So I guess it's "all that walking", AND kicking now? I mean, let's not forget, it was Chuck that taught Bruce how to kick! 😏
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LOL, you were doing fine with the Chuck Norris clip and you just had to ruin the vibe with a clip of one of THE worst action TV shows ever made that failed miserably at conveying martial arts!
It's OK man, all in the name of humor I guess. 🤣
Colif
On a Journey
So it took the last two months to get to point where walking is easy, next "step" is to walk up some of the hills in my suburb.
3 months ago yesterday I was told I could take the boot off to sleep at night, still couldn't walk at that stage without it. It really doesn't feel that long ago. About 2 months ago I was told to stop walking in it. It almost doesn't seem real now except the boot is still in my room... need to find somewhere to put it. Doubt I ever use it again. The hydrotherapy was a highlight really. I didn't want to stop but it was becoming too easy.
Today I walked around the block, it was a struggle the last time I did it and ever since I just been going to oval. Weekends aren't ideal for the oval as every man and dog (almost literally) are down there. Lap wasn't so hard this time - I remember 2 months ago it would take me 10 minutes just to get to the next corner on my street, today I almost did lap in that time.
So flat surfaces easy, next challenge is walk to the shops. Its uphill almost right away and I think if I can walk to end of the 1st street, I just have to do distance.
Think I cheat and get lift to shops and just walk back the first few times. Its up and down hills from there - I never really thought about it before, I just accepted the challenges. Considering I used to ride way further distances on a push bike, I just ignored it. Just part of the journey. I prefer short sharp hills to long inclines. To a point. One hill in suburb was so bad I would go further to go around it.
My legs don't like the weight of all my bedding now. Or at least, ever since I walked a klm last week around the playing fields, they haven't been the same. My two feet ache at night so I just need to keep doing my exercises now.
Should really print them out, been going from memory. Its weird when the foot I didn't break this time aches in same way... big toes complain. Think I need to loosen up some muscles that didn't get a lot of use for months.
Like my brain lol - it too doesn't want my break to end 🙁
I need to stop thinking about it, still have one week or more, remaining. Maybe Amazon surprise me in that time... keep dreaming.
3 months ago yesterday I was told I could take the boot off to sleep at night, still couldn't walk at that stage without it. It really doesn't feel that long ago. About 2 months ago I was told to stop walking in it. It almost doesn't seem real now except the boot is still in my room... need to find somewhere to put it. Doubt I ever use it again. The hydrotherapy was a highlight really. I didn't want to stop but it was becoming too easy.
Today I walked around the block, it was a struggle the last time I did it and ever since I just been going to oval. Weekends aren't ideal for the oval as every man and dog (almost literally) are down there. Lap wasn't so hard this time - I remember 2 months ago it would take me 10 minutes just to get to the next corner on my street, today I almost did lap in that time.
So flat surfaces easy, next challenge is walk to the shops. Its uphill almost right away and I think if I can walk to end of the 1st street, I just have to do distance.
Think I cheat and get lift to shops and just walk back the first few times. Its up and down hills from there - I never really thought about it before, I just accepted the challenges. Considering I used to ride way further distances on a push bike, I just ignored it. Just part of the journey. I prefer short sharp hills to long inclines. To a point. One hill in suburb was so bad I would go further to go around it.
My legs don't like the weight of all my bedding now. Or at least, ever since I walked a klm last week around the playing fields, they haven't been the same. My two feet ache at night so I just need to keep doing my exercises now.
Should really print them out, been going from memory. Its weird when the foot I didn't break this time aches in same way... big toes complain. Think I need to loosen up some muscles that didn't get a lot of use for months.
Like my brain lol - it too doesn't want my break to end 🙁
I need to stop thinking about it, still have one week or more, remaining. Maybe Amazon surprise me in that time... keep dreaming.
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Maybe it's time to try Linux yet again.
Noticed just last night that my monitor on my laptop was flickering. Unsure if this was due to my hardware change in the laptop or something else, I decided to wait until this morning to troubleshoot it.
Reinstalled Intel Graphics Driver and there's no new nVidia driver for my card. Reboots, full shutdowns and tweaking power management doesn't fix it. Adjusting brightness does nothing to it either. So at this point I'm a little worried it's a hardware issue.
