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robbiex88··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
I recently rebuilt my home rig with some hardware upgrades, including a motherboard and cpu upgrade.

I use a MacBook and spend a majority of my workday in Ubuntu Linux.

The absolute only reason I installed windows on the home machine is because gaming is still essentially nonexistent in the Linux sphere.

If a flavor of Linux can catch up and run everything that can be run on windows I’d happily switch. I imagine a good chunk of the windows market would as well.

robbiex88··on Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered System to Help You Learn Any Skill in 30 Days
Enter email, then presented with: Your credit card will be charged: €49.00

I’m all for monetizing our own work, but mastering a skill in 30 days is a wild claim. I’m interested to see what kind of rubric for learning it can generate for various topics, but not for the price of admission.

No thanks.

robbiex88··on Lina Khan Has Been a Terrible FTC Chair
I really wish this was posted in blog or article format instead of a series of threads posts (which I flat out refuse to use).
robbiex88··on Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
No shit.
robbiex88··on Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter
Same. I thought there’d be at least /some/ discussion about the implications of this change
robbiex88··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
If you haven't listened to it yet, highly recommend the Ryan Graves episode on the Joe Rogan Experience.
robbiex88··on Things I sort of believe about making music
My guess is inadequate driver support for the USB mic. I'm running a focusrite 2i2 3rd gen, and although I have gripes with the drivers, the performance is miles beyond the default windows drivers and is fairly solid.
robbiex88··on Awesome Critique of Crypto/Web3
I'm pretty poorly educated on the nuances of crypto/web3 but it seems every time it comes up in conversation only the benefits are discussed. Thanks for posting this and helping me educate myself a bit more on this
robbiex88··on Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition
The FFVI T edition rom hack is the original game with a proper translation, higher difficulty and additional content like tavern quests, new weapons, etc. It also contains some quality of life improvements (sprint shoes no longer need to be equipped, for example) and corrects some calculations. For reference I made it about 60 hours and still have much to do. My only gripe was that battles were stuck on force wait, so you had to wait for things to execute before your ATB gauge would refill. That may or may not have changed as the patch has been updated a bit since I experienced it.

If you're up for the challenge I'd recommend it. As I understand it, the pixel remaster, although interesting looking, lacks some of the bonus content added to other versions of the game. This has that, and much more. It felt polished to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope this helps

robbiex88··on Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition
Surprised to see FFVI mentioned here in HN. That said, I HIGHLY recommend playing thru the recently released FFVI-T edition that's recently become available thanks to an incredible translation effort by Tomato. It corrects a number of mistranslations and adds a TON of content and scales up the difficulty. I thoroughly enjoyed the replay.

The original release: http://tomato.fobby.net/ff6-t-edition/

Which now directs interested folks to: http://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/1249-matos-transla...

robbiex88··on Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?
This comment really resonated with me. Thank you for sharing.
robbiex88··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
You're absolutely right, please forgive my ignorance on the matter and thanks for clarifying!
robbiex88··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
Was the Rittenhouse circus _not_ a federal case though?
robbiex88··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
Yes I agree. Not discounting it by any means but it seems like the news cycle is dominated by the new COVID variant, yet I've seen literally nothing on this trial. Makes you wonder what's really going on and how deep the rot runs in this country.
robbiex88··on Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
In my early 20s (male) I was prescribed (read: pushed) citalopram by my family doctor. I took it for about a year. I'm in my early 30s now and sometimes STILL suffer from the inability to reach orgasm. I stopped taking the medication and when I realized it was in fact the medication interfering with my love life, and unfortunately realized too late. I've read alot about this after the fact and am surprised this reached HN. Nothing really to add to this conversation but its reassuring to know I'm not alone.
robbiex88··on Music for Programming
Video game soundtracks are much the same. I code to the final fantasy soundtracks
robbiex88··on Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups
"...I've heard that solid state amps are used in metal more commonly because they have a different tone"

Partially false. The general trend in metal has gravitated towards tube amp distortion (and digital modeling of it) precisely because of the different tone and responses vs solid state amps.

As a guitarist there's a certain response you get with a tube amp vs digital and solid state.

As an HN reader, I struggle to describe and quantify this quality besides the generic descriptors of 'response' and 'feel'.