Not sure why this is being downvoted. My main takeaway is just that while taking a break works for a lot of people a lot of the time, for this person sometimes it doesn’t.

People are different and sometimes if you are new to something, it’s helpful to see both the popular advice (take a break) and that it might not always work for some people (this poster).

What is this a screenshot of?

New fear unlocked: I fit this description and just don’t realize it. Kind of along the lines of imposter syndrome. Am I just bullshitting everyone around me into thinking I’m competent?

It pays to play incremental games because a lot of the devs have posted their code online.

Fork > fix > happy

For any onlookers reading this, I used https://rufus.ie/en/ and I did not get my USB stick bricked.

Oh wow, how did it do the latter!? (I’m more technical than the average person, but half the time I feel too dumb for programming.dev, but I’ll never smarten up if I don’t stick around and learn, so…)

Also shifted off Windows 11 to Fedora. Well, at least, a modified version anyways—Nobara—on the suggestion of a user in the thread.

I understand reluctance to move because of ease of modding.

This does not answer it for all your games, but did you see this post about Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim modding on Linux? It might help for those at least.

I have managed to mod Dragon Age: Origins successfully with the help of winetricks and/or protontricks, I forget which one.

I’m really lucky that I avoid anything that has anticheat. Not because I’m a cheater but because all the slur-screaming 12 year olds and my own fear of getting addicted to MMOs if I ever gave them a try have mostly dissuaded me from anything with online multiplayer.

Which means most of my games are Linux-compatible and I have no gaming group I’m giving up by making the jump :D

Saw something on programming.dev about some extra telemetry Windows 11 was adding or something like that? I forget. It was definitely something I think is bad, that people on programming.dev also think is bad. Then, despite having done registry edits and everything else I could think of to turn off auto Windows updates to make sure I would not get the bad new feature added in an update, my Windows 11 computer auto updated anyways. Got mad, wanted to switch to Linux, asked !linux@programming.dev for help, and finally did it four months later, a few days before the new year started.

Oh thank goodness I am not the only one. Just the way I, an American, read things, and my cynicism about people trying to replace devs with AI says top (trying to hire real devs) goes first and bottom (fired everyone) second; title and the fact this was posted in Programmer Humor implies it’s bottom first and top second.

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I’ll be the idiot who doesn’t get the joke.

I recognize that programmers often start counting at 0.

I’m not sure how this connects to 0 being lonely, since that means it’s getting used. Even if the programmers are lonely, I still do not get it. Can someone explain?

Have a Windows for gaming, going to switch to Linux once I can get a good deal on an external hard drive to back it up. Can confirm I’m making the switch because of the enshittification.

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What show is this?

I enjoyed this animation of the meme in the OP.

I find it very appropriate this post came out of lemmy.zip

If you’re like me and wondered what a dead key is…

A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter.[1] The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself, but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after.

—Wikipedia

Just curious: was this based off an existing song and if so, what is it?

When I was in middle school, social media might have been omnipresent but even the really popular kids never exceeded 1,000 followers. In high school you could increase the upper limit on followers, but most people hovered around 250 to low 1,000s depending on their popularity. And I never heard anyone talk about their follower quantity, let alone insult people over it. I suppose this is my “kids these days” moment.

Then again, we all just had personal accounts for our friends to follow and weren’t trying to be some big influencer or social media star—maybe that’s what these kids are trying to do? Either way, I am really hoping what you overheard was just banter or an ironic joke between the two, and not legit bullying.