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No way... my hero was vegetar*an... I'm gonna be sick...

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"Cool" and "vegetarian" can't go in the same sentence, sorry

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I don't make the rules, I was quoting the V*getarian Society. They said: "we can't be cool, we're *egetarians"

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I'm a dog farmer and I agree with this comrade! I always wet my pants a bit while shoving my arm into Retrievers' a***** (can you blame me?) but since I switched to larger clothing there have been no issues. I do dream about it when I'm alone though

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I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Seen this comment several times and since you're OP and can get more eyes on you than my random comment: P6 paid for in full, installed GrapheneOS with no gApps and no Work Profile and I still have that app

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No idea about why, and I'm pretty sure GrapheneOS is AOSP. I guess I'll have to bring this up in one of their official spaces

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Settings > look and feel > preset for swipe > disabled

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No kinkshaming please...

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Anecdotal, of course, but I've been gaming with almost zero big issues on POP! _OS with the baked in nVidia drivers since half a year ago. Both via Steam and via Lutris w/ Wine/ProtonGE. Some bugs here and there, but nothing that makes it impossible to get a satisfactory experience.

Of course it's a different distro which you might not like, but if you really can't make your games work on Mint do consider changing to POP! at least for the time being

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They actually kept developing it, with the last release in August 2022, and, even though those releases were tagged as Alpha, I've only had some (not more than a couple times a year) freezes with crash of the launcher since. Tested on two different phones with two different ROMs

I don't know if there's still someone developing it, but until something else just as good (for me) pops up, I'm sticking to Lawnchair

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases

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Very nice, thanks for the good news! I'll wait patiently for it to release

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That's reassuring, for the stable release I mean!

At the moment I don't really feel the need to update it, I'll just wait for a bit longer. Thanks though!

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Thanks for the insight! I forgot to mention that I use my PC for gaming and web browsing for the vast majority of the time. Apart from this, I take it there aren't big drawbacks to a flat ultrawide?

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I'm not that social and play SP games almost exclusively, so three monitors would be overkill and definitely over budget (the ultrawide I want to buy is $300 converted); even if I wanted to keep my current monitor, finding two 1080p that would match its ugly colors and all other stuff would be a huge hassle, and I'd still have to bear the ugly side bezels on the middle monitor. A ultrawide sounds like a better choice in my case!

Thanks for the input though!

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Oh, yeah, I can totally see that. A flat screen would cause fewer issues with lights because, well, it's flat and uniform; a curved one would be a bit more difficult to position in this regard

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I guess I'm sitting at the right distance since my flat 27" feels just right, I think the distance between me and the screen is around 65+cm. I haven't played on a curved screen ever, but I can imagine that the curvature helps a lot with immersion; issue is, the cheapest curved monitor I can find with comparable specs is almost twice as much, and I can't stretch the budget that far!

Thanks for the insight, though! Appreciated

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That's great, thanks for the reply! So, you don't have issues with such a large screen that you think a curved one wouldn't have?

If your 42" is great for gaming, I don't see how my 34" can't! Well, unless you don't use it at a traditional desk setup, but like a TV istead

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I'm also upgrading other parts of my PC, and already researched what it will be capable of (should be able to get 100+ fps @ 3440*1440 high-ultra details on most games I play).

Thanks anyway!

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Makes sense! Apart from the edges issue, which I reckon shouldn't bother me as much as it bothers you, since I'm going from flat to flat, do you think there would be other bigger issues/annoyances with a flat screen that I wouldn't have with a curved screen? If not, I guess I'm basically set on the AOC I mentioned in the OP, since it's very cheap and has everything I need!

Thanks!

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That was what I wanted to get, incredibly gorgeous monitor with amazing specs, but way too expensive for me right now!

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That's another great monitor that I would totally get if I had the money, but unfortunately it isn't the case haha thanks for the input though!

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Ultrawide has always been something I wanted, I love (well, at least I think I do, since I haven't tried it) the extra field of view they have and the superior immersion they provide! With this $300 ultrawide I'm considering I can finally try it!

The GPU I'm getting manages 60 to 120 fps at 4k at high-ultra in many different games, 2160p is 1.67x ultrawide 1440p pixels, so it should provide 90-180 fps at ultrawide 1440p give or take, so that should be covered!

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After a long debate I think I'm almost certain it will be a RX 6800XT, as I don't really need the extra nVidia bits like Ray Tracing, and also price per performance is a bit better with AMD cards (at least in my country, since the 6800XT gets more FPS than a 4070 while costing 10% less). Also not very fond of nVidia after the various stuff they pulled with the release of 40-series cards, and last but not least, I'm going to switch to Linux permanently and AMD drivers are a tad better in that regard. Your mileage may vary a lot from mine haha so if you want RT, and can find nVidia cards at more reasonable prices, I think a 4070/4070ti should be good enough for ultrawide 1440p, especially with DLSS

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Amazing monitor! Costs as much as my whole PC upgrade though haha and I don't think I could fit it on my current desk!

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That's great, glad to hear that! I will sit a bit closer, but my monitor is also going to be smaller! Can't wait to play on it

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According to my finances, I can only afford the bottom tier panels haha that's why I will get the AOC: inexpensive for the specs. I'm not too fussy about colors and greys, as long as I can get a decent picture by using a color profile plus gamma/contrast settings. As I said, my PC is for gaming, so I don't need accurate colors etc. as long as it doesn't look awful I'm good!

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