My 2¢:

I think it’s gamer discourse bleeding out into other fields. Gamers need the newest libraries and the newest drivers or their stuff might not run as well as it possibly could, because gaming is a relatively young but aggressively growing field with the Linux ecosystem in general. Sure games have always been around, but it’s never been the focus.

Now that gamers are switching more frequently, and that the average user is likely to play a game occasionally, it’s becoming relatively important that packages be up to date for desktop workloads.

GTKMM is also GTK–

GTK is the GIMP Tool Kit

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program

GNU is GNU’s Not UNIX

UNIX is UNiplexed Information Computing System

Ergo: GTKMM stands for G(NU’s Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Minus Minus.

GNU is a recursive acronym representing GNU’s Not UNIX.

UNIX is a modified acronym representing UNiplexed Information Computing System (UNICS)

G(NU’s Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System

Wait I need a copy of that one on unexpected wobbling in non-wobbling systems, I need to up my ksp game

And if I carry a modern dumb phone designed for privacy and listen to my music on an mp3 nugget?

Plus it’s not just about privacy, thats just a big thing.

Consider this scenario: every time you want to listen to a song, you have a to grab your record from next to the cocaine, take it over to the record player next to the heroin, and do your best not to shoot up or rip a line while you get everything set up. That’s what using a smartphone is like for a lot of people. There’s nothing wrong with the device itself but the way they’re used as insidious addiction peddlers with the ticky-tocks and the instant-reels and the infinite-scrolling endless stream of mid content and ragebait.

$80 to buy the scanner yourself and never have to drive a mile down the road to have another undertrained cashier tell you your O2 sensor died again.

If I never see another P0134 I’ll die happy.

Some people are actively trying to pull out of using their phones for everything. A phone is a phone, its for communicating. If you have a smartphone, sure use it as a PDA. It isn’t for anything else and won’t offer the best experience without concessions, nowadays those concessions often being privacy.

How is the audio quality on those? I’ve got the sp and was considering setting it up as an mp3 player for when I’m off grid but I don’t have the spoons to do if it’s gonna suck.

I don’t want Palantir guarding my anything, especially my rights.

Hi, former optician here, your glasses are probably fine quality wise but you should consider updating your Rx more often, at least every 2 years. Eyes change more than people tend to think they do, and since our lenses can be adjuated with muscles we often don’t notice when our vision begins to deteriorate.

I have a total correction of about -3d in each eye, but if I dont put my glasses on in the morning I don’t need them and can go through my day normally. As soon as I put them on and am hit with the strain relief though I’m unable to go back to not wearing them for the rest of the day.

Edit: for clarity, I was an Optician, a lens technician. Not an optometrist/ophthalmologist, my experience with eyes is purely through being in the field where people get equipment from, NOT from actual medical experience.

Debian Hurd?

This is true at Starbucks too, the freshness of the brew is not why their coffee is bad. This is the company that sold charcoal as French roast for years before anyone noticed it was so overroasted it tasted like bad fish and ash. (I’ve never had a more difficult roast to find a pairing for - Smore’s is the answer, if anyone cares, to make starbucks french roast not taste awful)

Considering I have several actual good roasteries in town and pay the same price? Yeah, fuck the mermaid.

Edit: sp

Liking objectively bad media doesn’t make you wrong.

I’d bet anything its because the costume acts like blinders and keeps her vision from straying from directly ahead. Goats are prey animals, hence their side mounted wide angle lenses. Her visual field is cut more than in half by the costume.

I’d be less anxious too if I saw the whole world as a threat and was blinded to 60% of it.

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My fave PSx game is actually the terrible 3d platformer “Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge”

Its so phenomenally bad and permantly broke my brain to love bad 3d platformers.

My first 3 years playing KSP I didn’t realize you had to activate RCS with a hotkey.

Turns out I’m really good at docking.

KSP definitely counts, but I think it’s the 10k hours that makes your experience with it autistic.

I’m the worst type of gamer.

I think gaming is bad and think gamers have bad opinions.

My perfect game is Civilizaris Skypico 4X for the PS1.

Mostly.

If it’s not a magnificent 4x experience that makes me forget to blink for hours at a time, I want punishingly difficult quarter muncher style arcadey titles.

I have too much time in the Vlambeer games, and have way too much time in splatformers.

Jrpgs are OK too, but I only like them on handheld. I’m working through the PSX release of FF7 on my RGxx35sp right now and having a blast with it.

My tiny claim to fame is that I once beat After Burner Climax at Gameworks in Newport, Kentucky circa 2011