3060 user here, nvidia closed works just fine with Wayland too.

<3 alexandrite, I like it a lot better than the default lemmy UI.

Warm. Tummy full. Sleep now.

To be clear you don’t have to get that technical to read non-Amazon books on your kindle… I’ve owned 2 different kindles over the course of about 15 years and literally never bought an ebook from Amazon. Just gotta know where to get them (libgen) and how to use them (calibre.)

A cheap ereader would be nice, but I’ve kinda had to go the opposite direction; my eyes weren’t great to begin with and have only gotten worse with age, so I need a larger screen. I do very little reading (in general, not of books specifically) on my phone because it’s too small and I have to zoom in and pan around all the time, etc.

Huh, I never knew that. I’ll have to remember that if I ever have to manually update this one, but so far nobara has been pretty good about finding and pushing updates.

I just installed Nobara 42 like a week and a half ago and it came with 570.153.02, and it works great.

I had a Pop install about 6-8 months ago that sooorta worked but I think it had the 535 drivers and whenever I tried to update it to the then-current version it would hard-lock my system and reboot with the default video driver no matter which version I used (except 555-server for whatever reason, which still didn’t fix my games.)

I tried Pop about 6-8 months ago and had lots of trouble with the nvidia drivers on it (and, subsequently, ubuntu and mint) with a bog-standard RTX3060. Pop’s particular issue was that whenever I tried to update the video driver, no matter which version I used (except closed-source 555-server, for whatever reason) it hard-locked my system and on reboot had reverted back to the default video driver (so my 40" ultrawide screen was trying to do like 1024x768 and shit). I have since tried 2 seperate Ubuntu installs (LTS and non-LTS) and Mint in the last month, and all of them refused to even initialize the GPU. So, just a heads up for folks with nvidia cards, Ubuntu-based distros might give you trouble. Fortunately Nobara 42 (fedora) is working great.

I have no idea about graphic design, but for gaming I’ve seen Nobara (made by the guy who created Proton-GE) recommended a ton for its frequent updates and many default-installed compatibility options. Been using it about 2 weeks now myself and most things just work great (which is a hell of a relief; I had a ton of issues with Pop, Ubuntu, and Mint hating my bog-standard RTX3060 GPU for whatever reason.) Had some trouble getting battle.net/epic games working through lutris, but nothing too hard to sort out, and steam games have (with the sole exception of Marvel Rivals) just worked.

I’ve been using duck.ai recently myself and quite like it. My only complaint with it is that the chats have a length limit, so if you’re working on complex projects you can run into those limits pretty quick. I use it for worldbuilding for a novel I’m working on and I have to use chatgpt for thematic stuff because it has a better memory, but otherwise it’s great for quick/small things.

While 1200 might be noon for one, another might just get used to 0800 to be noon.

Aside from the fact that that’s just timezones with extra steps?

Who says 0000 must be midnight and 1200 noon?

Thousands of generations of human history/prehistory? We are used to being awake during the day because we use vision so much for everything we do, so we sleep when it’s dark.

Because despite all of our modern technology we are still very much bound to the cycle of night and day. Right now if someone says ‘Hey let’s meet online at noon’ you have to ask what time zone they’re in and do a little dead-simple math to figure out what time that is for you. Oh you’re EST and I’m MST, noon for them is 10am for you. Not particularly hard, but a little irritating. On a system like you suggest you wouldn’t have to do a little addition/subtraction to figure out what time it would be for you, you instead have to do some more complex math based on when the sun comes up for you and figure out if you’ll even be awake at that time. You’re hosting a meeting on west-coast US time and one of the people in that meeting and they’re on the east coast of Australia. Noon your time and noon their time is the same, but for them noon happens at what might otherwise be in the middle of the night, so they’ll definitely be asleep.

Really this is the simplest version because we all still mostly wake and sleep with the sun.

