Hospitals and other critical locations have generators, so while blackouts are an inconvenience they rarely cause deaths. They might not be common where you live in part thanks to you, but other parts of the world have blackouts and people are fine. I’m not saying your job is not dangerous or important, but you might be overestimating your importance.

Regardless your job is something that would be considered “essential” on a broader scope, therefore would be highly compensated in any form of communism. During a transitional period it would be highly paid, and if ever money gets abolished it would be recompensated in other ways. On the other hand in capitalism your job is not that highly recompensated, because capitalism pays more for what makes more money regardless of how useful or dangerous it is. For example a quick search tells me that the median salary in the US for your position is 88k, whereas the median salary for a programmer is 133k, and I assure you my job is less dangerous and essential than yours.

That being said, dangerous or undesirable jobs should be automated away, if you think no one would want to be a power plant operator if they could do whatever they want to, then the proper solution is to get rid of the job entirely. No one should be forced to do something they don’t like just so they can pay their bills, we have enough technology to automate at least the dangerous parts of the job, it’s just that under capitalism that money it’s better spent elsewhere because your life is worth approximately 88k per year.

Are you suggesting your skill is more valuable than others? If so by which standard? What determines how valuable a skill is?. Or do you think other people don’t develop their skills as well?

I don’t know what you do for a living, but realistically unless you are a farmer your job is not actually essential. People can survive decades without doctors, can police themselves, etc, granted it would be a worse life than currently, but it’s survivable (and I don’t think you’re in either of these positions either, if I were to bet I would say you work in something that’s completely irrelevant to society but that earns money to some rich guy). However everyone needs to eat, so why do you think your skill is more important than the skill of the people actually keeping you alive?.

Does it address the “first loop” problem created by the second movie allowing to change the past?

Of your 3 first examples, 2 are terrible and the other is forgetful, while all of them are good movies, they’re terrible sequels. I have seen Predator 2, but all I remember is that it’s set in a city; Aliens is clearly a cash grab that undermines the first movie, it switched from Terror to Action, and it’s essentially the same reason that Colonial Marines is worse than Isolation; Terminator 2 is my personal pet peeve, because it completely destroys the first movie plot. How does time work in Terminator? Easy, it’s cyclical, meaning you can’t change the past. But Terminator 2 introduces the concept that the past can be changed, but if the past can be changed then there is an original timeline without any time travel, and if that’s the case John doesn’t exist there, and if he doesn’t exist the terminator doesn’t go back and Reese doesn’t go after him and John is never born. The only way Terminator makes sense is if Reese always went back, which means the past can’t be changed.

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They do when it makes sense. Hosting small Giles is not a big deal, and small files would be a bad experience on torrent, since by the time you get peers to start the download you would have already finished it from a normal server, not to mention that you need to host the torrent file anyways. Also things that have lots of releases/patches are a bad experience, since people might be seeding an old version.

However, large files that only get sporadic releases, such as distros iso, can definitely benefit from it and you can usually find torrent links for them.

The quote needs a bit of context, to get the full weight, but essentially when asked what to do with his body after his death, Diogenes would reply with statements like “throw me in the forest without a burial”. People would be agast and ask him about vultures, wolves and other animals that might eat him, so he would say Just give me a stick to chase them away which is the quote I wanted.

If you liked that you might also enjoy Elite Squad.

Quick correction, Castilian and Spanish are he same thing. It’s not an old dialect or an old language. Spain has lots of languages, and the renaming of Castilian to Spanish was a “recent” (last 100 years) attempt from a dictator to delegitimize all of the other languages (also prohibiting them from being taught in schools or being used officially).

Also I strongly dislike the use of dialects here, although there are many different accents the language remains the same. If we start to call Mexican or Argentinians Spanish into dialects we might as well call Texan or Californian English as dialects as well, since they’re equally different.

Also, also, Mexico (the largest Spanish speaking country by population is in North America), not sure why you only mentioned South and Central.

That being said, yes, the Faun speaks very formally. It’s not necessarily archaic, but the sort of language one might expect in a court room. But yeah, that used to be the colloquial Spanish a while back.

Please research the meaning of stability when applied to Linux before parroting stuff. Also, who mentioned Arch?

Warning, I’ve had an issue in the past where I couldn’t play a game (Deus Ex Mankind divided) because it needed a specific instruction set on the CPU (SSSE3). While not your specific case since the FX-8350 supports SSSE3 (I should know, that was the exact CPU I switched to to be able to play the game) there might be newer instructions sets that this old CPU does not support.

