I think people over value emotions, but I realize I’m part of people too and it happens to me. Emotions are a fast heuristic but they’re not very inaccurate. They’re good for when speed is important, or when more information isn’t available. Neither is true on an async post about Linux. But yes, I can be dismissive of emotions but it’s something I’m working on.

I’ve seen too many people make strange, unhelpful, decisions because like “someone told me to do something and now I won’t” or “that guy was rude so I’m not going to listen”. That’s what your post felt like to me. (Note the emotional dimension there, heh)

Like, imagine a friend who always forgets their plans, is late, and double books themselves. You probably can’t just be like “use a calendar, dude”. You probably have to gently massage them and incept the idea. If you just tell them, they’ll feel bad, reject the idea, and continue having problems. (In real life, some months later the friend did come around to using a calendar, but only after uselessly wrestling with feeling bad)

So far this has been the smoothest installation of a Linux OS I have ever done.

Envy. I tried to install mint last night on a new computer, and it was a shit show.

• Ethernet and WiFi wouldn’t work.
• Bluetooth wouldn’t work
• the HDMI out stopped working at some point

I did learn you can tether your phone via USB, so I got Internet that way. That was cool.

But after I got Internet working, with help from discord, elden ring and Baldur’s gate 3 both failed to launch in different ways.

I gave up. Windows11 is horrible, but at least those things work.

The right wing says things for effect, not for truth. That’s all.

They’ll say Biden eating ice cream is an embarrassment but Trump eating ice cream is showing he’s a man of the people. They have no consistency other than seeking power. They are, if you value honesty and consistency, bad people.

…what do you mean by using dev containers? Are your people doing development on their host machine?

There are so many better things that could be done with $1 million. You could feed a lot of people. You could build some housing. You could wipe out some student debt.

Everyone who authorized these donations should hang.

I feel like as games and technology get more complex, the question of “Are we a company that makes an engine or a company that makes a game? Because doing both is hard” becomes more relevant.

I guess they have microsoft money now so they could probably hire a whole team and build a really nice engine to rival unreal, but they probably won’t. They can shovel whatever garbage out the door with “The sequel to skyrim” on it, and it’ll sell.

Also they’re kind of competing with themselves by also making Avowed.

… we should be breaking up these big companies.

I really want to do a game that’s like a riff on Shadowrun. Near future transhumanism, magic, and the players go and blow up a board room full of oil executives or health insurance leadership or what have you.

I’m on Mint. It only offered up to version 550 and veilguard needed 565, if I recall

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=433321 was more or less my problem.

There’s some narrow slice where a “landlord” does something useful for money like maintaining the property. I don’t want to deal with the plumbing or repainting.

But almost all of the time it’s just taking money for nothing, or charging way more than that’s worth. That’s not admirable. So fuck them.

I could only find “beta” drivers that were new enough to run Veilguard, which was annoying. I had to add some other ppa thing. Not a big deal, but would scare off some users.

I can imagine a movie like

• form security company
• become successful , hired for many rich people
• everyone thinks you sold out
• execute a bunch of rich assholes all at once in a coordinated manner

Depends on how strange and impactful their choice is.

If it’s something that I think should be in the style guide, I’d promise try to achieve consensus. I’d prefer not merging in the dubious code because then other people may take it as precedent.

One guy really wanted to write his code differently than the existing code and how others were doing it. It kind of sucked. Not that his way was bad, but no one else on the team subjectively liked it. I relented and let it go, and then had to deal with that unpleasant code for months. Eventually he moved on and a lot of that code got replaced. I retrospect I would have preferred if we had somehow convinced him to keep in the style we preferred. I’m sure he wasn’t happy that the rest of the team wasn’t keen on his style choices.

If it’s just a little weird, mention it as a non blocking comment. Like one guy would have weird line breaks in his longer comments. It technically followed the guide (under max line length) but it was weird. We asked him to stop, he said ok, no problem. But I didn’t block a merge over it.

Yeah we finally set up a workflow where we get production data available in a staging environment. This has saved a lot of trouble via “well it worked on my local where there were 100 records, but prod has 1037492 and it does not”

Huh. That’s neat I guess.

My initial guess was it would somehow capture the energy from hitting keys. I guess that’s implausible? Too little energy without making the key press resistance too high?

You did come off as someone who reacts only on emotion, since that’s all that was visible in your previous post.

Being put off by the delivery of information is not typically a good reason to dismiss it. If someone says to you “3 is a prime number you donkey” you’re hopefully not going to reject that because they were rude. I mean, we all do that to some extent, but it’s a pretty sloppy shortcut.

Just sitting here with my hands on my face crying and muttering “just delete your facebook/instagram/whatever. just delete it. please. please just stop using the torment nexus”

This seems like obvious advice.

I mean, way back when Myspace was new (I’m old) I looked at it and thought “This is going to make me sad.” Like, if people post fun stuff without me I’m probably going to feel left out. If people post sad stuff about their life, I’m going to feel sad. If people don’t interact with me at all, I’m going to feel lonely. There’s such a narrow path forward on that kind of thing that’s a consistent, net positive.

People could keep in touch with email, or texts, or even ancient modes like phone calls and letters. Would probably be happier. The social media stuff is a black hole.

Also remember that time Facebook tried to see if they could just make people sad? And they could? And somehow no one went to jail or anything?

I switched to linux because Windows10 is going EoL, and my hardware is ineligible for Windows11. It’s been fine, once I got it set up. There wasn’t any single thing that pushed me over the edge. I just had a free weekend and I knew I had to do it eventually.

I really wanted the install to be smooth so I could tell everyone how great it was. It was not. Somehow it borked itself, and I couldn’t boot from the usb stick a 2nd time until after I manually edited a file on it. Then installer hung on the last step, and I couldn’t find any answers other than “Use the previous LTS”. At least that worked.

I always find it puzzling when adults act like “You told me to do a thing so now I don’t want to do it” or “You said a thing that’s true, but in a way that made me feel bad so I refuse to accept it”. What’s going on in there?

Related question, do you think in words or feelings? Some people have a whole inner monologue, and some people do not. Some people think in pictures, or just wordless impulses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_Administration provides some historical context.

You can also read The Jungle by Sinclair

Without the FDA, you’re going to get sawdust in your bread and worse.