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Just wait until you hear about Mosquito Mayhem, the theme park for mosquitoes!

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This is exactly the feeling I had when I played Assassin's Creed and picked up a flag that said "1/100". That happened multiple times, since there are 400 flags in the game. And what do you get? Absolutely nothing but an achievement.

I hold Mario Odyssey up as a shining example of how to make large optional objectives fun. You don't really get much of a reward for getting all 999 moons, but at least the vast majority of them have fun puzzles to solve so that it's actually rewarding to collect them. Contrast this with, say, Korok seeds.

Theharpyeagle ,

Unfortunately, people need to eat

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The issue is, though you may make a distinction between "I'm using this slur as an insult and not against its targeted oppressed minority", bigots make no such distinction. Hearing others use the slur and normalize it emboldens these bigots to use it against vulnerable minorities, backing up to "I didn't mean it that way" when they get called out. The word's legacy also tangles with a fair bit of racism, as children of minority races were often labeled "mentally retarded" for poor English skills or just so they could be shuffled out of class after school segregation was ended. It's just a word, yes, but one with a lot of ugly history in the US at the very least.

Plus, the dislike of the word really isn't new, it just has more support these days. We have lots of other words to choose from, what's the harm in avoiding this one?

Theharpyeagle ,

Indeed, I think it's just two philosophies that don't necessarily need to be at odds. Permissive licenses help speed the adoption of languages and libraries, which ultimately feeds into the slowly building momentum of the copyleft projects that use them.

Theharpyeagle ,

I think the rub here is that most developers aren't developing/publishing their own software, but honing their skills on writing proprietary code while also putting food on the table. To that end, a permissively licensed library is better because the company will actually use it and the developer will gain experience with it that they can then use outside of the proprietary environment to contribute to FOSS projects (some of which may well use GPL). If a GPL end user product gets popular enough, it will eventually be able to use all of that gained experience to compete with the propriety alternatives, so I do think the two can work in tandem.

Theharpyeagle ,

I spent way too long looking at the suit like "it doesn't look remotely the same" before i registered the balaclava.

Theharpyeagle ,

Oh yes absolutely, there are bots constantly crawling any open source code. A friend of mine accidentally leaked their discord API key, nuked a whole server within minutes.

Theharpyeagle ,

Well, it's a comic, not a documentary. Yeah in real life this would take a lot of discussion and a long time, but this is a comic about how you can find out that your desires no longer align and still be friends.

Theharpyeagle ,

Why should you have to be miserable about it? They still have a relationship, it's just no longer a romantic one.

Theharpyeagle ,

The humor for me is that you kind of expect something like this to end in bitter tears and a sad goodbye, but they're both actually totally fine with a divorce and even hype each other up for new relationships.

A lot of trans discovery/coming out stories don't end very happily, so it's nice to see one that does.

Theharpyeagle ,

Sure, but it's not the only valid response. It's perfectly natural to be upset when a relationship falls apart, but it's just as natural to mutually decide things aren't working out and move on without grief or regret.

Theharpyeagle ,

I think Boomer Humor has to not just be from the era, but have some kind of "wife bad" energy to it. This one is just kind of cute.

Theharpyeagle ,

I know this is just adding to your problem, but I wanna add to the majority and say go with Mint. It's based on Ubuntu, which in turn is based on Debian, so most anything you can do on Debian, you can do on Mint. This is handy to know whenever you see a ".deb" file.

One of the things that makes it an easier transition from windows is that it's a lot less strict about including proprietary drivers and codecs (though apparently Debian now includes a few by default). It also includes a few more GUI tools by default, like the package update manager.

I also have found Mint's Cinnamon desktop environment to be the easiest transition from a Windows environment. KDE is also a good choice in that regard and it's what I use now, but its plethora of options can be overwhelming for new users.

The distro wars can be pretty overwhelming, but I'd say pick whatever appeals most and go with it. If you get to a point where you can't do something that you want to do, you can always come back and ask for advice and maybe switch up a different OS.

Theharpyeagle ,

The problem is that a lot of users aren't building a new machine for Linux, but converting an existing Windows laptop or desktop. In my case, I'd already bought an Nvidia card about a year before I decided to switch to Linux for gaming. Not ideal, of course, but it work a good 95% of the time and I can't really afford to get a different card right now. I'll definitely keep it in mind for my next pc upgrade, though.

