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I don't blame them for not understanding 40 years ago, but I do blame them for not understanding now. Older generations still contain the majority of climate deniers and other heel draggers, and their votes make a big difference.

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I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION

I used to enjoy manual but now I just kind of hate driving in general so I am happier with auto where I can eat chips or something while driving to make the traffic feel less hellish. Looking forward to self driving cars so I can just take a nap while getting from A to B.

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Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

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I mean yeah you're not wrong, but physical media doesn't last forever either. Vinyl is pretty good, but pretty much every form of digital storage will slowly waste away without some dedicated upkeep effort. Unless you're really willing to put in some serious effort maintaining a personal digital archive it kind of is just better to treat everything as a lease.

The only thing that really worries me are stuff like family photos and videos, and other important digital documents. Yeah I can print some of them, and I should do that more, but on the other hand they're probably safer from destruction with Google than they are in my house. Both would be best though.

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Engine for experienced programmer, noob game dev?

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Thanks! That's comforting to hear. I hadn't heard of godot but it does sound pretty cool, I'll check it out! Are any of these more suited to Linux development than others? I haven't used Windows in like a decade* and kind of can't be assed with it unless I really have to :). I tried installing Unreal 4 on my underpowered laptop running Ubuntu a few years back, and I did get it working but it was kind of a drag, maybe they've tightened up the Linux version since then though...

*Ok l lie, my work machine is Windows but I kind of forget that it is because i immediately log in to Linux machines to do all my actual work aside from writing emails and video chatting ;).

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Anon talks about Joe Rogan

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Is it though? I'm not sure the various Mongol empires are exactly your typical tribal people. I'm not sure you can even call them tribal people at all in the modern sense. They were an empire spanning a vast region of the world at one point.

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On the other hand I kind of feel like if a house can be female and a car can be male then there can't really be much argument against using whatever gender any human prefers for themselves.

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Godot on laptop using external GPU? Good idea? Bad idea?

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A pretty weak one but it should be fine if you're just trying things out.

Yeah? I tried unreal engine 4 on this laptop a few years ago and even just doing very basic stuff with the demo templates in the 3D UI thing was pretty garbage. But maybe Godot is more efficient? Or maybe it's just because I was on Linux using Vulkan drivers which were pretty new and Unreal wasn't using them well or something?

That being said eGPU enclosures are pretty expensive and not worth imo if you just want to play around with graphics. You might be better off buying a newer laptop with a GPU or a desktop PC.

Yes, they did seem pricy. But still, I can't be bothered with a whole new machine. I'll have to do some more mental cost benefit analysis I guess. I guess now is a bad time to be trying to get a GPU in general...

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Godot on laptop using external GPU? Good idea? Bad idea?

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While I don't know your specific model, Godot generally works with external GPUs on Laptops.

Ok good to know! Yeah there is no specific model in my mind yet, I am so far out of touch with them that none of the model numbers mean anything to me and I don't even know what performance metrics or characteristics to look for in the things.