then I watched one episode where the guest expert was talking about a topic in which I had enough familiarity to recognize that they were completely bullshitting their way through the interview and attempting to sound mysterious in order to avoid providing any factual information. Recalling the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [0], I concluded that every previous episode I had watched was equivalent BS and I haven't watched another one since.
That doesn't seem to make much sense. Even if one guest is 100% bullshitting, why would that mean the next guest is too? I mean, it'd be fair to conclude that Joe is full of shit since he's always there, but with all of the people who have been on the podcast I can't imagine all of them are frauds who have no idea what they're talking about.
Stay skeptical, by all means, and don't count on the show to fact check everything for you, but why automatically dismiss them all as BS without evidence and without even hearing them out? If you found the show interesting before, you're probably missing out.
Podcasts are just a form of easily digestible popular media.
If you're actually interested in learning see UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean.
There are many such books with independent accounts of those who have experienced strange phenomena, that are all consistent with each other. These books are well researched and highly sourced with credible witnesses.
I suggest you reserve judgement on what is possible or not if you haven't engaged with the available evidence.
Oh I have. I also read all the legal documents for To The Stars; I thought it was notable that the marketing all sort-of kind-of offers to release alien hyperspace drives but none of the SEC documents do and their startup valuation doesn't include any.
Yeah TTSA is a mystery, and people in UFOlogy don't really know what to think about it. On one hand they've done a lot to further the dialogue, but the weird spin they put into it makes what they do put out harder to take seriously.
My guess is inadequate driver support for the USB mic. I'm running a focusrite 2i2 3rd gen, and although I have gripes with the drivers, the performance is miles beyond the default windows drivers and is fairly solid.
Right now it seems like that's one of the biggest arguments against USB mics, if not the biggest. Standalone USB audio interfaces tend to have better drivers. AFAIK this is more relevant on Windows, just due to the complete shitshow that is Windows audio drivers, and not really relevant on Macs.
Due to the various problems with USB microphones, I generally recommend something like a Scarlett Solo + SM57 or SM58 as an entry point if you're buying your own gear. This has a price tag around US$250, once you include a XLR cable. Just like there's diminishing returns when you buy expensive interfaces/preamps/mics, there's also a sharp dropoff in quality and experience once you go below this baseline.
Even though you can find cheaper microphones and cheaper interfaces, I haven't found any that I can reliably recommend.
I'd have to agree. An SM57 or SM58 is also a piece of gear that you'll be able to use for decades, even if you've moved up to high end thousand dollar mics.
I've actually never encountered the issue with USB mics not accurately reporting latency because I don't think I've ever tried to record with one. Back in the 90s, in high school, my drummer friend and I went in together on a couple SM57s and a Radio Shack 4-channel mixer so we could record our jam sessions into a boombox tape deck (later a PortaStudio). I still have one of those SM57s and just pull that out whenever I've needed a mic.
I'm pretty poorly educated on the nuances of crypto/web3 but it seems every time it comes up in conversation only the benefits are discussed. Thanks for posting this and helping me educate myself a bit more on this
Surprised to see FFVI mentioned here in HN. That said, I HIGHLY recommend playing thru the recently released FFVI-T edition that's recently become available thanks to an incredible translation effort by Tomato. It corrects a number of mistranslations and adds a TON of content and scales up the difficulty. I thoroughly enjoyed the replay.
Mato's brilliant. If you haven't seen his Legends of Localization website, where he discusses various issues related to translation, and even does simultaneous playthroughs of games with different translations (including machine translation!) and compares and contrasts them with the original...you're in for a treat.
The Mother 3 English translation is unbelievably good, it kinda makes Mother 2's localization look like a hack job by comparison. Now I've almost got a reason to go back and give FFVI another pass...
You'll need a copy of the rom to patch. Also I'm pretty sure you can play it on an actual GBA if you have a flash cart. If you play it on an emulator make sure frame skipping is off because the rhythm aspect of combat is almost impossible otherwise.
would you recommend this for someone new to the game? In addition to this, OP's version there also appear to be new remastered versions of the older games.
The FFVI T edition rom hack is the original game with a proper translation, higher difficulty and additional content like tavern quests, new weapons, etc. It also contains some quality of life improvements (sprint shoes no longer need to be equipped, for example) and corrects some calculations. For reference I made it about 60 hours and still have much to do. My only gripe was that battles were stuck on force wait, so you had to wait for things to execute before your ATB gauge would refill. That may or may not have changed as the patch has been updated a bit since I experienced it.
If you're up for the challenge I'd recommend it. As I understand it, the pixel remaster, although interesting looking, lacks some of the bonus content added to other versions of the game. This has that, and much more. It felt polished to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope this helps
I use a MacBook and spend a majority of my workday in Ubuntu Linux.
The absolute only reason I installed windows on the home machine is because gaming is still essentially nonexistent in the Linux sphere.
If a flavor of Linux can catch up and run everything that can be run on windows I’d happily switch. I imagine a good chunk of the windows market would as well.
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