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by extraisland 1y ago
I've rarely touched launch options on Windows ever. Yes it can take upto an hour. If you look on protondb for a particular game you can find there are several different suggestions for launch options. Some of the times these work, some
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by extraisland 1y ago
> These days, Windows doesn't seem to be in a much better state. I've been watching friends and coworkers complain about getting the Battlefield 6 beta to work. One of them had to do a fresh install of his computer, because he
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Unless games use some funky video codecs or kernel-level anti-cheat, a lot of the time they do just work with the click of a button. He glosses over this but I suspect that is almost all the newer multiplayer games that are popular. I
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by extraisland 1y ago
The Astra G and H 1.7 cdti variants were really good. Newer ones not so good from what I have heard. Ford Focus around the same time period are indeed decent. Going to try to get one at some point.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I am just going to leave this reply I left here on a sibling thread as I addressed most of this there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951308 It is often not worth continuing to maintain a vehicle after a certain poi
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by extraisland 1y ago
On a regular car 300,000 miles is like 20-30 years of use (approximately 30 miles a day). How many cars you see on the road today that are over 30 years old? I barely see any vehicles over 20 years old. Things wear out on an engine over tim
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by extraisland 1y ago
Most Diesel Engines (even ones well looked after) won't last after 300,000 miles and will either need to be rebuilt or replaced. A replacement Diesel Engine is several thousand pounds and that is before labour. Then other things like h
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by extraisland 1y ago
Repairing a known item makes sense when the costs are small compared to a replacement. I have old bicycles that are worth nothing and I am quite happy to spend maybe £50-£150 in components to fix. Costs are much lower than buying a new good
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by extraisland 1y ago
> People replace vehicles because they want and can afford replacement ones, not because they are mileage limited. That isn't quite true. It is often because it is uneconomical to keep. The issue with many older vehicles is that it
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by extraisland 1y ago
I aware of most of the history. I've used a Master briefly while I was at school and honestly it worked like a upgraded BBC Micro Model B and looking at the wikipedia page it looks like that was exactly the case.
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by extraisland 1y ago
That unfortunately is a common fallacy that people engage in. In the first chapter of "Anatomy of the State" this idea is utterly demolished. > With the rise of democracy, the identification of the State with society has been
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Well, I wouldn't say punishment is exactly fair That is how many of the left talk about it. Some are more coy than others, but nonetheless that is the theme. I certainly don't care for it and I certainly doesn't endear m
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by extraisland 1y ago
> If most people can reason about the current historical moment as it relates to policy decisions, well I guess that's an equally dangerous sort of problem. Firstly I am not sure what "current historical moment" means. Gen
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by extraisland 1y ago
I have used both when I was a kid. There were nothing alike really. I owned a BBC Micro Model B (was given one when a friend was given a 486 PC) and I used the Archimedes at school. The BBC Micro was archaic compared to the Archimedes and P
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by extraisland 1y ago
The majority of people I've found will dismiss any arguments like this until something happens to them or someone they know.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I don't Agree. I got a few giggles out of it. Especially the emails from "Linda", as I literally get those types of emails. I think generally it was reasonably well done as a novelty joke website that is obviously trying to m
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by extraisland 1y ago
Some of events I swear are straight of Yes Minister or The Office.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I am from the UK and recognise most of the absolute nonsense highlighted. It is hyperbolic sure, but I kinda giggled at some of the gags in it.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I wasn't. It was more a satire on some of the ridiculous stuff in UK political culture and corporate culture. In it is literally has emails from Linda on total nonsense corporate cringe stuff that I am shielded from because I wfh.
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by extraisland 1y ago
Regarding the taxation argument. That may have been true in the past (it doesn't account that many of these people stay and then will need to supported when they become elderly) but under the "Boris Wave" immigration boom t
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by extraisland 1y ago
They are not talking about the Africans. They are talking about the British. Immigration has had many negative effects on social cohesion in the UK. That is just an unfortunate fact. That is obvious if you have lived in poorer areas of some
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by extraisland 1y ago
There is an option to that question where it has a relatively positive outcome and you have lunch with her and presumable are on better terms afterwards. Which tells me that the author isn't dog whistling at all and it is more a lampoo
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by extraisland 1y ago
Much of this is often hidden from the public. This argument that people should be somehow punished for actions of others that they are unaware of and have very little power over is insane IMO.
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by extraisland 1y ago
You are right the majority of people are indeed mislead about where the money is spent. How are people supposed to get things right when they are constantly misled by both their governments and intuitions?
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by extraisland 1y ago
It is satire about working in a large corporation in the UK.
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by extraisland 1y ago
My father just sold his house down south. It was a 4 bedroom house. I think he got somewhere between £500-700k for it. £1M for a house isn't that crazy in the South-West. He bought it decades ago much cheaper.
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by extraisland 1y ago
Many people want to live in close proximity to their family. There are good reasons for this (you have a support network). I want to move back closer to my family as they are getting older. I would like to move back so I can spend more time
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by extraisland 1y ago
Played a little. It is amusing. The ignoring emails from "Linda" about silly events in the office is a daily occurrence for me. I like that the site seems to use the gov.uk styling.
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by extraisland 1y ago
I barely noticed it. The complaints I've read about it are making a mountain out of a molehill.
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by extraisland 1y ago
My experience is that they expect you to read the docs and ask smart questions. Most of everything is in the documentations, READMEs etc.

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