u/MrBoom2000

I used to play league with friends a few times a week. I had fun. On occasion. Then riot decided to end support for my version of windows 10 (it was an older version of it). Vanguard would no longer launch on my windows 10 computer. I sat with this for months. And finally decided to grab a spare ssd and build an entire dedicated windows 11 drive JUST for riot. I did so, and it worked for like a week. But what started happening was I would launch the client. get into league. Click play. join friends. Find a match. Spawn in nexus. Start walking to lane, and I would be kicked out of game as "You need to have vanguard running to play".
All my friends would exit to menu as a remake. Make a new party. Now we have to sit there for 5 minutes waiting out a penalty timer. Launch a new game, NOW it works.
but this consistent penalty timer has made it impossible to enjoy playing with friends.
So now Ive just moved to linux altogether and have had to put down riot in general.
I hope they eventually decide to figure it out.

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I don't have any farmers to talk to, and honestly I'm in an echo chamber of cityfolk. Right now hatred toward farmers is skyrocketing as our water levels drop statewide and they're getting a ton of blame.

And there's truth to that. 85% of all of utah's water is ag. We could stop 100% of water usage in cities, and we still wouldn't have enough to fill our lakes.

So its very easy to go after farmers as being the problem. 68% of all of utahs diverted water goes to a single crop worth 0.2% of the state economy. And that crop, alfalfa, doesn't even feed humans. Its hay for cows. Some of which I have been told is shipped overseas for extra profit. The entire alfalfa industry (~$435M) is worth less than what we lose from our lakes going dry.

It makes me angry.
But before I get 'too' worked up over it, I would very seriously like to hear the other side of the argument. Are there any farmers on here that can tell me the farming side of the story?

Why can't you switch to more efficient crops/irrigation methods? Why can't you farm in another state that actually has water? How much do you pay for your water and has the cost been going up for you? Have you been forced to fallow fields? etc.

Would appreciate the other side.