Wife approval factor

My wife won’t use it if she can’t see an app for it to click on to start using immediately. Going through browsers is not an option. Not having a dedicated app on the LG TV is not an option. Not being able to find something instantly means instant rejection. She refused Plex, but now sometimes uses it and has learnt to find subtitles, etc by herself.

I don’t touch my self hosted apps. If something doesn’t behave properly on the first attempt then it gets rejected from our household. It’s only for us enthusiast nerds to put up with kanky UI and setup issues for the sake of superior functionality. Normie’s won’t tolerate it.

Great video, but I signed up to this ideology years ago. I can already see that if I send this to anyone in my life who does algorithm complacency, then they likely won’t even get through this video… Or if they do, then they’ll say it is correct and carry on doing exactly what they’re doing.

Typical example:

I’ve told both my wife and mother that I can put whatever movie they want onto Plex. I’ve put on a lot of great movies already. They don’t know how to choose. They would literally rather have Netflix present a handful of shit movies and they pick from that…and then watch it and complain about how shit it was. But this scenario is far more preferable for them.

The internet had niche use for enthusiast nerds. An internet connected handheld device was the game changer.

There are a million possibilities and no single right answer. Strangers on the internet are not going to be able to tell you. Strangers on the internet certainly don’t know the dynamic between the two of you.

Write down the possibilities (you’ve mentioned some in your post). Think of what seems fair to you. Show her the possibilities and talk about it and agree something.

My wife came from a family that considered it the man’s duty to pay for everything and that women have to protect themselves from exploitation by guarding their own money. Conversations about sharing expenses were very unwelcome and showing love meant spending a lot on luxury gifts. She used to earn a third of what i did and had more disposable income than me since bills left me with little disposable. You could end up with 2 people at different levels of affluence in the same house if you are very defensive and financially isolationist. It’s taken a long time to change that to a collaboration to work through life together with shared resources.

The most “scientific” way in a full commitment would be to put an equal % of both salaries into a “bills” account, then put how much you both want to save into a savings account and then divide the leftover disposable equally between yourselves.

Or if you’re too early to be fully committed then you can start with continuing to pay for everything or ask her for a flat amount contribution.

Just know that money is one of the biggest sources of friction on a relationship and most people at not on the same page. It takes work and talking to get to the same page (that means talking to her… Not us).

Thank you satan

I read these conversations. I have no idea what’s going on. I’m glad there are people who understand who are working on things. I tell myself I can still use Linux as a commoner and this back-end doesn’t really matter for me. I still don’t understand what the hell is going on with Wayland or X11 or systemd or Snap or BTRFS/ext4 or any of this stuff that people feel strongly about. I’ll just keep my head down. My OpenSUSE PC and Steam Deck seem to be working (without doing the undergraduate degree amount of wiki reading that people say I need).

Research by Pringles? 🤨

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Finding your place in society and connecting with others can be really hard sometimes, and no one helps people who get it this badly wrong. It’s just easier to ignore, avoid and ridicule. Hope this poor kid figures it out.

They should have just gone from Xbox 2 to Xbox 4 to keep up. Or start making after the year of release or something. Or even following anything sequential (like letters of the alphabet with what Android used to do). Anything that made logical sense.

Flashbacks of playing Metal Gear Solid 2 at a time of frequent unexpected power cuts. Painful.

I’ve got categories/folders I add games to in the Steam client. I don’t really play any games outside Steam at all now with Linux on my desktop and the hassle of setting up other launchers.

• Favourites (currently playing or due to play next)

• Finished

• Lost interest

• Never (got as part of a bundle or freebie that I don’t intent to ever play)

Steam Deck is good… But DNF list is the real backlog killer, dump uninteresting games and move on.

This may be true. I never had problems. But I never looked this up.

Or you could attach the top of a whoopee cushion over it.

Syncthing works great for syncing the screenshots and also for autobackup of emulation save files.

Best to use this with an always-on NAS. This makes file transfer generally easier to and from the console globally.

For your m+KB issue, if you put the Steam Link app on your PC,it becomes and instant virtual KVM and works great for remote access and using it desktop mode too. Great for setting up emulation, custom posters in Steam, Lutris/non-Steam games.

I hope my tip has soothed the pain in your asshole…(title of my sex tape)

Why are companies so awkward and dumb and “corporate”. Just lean into it and score some fan points.

“We know it can be fun to speculate and people are excited about whatever information they can get about the next Switch; but we’ve got a lot of amazing things we’re working on and it will be worth the wait”.

A lot of characters are short range or melee.

There are a bunch of flying/gliding/wall climbing characters, but a lot of characters don’t have tools to deal with enemies who are not grounded.

The game has been fun, but I’ve given it up now mainly because of balance and match making issues. >80% of the games I play are completely one-sided. One team will never be able to touch the objective or will be completely confined to the spawn point. Even if I’m on the winning team, such one-sided steamrolling is no fun.

I don’t stream games with Steam Link. I use it to remote access the Deck and use it with the KB+M and monitor. Moonlight does work better for streaming games, but I play low requirement indie titles exclusively so I don’t really need to stream anything.

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