In my experience, it’s damn near impossible (or at least used to be. I don’t use windows anymore) to get cli programs to work the way they should. I’d edit the environment variables, logout, login, restart the computer, check the variables again, set the variables again, and after about 20 times windows would go “oh yeah, there’s that compiler you were talking about”. With Linux I just get whatever language/libraries/compiler/interpreter I want and its there. At most I might have to ‘source .bashrc’ or something.

Top one has to be my favorite. I’ve gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: “oh…well shit”

Ooh this is nicer looking than helvum.

In the same vein: the games in the Hugo trilogy had several fail states… each. Trying to cross a bridge? Oop, you’ve bumped against the wonky hitbox and dropped the matches you need near the river. They’re wet now and completely unusable.

That was an interesting read. Every single comment is the exact same thing. How could people not know it’s a bot?

I saw one person say something along the lines of “repeatedly bashing my head against a wall until it breaks”. I understood myself a little more after that.

Well i’m interested

I just got an extension that removes shorts. I tried blocking channels, saying I wasn’t interested, pressing the thumbs down button, but it would still show trash like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.

If there’s no talking gibs or main characters dying off screen by falling through the world I’m not interested.

I’m kidding, I’m a little interested.

The only thing I miss is HighStrangeness which was fun to go through every once in a while. The rest of reddit isn’t really worth looking at. But here there are tech nerds and Linux enthusiasts and pirates everywhere! I am among my people.

Never even heard of them. I went to their website to see what games they make and it all looks like free to play crap that I wouldn’t play anyway. Welp, back into the void it goes.

He’s doing his best.

There was a time where I liked configuring and compiling things. I wrote my own scripts and pkgbuilds for arch. I’ve broken and fixed my system more times than I can count. I don’t mind it, but god I’m lazy. So I run POP now cause shit works and I don’t really have to mess with it.

Bookmarking this for later. Thanks for this.

I’m going to pretend this article was mostly written by a bot and that there’s no way a living, breathing human sat down and wrote this. I’m lying to myself probably, but it helps keep me sane.

Damn, elon’s really leaning into that edgelord dystopian faceless corporation aesthetic huh

Same here. Used to run Arch and got really into tinkering with the kernel and wm configs. I’m also incredibly lazy and I just want things to work. I switched to pop_os and haven’t really looked back (well…sort of… there’s a voice in the back of my head screaming at me to switch to Endeavour, but I’ve been ignoring it for now)

The Librarian’s playthrough of Outer Wilds. The guy’s super chill and makes good stuff, but that particular series is my absolute favorite.