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    guitargirl15 reacted to Neroon in You don't get a warrantee because Linus might die at an inconvenient time   
    That's because for Linus this is about his principles, his believes, he wants the viewers to trust him, and I'm not talking about a 'trust me bro', but really trust who he is, what he stands for.
    I really think that for him asking for official warranty, is insulting, I think it feels to him as an attack on his personality.

    I get where he's coming from, but he needs to really start accepting that you can't be telling us about the massive amounts of products he sells, and also wants to operate on trust. Either stay in the amateur space, or become a professional. Yes how you go about customer care is still very different per company, regardless of warranty, but regardless he needs to be professional about it.

    And that's where the difference is, Luke doesn't take it personally, I mean it's not aimed at him either, this is about people wanting more than Linus' word.
     
     
    So @LinusTech if you happen to read this, you know that most people trust your word, and except for some people bandwagoning just to trash people, the majority of the people asking for warranty, also trust your word, because remember, people who don't trust you, would never ever buy your products, especially not the backpack, they buy it because they believe that this brand new product is what you claim to be. But that's not the same as people expecting you to be a professional about. It isn't about people wanting to see a business man on screen, having a lawyer go over your shit before you talk about it, no one wants that, and well if they do, they can just go watch someone else. It's about if people are gonna drop a lot of money, that they want that dude behind the counter, who can be funny, or cool to talk to, is also a professional and got shit covered.
    It's just 1 of those shitty things you need to do, and it's not exciting, but it is professionalism.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Lomac in You don't get a warrantee because Linus might die at an inconvenient time   
    Sorry, in my hast to leave for work I may have missed my point. I didn't mean to say that you would cite "Wikipedia.org;" rather, you use the sources already within it. As long as those are properly vetted, it's no different than when I would cite other people's papers or encyclopedias when I was in school back in the day.
     
    Yes, I'm old.
     
    The thing is this thread isnt a thesis paper for a medical PhD or even a final project for some high school course. Referencing a Wikipedia page on review bombing isn't really a faux pas in this context.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Fasauceome in Should the percentage be that high   
    You paid for the whole gpu, you should use the whole gpu. What settings are you playing at? Are you getting good performance?
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    guitargirl15 reacted to TheGlenlivet in Should the percentage be that high   
    You have a very capable CPU and entry level GPU.
    This seems normal to me.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to tikker in Practical use of Assembly/X86_64   
    I did a little bit of ARM ASM like a decade ago when I was into calculators. I dropped it once Lua and C became available however, so only some tangential experience, but here are my 2 cents anyway. If you're good or become an expert then you can probably write as good a piece of code in ASM as you can in C, but it's one lesser layer of abstraction that you have to deal with so I don't think you'll be faster. Add to that that a year from now I'd make more sense out of seeing high-level code compared to a bunch of assembly instructions. I haven't touched it since my calculator days though. For me it's in the regime where if you know you can do it well because of some application or target-specific tricks, for example, go ahead, but otherwise I leave it up to the compiler (or stick to even higher level languages, most of my work gets by just fine in Python).
     
    I think it's a bit like typesetting something in LaTeX vs typing it in Word. I have much more control over my document in the former and I can make things I wouldn't know how to do in Word, but at the same time I need to declare the start and end of the document, text formatting turns into commands for every word that needs formatting (things like \textbf{boldtext}; {\color{red} red text}), figures and tables come in special environments, I need to think about which package provides which functionality etc. Even hyperlinks are non-trivial and require a package. I may be able to make as beautiful a document/poster/whatever as I can with something else and with much more control, but it comes at the expense of it being more time consuming and much more thinking on my part how exactly things fit together. The cost of being more powerful is that it won't be as quick to write.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from cripplingheroin in Nothing Phone 1 in the US   
    looks like it has a lot of bands in common with at&t, so you should get good service but do call them to be sure
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from cripplingheroin in Nothing Phone 1 in the US   
    https://us.nothing.tech/pages/phone-1#tech go to network and connectivity, check the bands that are available and compare with the bands provided by various carriers in your area. Even the same carrier can use primarily different bands in different places, so it pays to check that as well
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Oshino Shinobu in Help me connect a Cat5e into a wall socket...   
    The important thing is to keep both ends of a cable run the same. If the other end of the keystone jack is T568A, wire that end as T568A.
     
