And anime.

There are a few reasons why I'll watch a stream or let's play of a video game:

1. the sports angle. If you like to play a game, be it basketball or A Link to the Past, watching someone else play it extremely well can be gratifying.

2. Additional performance. Streamers themselves are characters, watching someone react to the game can be compelling in a way that's difficult to describe.

3. Rediscovery. Watching someone play a video game I know well can help me see it through fresh eyes. I can never play A Link to the Past for the first time again, but watching someone play it for the first time can help revisit that experience.

It looks like debian with KDE would be worth looking at. How do I obtain this?

Edit: Oh it's free, I just googled it and it came up.

I'm out of touch, not stupid. I understood them just fine.

Some aspects of streamer culture I get, I do not understand vtuber culture. Youtube started recommending one to me because apparently played a video game I like and watch videos about, and...as far as I can tell her job is to be professionally sexually harassed. Like, men used to whistle at showgirls in saloons, now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to "nut on" them.

Fun part is her mom apparently found out, and participates.

I'd like to add to 2.

Some games streamers play, I wouldn't enjoy myself, but watching them play it and add to it makes it fun.

Yes, I have less issues that needs to be fixed, or tweaked on Linux than on Winslop. Less popups that appear out of nowhere, and no forced upgrades while being on the toilet

I've spotted a devil fruit user.

I am number three, it is quite easy to learn and it can save your life.

Whatever the newest slang is, the only exception is if I want to embarrass some kids by using it wrong

I'm up voting because that's exactly what this thread is for

But man, do I think that's a stupid take.

I'm not gonna say you need to become a good swimmer and do it regularly with great form, or even enjoy doing it at all.

But I think everyone should learn at least how to do an acceptable doggy paddle, tread water, and float. Swimming should really be regarded as a basic life skill like basic first aid or knowing that you should get the hell out of a burning building.

Do you ever find yourself near any lakes or rivers, the ocean, swimming pools, etc? Walking along them, riding over them on a bridge in a car or train, etc. Then there's a chance you could end up in that water, and if you can't swim you stand a very real chance of dying, and possibly of dragging someone down with you if they jump in to help.

Hell, even if you don't live anywhere near a body of water, flash floods can happen in some pretty unlikely places, including in the middle of a desert.

Unless you have some physical disabilities that genuinely prevent you from swimming, you can probably get the basics down in less than an hour, then you can get out of the pool and hopefully never need to use those skills again if you really don't like it.

I actually love em. They've reverted back to the type of fucking stupid ass nonsensical comedy that in grew up with and I am here for it every day. Also, some of the fashion choices? I cannot understate how much I love ridiculous looking fashion. Bless those kids (but keep them the hell away from me).

Car stuff. My partner of 10 years is in the autobody industry and even that is a word I just recently learned to distinguish from the mechanics side of things. I don't drive, I don't care for any of it, I don't want to hear about it.

Ironically, my partner is the same way. He is in the industry because he's good at it and knowledgeable but he fucking hates car stuff and especially car nuts.

Windows is that as well.

You've just described 95% of lemmy

I'm scared to learn. Mostly because of trauma.

Edit: I just remembered this clip from the movie WarGames and I relate.

Which is why my keyword-based list of content filters grows by the day. Trying to block the noise feels like a full-time-job sometimes.

What kind of VR setup are you using?

I've been successfully using SteamVR on atomic Fedora. If she also uses SteamVR, I'd be happy to write details about my setup (though it's fairly standard)!

There are very, very few things that Bazzite prevents you from doing. Usually they just have an alternative approach (e.g. in a Distrobox) to ensure the stability of the system.

I usually don't bring up things I don't get or care to get because inevitably someone chimes in to start elaborating about the topic anyway. Like they missed the part where I said, "I don't care."

