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I’ve had great success with Pop_OS! and hybrid graphics on my laptop (RYZEN 6800H/RTX 3070). If its related to the high power gpu not swithing at all.

The Nvidia iso might be worth a try.

https://pop.system76.com/

For those that don’t want to click through:

Lenovo - Slim Pro 7 14" 90Hz 2.5K Touch-Screen Laptop -AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 with 16GB Memory - 512GB SSD - Storm Grey
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Oh won’t somebody please think of the poor prince.

Reap what you sow, cunt.

I started with the Black Widow fallout 3 perk figuring there world be more male characters than female when fighting.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Widow_(Fallout_3)

EFFECTS
+10% damage against male opponents
Additional dialogue options with certain male characters

It stuck after that.

I feel sorry for the people that are exposed to this shit by Google, especially those that are less tech savvy that aren’t blocking ads.
Educate as many people/loved ones as you can folks about this to protect them and to fuck Google.

Oh wow, how out of the loop am I. 😆

Hopefully it’s supported for years to come.

One of my earliest vr experiences was with the blue Acer mixed reality headsets and it did fine at the time. Cost far less than the mainstream headsets from HTC and Oculus too.

Haven’t even seen any new WMR headsets for years and thought it was already dead.

I don’t care how big or small it is, as long as it remains real.

I believe I’ve seen more organic conversation in the fediverse than I have on any other platform.

It’s either bots, ads or ad bots everywhere else.

Being tiny makes it less appealing to the megacorp cunts that would want to ruin it.

My HTPC is on windows 11, set to auto log-in and launch steam big picture. Disabled as much of the Microsoft BS as I can, including the nags to use Onedrive or sub to Office 365 every major update.

Using Unified Remote to control things with my phone and also Parsec/Moonlight for game streaming to other devices.

My media is served from my Unraid server to my devices both locally and remotely.

All working well so far. 👍

That’s this weekends project, moving to Jellyfin with all the discover together fuckery they’re pulling. Fuck Plex.

Currently using a Roku Streambar for all of our streaming needs but if they pull this crap, everything we consume will be downloaded, served on my Plex server and streamed using the gaming PC I have under our TV.

Getting beyond sick of these companies using every measure and device they can to shit ads into our eyes.

No real loss if it does die.

Why the fuck would advertisers want to pay to have their products advertised and inevitably associated with the shit on there?

My Safari extension of choice for iOS YouTube ad blocking is vinegar.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

Combined with Banish extension to stop the annoying “open in our app” nonsense when browsing the web.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/banish-block-open-in-app/id1632848430

No, I don’t want privacy exploiting app syphoning my personal data when the website will do.

I’ve pinned the YouTube website to my Home Screen in Safari and combined with those extensions I have a lovely experience with them.

I ended up recovering some of my music using Google takeout which in turn absolutely wrecked most of the tags on my songs.

I loved Google play music as a locker for my owned music and a a storefront to buy what I wanted. YouTube Music made me abandon it completely and move my owned music onto my plex server.

Why does Google have to ruin everything? Still bitter about Google Reader closing back in the day. That was the beginning of the end of me having confidence in their services and moving to self hosting as much as I can.

We was all at lunch one day at work and one of the supervisors came in and asked someone to do something when we finished lunch.

This particular nasty shit told him this was our break and to piss off. No one particularly found that necessary.

Supervisor guy apologised for disturbing our break, explaining he’s sorry and that it was the anniversary of his wife’s passing and he wasn’t thinking straight. He wasn’t one to disturb us on break normally.

The arsehole then replied to the supervisor something along the lines of “we don’t bring our problems in work and neither should you, so fuck off”

When the supervisor left, we all let the guy know what an arsehole he was for doing that.

Possibly one of the worst people I’ve ever worked with. He eventually got fired for posting derogatory stuff on Facebook about the job/people he worked with and the supervisor we worked with had a lovely retirement send off when he hit his old age.

I much prefer written guides for anything that interests me over YouTube videos that are unnecessarily long. Plus the false attempts to get engagement (sometimes by making statements that are maliciously stupid) to appease the algorithm like:

What are your preferred ways to consume content? I prefer carrier pigeon, it’s easily the best. Let me know in the comments below if you have a preferred way, and don’t forget to like and subscribe.

Really annoying, like our sponsor….

Aah, the good old Motorola Atrix.

One of the earliest Laptop/phone combo devices I remember releasing.

No problems! 😀

When I was on Android I used to love the F-Droid open source repository. Both Newpipe (3rd party YouTube app) and DNS66 (local VPN on device that blocked ads throughout the phone).

I switched to iOS and really missed those applications and needed a solution for my new phone. Those 5 things above (Vinegar, Banish, AdGuard, WireGuard and PiHole) have worked wonders helping me when I switched.

Wouldn’t be without them now.

Edit:
If anyone happens be be on android or still uses Android devices with their Apple things, here are the apps I used to use:

https://f-droid.org/en/
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

Both platforms with compelling solutions to block ads and nagging popups.🤝

To get that ad-free YouTube experience, I use Vinegar safari extension and have pinned the YouTube site to my home screen rather than using any apps.

I also use Banish to remove all those annoying “Open in our app” pop-ups in Safari.

Lastly, I use AdGuard to block ads on the phone locally and have also set up my own Wireguard VPN server at home with PiHole so that I’m always protected ad-wise when I’m out and about over 5G and on any public Wifi (I used to use my own Wireguard VPN with my old Pixels too).

Absolute bliss.

On my way home from Spain as I type this, AirTags in luggage as always.

Haven’t had to rely on them at all due to loss luckily but I do like having them in our luggage.