I think it was Denmark and/or a province (?) of Germany

The doxxers got doxed. Sucks to be them.

don’t come at me, pendants.

Did you do that on purpoise? :3

I don’t need reproducibility to the extent that NixOS provides

Alright, that’s fair. As a programmer, I’ve been having a blast using it - being able to quickly setup my laptops almost the same as my desktop is such a breath of fresh air, then being able to copy over most of my config to a WSL setup to employ nix to get there 90% of the way on a Debian or Ubuntu WSL system is just so nice.

But if you don’t need its features, or aren’t a programmer, I can very much imagine you’d rather stick to a more stateful system.

at what’s gotta be greater than normal max screen brightness.

I love misplacing my finger and getting flash-banged by my phone! 😮‍💨

Don’t know if all androids have it, but if I swipe down near the bottom, it’ll pull down the top for “one-handed mode”.

I was able to trigger it multiple times until I figured out how I actually did it 😅

T9 (the old number keyboard) was the best layout: compact yet VERY usable. And with physical keyboards you could text someone blindly.

I just installed Traditional T9 to replace whatever that MS keyboard was (the swipe feature was nice, but I’m not sure it can beat T9).

Have you heard of Disembodied Tyrant? This song, Winter, is a mix of Vivaldi and Deathcore. Symphonic Deathcore, if you will.

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

I can’t imagine why a country that suffered under the USSR would want to put into law, to criminalize, the ideology that once fucked up East-Europe…

The Communist Party of Bohemia

How the fuck do they still even have a literal Communist party!?

A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.

What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?

Older generations bitch about “damn kids these days don’t respect their elders” ever since at least Socrates.

The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.

This is the way.

You’re not special.

I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

• procreate
• copulate
• mate
• engage in sexual reproduction
• propagate the species
• reproduce
• conceive life
• bring forth offspring
• weave new generations
• kindle the spark of life
• sow the seeds of tomorrow
• whip up some womb-biscuits
• bake a bun in the baby oven
• start a stork-summoning ritual
• do the chromosome cha-cha
• know each other in the biblical sense
• lie together
• hook up
• get it on
• do the deed
• bump uglies
• initiate a genetic merge request
• fork the DNA repo
• compile the next generation
• instantiate another human

I think you got the gist.

And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

Having all your configuration hidden in ~/.config/, so you can have ~ all to yourself is nice, IMO. Just having a handful of folders (including hidden ones) makes things a little more readable.

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package?

Uh, just yesterday. Installed NixOS (with KDE) because I learned Debian at work, but am really missing the ability to track what I’ve installed via configuration. I like the idea of dotfiles in a repo, but want a bit more control like that for my OS.

Context: I’m a data engineer that writes Python. Python has pyproject.toml files (toml ~= ini files) where you can specify which libraries you want to use, defining which version you minimally, maximally, or just specifically want. And I wished that setup existed for Debian as well, but it doesn’t. So after searching I found that NixOS is pretty much the closest thing. Windows 10 is EOL soon enough, so might as well switch beforehand and not wait until the last second.

(Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

Setup k3s (pronounces “kubes”) on each computer as a node. Run scalable software - a website, database, some LDAP setup for users, maybe.

Check out /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world for inspiration :D

I now have a stack of Thinkpads laying around. Right next to my two RPis 😂

I didn’t know Ostriches could type!? You have to be one, since you’ve got your head stuck in the ground or something, because megacorps weren’t the only ones being looted. I even recall a clip where a bunch of looters were trying to pull open a door to a small store.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-10/downtown-la-businesses-vandalized