One thing I don't care to get is actors/celebrity stuff. I have a touch of face-blindness as well as ADHD, so I haven't seen as many films as most people seem to have watched. When people bring up an actor and I tell them, "I don't know them and I don't care," it's like they feel compelled to start listing things the person was in regardless. Then I'm subject to a list of movies, none of which I've ever seen, all while they keep trying to trigger a memory in my brain that doesn't exist. No matter how many times I say, "I don't watch a lot of movies" or "I struggle to recognize novel faces," the same thing seems to happen 10 out of 10 times such a topic arises. It's so weird. I just want to move onto another topic. I don't know, I don't care, and nothing you say is going to spark recognition of some rando celebrity. Just let it go.

The main celebrities I'll be aware of are those who voice act. I'm an adult, but honestly I prefer animation. I can recognize a voice in a cartoon. Ah but the celebrity-fans don't usually recognize voice actors. Funny that. Maybe I should turn the tides next time by talking about Frank Welker's animal voices or something.

Well, you don't have to be in water to learn the basics. If you have a chair you can lay down on your stomach and practice doing the paddling with your feet, and both the crawl/breaststroke movements until you feel confident that you do know them

Oh. Thats an interesting Point of View. Thanks for Sharing!

I'll look into it. Thank you. I don't have the means to learn for real right now but I intend to one day. Hopefully it won't be so long.

I think so. She has an oculus 2 and she is trying to connect wirelessly to Steam VR. I haven't really tried myself for a couple of years. It used to work fine on windows, at least wired. Wireless never worked that well for me.

I never got it to work in Linux but I haven't tried in a couple of years and I assume it's gotten better since then.

I'd say here we go making os a hobby, but it took some effort in windows, too.

This is how I know I’m old now; what little I’ve ever seen or read seems utterly stupid and vapid to me. “Oh, just watch Flimdiflub6g for 1 hour, you’ll get it!” No, no I don’t think I will.

I'm a slightly above-average computer user

My brother you’re in like the 99th percentile of computer users. The vast, vast majority of people can’t understand what a browser tab is, much less a motherboard.

It's recommended to run a ‘live usb’ first to see if there are any problems with hardware compatibility. Nowadays many distros have their installers as live usbs anyway, but idk about Debian.

I don't care about anything an actor says unless it's preceeded by "Action!" and followed by, "Cut!".

Not sure if I can think of any. I love understanding where people are coming from, and why they think something is interesting or important. That doesn't mean that I myself get into it, or share their opinion but I do like it when people are (happily) passionate about something and it's interesting to see what happens in their minds that makes it so. Like I don't care about sports, at all, but if someone is super excited to tell me about whatever sport they're into, I'll be happy to listen.

A bit harder if it's something they are angry about and think that I should be too - but I generally do understand why people work that way so I'll just draw a boundary if needed.

In general it can be tricky if people think that my interest in the mechanics of their interest must mean interest in the subject of their interest. But I suppose that's on me to be clearer about.

Interesting question.

Maybe the only thing that borders on something I don't care to get is straight up hate of anything one doesn't understand. It's just that I already sort of understand that but it's definitely not the angle of discussion I want to get into, it's usually just depressing.

I'm talking about the Dutch, not academics and Wikipedia article writers. When someone is talking about someone who is "Christelijk" they mean protestant.

I'm kinda in this boat but I have a soft spot for anime that I grew up with in the 90s and early 2000's.

There's also some more recent stuff that's been generally OK, but I can never keep up with conversations about it because I'm just not in that sphere at all really.

Hit me with some Gen 1 Pokémon, Avatar: TLA or old Ghibli stuff and I'm waxing poetic instantly lol

This is hilarious. Don’t get me wrong, @forestbeasts@pawb.social , I appreciate the details - a fascinating glimpse at something I didn’t know - but it’s funny timing with some of the other threads here

I’ve discovered the things I appreciate about car technology are very different from what “car guys” seem to like. Maybe it’s stereotype and the general dumbing down from the internet, but. Hobby I once thought cool now just seems ridiculous, dumb, inconsistent.

