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EliteGadget
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Comment #46097479
And I get totally different results. It not just the distro. It the version of the Kernel, the version of proton, whether you are using X or Wayland etc. Etc. Etc. The very point I…
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Comment #46096702
If I admit to anything less than doing a gamer nexus style benchmarking suite you will just claim it is an anecdote. I have actually tested on a number of different distros and dis…
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Comment #46096517
The complexity is hidden. I don't require all the gumph. I just gave bash and a Debian install. Pretending the rube goldberg machine isn't one because you've hidden it behind a fac…
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Comment #46095478
> Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth. This isn't though. I have hard numbers. I've actually measured the performance. You get 5-20 FPS less and oft…
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Comment #46095164
> You could say the same thing about enterprise-oriented distributions like CentOS that actual companies relied on and had to migrate away from. Some of those arrangements are more…
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Comment #46094909
They mean "custom" as "pre-configured to do " where X is gaming. Generally most distributions are not pre-configured outside of a general suite of standard applications.
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Comment #46094834
Well that is the issue. The experience varies quite a lot depending on a number of factors. Whereas on Windows it doesn't really vary. I have an all AMD machine and almost all the …
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Comment #46094510
These sort of derivative distros seem to be aimed at Windows 11 Refugees. I am not a fan of these derivative distros and I would always recommend using one of the mainline distros …
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Comment #46094423
That just isn't true. While it is very good now, it is not faster and more stable than Windows. I have performance issues on Linux that just don't happen on Windows.
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Comment #46091241
I confused Jae-woo (a Korean name) with Jaecoo. I think I must have mis-spelled the name when googling them after seeing the Dealership near me. However I do remember Daewoo, I don…
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Comment #46091228
I mixed these brands up. Thanks for the correction. They (Jaecoo) opened a dealership 20 minutes from where I am.
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Comment #46090784
It isn't just Chinese EVs there are Korean brands on the road e.g. Jaewoo. https://jaecoo.co.uk/ I'm in the UK and the only new Fords I see are these huge F250/F350 which make my 4…
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Comment #46090728
> The only reason why cars are the size and shape they are is because ICE engines couldn't be made smaller . Electric engines on the other hand are small enough that I can have the…
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Comment #46074382
There was once a fad of young women (usually in recruitment) posting their holiday photos. Usually they were wearing revealing outfits, one was wearing something so revealing I cou…
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Comment #46070019
But almost anyone who lives in the UK would know who you were referring to. So you are just using a euphemism, which is arguably worse.
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Comment #46069974
It is perfectly obvious to me and to the vast majority of people. That is why they didn't bother defining it further. > An ox & cart fits the bill for "machine" with that lens No i…
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Comment #46069002
> Surprisingly, UK legislation doesn’t define “mechanically propelled”. Lawyers usually define everything, even words that seem obvious. The terminology is self explanatory. Theref…
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Comment #46068981
Calling them travellers and/or gypsies (I know they are technically different groups of people but generally the terms are often used interchangeably) is not in itself a slur.
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Comment #46057055
The point being made is that he has plenty of income (it is in the 10s of millions I am sure). If he has that many employees for his YouTube channel he is letting his expenses get …
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Comment #46056952
I don't think that is true and I don't really care. The browser works properly, it has ad-blocking built in and it is trivial to turn off the other nonsense in the browser.
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Comment #46056250
What you are describing is not piracy/Copyright infringement. You can say that we should not be blocking those ads, that is fine. But blocking ads is not making unauthorised copies…
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Comment #46056224
I run Brave (Android) on my phone and don't have any ads on Youtube. I think it worked on Brave iOS but I sold my iPhone last year. I let Brave run in the background and it seems t…
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Comment #46055924
I've heard this argument before as someone with a small number of subscribers, In use relevant titles and thumbnails (I do partially use AI but that is "make me a Tux image with a …
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Comment #46055884
Hey, Only 50% of one of my thumbnails are AI generated Garbage! I do agree it is annoying. Some people do it quite a lot with car work videos to make the car look in far worse than…
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Comment #46055805
Not sure about elsewhere but ot took me 15 minutes to setup my LTD in the UK and I paid a monthly fee for accountancy which was about £100 and another yearly fee of about £100 for …