    As long as the two ends are the same it will work, and you can plug a T568B cable into a T568A socket just fine, so long as the two ends of the cable match and the two ends of the socket match. Generally, it's best to pick one and stick to it for all wiring you use, just for ease of management. T568B tends to be the more commonly used one.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to GadgetBlues in This was all a waste of money. - HDR on YouTube Rant   
    LTT has been incorrectly uploading videos for some time, resulting in pitifully low bitrates. "This was all a waste of money," not because of HDR but because you're sending YouTube either low-bitrate encodes or some format it doesn't like. YT wants H.264 at 35-45 Mbps on the input side. Whoever is handling uploads is either sending a low bitrate encode, or some format YT doesn't prefer.
     
    The huge irony is that the "This was all a waste of money" video is a pitiful 6.1 Mbps VP9 on the output side, even lower than the usual ~7 Mbps of LTT vids.
     
    Gamers Nexus, for example, is typically over 20 Mbps VP9 (equivalent to ~40 Mbps H.264). And that's with a lot of charts on screen!
     
    LTT, after you fire your uploader, have their replacement regularly download your videos with yt-dlp "bestvideo+bestaudio" and drop them into MediaInfo to validate the quality. That should be a required part of your process.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Will upgrading to faster SSD make Windows faster?   
    The difference will be very small, likely not noticeable. There are lots of sata vs nvme benchmarks if you want to see how big of a gap you were expecting.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to DarithINAbby in Germany: Right to "fast" internet law has gone into effect.   
    What a strange and otherwise misguided take, so your suggesting Internet should be a RIGHT, it is not. now what it is would be a product a company sells for a price they set and if you don't like that/agree/can't afford it, you can take your business elsewhere.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from Mortenrb in How to create a 2D game   
    in what way do they cause inconvenience? How else would you determine where to place objects and where they move?
     
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from .wncry in Implementation of Markdown   
    Unfortunate, after spending too much time on StackExchange sites I find myself using markdown automatically here, and then having to go back and change it. 
     
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Nayr438 in What OS has the lowest audio latency?   
    A realtime kernel and configuring pulseaudio is the only way to really go about audio latency. A Distro wont wont specialize directly in this as it can have various effects on different hardware. I am sure some have minor improvements, but probably nothing worthwhile. Ive seen posts where people have managed to get it down to 5ms while I believe MacOS is around 3ms. By default pulseaudio is around 100+ ms. I think mac gets a advantage here because they control what hardware is in each system. This site seems to go over some of the basics but I don't know how old it is.https://juho.tykkala.fi/Pulseaudio-and-latency. Outside of that there are other settings you can configure in pulseaudio to help align it with your hardware. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
    This is something that really just requires trial and error until you achieve what your after.
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Kilrah in What is Android memory?   
    You're looking at storage, not RAM.
     
    Firmware is, well, the OS and preinstalled programs. A typical Linux or Windows install will also take 5-10GB.
    Others usually is files you have on your storage that the system doesn't count as Images, Video, Audio or Documents, can be a lot of it. Use a proper file manager to see what's there, soe will allow to analyze storage, sort by file size etc.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from Franck in How to create a 2D game   
    in what way do they cause inconvenience? How else would you determine where to place objects and where they move?
     
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from Eigenvektor in How to create a 2D game   
    in what way do they cause inconvenience? How else would you determine where to place objects and where they move?
     
