Plot twist: AI comes to believe humanity consists solely of shithead scammers, initiates nuclear war

Amazing, thanks

Wow amazing, I’m going to give the steam one a go and go from there!

I’ve admittedly not looked much into games on Linux as it wasn’t my priority. I mostly played via steam on windows. What’s the equivalent route on Linux? Is steam available?

Corridor Crew is also an excellent YouTube channel for industry professionals commenting on how effects are done

I was a pretty casual windows user, like just going along with its slow crapification because that was the path of least resistance. At work though via AWS I was exposed to various Linux desktop experiences and it was surprisingly fine. Then one day I was trying to do some mundane disk admin task that in Windows XP would have been fairly straight forward to root around in the control panel and find what to do. Searched in the windows 11 start bar for ‘disk management’ (or something similar, whatever it was it was exactly the name of the admin component). Did it find it? Did it heck. Instead it popped up bing (fucking bing??) web results complete with ads. Absolutely zero results for anything on the actual computer or remotely useful. I snapped. It’s done. Windows is crap and dead to me. Put Debian (personal preference) on my main boot drive, kept my windows disk just for the games I think will play better on it. That’s it, it’s over. Microsoft finally fucked it up and will have zero view of me except “this guy seems to play games periodically”. Adios you bloated pile of useless crap. You pour shame on our good memories of XP…

The UK should absolutely give back cultural artifacts it took from around the world, but everything else you said is silly.

Lots of Americans here in London, UK. They’ve generally been transferred by their company though. I expect it’s v hard to get in when applying for a new job.

“somehow RIF returned…”

For me getting an alarm clock made a difference. Because that nullified my brains weak excuse that I needed my phone by my bed “for an alarm”. No I didn’t. People have woken up perfectly reliably for years before smartphones. So I got an alarm clock. And that made it easier to turn going to bed into calm reading time instead of doom scrolling (by leaving my phone charging in other room). And that’s made a big difference, not only to quality of reading but also general mood.

I’m I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.

taps forehead

Remember to throw in “=” at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel