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Cake day: May 17th, 2025

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  • Ads can work on me but it’s context dependent.

    If it’s something I was already aware of and wanting, I have noticed that it can push my mind further in the direction of wanting to get it.

    The other context is food. Like, if I’m hungry and I see an ad for food, it always looks like it’d hit the spot even if I know it wouldn’t.

    Otherwise it just doesn’t actively do anything. If I need a product and have seen advertisements for a specific one, I still do research before choosing what to go with. And rarely ever is it the one I saw advertised.

    The psychology of advertising is very interesting especially when you can actively feel its effects on yourself, and when you can tell it’s doing nothing to you.






  • When I tried out fedora on my gaming PC I noticed most games ran noticeably worse on my Nvidia card. They still ran, you could still play, but the experience was nonetheless worse. Elden ring went from rarely dropping below 60 on windows to hovering around 45. FFXIV which would often be at 144fps, usually around 110 during dungeons and only dropping below 100 in really busy cities, went to never even reaching 100.

    It’s doable but be prepared for games to run worse. When I looked up issues I found this was normal for Nvidia cards. So just be prepared.