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Sauron in how to learn coding fast. (python & C#)   
    defold is pretty easy to start with but you can still do quite a bit, it could be an intermediate step between what you're doing right now and something like unity or unreal. besides, if you're doing things on your own taking advantage of the more powerful features is going to take more work than is reasonable for a hobby.
    complexity is inevitable as you scale up, there are no shortcuts. what you need is years of practice and experience. even if you sit through 10 hours of tutorials it won't automatically make you able to implement anything and everything. as you progress you'll realize you rely less on tutorials and more on raw documentation.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from shadow_ray in How to create a 2D game   
    in what way do they cause inconvenience? How else would you determine where to place objects and where they move?
     
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    guitargirl15 reacted to Imbadatnames in What OS are you currently using to browse the forums?   
    Safari which is the correct answer 😉 
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    guitargirl15 reacted to FliP0x in Virtual kissing in meta will be a thing   
    "Your Honor, I've been molested in the meta verse. User MrBurns69 repeatedly used the "Work it" emote which upset me. I am now offended."
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    guitargirl15 reacted to linux_user in Thoughts on the linux challenge   
    I'm not a huge follower of LTT, but I have seen the recent clips where the LTT guys talk about their linux challenge.
     
    Here's my background:
    I first heard about linux in 2005 from some friends at school. In 2007, I finally burned Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn onto a CD-R and live booted it. I couldn't get Wi-Fi working, so I didn't install it. (I still remember that it needed the RT73 USB driver!)
    In 2008, I read about the latest Ubuntu release. It seemed stable and had more hardware compatibility, so I installed Hardy Heron on my laptop.
    It was great. I installed Compiz to give myself Wobbly Windows and other graphical silliness, I leanred to use OpenOffice, and even worked through some WINE tutorials.
     
    I stuck with linux no matter what. I didn't care that Flash videos stuttered in full screen or that I couldn't run every piece of software I came across.
    It worked well for me for years. I even used it as my only OS for my first couple year at the University.

    In 2011, after 4 years of using Linux primarily through the GUI, I took 3 classes at the local community college. Linux System Administration 1 & 2, along with a Bash Scripting course.
    It completely changed the way I used Linux. I was taught by some guys in their mid-50s. Guys who knew the history of Linux all the way back to Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs.
    I became so comfortable with the terminal. Everything just makes sense at the level of Bash. The courses were on remote administration, which is easiest through the terminal, along with how to do anything we could think of in the text-based environment.
     
    Since then, I have expanded my skill set and constantly learned new things about the OS.
     
    I feel like the LTT crew is missing the point of Linux.
    Operating systems are tools just like anything else. You pick the right tool for the job. If you want to play games, use the OS that has the best compatibility. If you are two knuckles deep in Microsoft's ecosystem and need to use their products constantly, Linux is not for you.
    When I became an adult with a real job, I started dual booting Windows. I use Linux as my primary OS, but there are some things that only work on Windows. If my boss wants you to use a certain program or doing something Windows specific, I need to have that option. I hate windows and find it painful to use, but it's there if I need it.
     
    I don't even understand the point of WINE or CodeWeavers. If Linux isn't doing it for you, use Windows.
    Every Linux user should have Windows available as a dual boot option. I say this as somebody who has a Tux plushie sitting on their desk.
     
    I love Linux. I love that it runs on everything. I love that it isn't owned by an evil corporation who is looking for more money.

    I daily drive an 8 year old laptop. It runs Ubuntu Mate with no trouble. If I try to boot into Windows 10, which I do around once a month, the computer slows to a crawl. CPU usage spikes and my disk IO gets saturated for some unfathomable reason.
    On Linux, I can run 'top' via the terminal and kill the offending program with 'k PID'. On Windows, I can only helplessly watch the Task Manager as it repeatedly refuses to end whatever random Windows process is suffocating my computer.

    I find Windows overall confusing and hard to use. Why do I have to search the internet whenever I want a new program? It's so stupid. On linux, I can type "sudo apt-get install firefox" and have firefox in just a few minutes. I can use "apropos" to see if there's a program that will do what I want. Individuals can make their own repos with software that auto-updates with the computer.
    Windows programs all seem to require update functionality to be built into the program, rather than the OS checking for a new version and grabbing it automatically.
     
