I keep saying this. As if humans aren’t dumb enough and lazy as hell without AI… I’ve met maybe 1 younger person out of hundreds that actually shows interest in learning and work ethic (the good kind, not boomerism). I’m not even old, but it’s looking like a dark road for humans. Now Fuck You, this is Carl’s Jr!

Find a friend with one, otherwise the key is to be smooth and really feel the clutch engagement. It’s different for every vehicle. Its a balance between clutch and gas. With a lower power car you’ll need more gas to balance while letting the clutch out. With an old manual truck, you pretty much need no gas input to get going because of torque. Another good way to learn could be just pick up an old g27 or g29 wheel (they have 3 pedals and a shifter either h pattern or paddles) and learn that way with a racing simple like LFS, Asetto Corsa, or Automobilista 2.

Depending where you live there’s all sorts of sub $800 manual cars. That’s how I learned (rusty $500 crx)

The CLI does some things so fast though. I myself like bypassing the gui and interacting more directly. Same reason I only drive manual cars and grind my own coffee (autistic?) But yes, I am glad linux has a gui and we shouldn’t force the cli on people who grew up with ipads.

Thank you for this ! Great tips

Going to try this !

Apparently yes, especially for any non mainstream wheels. Also not great vr support overall

Luckily I’ve always been all AMD! But yeah multi-player games are where it kind of sucks for linux. I plan to try it out on my extra hard drive. I know cs2 will work at least ! Game devs need to stop it with kernel level anti cheat trash.

Yeah I hate that shit. I have never logged in with an ms account and I don’t plan to

I love ED also! And vr it’s so fun.

Ah. That’s a good plan. I hate having to change to 11 and give MS the satisfaction

Yeah I figured, which is fine since I don’t play it often.

Nice! It does seem easier than it used to be.

I would be surprised if they’d run well in a VM but I’ll have to try! I have an AMD fx 8 core and a rtx 580 so I think compatibility wise I’ll be good.

Other games I play a lot are cs2 and board game sim, some pubg and gtav (which i know I’d need to use windows for)

Seems like I should stick with Mint then!

Yeah I only have an oculus and I’ve heard mixed results. Thank you for that info,

I did like mint when I used it. You recommend that over bazzite? Seems a lot of people say so good garuda or bazzite for gaming but I’m unfamiliar with them. Used Ubuntu and mint a lot in the past.

First rule of tape recording: don’t do it.

Second rule: it’s super damn fun so do it (and spend a lot of money)

I am really into tape recording and budget audiophile listening. Mostly all reel to reel, cassette is pretty crap tbh. I have 6 machines now. Something is so fun about the physicality of audio on tape that cannot exist anywhere else at that point unless you manually copy it.

Keep in mind this is for tape machines we can actually afford. Not 10,000 dollar Studers.

I always recommend starting with a used machine that’s been taken care of and fix it as you go. If you start with a broken one you may never get to have fun with it if you can’t fix it.

Kept note I mostly stick with 1/4" width tale machines as they are the most prevalent and affordable. Tape also a lot cheaper than 1/2 or especially 1" (studio quality, $400 per reel).

Brands to look for in my favorite order:

Otari Revox Akai TEAC/Tascam Sony (some bad, some good) Pioneer

learn the formats There are many different machine formats. The most common is 1/4" quarter track meaning 2 tracks, backwards and forward. Higher spec machines can do true 4 track forward only, or half track forward only (best quality). Pre recorded tapes need to be played on the machine fornat they are made for. Any 1/4" blank tape works on any machine.

Stay away from: Single motor units Units that have head wear (heads are not being made now. They can be refinished however if wear isn’t too high) Units that the owner knows nothing about Most Dokorder Most fostex Some sony

Look for: Knowledgeable owner Clean heads 3 motor Units Units with small defects that are probably user error (I see a lot of “wont play but will rewind” which is usually the tape being threaded improperly and not tripping the auto stop switch. )

Find a knowledgeable helper. That can be me if anyone ever wants to reach out.

Tape: i would not recommend buying used. You never know how it was stored.

Capture is a good new cheap brand of tape.
Don’t use ATR tape until you’re experienced and have a semi pro machine.

You’ll definitely want a mixer with your tape machine. Any 12 channel or so mixer is fine but I prefer Allen Heath for quality and price. The GL series is excellent.

I’m mostly referring here to recording and playing your own tapes. For listening to prerecorded tapes, I’ll say it’s very small market and you can only get new recordings for the most part on half track 15 inch per second tapes.

I so want to make the switch. But I also like to play a lot of old windows racing games from the late 90s, I use vr decently often, and I unfortunately don’t think I can use linux as my main. I suppose I could only keep windows for vr, but yeah I’m unsure. I was thinking bazzite or garuda if I do it.

Common elite dangerous rule

I am in love. You should be paid for doing this

This is amazing. I am so excited

How does one discuss this with their “friends” who are terminally on X, think RFK jr and Carlson have “a lot of good ideas”, and unironically calls anything regarding equality woke? I’m at a loss. And no I don’t think the solution is “stop talking to them”, that doesn’t help us.

Well I’ll say cassette quality can never really be good becaise of the slow speed and narrow width. . But 1/4" tape is about the best analog quality you can get (feasibly cost wise) if you go 15 IPS and half track (1 way play, no flipping).

If you want good sound for cassettes you can’t beat a Nakamichi deck, best there are.