themoken

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[–] themoken@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

I love how surreal this is.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That review is bullshit. It's not going to tax your machine, but that's a good thing. The unit type thing is also missing that not the entire game takes place on the battlefield, there's multiple layers to it and you almost never win through pure domination.

EDIT: Also, ground vehicles? This is Dune, you can't cross sand in a vehicle, and they couldn't go up cliffs. No, instead you airdrop, which is way more flexible.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Honestly, with Flatpak and immutable base systems this is a place Linux is really excelling now too. Being able to show a novice user a shared package manager with a search and a bunch of common apps and them actually install/remove them in a safe manner with a high likelihood they'll work out of the box (since they come with all their deps in sync independent from distro) is kinda huge.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does that everywhere, even on non .deb distros.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One thing I'd like to suggest is get most of their forward facing apps as Flatpak and let them install software that way instead of using the system package manager (even if it has a GUI). This jibes with others suggesting an immutable base system.

Obviously this may be more of a concern for older kids, but my kid started with Linux and it did fine... Right up until Discord started breaking because it was too old and they didn't want to tangle with the terminal. Same thing when Minecraft started updating Java versions. Discord and Prismlauncher from Flatpak (along with Proton and Steam now) would have kept them happier with Linux.

As for internet, routers come with parental controls these days too, which have the added advantage of being able to cover phones (at least while not on mobile data). Setting the Internet to be unavailable for certain devices after a certain time on school nights may be a more straightforward route than DE tools.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Cardinals needed this badly. Half way through this game I thought Pfaadt was going to throw a perfecto.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For kernel dev it would be a disaster, there's too much implicit action, and abstractions that have unknown runtime cost. The classic answer is that everyone uses 10% of its features over C, but nobody can agree on which 10%.

As someone forced to get up to date with C++ recently, at this point it's a language in full identity crisis. It wants so badly to be Rust, but it's got decades of baggage it's dragging along.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dallas is bigger than this map and 90% of it is parking lot or interstate.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Ohtani was holding him back

[–] themoken@startrek.website 51 points 2 years ago

In a world where Valve controls 90% of what is running on a device with immutable / containerized images, yeah I think Arch makes a lot more sense. A distro focused on rolling release is a lot less likely to hang you up when you choose to update.

Debian is great, but depending on where you are in the release cycle it can be a pain in the ass to stay up to date and, frankly, the last time I ran it, shit like apt/dpkg configuration and so many /etc files and structures just felt like mis-features or too complex for their own good.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, she's actually got a pretty great arc on the show. Even becomes a qualified bridge commander because of that episode.

And, honestly, I think a lot of her sex symbol rep in the '90s was because the public wasn't ready to take mental health seriously. Some of her counseling scenes have aged pretty well IMO, and her contribution to the crew was very valuable.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, it's so nice to have baseball back. Miss you O'Neill, the Cardinals entire outfield is on the IL.

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