I just started a novel project a few weeks ago and have been using scrivener because it’s just what I saw recommended the most. But now I’ve switched to linux and have been looking for FOSS linux-native alternatives so this is perfectly timed. I tried anytype briefly but it feels like it’s designed for programmers. By which I mean it’s extremely powerful and flexible, but just doing simple shit like creating a bunch of pages in a tree structure requires an hour of hunting and watching tutorial videos.

I like the look of novelwriter that someone else linked, gonna give that a shot.

No, it’s not odd for people to share their religious perspective. I do, however, find it a little odd for people to offer it as specific advice for how to cope with grief to randos on the internet whose beliefs you have no idea about. Hence my suggestion of the more general ‘believe in something.’

Yeah, I think it’s kind of the same for me, I’ve noticed that I have some like aesthetic appreciation for the male body that I either didn’t have when I was younger or didn’t acknowledge because it was the 80s and that sort of thing got aggressively quashed by society (especially in high school; I knew of kids who had gotten beaten up in the bathroom for it, etc.) But yeah, same, I dunno if it’s just something that was always there or something that’s kind of come up since I slapped that asexual label on myself so now it’s safe to entertain the idea because nothing will ever come of it. Brains are weird, man.

Sure, I get that it helps people and I don’t begrudge them that. Just seems like a weirdly specific thing to add to a list of things to deal with grief. ‘Believe in something’ I would get, ‘Believe in this specific thing’ struck me as a little odd.

And thanks, it was a rough 10 years, but I’m doing much better now.

you believe in God, that this whole thing wasn’t all for nothing

You don’t have to believe in god to believe that this whole thing wasn’t all for nothing. I don’t believe in god and I got through the death of my mother in 2009, father in 2014, and best friend of ~25 years in 2019 (a period during which I was a pretty committed atheist.) It’s enough to know that their lives had meaning to me and to others, and that they would want me to carry on with my life rather than wallowing in sorrow and grief.

Badly, like most people who have a good relationship with their parents I imagine. My mother died in 2009 and my father in 2014. The first one was rough, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and only lasted a few months after that. The second one was fucking brutal though, I was the one who had to make the call to pull him off of life support (he had a DNR from pretty much the moment mom died), on the phone, from ~1500 miles away.

They hit me very different, for pretty obvious reasons, but also some not-obvious ones. Plus that was further complicated by the fact that despite loving my parents very much (they were flawed like everyone else, but honestly they were the best parents a guy could ask for) I never cried at either of their deaths. I didn’t get to attend the service for either one (not that there was much of one). But it would hit me out of the blue for years. I still dream about them sometimes. But it wasn’t until my best friend of ~25 years (and long-time roommate) died in 2019 (it was a rough 10 years) that it really all hit me, I felt utterly alone and rudderless in the world for a good while afterwards.

I’m doing better now thankfully. You have no choice but to keep on keeping on, but now carrying that weight. It doesn’t ever go away, but it does get lighter with time.

That, I’m afraid, is the nature of technology: it makes everything easier, even the stuff you really wish it didn’t.

The one in which I dreamed about these vampiric creatures that traveled between realities by making people dream about them. I had just dreamed about the entire species and then knew I was waking up. In that moment between sleep and wakefulness I was desperately flailing around searching for any way to kill myself to save the world from being taken over by these things. Fortunately I couldn’t find anything before I realized it was a dream, but the idea that if I had had some sharp object nearby I definitely would’ve tried to shove it into my skull without realizing was utterly terrifying.

It’s been a while since I was in the job market (I’ve been disabled almost 15 years), but the advice I consistently received was ‘call them’. If you apply online or file a resume or even drop one off in person, you’re just one name in a sea of applicants. File the resume, give it 3 days or so, then call them. Talk to the hiring manager if you can. Tell them who you are and what you’re looking for. Find out if they have a timetable on when they’re hiring. If they don’t give you one keep calling them every few days until they hire you or say ‘no thanks’. At that point you go from being one rando among dozens or more to being that one really persistent person who seemed super interested in the job and whose name is now memorable when they get around to looking at your resume.