Theharpyeagle ,

I mean, there's something to be said about adhering to an industry standard. Of course no project has to do so if they don't want to, but people trying to get on with their work don't want to spend a bunch of time relearning everything. I think Blender really thrived when they loosened up a little on their ideas of what a workflow should be and gave people industry standard options out of the gate.

Whether we like it or not, GIMP isn't going to be most people's first experience with image manipulation. Whether they had a free PS license through school/work, had a subscription at some point, or once got it through ahem alternative means, people will be coming into GIMP with certain expectation of what the workflow should look like and will get frustrated pretty quickly.

Theharpyeagle ,

Honestly I still struggle a lot with this. I can click around a UI and feel what might confuse a user, but building a UI from scratch feels like such a shot in the dark.

Theharpyeagle ,

I'm dreading what will happen at work. I even paid for the Win11 upgrade on my personal desktop, used it for a month and then installed Mint and never looked back. Not being able to move the start bar is such a minor thing, but it's a great indicator of how locked down that PoS is and how little they care about what users want.

Theharpyeagle ,

This may be a silly question, but what are VMs generally used for in a corporate setting? Is it the same use case as docker?

Theharpyeagle ,

Honestly that mod torpedoing the whole movement with a dumb interview and forcing the rebrand to work reform was probably one of the best things that could've happened.

Theharpyeagle ,

So much this, even if we saw automation replace millions of jobs tomorrow, it would take years for any meaningful shift to support those out of work. On the other hand, even some conservatives are interested in 32 hour work weeks. Baby steps are the most we can realistically hope for.

Theharpyeagle ,

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Theharpyeagle ,

It feels incredibly gross to just say "generated CSAM is a-ok, grab your hog and go nuts", but I can't really say that it should be illegal if no child was harmed in the training of the model. The idea that it could be a gateway to real abuse comes to mind, but that's a slippery slope that leads to "video games cause school shootings" type of logic.

I don't know, it's a very tough thing to untangle. I guess I'd just want to know if someone was doing that so I could stay far, far away from them.

Theharpyeagle ,

The problem is that snake oil stuff was (mostly) solved not because snake oil salesmen decided to be nice and close up shop, but because regulations and laws were put in place to protect people from them.

Likewise, we've seen crypto get hit with pretty much every issue that has ever afflicted fiat over the entire history of money. The only reason we've seen anyone get punished for it is because governments still have some jurisdiction over crypto traded by their citizens. People will say "but smart contracts!", but the only proven way to be safe with those is to verify the code is both bug-free and not malicious, and that's a lot to ask of someone trying to buy dog food. A lot of exploits have been executed on contracts that were marked safe by audit companies.

I think the idea as a concept is interesting, as I don't exactly trust the government or banks either, but I trust random black box companies and individuals a lot less.

Theharpyeagle ,

Right, but the wild west was tamed by increasing regulation, which is precisely what crypto fans want to avoid. The truth is, though, most people won't trust crypto without some kind of centralized authority guaranteeing that their money is safe, whether that be a government or a private entity. This pretty quickly materialized with the NFT craze, which saw the vast majority of NFTs were created on the same two sites, with only the biggest names having their own domains and redundant storage for their images.

Theharpyeagle ,

I love that there's something in our monkey brain that is just enamored with moving water.

Theharpyeagle ,

I'm incredibly grateful that I can honestly tell my team "hey, it's beautiful out. I'm going to walk the dog and make up time later." I still get sad that I have to spend most of a beautiful day stuck at a desk, but I feel relatively lucky to have the time I do.

Theharpyeagle ,

I really feel conflicted about this. I hate Musk as much as anyone and think this experiment is a little irresponsible, but if I were going through what that guy is dealing with, I'd probably want to give it a try.

Theharpyeagle ,

Thank God freedom units give us the liberty of doing away with that commie nonsense.

Theharpyeagle ,

I want to say that stick-built homes are really not so fragile as people seem to think. There's tradeoffs, of course, and ways to build them that make them uncomfortable at best and blatantly unsafe at worst. That being said, they're pretty sturdy, fairly easy to repair and modify, and relatively quick and cheap to build.

Theharpyeagle ,

Yeah, plus it's not like you couldn't just share stuff when you get home.

Theharpyeagle ,

I like vacations where I just go exist somewhere else. Plan a few outings, sure, go to some nice restaurants, but otherwise I just want to relax with no itinerary. The best vacations are ones where I don't have to look at the clock.