So the basic question is what’s your reason for watching?

I also think luge looks like a blast … to do. I’ll watch it during the Olympics to bring back childhood memories of sledding. But I can’t imagine watching it in general. There’s no teamwork, no visible skill, no scores, and you can’t see the whole course. All you really have for the spectator is the finishing time and slo-mo instant replay. I’m not saying it doesn’t take skill, of course it does, I’m saying it doesn’t manifest in a visible way for a spectator to appreciate.

I didn't have one. I was asserting the idea that people were going to attack your post for saying "Use AI."

Think of it in terms of gladiator movies, the crusades, the fall of Rome. That shit is history, knights in armor, clash of cultures, and is full of drama as game of thrones

Golf

American paranoia that everyone cares what they wack off to.

Starbucks specialty coffees, just go to Dairy Queen already and get out of my line.

For the Mac, I’ve had opposite experiences thanks to all of y’all online. Both my ex and my youngest kid wanted Mac’s, but I was the one cautioning that they may be popular but they’re different and some people don’t like that. He wouldn’t even try mine: I have windows, Mac and an assortment of Linux he can just try at any time

Jokes on me, I spent a ridiculous amount of money buying my kid a school Windows laptop (with him there apparently not speaking up) since that’s all he’s ever used, and I had to return it for a Mac

I mean it doesn't allow you to mess with your computer at easily as I like to.

Do you ever click in to see more details? We used to have memes about stack overflow always having the answer to tech questions. Now we have ai summarizing stack overflow for us, but stack overflow no longer gets the activity to generate new answers, or even stay open.

That opinion definitely fits this thread …. But I wanted to add that the college I went to is one of the few that still requires passing a swimming test for all incoming freshmen. It used to be considered an important life skill to at least not die if you end up in the water, but I guess most people don’t think that’s important anymore

I actually like geology. But yeah, my main interest is moleculair biology. The thought that so many interesting things are happening in every cell of my body all the time just to keep me alive is so much more interesting to me than stars exploding.

Some folks get deep into D&D and build encyclopedic knowledge on estoric spell combos, some delve deep into trains, and some memorize how many lifetime touchdowns Joe Namath has. Dumb, but I understand it.

This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn't such a glaring blind spot for me, because it's something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There's 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I've never been interested.

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I think it's funnier if I just never attempt to "get it"

It has gotten almost impossible to find a practical pickup truck. they're all giant penis enhancent vehicles.

I just installed Debian with Plasma, and have been using a system with Mint and Plasma as my daily driver for a few months now. I used the default Cinnamon for about a year. Plasma is definitely way more polished and allows almost everything to be done via menus which is NOT a given with most Linux things. It does work most of the time but expect to run into some basic task you didn't even think about on Windows and having a frustrating experience chasing solutions to untangle how to do it.

I'm never going back to Windows but the amount of times I've had to do something convoluted to attempt something you'd think would be easy is too damn high.

Its that reason why I say everyone is a nerd about something.

Yah, you may be talking to the former school jock/football star who was barely handed their diploma, but ask them about their sport/the industries around it. You will likely get a better lesson on statistics and managment that you can get out of most text books. (Assuming you can keep the conversation focused)

People usually like talking about their interests.

You seem to think that stack overflow conatins all the answers to everything.
The AI can search and look through the web faster than any human on the planet, yes that includes stack overflow, but also forums and other open websites, anything that can be indexed basically.

Often times when you have an issue, it's very rare that you are the first one to have it, so I'd say all the info you need to solve it is already out there and AI do a fantastic job to help you find an answer to your problem quicker than your could ever do yourself. Why not take advantage?

Why not remove the search function from stack overflow, you could just read all the questions and articles yourself to find the most sutible one for your question. It's quite nice to have a server that can look though all questions available and suggest to you which ones are the best for you based on your search term. It's exacly that, but way borader. How is that not a good thing?