Yeah, when I get the urge to buy, I go through my library and pretend it’s a “store”, and “shop” for something I haven’t played.

Small psychological trick that…seems to mostly work. :)

Also if you wanna go real oldschool, Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity go for like 70¢ occasionally. :D

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Ummm…

“Arch users about to update without reading the news page”

How’d I do? Lol

I’m definitely not an expert, but yeah that’s kinda the case.

Basically Mint will update core packages and security updates and such, but when Canonical gets another “bright idea” for Ubuntu like opt-out telemetry, or amazon results in search, or proprietary packaging formats (Snaps)…

…Mint will basically just leave that stuff out, and it never reaches the users.

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Maybe a comparison could be like one of those “Debloated Windows” OSs with Classic Shell that actually works and isn’t super hacky. :D

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FOOTBAALL!

SNAKE. SNAKE!

SAAAAAAKE. 🍶

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

As a PC Linux gamer I hear you…I really do, but listen…I really just wanna stick something Steambox-esque on my face and finally have a smooth open source VR experience.

I’m really looking forward to that.

And I know when they announce it, it’ll probably be way out of reach for me, but I’m still looking forward to it lol.

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable with most computing tasks, not particularly great with basic spreadsheets, but unless there’s some kind of usable frontend to reliably manage a database, I mostly see databases as:

“A magic box that holds tons of cryptic information, would be tedious to open, risky to edit, risky to backup or migrate or update, and could corrupt at any moment.”

Maybe I should put more effort into learning DBs besides initializing them in a Docker compose and praying, but for human readable information that’s meant to be shared, I think you’re bang on the money when it comes to why spreadsheets are still so popular!

This was awesome when it was just me and my family in a hospital waiting room with like a few other folks who were doing their own thing. The TV just blasting ads and maybe some talk show or something, as it does.

Boop. Lowered the volume and could finally hear myself think.

Felt Watchdogs AF lol.

And we can’t have that, can we?

–Silicon Valley Giants That Force Design Paradigms

I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

First, we’ll deep dive into “What is a variable?”, then together we’ll examine “Who sets a variable?”, “What is an LLM?” and finally, “Who would set a variable without using an LLM?”

You’ll be a coding pro in no time!

How does that sound?

(I felt gross writing this lmao)

Y’know I actually enjoyed when churches would put on (actually) funny skits or silly Christmas plays for outreach or whatever because like, entertainment is a universal communication medium, and what’s wrong with having a little fun along the way?

But that was on the order of your local middle school production, maybe. Cardboard, craft paint, and a lot of suspension of disbelief. :p

This “Cirque du Holé” business in gigantic “campuses” is embarrassing. Like that time all those churches loaned out a literal micro roller coaster to each other for. . .some reason. . .?

What a grift.

Hey, that takes a lot of strength, and I greatly admire and respect you for it. You’ve got a good heart and I can tell you didn’t mean any harm by it. Thank you for considering my words with the best intentions. (I’m REALLY sorry if I came off harsh earlier!)

You are very cool. :)

I struggle with that right there with you, and I pray we both find the strength to be His light in dark places when it matters the most.

I wish you and yours a blessed Christmas/Holiday Season and New Year.

Stay safe out there! :)

I wanted to say something about this because it dont think this has ever happened? Can you give me an example?

Sure! I’ll be transparent with you, I could probably stand to memorize my history a little bit more, BUT…this is going a little bit far back.

There’s actually a REALLY GOOD pair of podcast episodes by “Behind the Bastards” called “How the Rich Ate Christianity.”

Part 1: https://youtu.be/gyHd6wEC4IE

Part 2: https://youtu.be/LL8s7N0TU-c

It does a very good job of detailing how churches back in the day just didn’t have the sorry reputation they have today among the general public.

The rich-n-powerful of the time actually considered Christians to be pesky bleeding-heart socialists that hurt their plans for maximum wealth extraction. Churches were busy feeding their communities and protesting landlords and stuff, rather than worshiping work.

So the fatcats got together and worked to supplant churches of MANY denominations by sneaking in pro-capitalism doctrine in exchange for financial support, for instance. It’s where we started hearing this absolutely bananas idea that God shows His love and approval by making one wealthy. (?!?!?!?)

As well as “preaching” about individualism instead of community and looking out for ones’ neighbors.

Along with lots of other weird nonsense like I heard in my non-denom circles growing up, like :

“Oh, the ‘eye of a needle’ was actually some kind of weird gate in the city walls that camels had to awkwardly pass through, so uh, it’s not impossible to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and be wealthy, just uh, difficult! Yeah! You have to be worthy of handling the wealth! But you can be rich, yes!”

(Zero anthropologic / archeological / literary / theological / historical support for this notion.)

So that’s what I meant about good churches doing God’s work getting “replaced” with profit-friendly religiously-flavored feelgood self-help seminar campuses.

I hope that helps explain where I was pulling that from! :)

This sounds like a good way to have multiple sessions of players playing lawyer and looking for the most ridiculous loopholes LOL. Take a shot every time a PC interjects with “WELL, technically…!”

It sounds like it could be really satisfying but REALLY complicated setting up a plot involving a contract with these things hahaha.

But I suppose they don’t have to be a source of lawyer drama at all. They’re a great tool for the DM to say “I prepped this quest arc and you agreed to it so you’re damn well going to do it or else!” Lol

What a fascinating concept though. Woe betide the party who doesn’t read the entire contract!

Coffee break from a bunch of paint masking at the local church when he had this funny insight and used the selfie cam without flipping the image. :D