Theharpyeagle , (edited )

Jesus, it's way more dehumanizing to be thought of only in relation to checks notes Large Gametes than it is to simply accept that people of the same gender can be born with different bits.

Theharpyeagle ,

The "famous for leaving the Midwest" thing is so real. I lived in a town that billed itself as the hometown of a famous country singer, themed museum and all. Looked it up one time, the dude lived there for like a year when he was three.

Theharpyeagle ,

I think the issue is that people were expecting a custom (enough) OS, software, and firmware to justify asking $200 for a device that's worse than a $150 phone in most every way.

Theharpyeagle ,

The truth is that most people don't really care. A lot of them don't even know what an OS is, they just need a machine that lets them browse the internet, write documents, and maybe play some games. An ad is maybe an annoyance to them, but not one that's going to make them install a new OS. It's not because they're dumb or ignorant, it just doesn't rank that high on their list of priorities (even if we think it should). I think being in these communities kind of makes us forget that a lot of people don't think that much about tech.

I do think that easy to install/use Linux distros could one day start changing some minds, but that distro won't be one that's popular with current Linux users. You'd basically need something that very rarely requires you to touch a terminal, even for troubleshooting, because that's where people will nope right out.

On the other hand, this is why stuff like that "look at all the data Google has on you" video are important. For us it's a yeah duh moment, but the average Chromebook user probably has no idea and is rightly surprised about it. Reach people in terms they can understand.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

Theharpyeagle ,

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

  • Gabe Newell

https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-not-price/

Still as relevant today as it was 13 years (dear god) ago. Sure, not every pirate would pay for media, just like not every pirate pays for games, but charging increasingly more money for a worse product is going to push people towards a solution that basically allows you to search for and watch anything you want, ad-free.

There's people practically begging to spend money for certain shows and movies to be available, but they're just not available on any streaming service. What else are they going to do?

Theharpyeagle , (edited )

DVDs but they can also come to your house and snap the disc in half without offering a refund. Now that's customer service!

Theharpyeagle ,

SAME! I like to have my taskbar at the top of the screen, and seeing that Microsoft had absolutely no intention of allowing it because of their oh so special start menu sent me over the edge. Been full time on Linux Mint for about a year now and I'm loving it. Proton and Lutris have made it surprisingly viable for gaming, to the point where I can runmost games without any troubleshooting.

Theharpyeagle ,

Well, it's been shown with previous releases and this one that Windows gets really pushy about upgrading long before EoL for the previous OS, so I can understand the frustration. Especially annoying if you're running something like a kiosk or a TV app that doesn't have mouse/keyboard readily available.

Theharpyeagle ,

We can always hope for another Enron.

Theharpyeagle ,

I LOVE posy, just a dude talking about whatever catches his fancy and making beautiful videos about them.

Theharpyeagle ,

I'd put him on there, he's done so much to educate people about life in space and is always happy to address questions and run experiments for curious kids, even if they seem trivial.

Theharpyeagle ,

Zack Freeman has been a recent favorite, doing the hard science so we don't have to buy beef jerky filament.

Theharpyeagle ,

Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering. He provides so much insight to the constructed world around us and, more recently, has done a ton of work to digest complex reports to, as he puts it, "elevate the discussion" around manmade disasters so that the layman can have a more informed opinion.

Pannenkoek as well. He's pretty niche, making videos almost exclusively about Mario 64, but he has an incredible talent for teaching complex technical concepts in an understandable way. It's often really hard for people that freakin smart to turn around and explain their knowledge to a layman, but Pannen puts a ton of work into visuals and examples to make sense of some really comprehensive stuff.

Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe. They've always had a mission to reach queer kids and have taken inspiration from Mr. Rogers to help children love and accept themselves. Over the course of their career, they've really come out of their shell and fought for representation in cartoons, driving the whole medium forward while supporting their peers across the animation industry. They've been pretty quiet online since the end of Steven Universe, but it's because they're out there in person at LGBTQ+ youth centers teaching kids how to understand and express themselves. I didn't know what it meant to have a role model until I started following their career.

Theharpyeagle ,

So we'll be taking care of those other companies any day now, right?

Theharpyeagle , (edited )

How so? If you're concerned about propaganda, require every company operating within the US to show users exactly what data is collected and allow them to delete any or all of it as desired. Show users to the technical extent possible what data has connected them to suggested videos or ads. Put the power of users' hands to understand and control how they are targeted.

Theharpyeagle ,

My point is, why isn't that the law were making? Does it not address the same problem?

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