Don’t apologize for speaking your mind! Your experience has generally mirrored my own, as I also had a decade old computer conk out on me, causing me to swap to mint after recalling its ease of use. Booting from a drive made me feel somehow slick, and I loved it. Though I still don’t know what killed my old computer, I just bought an old business laptop without an OS and went to town.

The only thing that still trips me up is installing from repos via terminal. Visual package lists would be appreciated, but by the time I’m done, I forget to install one. I probably have a dozen packages I need to remove, at this point. Bleh

Whoa, you’re on mint? That’s sweet, man. Hope you’ve enjoyed it!

Most student projects I found weren’t particularly good, you’re right. They seemed to be looking for perspective on a specific thread they were winding through. Whether it be visuals or a basic gameplay loop. It’s just funny to look back and see thousands of dollars and hours spent to receive responses like “I couldn’t get past the first page because the menu was broken.”

Oof. Forking over a hundred dollars as a dev just out of college looking to get broader critiques kinda sucks

To release something for free on steam, does it cost $100?

Santa should publish previous years’ nice and naughty lists for historical reference

Considering the unrelenting data snatching capacity of the desktop app, there are only 3 plausible reasons Facebook, a company so maliciously money hungry that it might just prove the absence of god, would choose to deprecate it

1: something is fundamentally wrong with the app and they feel they are liable for greater damages than their potential profits

2: they’ve improved their data collection on browsers to the point that both methods are equally profitable

3: they don’t believe they need the money. (This one sincerely terrifies me)

Huh, so he’s attempting to create a caste of conspicuously president-aligned workers. That seems like an interesting and not-at-all dangerous idea

Niche history and mineralogy topics. Just looking for threads to tug. I found that it offered me threads but they often did not lead anywhere relevant or outright did not exist. Which is fine, but kinda removes my need for AI. If I have a general purpose question, I check certain websites. I already know how to serve myself everyday information. AI’s just not helpful for my use case.

Overall, It’s time neutral. But it raises my blood pressure when it hallucinates, and dying of a stroke is undesirable for me.

I don’t know about you, but my results have been wrong or outdated at least a quarter of the time. If you flip two coins and both are heads, your information is outright useless. What’s the point in looking something up to maybe find the right answer? We’re entering a new dark age, and I hate it.

I noticed it a few months ago. It feels like a sudden, inorganic shift. Either all the good people have trickled off to a better basin, or someone or something has influenced Lemmy users

You’d be a fool to leave them!

Ninja something, muscle something, and a game that looked a bit like prototype. All incremental games. As you can tell, I wasn’t particularly invested in them. I don’t imagine you or your son begged in global chat for several minutes at a time with intentional spelling errors.

To get items in Roblox for a relative, I used to pretend to be a child and find users who would groom me. They were entirely unaware that I was quite probably older than they were. I saved hundreds of dollars on gifts, and it didn’t cost me all that much time. Roblox is not safe for kids

From what I understand of animation, plenty of people in the industry were involved with animated porn at one point or another. Hell, some of the artists might head home at the end of the day to draw something freaky for their online following. Particularly because animation studios don’t pay well.

I forgot that he exists. I’d like to return to that state

Back camera, cruise control, no radio (data, fm, or am), no stupid fucking touchscreen interface, a dedicated phone holder, and I’m happy. My phone has plenty of sounds to play while I drive and I’ve literally never needed anything a car touchscreen has offered.

Which was why I wanted to see for myself what this business was about. A few hyperlinks would have gone a long way. What blog? Which post? Which discord? (Not that it matters, I can’t use discord) In the end, I gained nothing of value

I got about halfway through the article before realizing that I lacked the ability to verify any of this information. I wouldn’t have purchased a framework laptop, regardless of the company’s views, so I’m just left with a vague feeling of curiosity and no means of sating it. I hate the age of discord so goddamn bad.

For safe deceleration, you can only decelerate at a constant rate of about 3 Gs before things automatically become dangerous for the average person. They’d be moving at about 120-150 mph. Let’s say 135 mph, or 200 feet per second. Decelerating at 3 Gs, they’d need a half pipe with a smooth curve about 7 seconds, or 840 feet per quarter circle (half-halfpipe).

Now this is where I’m not sure, are half pipes smooth half circles? If they are, then you’d want a half pipe with a radius of like 535 feet. If not, then I’m stumped. Any skaters with input?