Also that GPU is older than what people like to remember, from a time where AMD was the worst GPU option on Linux. It’s very likely that the open source driver is good enough for that card by now, but there’s a good chance you might need to wrestle with the AMD proprietary GPU driver (fglrx) which is worse than the Nvidia one in some aspects and some distros don’t even package it anymore.

If you plug your Nvidia GPU that rig would be usable for gaming, I’m not sure what fps you would get as games keep getting updates and old hardware remains the same so old benchmarks might not be reliable, but I suppose it should run plenty of stuff.

You used Linux like Windows and got bad results, OP treated Windows like Linux and got bad results. The problem is neither OS but how familiar you are with it and their peculiarities.

That being said, GPU drivers are not a rough edge on Linux, only Nvidia drivers are. And even then it’s usually a single click/command to install the proprietary drivers if you need them, otherwise the open source ones work like a charm. This used to be more of a problem a few years back, when both manufacturers used proprietary drivers, but AMD ones are open now and therefore integrated into the mainstream kernel, so they just work.

Yes, but you would need to know to run that command, so it’s the same situation as the windows case where he didn’t know which drivers to get. So the argument is disingenuous in that it either ignores the case or he has knowledge on one OS that he doesn’t on the other. On the other side of the coin someone could be making a similar post saying in windows they just switched hardware, installed drivers and done, in Linux they spent hours trying to figure out how to install the drivers.

I’m not saying it’s hard (on any OS) but it requires previous knowledge on both (although to a much lesser extent on Linux since this only happens when switching GPUs and only under specific conditions).

Can you give me an example of which distro/hardware change gave you a black screen? Because unless it was Gentoo or something you built the kernel yourself a black screen is extremely unlikely. Unlike Windows which requires drivers for everything, in Linux the drivers are baked into the kernel, so any hardware change should just work out of the box (there are some caveats to get the best possible driver, but even the included driver should be more than enough for almost anything except heavy use on Nvidia GPUs).

I agree that on average the Linux user has more technical expertise than the average windows user, but that’s mainly because the average user doesn’t choose their OS. If you take into consideration only people who actually chose their OS, I think it’s very similar.

And OP talked about his experience doing that, the default windows driver gave him a crappy resolution, and he had lots of issues getting the right driver and making it work. You skipped all of those issues because you knew beforehand which was the correct driver, and pre-downloaded it.

This is disingenuous, if you had an AMD GPU on Linux and switched to an Nvidia card you would be using the nouveau drivers so you would need to install the proprietary drivers to get the best performance.

And lots of the same issues that are listed on the windows side could happen on Linux as well since they relate to connectivity.

I agree that the original post is dishonest, but your solution is exactly the same as what they said with the exception that you knew it would be a problem so you downloaded the driver beforehand. Had you not known that would happen the series of misfortunes could have happened to you too.

If you know that that’s the right driver to install, what is your question?

I usually give detailed responses, but honestly the correct response here is RTFM. The short answer is to install nvidia-580xx-dkms.

Arch wiki is such a great place that has the answer to most technical questions you might want to ask. I strongly dislike the idea that Arch is for advanced users, but it does expect you to read the documentation (which is why I dislike stuff like Manjaro that try to make Arch “accessible”, but end up leaving people in similar situations without even knowing where to look for the solution to their issues).

Because you brought up a non-proton related issue. It’s highly unlikely this is proton related, this is an issue on how the steam virtual keyboard and Skyrim interact, and since the keyboard doesn’t cause issues on any other game I think it’s very likely the culprit is Skyrim, and if that’s the case I want to know if the issue also happens on Windows.

Is it possible that the issue is within proton? Yes, but the problem you presented can be in multiple other places that proton can’t touch. For example if the game crashes on windows too then proton is working correctly, and even if it doesn’t it can still be something else besides proton, e.g. steam closing the keyboard in a different manner, Skyrim has had a famous bug where it crashes when you alt+tab away from it and come back on Windows for a long time, and opening a virtual keyboard on top of the game and going back is essentially alt+tabing, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that this is the same bug in Skyrim showing up with a different face.

PS: out of curiosity I went and loaded my old prisoner save, and named the character which is how many people reported the bug and it just worked, so even if this used to be an issue, doesn’t seem like it is anymore.

What happens when you do that? And does doing that on windows work? Because it sounds like an incompatibility between the steam virtual keyboard and Skyrim.