“Look guys, their industry makes their boss abusive to them which makes them abusive to their staff, so it’s just how it is because money…”

This is like "Well my drunk granddad had anger issues after the war so he beat my dad who beat me something fierce and I turned out fine " of the professional world.

Some people think enough money or status is worth disrespecting other human beings who are just trying to do their already shitty enough job, and that’s concerning.

I.T has to hit their “ticket targets” to stay on the “lights come on when they flip the switch at home” track, it’s how they make their money and what they’re paid to do.

Playing coddling psychologist for grown adults who could pass a bar exam but can’t handle basic respect doesn’t make things any easier lol.

To any of those types reading this:

Stressed or not, it’s amazing how fast things move when you work with IT as teammates instead of underlings, using your level brain instead of your emotionally unstable mouth.

I don’t think I want the best IT person in the world performing an appendectomy.

“Okay so let’s start with the simplest thing by performing a power cycle and seeing if that fixes it…CLEAR!”

On Play store:

“Demo: Single IAP unlocks full game.”

Wow THAT’S rare to see on Android. I’m giving that a shot! 😁 Thanks!!!

So I feel like Spelunky needs to be mentioned here. I haven’t played it in ages and need to give it more of a chance, but a lot of people love that one.

That’s cool! Always cool to read when someone finds an entry point to broadening their gaming horizons!

I’d highly recommend

• Enter the Gungeon
• Nuclear Throne
• FTL

The top two are fun frantic top-down shooters where you can feel yourself getting better between runs, barring terrible RNG luck of course. (But fighting against the odds is cool too.)

FTL is just a very “tight” experience. I’m sure other games have perhaps improved on its principles but it’s focused and knows exactly what it wants to be.

Agh Gboard. Sorry I don’t have a better answer but if anybody knows a privacy-friendly android keyboard that’s got quick GIF access and this swipe-typing, that’d make my day and I’d gladly spend the time re-training my thumbs.

EVERY TIME!!

“A program is preventing Windows from shutting down”

The program : A generic non-descript white box icon with no title.

Clicking shutdown/restart anyway becomes standard procedure at this point.

I get what you mean. When updating Linux mint, the “This needs to get some additional packages too” window, relatively benign, has a big scary ⚠️/ /!\ on it.

Felt the need to explain to the person I was installing it for. “That’s totally normal, just look it over first and continue.”

…like, it’s gonna do that almost every time it updates, it doesn’t need to look scary. :|

Awesome or something, IDK I have used XFCE before.

Right after my morning stimulants if I browse comment-centric stuff (like I’m doing right now oh no)…I have to be super careful I don’t suddenly produce an 8 paragraph comment outlining my points of view on the topic and then backing up each point against hypothetical but inevitable challenges to said point of view.

Sometimes this is in private messages to my long-suffering friends, sometimes it’s Lemmy…

Wish I could just bang out a novel instead but I feel like gradeschool programmed me for “persuasive essays” vs. creative writing at like a 5:1 ratio. :( :(

(Stopping here before I do it again ahhh!)

Ah, the Arch forum/stack experience. Along with

“Problem still exists like 2 years later.”

“DON’T NECRO. CLOSED.”

Thanks, that worked like a charm! I was looking everywhere for an answer! :D

Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.

But by the time you’ve learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you’ve plateued.

…I guessssss it could make sense? XD

Nexus mods is working on a Linux client which is really exciting! Also Steam Workshop works on Linux. This covers a ton of use cases.

Not saying everything is 100% perfection, but it’s easier than ever to switch, and only getting easier.

I imagine “Windows locked mods” would probably also benefit from just disconnecting the internet and keeping it set up just the way one likes it, since MS is gonna drop Win10 soon.

That’s the case with WMR VR headsets. Sadly don’t see those getting cracked to work on Linux any time soon. :(

Selaco looks awesome, and GZDoom it’s running on is indeed FOSS, but the game itself appears to be a commercial endeavor and not FOSS itself, from what I could find. :)

Absolutely a cool looking game though. Super impressive.

Many thanks! No idea how I wasn’t already subscribed to that!

Cross platform now!? Oh happy day! As time moves on I find less and less that would force me to hold on to this Win10 install just for gaming. One of those things was “Aw but their mod manager was really good.”

Absolutely astounding.

… people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

I love that analogy and need to commit it to heart. XD

Thanks, this was hugely helpful. For some reason half the comments here made it about politics.

Interested to see where this new software actually goes.

This is a fascinating question. I don’t think it was just Amazon either. Although the price undercutting definitely helped.

Like many others here, I remember malls having lots of cool smaller shops with various specialties. Toys, books, electronics, games, clothes, decor, whatever. It’s where you’d find more niche things.

Like if “Spencer’s Gifts” wasn’t 99% raunchy sex stuff now. (Although hey, there was that too.)

It was funny in the 90’s watching this idea of teenage girls coming back with a multi-bag haul from a mall run. Ha! Not anymore.

Nowadays though, in my big metropolitan area malls are doing okay, but you get two classes generally:

1. Run down, sketchy malls, with stores that can’t afford to decorate their storefront but they’ll have weird stuff like wall-hanger katanas and other almost-weaponry alongside dragon statues and glass pipes and stuff. Stores like this are punctuated by pushy kiosks that try to sell you snake oil.

These malls are still kinda hanging on. The ones here are trying to do cool things like theaters and experiences. I think it can be a cool place for fledgling businesses to do more experimental stuff. Unfortunately, the said-sketchiness still makes them a bit unappealing to visit.

2. Bougie malls, more numerous here. Every one is a clone because it features the exact same fashion-brand super-empires. And no, your working-class butt isn’t their target audience. Keep moving, because they removed the benches too. Along the way, you will still be harassed by pushy kiosks, but the snake oil is in much fancier packaging!

Each individual suite has like 15 items on display that cost more than the suited foot-aching sales person makes in 6 months before taxes.

I have no idea how these places are still running. Lol