Even people who’ve been at it for years. I am skeptical of the AI hype bubble as much as anyone here, but it’s been very useful for fixing things in Linux. Just in the past years it helped me (among others):

• Find an obscure bug that was reported that same day in the kernel, and helped me switch to the LTS kernel to prevent these issues.
• Help me setup up a random 35mm film scanner that I found with cups, and then help me set up a win XP VM when that didn’t work out
• Help me fix bluray playback yesterday after VLC suddenly randomly started to refuse playing it.

I quite like the climate here in the Netherlands. Could do with some colder winters though because ice skating on natural ice is becoming more and more rare. The Dutch weather gives us something to bitch an moan about, but relatively speaking it’s very mild. No deadly heat or cold, no tornadoes or hurricanes. Though I think I prefer the “old” climate a bit more than what it’s changing into. The hotter summer days and milder winters are not ideal

The “anti-woke” men at my office once crowned me the “woke police” because I commented on one of their sexist/racist/homophobic/ whatever “jokes”. It’s my badge of honour. The weird part is that we kinda entered into some sort of cold war. I could comment on their “jokes”, pretending it was in jest as part of my job as “woke police”, while still getting the message across. I guess it kinda kept some semblance of friendliness and ability to cooperate while we still got our opinions out.

Retain my knowledge of the (west) Frysian language. At one point I spoke it fairly well, but I can only understand it now and not speak or write it. It wouldn’t really have helped me in any way, but I guess it would’ve given me a bit more of a regional identity and it would be nice to preserve the language.

Personally I’d say that “always striving for the maximum and stressing myself out” is a personality trait that’s not only a problem in Stardew Valley for me haha. I’m o it’s not a great mindset to have, but unfortunately it’s a subconscious drive that’s hard to eliminate.

I guess it’s just a mindset difference. I’d say me and my friends are all pretty competitive gamers (as opposed to more creative gamers). We tend to play games mostly for the challenge. Also didn’t help that we had just finished our Facorio playthrough. So in our mind we still had “the factory must grow”. So our minds were like “if space -> use space”.

While I enjoyed it, it was also very stressful. I think we just played wrong. We covered every millimeter of the plot with farms or other useful stuff and then proceeded to be busy for more than half the day with just maintenance. At some point this meant that we never got to explore and often barely had time to go to the stores or talk to the people in the village.

Apart from overcooked it was probably the most stressful game Is ever played and it’s not supposed to be like that

Yeah same. Only phone calls get through, the rest is silent. I don’t get spam called enough to have a whitelist. If I expect important messages I might check a bit more often. But I rarely miss something important

500 meters. If the store were at 3km I’d bike there, not walk. I feel like 500m is still an okay walking distance, but at some point I regularly went to a store 800m away and I already preferred to bike there. Walking 3km is definitely a bit of a time investment

He’s absolutely a hero and without him the death star would’ve probably obliterated the rebellion (if it even existed without him). His methods aren’t exactly “good” though from the perspective of good vs evil. As we see with Mon Mothma who is maybe a bit naïve and definitely doesn’t approve of his methods. But I think a rebellion needs a Luthen. He knows he’ll be hated by pretty much everyone, but in the end he managed to get so much done. He’s the fall guy so the formal rebellion doesn’t have to get their hands dirty.

Yeah because the thing beeps as if the house is on fire. I’d rather have it stay silent. And 1-3 seconds is not really enough to have any measurable effect.

We should absolutely avoid it. Subscription services are wreaking havoc in many other parts of the media landscape. The deal is good now because they’re subsidizing the hell out of it, but just like what happened with streaming services the deal will get shittier and shittier until we’re stuck with a horrible deal.

After watching Andor, I guess Luthem Rael fits that title. Dude’s absolutely savage. Forced to use the tools of his enemy to fight for freedom that he’ll likely never experience. He sacrifices good people on order to protect the whole

Same, didn’t enjoy playing someone I didn’t like in a world I wasn’t interested in. Good game, not my preferred setting

Personally I also ran some distilled versions of DeepSeek locally, though I’d imagine that isn’t really possible for most people.

Better than nothing I guess. Obviously it’s a privacy nightmare. But therapy is hard to reach nowadays and I’ve noticed that many men are reluctant to make that step. It’d be preferable if they did, but if ChatGPT can at least give an outlet for the emotions then it might just save a few people. Seeing men demolish themselves because they’re too ashamed to seek help is something I’ve unfortunately seen quite often. Even though I’m aware of this I’ve still waited till it was way too late because I subconsciously didn’t want to give in to the “weakness”. I hate that men are conditioned this way, it costs lives.

This stuff is like cocaine to me. Liquorice with salmiak is my favorite candy. It’s so interesting seeing people who didn’t grow up with it dispise it so much. Nowadays I don’t but it anymore because I can’t stop myself from speed running all the candy once it’s in the house.

Damn, the meme made me happy but then I read your title. Hopefully you’ll one day become a nice person. I know you can do it!

I’ve been using Linux with Nvidia for 10 years and it’s been a constant dumpster fire. The Nvidia driver constantly caused issues over these 10 years, especially during updates. Currently I’m having the issue that the entirety of Wayland, including all open programs, crash when I run out of VRAM because the Linux Nvidia drivers cannot fall back on RAM when running out of VRAM. It’s making my gaming experience very frustrating.

We have a few of those here in the Netherlands and it’s so ridiculous it’s almost sad. These big American trucks really aren’t fit for Dutch roads. They’re too large for the roads, they don’t fit in any parking lot, and they look ridiculous next to any normal car. I could sort of understand that a farmer would have them, but even then it can’t be that useful because it must be a hassle any time the truck needs to pass through a city or village.