I’m a technically savvy but new to Linux user who installed Mint as my primary OS about a month ago. So far I’ve used Flatpaks and AppImages without any issue and haven’t come across snaps. Would you explain the differences and why I would care about one over another?

Check out Shapez 2. The first game was pretty basic but I really enjoy S2 as a Factorio lite. It’s much much less complex, but there’s still plenty of room to build crazy contraptions as you unlock more stuff to build with. Most major upgrades will make you want to refactor your whole base, but after you finish delivering a certain type of shape you no longer need to make more (except sometimes as components for new shapes). So I’ll pretty regularly knock out like half my factory and make a new and improved assembly line for the new shape I need to deliver.

It’s good, give it a look. I get quite sucked into it and it doesn’t have as much mental overhead as Factorio does. There’s also no biters, which makes it a much more relaxing factory game.

Well said, I like that.

Thing is, you never have any clue whether the AI is telling you something even remotely true unless you go behind it and trawl through six pages of shitty SEO-optimized bullshit anyway. So you can either take its word at face value and potentially be completely wrong, or else just do the research yourself anyway and ignore the AI answer.

Personally, I choose the second. I find it to be less frustrating if I just assume the AI is wrong.

Even if you want a ring, we got wooden rings. Cost like $100 for some really nice ones with fire opal inlay from an online craftsman. I’ve already cracked mine a little by being a dumbass with heavy car parts so I’m just ordering another. It’s cheap, and on top of that if I had dropped a brake rotor onto a gold or metal ring it might have gotten flattened and trapped on my finger. The wood just cracked a little and flexed right back into its original shape.

If I had a lathe and some motivation I could even make my own, but I’m happy paying the relatively modest price of a single Benjamin for a well crafted ring with inlay.

Bethesda tried this when they attempted to monetize mods. You can’t stop the signal on truly user-generated content. At best they might have a copyright claim on official DnD lore or monsters, which can be sidestepped with a custom setting, which is pretty much the whole point of user generated content.

Why not both?

I’ll just pound redbulls and doritos until I become a ghost. Shouldn’t take long, I’d expect.

Same, I haven’t even slightly enjoyed any other MOBA I’ve played except for Smite, but I’ve fallen in with Deadlock like it’s an old friend. And we’ve come back and won from a couple really depressing looking matches. Just the other day I was at 0/12 running Bebop with a 25k team soul deficit and once I actually got my head in the game, and got a little lane assist, we came back and won it and I finished with a 10/14 K/d.

The comeback isn’t easy, and it shouldn’t be, but it’s doable. Especially so if your opponents get cocky. I’ve been on the other side of that coin as well, going 10/0 with Vindicta and fly out to snipe without a care in the world, to discover that every enemy is suddenly paying attention to where I am.

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This dog looks like it should have a coffee and an earpiece.

A meme (/miːm/; MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. (Source: Wikipedia, though other dictionaries say similar.)

I think by a broad definition it still counts. But by a broad definition, Rock-Paper-Scissors is a meme.

I know this is pedantic, but defining what is and is not a meme is actually a pretty interesting problem. It’s a basic unit of data that’s shared and replicated among thinking minds. It’s our currency of culture.

Elder goths are underrepresented in the world. They’re a dying breed, we have to save them from extinction.

I don’t think most folks have cared about WoW for quite a while now. Those that do are mostly playing on private servers.

FFXIV has picked up all the old wow-heads and is highly active and fun to play.

Random yt radio shuffle just so happened to hit me with the hardest banjo I’ve ever heard out of the blue the other day.

Ye’ll freeze ta death out here witout yer neuken bud.

The teleporter pad is also a stationary location relative to the ship that doesn’t move around. The teleporter probably has its coordinates hardcoded. A teleporter tech who isn’t as much of a wizard as O’Brien is probably relies on that pretty regularly.

O’Brien just happens to be capable of teleporting people to and from arbitrary locations because he’s a master of his craft. But if you get your calculus wrong in an emergency you’re going to teleport your captain and away team halfway through a bulkhead, or collect a thousand pounds of loose dirt alongside them and only half an ensign.

Is this the guy I blame when I die to gravity in Elden Ring?

Hmm. Wonder if Lemmy has a Voidpunk community. Because that’s exactly what this is.

Edit: there is! Kind of. Link to the forbidden zone because it has background info. https://www.reddit.com/r/voidpunk/comments/14j3m78/trying_to_start_a_voidpunk_hive_at/

From Updog, came many descendants. First was Deez, of the Nuts, soon eclipsed by their child Bofa Deez of the Nuts. From Bofa sprung the twins Ligma and Sugma. Some say their lineage continues to grow to this day.

It’s a two part problem. We have a broken system that draws in fundamentally broken people, and does its best to break any who showed up okay. 90% of people who choose to join a police force in modern America should absolutely not be there. But those 10% of officers who genuinely do join from an honest desire to protect their community are being legitimately traumatized by their training. We need change from within the system but “the system” in question has a stranglehold on its members.