Grabbed my Fedora USB just now and booted a live desktop and...no flickering in Linux. Typing this from the Fedora Live USB right now and even on the white background where it's usually more prevalent in Windows, there appears to be nothing.
Another boon is that Linux just picked-up the 165Hz refresh immediately. Windows I had to do some tweaking to get it to recognize it. Maybe today I'll swap out my 2Tb disk that Windows is on and give Linux a go on this machine again. But maybe I'll just try and fix Windows...
Noticed just last night that my monitor on my laptop was flickering. Unsure if this was due to my hardware change in the laptop or something else, I decided to wait until this morning to troubleshoot it.
Reinstalled Intel Graphics Driver and there's no new nVidia driver for my card. Reboots, full shutdowns and tweaking power management doesn't fix it. Adjusting brightness does nothing to it either. So at this point I'm a little worried it's a hardware issue.
Grabbed my Fedora USB just now and booted a live desktop and...no flickering in Linux. Typing this from the Fedora Live USB right now and even on the white background where it's usually more prevalent in Windows, there appears to be nothing.
Another boon is that Linux just picked-up the 165Hz refresh immediately. Windows I had to do some tweaking to get it to recognize it. Maybe today I'll swap out my 2Tb disk that Windows is on and give Linux a go on this machine again. But maybe I'll just try and fix Windows...
Looks like I fixed it? In the Intel Graphics Panel, there's an option to set the scaling mode and it was set to GPU Scaling. Switching it to "Display Scaling" seems to have resolved that subtle flickering.
Was kind of guessing it may be something with the Intel driver, given I haven't seen that in games and I just installed the new Intel graphics driver about a week ago, but haven't used my laptop much since then, so I wouldn't have noticed.
Was kind of guessing it may be something with the Intel driver, given I haven't seen that in games and I just installed the new Intel graphics driver about a week ago, but haven't used my laptop much since then, so I wouldn't have noticed.
Actually, I'd be tempted to switch to one of the many Linux OSes if it gets to the point where they fully match W11 on performance in every game I play. Windows for some time has just had a lot of problems with everything from lack of proper surround audio support, to HDR issues, to quirks in updates every now and then that cause black screen and a need to uninstall them until they're fixed. It's a very bloated OS even if you turn off all the telemetry.
Most often, in the games I tested about a year ago on Linux Mint, the games performed better in Linux than they did in Windows. Fewer frame drops, higher FPS overall. It was pretty impressive.
Only reason I switched back is because I got tired of troubleshooting the little things, but switching to using AI more frequently for troubleshooting Linux issues has been a god send and has me thinking about switching back sooner than later. We'll see if this flickering issue continues to be solved, but if not, I may do that switch and see how it goes.
Every time I've switched, I've always tried Linux Mint, but recently I've dabbled with Fedora with Gnome and I like it quite a lot, so that's probably the direction I'll end-up going if I do that.
Colif
On a Journey
Surround sound has been missing in action since Win 10
I seem to be immune from windows update problems. This is not a new thing, same thing used to happen when I was on Tom's. Lots of problems reported but I seldom had any.
Windows bloat amuses me as most of windows isn't running all the time, it just exists on the drives. Up until recently storage wasn't expensive, and I have plenty empty.
Bloat is more a concern for mobile users. Its not so much on PC.
I seem to be immune from windows update problems. This is not a new thing, same thing used to happen when I was on Tom's. Lots of problems reported but I seldom had any.
Windows bloat amuses me as most of windows isn't running all the time, it just exists on the drives. Up until recently storage wasn't expensive, and I have plenty empty.
Bloat is more a concern for mobile users. Its not so much on PC.
What kind of games do you play though? In the last checking I did, even the Linux OSes most suited for gaming were running on average 25% lower performance than W11. Those are mostly recent or current gen games with advanced graphics though.
I was definitely including the drive space it takes up when I said bloat. Even if you're diligent at uninstalling Windows update bloat like I am, Windows still slowly eats up your drive space to ridiculous levels. One of THE most appealing thing about Linux to me is how much more streamlined it is vs Windows. No comparison really.
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