I think that was the joke, because MS Office sucks. lol

What is your refresh rate and what FPS are you getting? I’ve never met anyone that wanted to see screen tearing, so this is new… But you have to be getting FPS that outruns your refresh rate to get any tearing, usually by a lot.

I’ve basically never ran vsync or freesync or any of those things, but I haven’t actually seen screen tearing in years because high refresh rate monitors have become basically the norm (outside of office buildings). The FPS needed to cause the tearing is a higher bar to clear, and if there is tearing it is on the screen for such a small fraction of a second you aren’t likely to notice it.

Also, at a point, for most people on modern hardware, the biggest source of latency is “the meat”…

I think Omacom is just the small fish “player” wanna-be’s trying to do what the big guys are doing with AI. Playing 3 card monte with a few million dollars running the same few bucks around in circles so many times a quarter they all get to make numbers go big on balance sheet in the hopes of getting new real money from idiot “investors” before the FTC (or other regulatory body) wakes up and remembers they are supposed to regulate something occasionally and catches on.

It was basically a system where computer repairs were farmed out to remote workers in other countries. You charge a customer $200 to remove viruses from a computer; then, the company pays you $12/hr to hook it up to the network and open an orange flavored logmein session so the company can pay someone <$5/hr to run a few anti-virus programs on it (and probably 20 other machines at any given time) and call it good.

It felt like actively stealing from people for a living. At some level I could get over the outrageous cost of the services under the idea that I had skills the customer didn’t, and those were worth money. And even the large discrepancy in what I charged and what I got paid because of all of the company overhead. But AJU was a step far enough for me to see it for what it was - exploitation at every level.

Doing the work of a hero out here.

Did they have AJU when you worked there? That’s tied with “terrible store management” for reasons I left.

I stared at that picture like it was a Where’s Wally for like 10 minutes before I came to check the comments and saw this note in OP’s message…

Why do people that make stuff like this not just label the logos?? Am I supposed to know the logo for every damn OS ever made? I appreciate you tried to solve this with a list that is just a big wall of text with no good way to connect back to the image, but it still sucks overall.

Too many people love a piece of media that makes them feel smart without effort. They don’t want to think, they want to believe they already know anything important already and they love to have that reinforced. They read something written by an adult human and their thinky meat gets all hurty, but if they read the dumbed down, stripped bare version that spoon-feeds the “answers” to them, they get all tingly in their bits.

If the stuff I’ve used has an app on windows, I don’t know about it. All my audio gear has been plug and play in Linux without issues. I’m going to guess that if you have Bluetooth working in general on your device, the headphones won’t be a problem themselves.

Based on what you are looking for, the only thing I can recommend specifically is ModMics from Antlion Audio - they specialize in good¹ mics as an addon for a good set of headphones, I believe using an adhesive pad to attach it where you want it. Basically, instead of paying extra for lower quality stuff “for gamers”, find a good pair of headphones from a reputable audio brand, and then slap a mic on the side.

For reference - I gave up on “gaming” options a while ago. I have a Scarlet Solo audio interface with an AudioTechnica XLR mic, AudioTechnica ATH-AD700X headphones, and then Edifier studio monitors for speakers with a Mackie Subwoofer. It all runs off the Scarlet box though, so that is the only thing plugged directed to the PC. I do still have a Steel Series headset that I take with me travelling, since the rest of it would be a lot to drag along and it has served me quite well without any need of software either. I run Garuda Linux (an arch derivative) with KDE, if that matters - I would hope that wouldn’t make a difference but included it for complete info (not just because “I use Arch, BTW (sort of)”.

¹ - I have not used these personally, but they were recommended to me several years ago by someone whose judgement I trust. I hope they have not gotten shitting since then.

Eh. You already can’t pair it with your Volkswagen (or was it Volvo? one of those car brands), a lot of Banks won’t fuck with it and just won’t let you use their app or website, and Google is actively trying to kill it off (whether they’ve said it out loud yet or not, it’s happening). I’ll be interested to see where it is in the next few years, hope it manages to keep going and all, but I am much more personally invested in a properly working Linux mobile option that works on a modern phone with all of the modern amenities.

I think it really depends on the person (and a few other “luck” factors). Like, if they are truly generically computer savvy enthusiasts, they might actually have better luck on an Arch derivative. I’ve seen hardware compatibility issues plague a machine until it got Arch on it - sometimes that bleeding edge has what you need already and you don’t have to hunt for it.

I still like the play of suggesting new people download every distro that piques their curiosity, put them all on thumb drives, and spend a weekend giving them a go. But, if they aren’t willing to do that, then throw Mint or Bazzite at them and hope all their hardware just works because they probably don’t fit into the category above.

Except Manjaro. I feel like at least 70% of the Arch family hate is actually Manjaro’s fault. I’m glad it works for some people and they can use and enjoy it, but I just don’t have the faith in it to recommend it.

To be fair, some of these responses are clearly going back 20+ years and only have 8 total “hops”. In that time a typical windows user would have gone through 7-10 different versions of windows depending on how lucky they got with stuff like ME and 8…

There really isn’t any difference between in Bazzite or SteamOS in my understanding.

This is not true. Not saying one is better than the other here, but they are quite different really - for a start one is a Fedora derivative and the other is an Arch derivative. They are both aiming to fill the same purpose (Handhelds and HTPC), but how they get there is significantly different imo.

Not an average person no, but the article seems to be aimed more at the people running businesses - and I think more in terms of the value of all of the people crammed into your conference room slowly losing it to CO2 concentrations.

*If you get 10-20 people together in a room, I really hope they are costing the company more than $300 an hour.

“I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it’s the only genuine option we have,” former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. “Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they’re free to raise prices at will.”

Yes, that is what everyone has been warning about for years and why we want the communication monopolies torn down… Fucking leopards running loose out here eating faces and they still just kinda shrug and go “wish there was an alternative to letting all the leopards run free eating our faces”.

Am I the only person that doesn’t understand what I am looking at here? (other than I get that something is displaying or working on the second of eight things - is this some specific UI element I should know?)