Yeah they can get ugly there. It’s been a pissing contest for decades on just about every post. I do remember a time where people were just helpful and passionate about hardware hacking, but the web has an incredible amount of people on it now compared to how many were online when Hack A Day started 30-odd years ago

First time with comments on Hack A Day?

You must be one of those “good employees” that gives employees like me a bad name

Never wanted to get out of work?

And who among us hasn’t wanted to do this? This man is a hero

https://github.com/Anonymous941/MaternalBound-Redux-Photosensitivity

Same reason I still haven’t played Black Myth Wukong

Ah, okay. I see now. “Snake handler” generally refers to a professional, but the subject of the article was described as a former truck mechanic. I just didn’t process that in the correct order.

I just opened the article again and searched for “handler,” which has zero results?

What am I missing? Was there a video I didn’t watch?

Not one mention of how this guy got his hands on so many different snake venoms in order to acquire this broad immunity. Interesting dude nonetheless.

You live long enough and you start to see the elements of a new game’s DNA. Most games build on another that came before it. For example, Undertale takes a lot of inspiration from EarthBound.

What this has meant for me is that new games have a harder time really gripping my attention because I often think “well, that part was fun, but this other mechanic was much better implemented in this other game.”

I don’t have the patience anymore - nor the free time - to stick with any game that doesn’t do something special. And for me, gameplay is more important than anything else. Great visuals don’t make up for unfun game mechanics.

To each their own, of course.

I would say try out Junk Store for the alternative game stores so long as you’re using Decky Loader. I greatly prefer it over Heroic

I hear you. I don’t know about the rest of the apps, but Voyager has a fairly robust set of filter options. I regularly block things for non-dramatic reasons (like I just have zero interest in a specific subject that gets a lot of posts).

I’m not sure about using Lemmy through a web browser and what options that affords.

Linus was a total idiot in that video. It was embarrassing.

This is one of the things What We Do In The Shadows got right.

Astounding. This is why I got away from sysadmin work. Dealing with Microsoft products kills my enjoyment of computing.

And that’s all most people want from a computer, yet Windows always throws a curve ball at some point.

We do have a very incomplete X68000 core, IIRC. It’s enough to play some games at least. I’ve played Castlevania on it. My understanding is that there isn’t much available documentation for the X68000, and what is available is in Japanese. Definitely a major challenge for recreating it in FPGA form.

I just made this same basic point in response to another comment, but this is exactly right. It takes effort to learn anything new, and that effort isn’t always worth it to people. But that alone doesn’t make using Linux “hard.”

Waaaay easier on a longer timeline too! I first used Linux in the late 90s when the things the author of this piece talks about were true. You really did need to understand more than an average computer user just to get Linux installed.

That hasn’t been the case in a long, long time now, at least not with the easier distros.

What articles like this often fail to discuss is that Windows took effort for everyone to learn at some point too. Same with macOS. Same with your smart phone.

Learning anything requires effort, and not everyone wants to invest that effort - which is totally okay if they already get what they need from whatever they’re already using. But I wish that people would stop exaggerating how hard Linux is to learn simply because it will require effort.