Honestly, I grabbed linux because I wanted something that worked and wouldn’t change.

Windows keeps changing, a lot. Now getting to the point where none of my computers could handle 11. So I just said screw it, kept my hardware and now I run Ubuntu

Was not as disruptive as I thought

Not only that, the only thing that makes them spooky and startling is that they randomly fly around like a dumbass towards anything light related.

When they’re just sitting still being chill they’re actually quite adorable.

I’m actually planning a twoshot of DC20 next week. So hopefully I will be able to do just that.

From everything I’ve been reading I’ve liked quite a bit, hopefully it works just as well in practice.

Holy crap, this map is awesome. They have the grills, picnic tables, even all the ski lifts on the ski hill.

Don’t care if the graphics look like they came from the 90s. I love the details

Cheating is definitely in the minority of my social circle. I know of 2 amongst 100. At least people who were shameless enough to be admitting it.

That said, I do have maybe 5 open relationships in my friend group? I don’t usually ask, so maybe 10 total. My wife and I are monogamous. If you’re not, whatever, you do you. It isn’t a religious thing, it’s just how we roll.

But good lord at least talk about it, agree on it and stick with it. If you don’t then you’re a dick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4C58lmv1J4&list=RDEMWfLiM0l4i4Y026y85aO0nQ&index=5&ab_channel=MEUTE

Muete comes close? They’ll do a lot of marching band covers of a lot of techno.

professional marching band, not like what you heard in 8th grade.

I’ve come to the opinion that searching for friends is the wrong way to go about it.

What I ended up doing was finding events. I went to absolutely anything that I wasn’t 100% certain I wasn’t gonna hate. Every event I went to, I made a goal of finding another event to go to. I just played event hopscotch. I went from an auto show, to a horror convention, to a firebreathing co-op, to an anime convention, to another anime convention (I found I really liked conventions).

It’s a great conversation starter

It’s a great way to learn about your city

It’s a great way to start getting stories to tell.

No it’s the king of textures.

Stumbled across Ben Caplan over the weekend and I’ve kinda been addicted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRD0W2-tr64&list=RDFRD0W2-tr64&ab_channel=BenCaplan

You know, I’ve only ever had anime do that to me. I will struggle to finish any other medium but damn does an anime keep me until the end most times. Even if it’s not “good” I think it’s just so pretty I’ll live with it most times.

It has to be truly, god awfully bad before I go “nope I ain’t doin’ this”

I remember watching this ping pong anime and it wasn’t that great, still finished it. I also wasn’t that engrossed in Angel beats but still watched it to completion.

Bones UK, I dunno if they’re a full female band but the two main ones are.

It totally is in my experience. I have literally sat in meetings pushing AI… but absolutely NO steering or discussion on what we ought to do with it. They will relabel related things that have existed for years as AI.

It’s like instead of having a bunch of nails and needing a way to pound them in, we’ve been given a nail gun and a requirement to use it.

“But we sell balloons”

“Dont worry, the nail gun will make everything better”

So what is the point of an email client? I’ve only ever really used web pages because it did everything I need.

There’s two types of costume contests, cosplay contests that break things down by experience, and random Halloween contests that are basically reenactments of popularity contests in high school.

The former you’re gonna enter as a journeyman unless you built something so outrageous they gotta up the difficulty level. Make sure you have a TON of documentation and pics and explanations on how you did things. The judges are gonna wanna know how hard you worked on things and the amount of detail you put into it. If you spent 8 hours on the gold colored filigree on your bracers you damn well better mention it Typically unless you’re doing best performance, you get three poses and you’re off the stage. By the time you hit the stage the judges typically made their decisions so play to the crowd and do what looks good on film. If you are going for best performance, don’t feel pressured to use your full five minutes, or however long they give. Waaay to many people overstay their welcome, you wanna leave the people wanting more, not less. Hit your points, your high note, and if you’re still only halfway through your time, whatever. You’re not disqualified if you don’t use your time completely, and people will greatly appreciate someone moving the schedule faster than usual.

For the latter Halloween costume contests, effort means NOTHING. You could’ve thrown the damn thing together in five minutes and win, and if you spend 16 hours on it it will not improve your chances. The venue is looking for costumes that look great on the social media, is a character they love, makes them laugh, blows their mind, causes the venue to cheer, and (this is the most important bit) appears in front of whoever the hell is judging the competition. It’s 1 to 3 people who pick on the previously mentioned criteria. Each judge is gonna be a little different. Some judges listen to the crowd, some judges love horror films so every slasher villain goes on stage, some judges do NOT know what the hell a star wars is. The one thing that all judges have in common though, is that they exist in a 3 dimensional space and only have eyes in front of their head. If you’re a wall flower that doesn’t interact with people, you will not win the contest unless the judge is also sharing your wall. Build a dance circle, tip the bartender to figure out who’s judging tonight (they may or may not know) but if you wanna win, physics dictates that you appear in front of a judge as they wander the venue. That is more important than your costume.

Currently using ubuntu, switched in January because my computer can’t swap to 11. I can still dual boot to windows if necessary, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.

So far, haven’t run into issues. Gaming through steam has been minimal effort. Gaming outside of steam a bit more so. VR has been somewhat persnickety, discord needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled to update.

I am in a very weird position because I use my PC on the couch with a 4k projector. Oddly enough linux has nailed the proper text sizing across applications better than windows ever did. Which is weird because my requirements for this kind of setup is kinda niche.

Mostly I swapped because I cannot upgrade to 11 without a hardware update, and new electronics are gonna be painful over the next 4 years.

If you aren’t getting a free update to windows 11, then it’s definitely worth as a protest. Even if you get it for free, it’s less of a stranglehold that windows has over the computer space, and it’s less data they farm off you.

Same reason why people stick with wells Fargo even if they can move to a credit union. It takes effort, changes to habit, and risk just to gain… what you already have.

… that’s a really compelling reason for linux.

I mean the next few years are going to be rough. Being able to recycle these things for basic use is going to be huge. Windows, mac, people need the internet more than anything else. It’s a sad way to gain adoption but it could be insanely impactful…

Yeah, but the concept also has a LOT of space to play in but most writers play it safe. Way too many just treat is as a handwavy checkpoint system and move on with the plot they care about.

Soma (video game, not a book) was a really horrifying dive into being able to save and upload a consciousness. Not a lot of stories try to dive into how do you know if a “copy” of you is truly a copy. It’s like a Turing test on steroids trying to figure this out. Being able to practically test just how different someone can be from a single different event.

It’s one of the things I really enjoyed about the Bobiverse series (although apparently later on they added the idea of a soul, which just kinda seems like a cop out to me)

Same here, Manga and lemmy. I’ve been slowly trying to add discord to the rotation but I find it taxing. It’s so hard to keep track of which friend group is which and I can’t label servers with my own label

See, I don’t think water is the way to do it. I think you do it with a massive lead pole with teeth to lock into a gear.

Fully contained, no spillage