    Networking also works so much better. I have Raspberry Pis hooked up to the routers at all my relatives' houses. If they need a file or I want to share something with them, I can almost effortlessly place it on the Pi, which they can then access locally through a web browser on their Windows computers.
    When using Windows, I can't even connect to my WD NAS without installing WD's bloatware. On linux, it just works.
     
    Pressing CTRL+ALT+T opens a terminal windows. In seconds, I can be working on a server halfway across the world via SSH. My University had Chrome books in one of the labs. During downtime, I would SSH into my home server and play text based games.
    I feel lost when I'm using a computer without a Terminal.
     
    I can set up a file server, torrent box, usenet server, etc, in under an hour for just the cost of hardware. If I wanted to do that with Windows, step 1 would be giving MS $100 per OS license. Step 2 would be upgrading the hardware to meet the requirements of Windows.
     
    Automating tasks is also simple in Linux. I can write a script and add it to cron for anything. I'm not aware of a similar Windows tool.
     
    Linux has a steep learning curve. That's because it's a complex, highly-functional tool.
    I understand that I am not the average user. The average newcomer to Linux doesn't have formal training and over a decade of daily experience.
    Still, I have no problem with Linux in its current state.
    Linux offers privacy and functionality that are impossible in Windows. If you don't care about the privacy aspect or you just want to run the latest games, why would you use Linux?
    I seriously don't understand why somebody would switch to Linux unless if offered them something they couldn't get with Windows.

    Saying linux is bad and not user friendly because gaming is hard is like saying a hammer is a bad tool because it can't remove screws.
    It's not that the hammer is bad. The job you want to do just isn't right for a hammer.
    Linux is very good at doing some things, just like Windows is very good at other things. (And MacOS is good at absolutely nothing)
    Pick your OS based on what you need. Don't try to make it something it's not.
     
    Here's an idea for a reverse challenge: How about LMG tries to switch all their server away from Linux/FOSS and exclusively to Microsoft/Closed Source/Paid products?
     
    Anyway, these are just my thoughts on a video series that hasn't even been released yet. Maybe they address all this stuff, but the WAN clips are all pretty negative so far. I get annoyed when people bash (no pun intended) linux for not being Windows.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from JJW364 in Incompatible   
    Nothing, your system is fine. It will probably work without an issue. Only, be prepared to find someone with an older Ryzen chip- a friend, a store, someone- in case the BIOS on your motherboard isn't updated and you need to update it to use the newer Ryzen.
     
    To repeat: The CPU you chose is compatible with the motherboard, but only with a BIOS update. The motherboard probably comes with the BIOS update installed, but just in case it doesn't, you will need a chip that is compatible with the old BIOS (2nd gen) in order to boot using the old chip and update the BIOS.
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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from Results45 in Experiences with non-techies   
    My phone looks like this and I'm doing just fine. I'm 21 btw, and I just don't want/need to be constantly attached to my phone. I have a laptop where I do anything that would usually be done on a phone, but it is not the kind of thing I take out every spare second I have.

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    guitargirl15 got a reaction from Eigenvektor in I want to run my program (java) on cmd, but an error occurred.   
    JDK should include runtime. Also, you don't need to 
    import anything for this particular program.
     
    I would assume there is an older version of the JRE installed along with the new one that came with the JDK, and the system is defaulting to that one for running compiled Java bytecode, even though it is using the new JDK for compilation. 
     
    You can check Programs and Features (under Control Panel) to see if there is an old version of the JRE installed. If there is, you can uninstall the old one (assuming you don't need it), or follow this StackExchange answer to specify which version of Java you wish to use.
     
    Compiling Java programs via CMD should work just fine even if Java is installed on the C drive, the problem here is likely multiple versions of the JRE.
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