I’m at the point now that I don’t even bother checking ProtonDB unless it’s a really expensive purchase. Most things work out of the box for me. With some games that have a native Linux client, the Windows version will actually run better for me.

Ah, gotcha. Feel like I’m too old to keep up with it now.

Are these called “Wojack” memes? I’ve never understood why this art style became so popular.

IT: Did you flush?

User: Yes, of course.

*IT goes to check and sees the toilet is un-flushed*

IT: Show me how you’re flushing.

*User turns sink faucet on and off*

Pretty deceptive marketing. I bet the person who thought up that name was exceptionally proud of themselves afterwards.

Same. Threw what extra money I had into some reliable stocks. Did the same thing during Covid too, and it worked out pretty well for me. It feels a bit like I’m a crisis vampire, but I just don’t want to be working anymore when I hit 60.

Feathered tyrannosaur of Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutyrannus

Feathered tyrannosaur of North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanuqsaurus

It hides the problem or else it gets the hose again

Sums up every conversation I’ve had where a Windows person has told me they won’t use Linux because of how complicated it is. Sure, Windows may be easier initially, up until the point that something decides not to work, and then you’re left tracking down obscure forum threads and blog posts. You check event logs, and there’s either nothing relevant, or you find an event that just sums up the exact error you already saw. Microsoft’s own support forum is just a graveyard of threads ending in “please run sfc and/or dism”. Contrast that with open source logs, for the most part, you’ll know what the problem is just from reading through the output. It’s usually not pretty, and boy is it a lot of log messages, but at least you’re not completely in the dark. And I mean this for both server and personal computer usage. Microsoft just has a terrible track record with being verbose about errors.

I’d watch this. Not an anime fan, but I bet Simon Pegg would nail the comedy.

Ah, interesting. Had no idea. Thanks.

Interesting. I see bicycle pedals and a chain. Seems it’d function a bit similar to modern e-bikes.

For me personally, I think it might be for the best that a portion of them can’t be bothered. I’ve watched the quality of Reddit posts and comments erode over the past decade or so. I think one reason is from the user base trending younger. Lemmy feels a bit more like what Reddit was back in the day.

Come on, this isn’t Riyadh. They’re not gonna saw your hands off, all right? The worst they can do is put you for a couple of months into a while collar, minimum security resort!

Ronald Reagon and his trickle-down economics.

I was that kid in my high school years. Teachers were usually pretty cool about it, like they already understood.

Dude, no offense, but that water mark message at the bottom is so silly. There’s gotta be better services out there that don’t add their own messages. Have you considered just adding your water mark manually with photo editing software? Gimp is free and doesn’t take much effort to learn for what you’re doing with it. Also, if it’s a matter of batch processing, Gimp has a plugin called Bimp that should let you automatically add your water mark to whole collections of images in one go. In any case, not trying to offend. Just hoping this is helpful.

I just rip the band-aid off and dunk myself. Better to get it over with quickly. Also, if I’m doing something like a dive or a flip, I find that my mind is too busy on the technique to really consider the cold shock. Plus, then I get to look smugly at the others that saw the sweet move I just pulled off.

Samba daemon

Some fast food places work a bit like this in the sense that you tell them how many meat patties you want. It doesn’t change the diameter, but affects the height a fair amount.