5 seconds of fun for every 10 minutes of reloading.

It’s taller, but not as wide. An Alaska king is crazy. Way too much bed idk.

Yes.

It definitely does that for Youtube, but I didn’t see the option for Spotify. I last looked at the docs a very long time ago, so its entirely possible it’s got some added functionality since.

Just make sure to use a trusted one, because you’ll most likely have login with your account to access your saved stuff & playlists.

I used SpotDL, personally. Not sure if it even supports logging in, but you can just make your playlists public for a few minutes while you download them. It does require you to do every playlist individually, afaik, there’s not just a ‘my whole account’ option. If you have youtube premium/youtube music you can DL high quality as well, though getting that to work was a bit tricky for me. I don’t generally mess with programs lacking a GUI, though, so it’s probably mostly a me issue.

OP said they have an SSD as their boot drive, too, so that would explain why it’s not constantly going. I’m not sure why GPU usage would spike every time the noise happens, though.

Entirely possible it’s a fan bearing instead, but ime if a case fan is going bad you hear it 24/7. And since it’s not the GPU’s fan…

Mafia 2 is fantastic. Mafia 3 is one of the games of all time.

the noise I’m hearing is a more grind-y noise like a motorbike or propeller airplane that keeps going in and out

Do you have any HDDs? Because that sounds like a bad hdd.

It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.

porn mags would immediately disappear from shelves

Nah, dude, immediately back to sneakernet. But way more porn now.

The PRC has the political weight to make others pick a side, at least openly.

The DPRK, on the other hand, absolutely does not.

It depends some on where you are.

Where I live, driving is absolutely a basic skill. It’s just not realistic to get anywhere via any other means in a reasonable timespan. So you either have to drive or be driven basically anywhere. The scale involved isn’t kind to biking, and public transportation is nonexistent. It would take hours to get a taxi that would be egregiously expensive, uber isn’t even an option last I heard.

And this is from the perspective of someone that hates driving- it stresses me out because of the exact reasons you’ve mentioned. I’m in charge of a ton or more of plastic and steel sometimes moving at 70mph, and ignoring the physics based implications, these things are fucking expensive.

I don’t think the issues with Concord had a single thing to do with the performance. That was basically the single way the game was fine.

I’ve heard of them having newbie games scheduled on certain days. I don’t know how welcoming general games would be to a complete beginner, though.

Do you mean Witcher 3? Might’ve been autocorrected.

The content warning is the title being ‘Content warning: gaza genocide’, you don’t need to also mark it nsfw when it isn’t nsfw. At least when it isn’t actually graphic in any way.

Besides, this isn’t the comm for lighthearted content anyways. Way too much politics here.

As for why you’re getting downvoted… it’s three people. They probably just think marking this nsfw is ridiculous, because the title is a content warning already. It also might be that people downvote anyone that says, “why am I getting downvotes!”

What is alt text? Is it basically a subtitle for the image that describes the image? For people that can’t see it?

I just limit how much news I get- basically just what pops up in my lemmy feed and a news show I watch a few times a week.

Being exposed to awful headlines 24/7 is almost definitely going to be rough on your mental health.

I don’t think you’re required to do it, personally, but I agree that it would be rude to not even hear someone out. Especially with someone you know even as an acquaintance. It could be anything from, “can you hold this for a second” to “do you mind splitting this $8000 timeshare with me?”

If it’s just a completely random person on the street, and their first word is “can you do me a favor” that’s different. I think it’s still rude, I just also think that when you engage with entirely random people being rude is acceptable sometimes. Especially if there’s an actual reason for you to feel unsafe- if you’re alone/it’s a shady area type thing.

This probably depends on the area, though. I’m from the southeastern US and from my understanding people engage with each other waaay more in public here than they do in- as a random example- New York.

yes, you should be under a doctor’s care.

That’s not always an option, unfortunately, but it’s definitely accurate.