parents should be put in charge of their own kids,

So convenient that governments and their corporate masters take such a keen interest in watching our kids, after making all their parents spend most of their lives at miserable jobs.

On your feet, comrade. This is no place to die.

That’s so cool. This should also help with all those roguelikes that map vim navigation!

Is there a good place to start learning regular expressions as if I’m a young kiddo who just learned to finally read? Lol

…I have a wee one on the way so I’d like to get ahead of this knowledge myself lol. 😅

Comments like this I wish I could upvote for the laugh and simultaneously downvote on principle lol. XD

But I would maybe consider using Linux for everything except for specifically games that require Windows.

That’s the way. I started this way too, and as I got more comfortable well, my Windows partition hasn’t been booted for a couple years now because OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has run all my games beautifully.

Vermintide II even stopped crashing the entire system when I used Linux instead of Windows! On Nvidia BTW.

Even though sometimes it feels like I might be missing out on playing some of the newest hypey-est multiplayer games, I also remind myself that I don’t want something on my computer like the new Battlefield’s or Riot Games’ incredibly creepy and invasive anticheat, no matter the OS!

… Plus, I got like a thousand games to enjoy anyway. Maybe you’ll feel the same, idk?

I will say though, Linux starts to just feel fun to compute on. It feels like a machine that’s yours instead of some licensed appliance. I missed that feeling from the really old Windows days when it was fun.

Do a little exploring, but picking a distro with KDE should feel at home really quick coming from Windows. :)

a job that refused to pay me overtime after a year of working for them as the sole employee/manager of the shop.

Wow, like they would force you to work just under the limit to qualify for overtime, or wouldn’t pay overtime owed? Because that’s straight up wage theft!

I notice businesses that try to be “savvy” by taking shortcuts and skirting labor laws tend to collapse themselves once they run out of employees that are way too good for them and won’t put up with it anymore.

Glad you escaped.

That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like

"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"

It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.

Pointing soyjack squad, deploy! Lol

"OOPS!

Looks like you want a real go-getter who takes initiative in a fast paced working environment!

These added value premium features and advanced pro-company behaviors require a salary boost! Increase my salary for instant access."

(Tier 1)$ "Practically Already Quiet Quitting " Basic Value Employee

• Loves to discuss unions.

(Tier 2) $$$ “Really Need This Job” Moderately effective employee (Most Popular!)

• Shows up, does the work.

(Tier 3)$$$$$ “Happy To Be Here!”

• Ludicrously overpaid but…
• …Saves on hiring a replacement in 6 months.
• “Going places.” Maybe not to your competition!
• “Less likely to curse your name and air your dirty laundry under the cover of various pseudonyms in online discussions and AMAs!”

Oh that’s neat. I remember someone just saying “Cut out 3 yellow triangles, tape them to the TV, and have Link jump and get them.” Lol!

I felt the same way but also the shock value of the PSA might just save someone too. It’s definitely a gray area this time around, I think.

I’m glad it’s just the xray at least.

Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂

So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D

EDIT: That’s just a little heat coil with a fan though in the cold months. Be very careful and research heavily before blasting IR light at reptiles!

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

Yeah, there’s billions, maybe trillions or beyond, of dollars’ worth of investment put into making sure everyone "Really needs this job." which can be ripped away from them in an instant, so they won’t be inclined to risk any “insubordination.”

Yep! Form follows function, hence, I need my pockets. XD

This is an absolutely hilarious episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Worth a watch! :D

I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.