Unfortunately that is the reality of American elections. First past the post means a 3rd party can effectively never win

Ignore all media, vote for whoever the democratic candidate is.

I realized that all the election media just makes me angry, and I already know who I’m NOT voting for, so there’s really only one choice anyways.

No idea why you’re getting downvoted. Outside of the increasingly small desktop gpu market AMD is completely irrelevant in professional GPU use. They’re not even remotely close to being a competitor

And I’d like hardware that works, and proprietary drivers are really the only way that happens

That’s all I see happening too. The Nvidia Linux drivers will just get worse and not solve anything.

It’s already a huge pain in the ass to use the proprietary drivers, the open source ones barely work as is.

I’d rather have working proprietary drivers than broken open source ones, which seem to be our only options. I find it real hard to side with Linux here as they’re going to make performance worse for a platform that already struggles.

And people wonder why Linux will never take off on the desktop. Stuff as basic as this will make sure anyone semi-casual about pc use will have issues with Linux.

It gets close, but it’s more about the competition. I’m not a real race car driver, nor will I be in the future, so I’m not chasing 100% realism.

You lose the seat of the pants feel, but there’s been a good amount of improvements to hardware over the last few years that have really increased the fidelity of it.

True, but they started inexpensive. Most everything can be done with a few hundred bucks of hardware in both fields. It’s only when you want to get into the really high end stuff that it gets expensive. My $300 used Nikon D3500 works phenomenally for almost everything, and that’s true for most entry level gear.

Sim racing and Photography

Started with a $200 wheel and pedals setup, now my rig is worth we’ll over $2.5k and is basically top of the line. Upgraded parts one at a time over the last few years and it’s now as good as it gets.

Photography has me slowly upgrading lenses and eventually a new camera body. Just upgraded to a 200-500 F5.6 lens the other week for when I’m going to shoot the Daytona 24 this coming January.

Depends on a given week. Some weeks it’s 8 hour days morning to evening and some weeks it’s finish all my work for the week on Wednesday before noon.

Main desktop has

• 2 2TB NVME SSD’s

• 2 1TB SATA SSD’s

• 1 8TB SATA HDD

Sim Racing Rig has

• 1 2TB NVME SSD

Nas/Server PC has

• 4 4TB HDDs

• 2 16TB HDDs

• 1 2TB SSD

My audio interface (GoXLR Mini) has no Linux support and no chance of getting it. So I have no audio output at all from Linux unless I boot to windows first.

Stuff like that is 100% what’s holding me back from switching full time right now.

Always pen/paper

A note on my phone is about as useful as no note at all. The physical presence of the note is much more important.

Not needing to search through layers when I’m multitasking is the big thing. Having a file manager, ide and documentation all on one monitor makes things much easier.

As someone who was a new hire during WFH I still don’t know a lot of the random tribal knowledge. It’s been getting better since we’ve been back to office, but I’m absolutely behind the curve because of it.

In total, I, a chronically single man, have 6 monitors and 2 TVs. I am very much in this picture and I don’t like it.

I used to love PS2. Fallen away over the years, but I have fond memories of being in 4 different team speaks at any given time relating messages. It was always a great time.

I’ve noticed a bunch of dev work has been done recently. Is it worth getting back into?

I have nearly 3500 hours into Apex Legends (played competitively a little in college)

Also somewhere in the realm of 800 hours into factorio, a good 500 into Skyrim and literally uncounted thousands of hours into minecraft.

Only when I’m searching things on google. Unfortunately Reddit is still a gold mine of technical knowledge that’s not replicated anywhere.