I just really like portage, I guess. I know how to use it, and learning how to do the same thing in guix doesn't offer any benefits that I know of that matter to me, yet. Maybe one day.

I use Gentoo, and atomic just doesn't seem like a fit for me. That said I could see it being great for people who don't tinker. If I were to get a family member to use linux I might pick an atomic distro.

I reject the term "glizzy". Call it a sausage like a civilised person. Or a snag if you're a bogan (no judgement).

I assume they're talking about the idea that tolerance is a social contract, and that people who do not abide by it are not protected by it either. I.e. It is not a contradiction of tolerance to not tolerate intolerance.

Man I picked the best time to take a serious shot at daily driving desktop linux. Most of what I want just works and new stuff is always just around the corner. Just got NTsync on my preferred kernel, now wayland session restore is coming.

My go-to is "What happens when you try?"

Gorilla glasses. Those are what protect my phone screen from damage, right?

To be fair, asking that much for Skull & Bones really is taking the piss…

Star Citizen runs just fine under linux. For the most part, anyway. Being under active dev it breaks occasionally, but the Linux User Group has always gotten it working again so far.

https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper

I would recommend using Wine directly over using Lutris right now, but that's an option you can pick in this script. Join the discord if you have trouble, people are friendly there if you're polite.

Don't use Proton/Steam for it.

I am not convinced anything has changed for Firefox yet. I looked over the terms and they just seem to be covering their arses against regulations regarding Mozilla services (e.g Firefox Sync). Correct me if I'm wrong.

I still cannot believe half of you maroons voted for this. So now doge has a serious .gov DNS entry.

I mean that literally, btw. I cannot believe half of you voted for this, it's impossible. If it turns out there really was election fraud this time I will be completely unshocked.

Don't most of those jobs require you to supply your own vehicle, fuel and other vehicle-related expenses?

If you aren't a fan of the book, I hear it's fine. If you are, I hear you should skip it.

It's not about killing windows… but if it were to have an accident, y'know… I'm just sayin'…

Gulikit make some good pads with hall effect sensors (and aftermarket hall effect sticks for things like the steamdeck). Dunno if they make versions with their own receiver tho.

I didn't play much Elden Ring as it strayed too far from what I liked about the earlier Souls games, personally. Demon's would only give you a checkpoint after killing a boss, though you could open up shortcuts instead. Dark Souls 1 had a few more checkpoints but there was none of this respawning right outside the boss door that you get in ER and some of the later series games (to make up for the overtuned boss challenge in those games).

This meant, at least on your first playthrough, you tended to be doing this slow, tense exploration of hostile areas. Because dying would not only cost you progress, but potentially your next level if you failed to retrieve your souls.

I am mostly joking, but I do remember reading somewhere that the punishing corpse run aspect combined with the lack of checkpoints was a response to how toothless death was in Bioshock and games of that era. Compare a death in Demon's Souls to Bioshock, where you pop instantly out of the nearest vitachamber(?) with no loss, for example.

Bioshock gave us the Souls series ;)

Imagine 3rd person OTS Magicka…

My first boss was a "just" guy. Thankfully he was also pro dev, being one himself, but sadly he was completely self-taught. This led to some interesting ideas, such as:

"We should not migrate anything to, or start any new projects in, .net framework 3. We should become the experts in .net framework 2, so people who need .net 2 solutions come to us."

"Agile means we do less documentation." (But we were already doing no documentation)

"Why are you guys still making that common functions class library? I just copy a .vb file into every project I work on, that way I can change it to suit the new project." (This one led to the most amusing compound error I've fixed for a fellow dev.)

Good guy, all in all. But frustrating to work for often.