Spray painting a wall is fine,

Yeah. Particularly when private bank walls are right there prominently on many corners just asking to be painted.

Oof. But yeah. Fair.

I want to go in record that sometimes I just wear sandals with socks.

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

My client pre-downloads videos, so I can fast forward and rewind at will.

If only I had a client with support for fast forward… Oh right. I do. Neat.

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

Certain ideologies are just not compatible with western culture, specifically those who condone raping women and murdering lgbtq people.

I hear this argument a decent amount, but have never heard it actually expressed - only held up as a straw man argument on immigration issues.

None of us wants shitheads around. Some of us just want to give everyone a chance to prove whether they’re a shithead or not, before deciding whether they can immigrate.

Civ6 was buggy as hell on Switch. Anyone know if it’s stable on PC?

I want the hours I played back before it corrupted my game save, so $3 is still be too much to ask, to me.

Quite a bit of care is taken with the UX which is outstanding considering it’s a volunteer project.

Yeah. I am frequently delighted by excellent usability experiences on modern Linux!

Maybe I’m biased, since it’s so much better than when I started. But I still have a Windows 10 PC for my work, and - while the usability on Windows 10 is no slouch - I honestly would have a hard time saying which is better, overall, now. (Ignoring, for the sake of discussion, really obvious anipatterns like the start menu ads in Windows.)

I’ve heard this a few times lately. It makes me curious how recent the impenetrable experience was.

I’m shocked at the idea that an average Windows user who tried this year’s version of Debian Stable would find it even mildly confusing, much less impenetrable.

I switch between Windows 10 and Debian 12 Stable, daily.

I find that, on Debian, all the expected features are in the same spots, acting the same ways.

Disclaimer: I don’t have an Nvidia graphics card to cause me headaches.

And I do understand that depending on hardware, installation can be tough. That’s true with Windows, too, of course. At least installation doesn’t have to be an issue for new purchases, since enough PCs can now ship with either pre-installed.

In the past I have been surprised to encounter some genuinely privacy-minded folks working at Google.

It’s hard not to see this as an announcement that era is ending now…

I de-Googled awhile ago, based on my personal belief that Google wouldn’t keep those people. I’m not happy to feel like this verifies my worst expectations.

Yeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278

AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.

Yes. And that’s our best case scenario. Worst case is a wildly incompetent, but still effective form of SkyNet.

Such as avoiding global news and sticking with just local news.

Sounds like they understand Circles of Influence and are tuning their circle of concern to match.

This How Not To Die book?

That sounds worth a read. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

None of the most obvious searches I tried came up with my blog, but I did find some better resources (to me, than my blog, which admittedly I don’t care to find since there’s nothing new there for me…) on blogs that it did find. It looks like it’s doing the kind of search I used to rely on. Pretty cool!

I like to think I kept on top of that, yeah.

Annoying stuff, but I’ve suspected for awhile.

My personal blog is life changing, but y’all will never find it, at this rate. /Sarcasm

More seriously, a decade ago my personal blog was the number one article on the Internet for like 3 deeply esoteric technical topics. Neat.

At some point, that stopped happening. I didn’t give it serious thought, because those articles were never meant for anything but my personal reference, anyway.

But it made me wonder what was going on with the algorithms.

On one hand, I figure people can just go to stack overflow. Except, I don’t participate in SO, because they’re a bunch of tossers. But then, I figure someone else can just copy my write-up into Stack Overflow. Except, no one does, anymore, probably because they can’t find my blog either.

Again, my blog is mostly useless shit. So maybe the algorithm was just doing it’s job. But I’ve wondered for awhile if the Internet wasn’t just plain better a decade ago when search actually worked.

Whose blogs was I missing out on? Now I find stuff like that through Mastodon, but it still isn’t targeted topical search, yet.

I need to get in on that web ring action going on.