NostraDavid

If it wasn’t several PB (yes, petabytes) of data I’d want a backup.

If you’re a programmer: NixOS.

Define your OS config, which programs to install, and dotfiles in one repo. Install a fresh OS, pull in the repo (nix-shell -p git, because NixOS doesn’t come with git >_> ) and run the command to install the whole thing (sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#wodan for me. wodan is just the name of a config - I have multiple all combines into one repo, so I can share configuration between machines).

Took me 17 minutes to set up my laptop exactly the same as my Desktop. Same configuration, applications, and OS settings. It’s so fucking nice.

With Windows, that used to take 2 days to download and install everything manually.

Only downside: You’ll need to learn Nix-the-language, nix-the-os, and nix-the-terminal-program, which took about a month of deeply digging into the Vimjoyer and LibrePhoenix channels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr1TiKaL = woo lets go baby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmongold = rat alarm clock

There are pictures. Not of the rat.

Nee hoor, dat doen wij helemaal niet!

they can’t fathom going to a woman for honest advice.

Honest advice may not be good advice. I could tell a person “go kill yourself”, and be VERY honest about it. Yet it’s not good advice, now is it?

You’ve been checked kid.

OK, Boomer.

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

Pretty sure .compact also still works.

Slap .compact after a URL and you’ll see a mobile version of reddit from like 2006.

edit: THEY REMOVED IT! D: RIP .compact - I’ve visited you about 5 times, ever.

Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.

she has had European clients shocked to learn they can face serious consequences for briefly overstaying a visa.

Are people stupid? Visa says “GTFO before this date”. If you then don’t then there are consequences. It’s not that hard to understand, no?

I agree that it’s ridiculous how people treated in those jails, and that he should not have been held for 3 months, but come on…

And he was locked up before Trump took office.

So you’re saying this happened under Biden? Not sure whether this is the dunk-on-Trump that people think it is >_>

A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.

What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?

Older generations bitch about “damn kids these days don’t respect their elders” ever since at least Socrates.

The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.

This is the way.

You’re not special.

I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

• procreate
• copulate
• mate
• engage in sexual reproduction
• propagate the species
• reproduce
• conceive life
• bring forth offspring
• weave new generations
• kindle the spark of life
• sow the seeds of tomorrow
• whip up some womb-biscuits
• bake a bun in the baby oven
• start a stork-summoning ritual
• do the chromosome cha-cha
• know each other in the biblical sense
• lie together
• hook up
• get it on
• do the deed
• bump uglies
• initiate a genetic merge request
• fork the DNA repo
• compile the next generation
• instantiate another human

I think you got the gist.

And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.

Removed by mod

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

We live longer and longer, retirement age is something that needs to be adjusted with the human lifespan.

I think it has more to do with the baby boom right after 1945. If those older people retire, there isn’t enough younger generation to support them, so more people need to work longer, so we don’t get too many retired people all at once.

I think it’s more of a “can we support the retired” kind of issue - not just “muh money”. It’s a little more nuanced than that.

When she didn’t sign the NDA, the payments were reportedly slashed, and eventually cut again to $20,000 a month.

Oh no! Only 20,000 dollahs!? That poor woman must now be living on water and bread for the rest of her life!

Listen, I get it - Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that, but the cry story is just bleh.