Oof, that sounds terrible I’m sorry to hear that, and it’s good to know. I really hate the trend of lazy reliance on Discord as the sole means of communication. :(

Same vibe as when some community solely operates out of a Facebook group. Yuck.

Time to start your very own chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association? :D

That’s so cool. This should also help with all those roguelikes that map vim navigation!

Is there a good place to start learning regular expressions as if I’m a young kiddo who just learned to finally read? Lol

…I have a wee one on the way so I’d like to get ahead of this knowledge myself lol. 😅

Comments like this I wish I could upvote for the laugh and simultaneously downvote on principle lol. XD

But I would maybe consider using Linux for everything except for specifically games that require Windows.

That’s the way. I started this way too, and as I got more comfortable well, my Windows partition hasn’t been booted for a couple years now because OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has run all my games beautifully.

Vermintide II even stopped crashing the entire system when I used Linux instead of Windows! On Nvidia BTW.

Even though sometimes it feels like I might be missing out on playing some of the newest hypey-est multiplayer games, I also remind myself that I don’t want something on my computer like the new Battlefield’s or Riot Games’ incredibly creepy and invasive anticheat, no matter the OS!

… Plus, I got like a thousand games to enjoy anyway. Maybe you’ll feel the same, idk?

I will say though, Linux starts to just feel fun to compute on. It feels like a machine that’s yours instead of some licensed appliance. I missed that feeling from the really old Windows days when it was fun.

Do a little exploring, but picking a distro with KDE should feel at home really quick coming from Windows. :)

The fact that the people involved went to the JAG for legal cover clearly demonstrates that they know that what they are doing is following illegal orders.

Despicable. Did they really go to JAG to ask “I’m covered if I do this right?”?

Rather than “There’s no way in hell this is legal and you’ll cover me if I refuse, right?”?

Evil at worst. Shamefully spineless and devoid of honor at best.

“Just following orders” is not a valid defense in carrying out increasingly heinous crimes against humanity.

So if anything, she deserves a bug bounty!

I obviously can’t say with any degree of certainty, but I wonder if where you’re at, it’s more common to hold personal faith without necessarily belonging to an organization.

As a Christian Anarchist in the USA, this is where I’m at. I struggle to find a church that is just about Jesus, community, study, and worship, without the “evangelical” right-wing sociopolitical under/overtones the US has been infected with. (Or more rarely the opposite reaction: A hyper-left political organization that happens to be church flavored.)

But my faith is still very important to me.

That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like

"Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif"

It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.

Oh that’s neat. I remember someone just saying “Cut out 3 yellow triangles, tape them to the TV, and have Link jump and get them.” Lol!

That’s something I’ve noticed too. There’s not really any information about what parts of something to avoid or what the risk is or how you’d come into contact with it, but I remember seeing it everywhere when I lived there too, and I was like

“Everything in California including California is known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm.”

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be there at all, but at least wish it was a bit more like Material Safety Data Sheets that gives a bit more understanding to what you’re getting into by interacting with various things.

Absolutely bonkers, given a commandment against idolatry and Jesus’ own words that oaths are foolish and come from a bad place.

Like, imagine reading the source material.

Ah I see what you’re saying.

Thanks for taking the time for the clarification! I’m sure this would clear it up for some other folks as well.

I also know they’re a fraction of the size of those giants who can probably field staff specifically for FOSS contribution, but that’s still a bit disheartening. I hope things improve.

Every time they’ve seemed like a good option I find myself balking at the price though lol.

“Hahaha yeah your state SUCKS, man!”

–Billy JimBob from like, Ohio, probably :p

With any luck of history rhyming, the Allies should have the bunker surrounded before he gets the chance.

I don’t blame you. I’m even tempted to get a Quest-something unit secondhand or something, if only because I’m pretty sure they’ve cracked it a bit better on the Linux side.

They’re making some progress on WMR’s controllers right now but they’re the most troublesome. Hand tracking works now! But a lot of games expect button input.

Seriously, we just need a good code leak or something so that hobbyist VR peripherals become more commonplace. Right now everything is focused on establishing lock-in to walled gardens instead of interoperability.

VR hardware should be just like getting a monitor / keyboard / mouse / flight stick / whatever, but they want to make it closer to a smart TV / phone so they can push you to throw it out and buy a new one every 6 months.

Often, when it grows past that, it can become… unsavory.

Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

Because I mainly game in VR and that’s still so far behind on LInux :(

This is a major sticking point for me too. I’ve got a dusty Win10 partition I haven’t booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

Monado is making impressive progress but it’s a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn’t another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

Mine was studying global information stuff in school. Mainly used a software called “ArcGIS.”

I called it “Arc-jiss.” Which she laugh-hated because it sounds like “Arc-jizz.” XD