I’m not sure how much good 8 talk therapy sessions is going to do. Less if we’re counting prescriptions, transportation, and further medical or QoL costs.

try

It costs money.

I tried something (‘multiplayer demo’, I suspect outdated/barebones export) and it has some neat stuff, the official demo doesn’t work though (Picotron Playground is resting.).

How relevant is CC0 here? Seems like ‘please make (and post) something, no matter the skill/effort’ is much more obvious.

I don’t use Gnome3 because I dislike CSD, also Gnomes should be sending me to the Nordic mythology realm known as “the Hidden World” NOT removing features from my file manager.

It’s absolutely true. And that my outdated Arch system is likely still more fresh than Debian.

That said yeah I would like something that can update itself whenever without breaking*, certainly if it expects me to update frequently. And manual interventions (ideally used for things that actually have a choice/fix, not just what ends up being a pasted command or two) should be a warn-step/update-blocker (depending on situation).

Though what the image is probably about (2025-12-20, nVidia 10-series turned legacy, legacy driver put onto AUR) is a bad situation in its own right particularly later when the AUR issues started happening. And it is really an update-or-don’t (or get an AMD card somehow) issue.

Other distros likely do solve the issue of updating, though from what I can see aren’t as good with packaging (dependency handling, lacking optional dependencies) and package availability. Which can be worked around somewhat too, but still needs more trial/input.

Annoyances are also multiplied for me by having non-fiber internet (also shared).

* TBC I also mean the act of updating itself (outdated keys etc), not just the outcome

this year

And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support

Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

I still don’t and I’m not young. At this point due to cost-to-benefit it’s becoming increasingly rare for me to buy things.

Health issues probably don’t help, though. EDIT: I also once had an unpaid internship at a car dealership (nothing else was available) and that didn’t paint employment in a great light for me either.

I’d probably get a monkey’s-paw trip to 3000-years into a bleak future* or straight-up non-existence.

The time portal, after I tried to explain it: “So you want a low-bureaucracy down-to-earth human life, in the far future where you’re a not-always-online symbiotic cyborg?”

* where I wouldn’t understand anyone, but they’re just speaking Swedish

Neat. Nearly watchable. I tried kitty/sixel options but those are too high-res and cause even more frame-drops (at least on the older hardware I tested it on, no drops playing with normal mpv), with a 360p video it’s isn’t scaled up.

Then again, I guess it’s a whole lot more watchable than the blinkenlights (Starwars) thing via telnet.

Seems like if it could do full XR maybe it could work via positioning without a camera, particularly at a distance where accuracy won’t matter so much (make it larger+closer). Mapping every billboard would be a community effort. Art selection, too… though I wouldn’t trust people to not put their own self-promotion up either.

It also wouldn’t help with branded trucks.

I mean it probably does cover that, one concept is bridging (connections between different groups, someone you met by chance not because they’re your neighbor) and political polarization has actually increased due to our voting system.

Similarly I’d bet a lot of people only called themselves christian because it really wasn’t a choice (upbringing, peer/family/institution pressure, cognitive dissonance), the sort of thing that makes a lot less sense in recent years where hypocrisy is on full display (be it politics, cover-ups, or megachurches).

For race, I think the most homogeneous communities that exist probably are still more alone today. A lot of the community options were built around places or conditions that disappeared and never recovered, or clubs that may still exist but don’t get new members.

The Void install was relatively easy, though maybe because I used the XFCE edition as I wanted that anyway.

That said, I’ve used Arch for 7+ years and am still using it on my main machine just can’t update. Give me a Polaris-or-better GPU and some faster internet and yeah it probably wouldn’t be an issue. I probably still would prefer slower+more stable updates (and ideally not just a specific time-window) though.

The last time I tried to use Flatpak for Krita, it had to download the Flatpak-specific nVidia driver which is my issue when it comes to internet speed again.

I don’t actually care about it either (or any sport, really) but it was once a symbol for social connection, and y’know the book Bowling Alone.

I feel like I covered it in the other half of my comment. See also Bowling Alone for further context. Car-centric living (and sprawl) is a big part of it in the US.

Bowling together. (And a lot of other social things that are a result of a lack of trust, not lacking trust directly related to said activity… unless you’re counting high cost/private equity as part of broken trust)

On Lemmy, the save function (star icon) does give a number beside the comment count icon. Like 4 comments (2 new). Still a manual check, though.

Also Lemmy’s comment discovery (the chat sort method) is harder to follow with context, not as good as Kbin’s unread highlighting was.

For me the legacy nVidia driver put on the AUR is a no-go. Even before that, non-fiber internet added friction to updating especially when I forgot about it for a while (or when manual intervention is needed).

I installed Void Linux on an old machine, I think updating might be more forgiving but the packaging system isn’t quite as good* and for some things I’d have to rely on appimages (I don’t want redundancy from Flatpak etc).

Tumbleweed/Slowroll might be a better answer if I didn’t hate Patterns.

* after adding some applications, already had to manually install missing dependencies, optional dependencies is also not handled

☑️
Marked safe from
spiral cult
today until they have mechs or can turn me into a “biocomputer*”

* head in a jar that can connect to stuff

It’s not an issue with how you did the link, I can view that thread on my instance but not the thread’s host instance see last bit.

Though there is an answer to your question: assuming it stays up, lemmyverse. (use fediverse icon link, remove https bit and plug it in)

For example, your comment on that thread works as a link: https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.org/comment/14366386

The fediverse link I get from that thread (https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/asklemmy/…) is just wrong for whatever reason? (even wrong on host instance!)

This works: long link, breaks if you shorten it
This also works: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357 (found via get-embed-code option, this is the sort of link my own posts get)

So non-comment thread link: https://lemmyverse.link/piefed.blahaj.zone/post/911357

OOP after shooting L1T Wendell: “What? It was obvious! He’s the red commie. Watch, he’ll turn red any second now! …Aaaaaaany second now. See, red! No-wait, that’s blood.”