Maybe, if was cheap. Dislike Google and Apple.

Don’t care so much about games on the phone as like GPS, texting, ad blocking in the browser.

One of the other guys is on Windows and we had to change a config in git to handle it. Not sure what he did on his end. I have vscode on a Mac. Some people at this place have been working since like the 90s and probably are using notepad.

Hanna’s autobiography “Rebel Girl” was a good read, though parts of it are harrowing.

Windows isn’t fit for software development unless you’re doing Windows specific stuff. Maybe you can get by with WSL or cygwyn or similar, but that’s just a bandaid to make the machine less windows. You’ll probably still have problems with like case folding and line endings.

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

I have used copilot a couple times to be like “I have this scenario and want to do this. What are my options?”. I’d rather have a good Internet search and real people, but that’s all shitted up.

The answers from the LLM aren’t even consistently good. If I didn’t know programming I wouldn’t be able to use this information effectively. That’s probably why a lot of vibe coding is so bad.

Upvote things I felt like were worth reading. Down vote things I didn’t think were worth reading.

Per-encounter resource used are generally better for me, yes.

It’s one of my big problems with DND. Almost the whole thing is centered around per-day so there’s this constant pressure to avoid actually using anything. Like, you could end the fight with a 3rd level spell, or you could slowly end it without spending any resources. It takes longer to play but is otherwise mechanically superior. Deeply anti-fun for me.

I just use my phone to look stuff up if I’m on my steam deck.

I don’t understand why you’d want an AI browser to begin with. Most web tasks aren’t hard.

Steam and Heroic have been working fine for me for playing games on Linux.

Royal Assassin was like my favorite card back in the day, playing in school when 4th edition was new. I had a couple of them and animate dead. Good times.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean a guaranteed audience or platform.

You can write whatever you want. No one is required to read it. No one is required to host it. If they do read it, they can say whatever they want about it.

This is the fediverse. You can host your own instance and say whatever you want. No one else is required to federate with you.

If you post something and people say it’s garbage, that’s not your freedom of speech being quashed. You spoke. Now they are using their freedom of speech in response.

Guy is a dangerous idiot. You should always use protection.

I don’t agree a “maybe” is a “MASSIVE” assumption. Maybe they’re telling the truth. But maybe they’re wrong.

I didn’t make assumptions about your relationships. Please read more carefully.

I don’t think you’re a credible source in this scenario. Maybe you’re right and everyone is cool, but I would not be surprised at all if someone in your friend group had been hurt by your infequency.

But maybe!

It’s hard not to draw uncharitable conclusions when people you considered friends don’t reach out.

They may be struggling, but that’s an explanation not an excuse. The sadness experienced by the person who never gets called, never gets invited, and feels forgotten, is real.

You think about what they do spend time on. Who they do call. It invites comparison. Why did they invite them but not me? Do they not like me? Was it something I said? It’s impossible to know. They might not know themselves.

I follow a guideline of “follow their behavior, and if you have extra emotional energy then model the behavior you want to see”. If they reach out sometimes, I’ll reach out sometimes. If they don’t, I don’t, until I feel like I have the extra energy to risk them blowing me off or whatever.

How do they feel about it? Are you sure? How do you know?

I don’t think I’ve ever gone much out of my way for achievements for their own sake. Games where they also unlock stuff (eg: binding of isaac), sure, but that’s for the unlock.

I may have done some challenge stuff that I learned about for the achievement, but only because it seemed fun. I wouldn’t go very far into anti-fun just for an digital badge on my profile.