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  • I'm a cishet dude and all but one of my friends are some combination of gay, bi, or trans

  • Yeah there's a reason I didn't even call that one out and just called it a bait. It's in flathub, frequently featured in flathub, and in the same article they spoke with a nonprofit that stated they preload older computers with Linux Mint now, which has a graphical software center that covers both Flathub and the Ubuntu repos

  • Who doesn't love Abigail? My wife and I came within a hair of naming our first child Abigail but ultimately chose a different name

  • Oh absolutely! I've logged a few too many hours in Derail Valley. It's very fun for when I just want to hop on and drive some trains, although it doesn't really scratch the "I want to play with trains from $SpecificLocale during $SpecificTimeframe" Itch that simulators like Trainz do, where you can for example drive a Metra commuter train from Harvard into Chicago, or jump to Germany and drive the ICE or switch freight wagons in post-grouping Britain, or drive local freights through rural Australia

  • Stardew you'd at least be fucked in the good way. I mean, just look at Mayor Louis and Marnie

  • The sad thing is Roku's UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.

  • That's literally what the representative from the charity said they did in the linked article

  • Hey if you're in the states, I ended up with a pallet of PCs from an auction I didn't expect to win and my wife would be happy to see one more disappear, so if you want to cover shipping I'd be happy to send it off to ya. They're just HP Elitedesk SFFs with 4th gen i5s, but there's a bunch of half-height PCIe slots and 3.5" bays and even a DVD drive so plenty of expandability to get yourself into trouble with

  • My last go-around with Linux gaming was pre-steam deck. I think it ended around 2018ish? So it's been long enough I should probably give Linux a real try again sometime

  • However, Linux still lacks some popular applications, such as Microsoft Office and Slack, though alternatives are available.

    Lol nice bait. Real talk though, just toss shortcuts to word.office.com, excel.office.com and outlook.office.com on the desktop and nobody will be any wiser

  • I remember thinking that when I was a kid and saw a clip on PBS Kids of a kid using their home fax machine to fax their dad a picture they drew at work. I was also like 4 so teleportation was still distinctly possible to my brain

  • I mean every programmer says they intend to quit and pick up farming. Might as well give them the knowledge to be successful at their late career while they're at it

  • Classical Literature tends to be about interpretation more than anything. If you read classical literature and don't try to interpret the message it's trying to tell, you're going to feel that way

  • I saw a really neat video a while ago that talked about this book, and he interpreted the story to be about disability. You go from being the breadwinner supporting your entire family to suddenly you can't work nor enjoy your hobbies, people don't want to look at you and you feel yourself to be a burden upon everyone. Your loved ones take care of you through a sense of guilt and because to not would be neglectful but the level of care might never actually be as much as it should be. The author of the video (I wish I could remember the name of the channel because he had a wonderful voice, writing style and art style) also proceeded to point out that everyone will either die young or themselves experience disability, so it's also a story about what you will become some day. One day you too will turn into a beatle, struggling to get out of bed, unable to work and relying on others to cook and clean and care for you

    Edit: aha I found it! Metamorphosis: The Horror of Disability by Tale Foundry (they're also on Nebula if you subscribe)

  • Honestly the biggest problem was not that I wasn't shown the interest rate, but that they carefully avoided any financial talk (I never actually saw the final price of the vehicle, only the monthly payment and only learned the exact details, including the several extra thousand dollars of extended service plans when I was going to refinance the loan at my bank) and carefully flipped through the paperwork to encourage jumping straight to signing without reading, even joking "oh no you don't want to read that" at one stage

    Every car I've bought since I've been extremely diligent to read through all of the paperwork before signing anything, and one of the times caught the permission to sell data for marketing purposes form which I declined (the salesperson seemed surprised when I spotted that one and said "oh that looks like one to decline")

  • My first car had a 23% interest rate on the loan. I had no credit history and was relying on people I thought knew enough about car buying with me to help me know if I was getting shafted. That dealership has remained on my do not buy list ever since, even after changing ownership due to the previous owners practices of fraud

  • My 4 year old similarly struggled. I finally taught her to click the icon then hit enter which she's stuck with

  • My grandmother is struggling with dimensia but still loving independently. She's getting overwhelmed trying to sort through her mail for the last couple of months. I've quietly pulled out ads to toss but otherwise left it be. It's currently all in piles which don't appear to have any rhyme or reason to them so I might take a day and sort through into piles that actually make sense to try to help her. She gets so worried about missing something important, but ultimately it's a mix of ads, credit card statements and mailers from charities begging for money, all of which could safely be tossed

  • My grandparents absolutely are. I'm just thankful my parents have DOS-era skills that keep them out of trouble so I probably won't have to do more than hardware troubleshooting or general recommendations for them in the long term