that would be a challenge.

You got any code written for Python 3.8 that won’t run in 3.13?

The majority of problems Linux has with gaming are intentional decisions on the part of the studios at this point.

I keep what I think is a pretty healthy gaming diet, which tends to steer me away from the megacorporate shit and into smaller studios and indies, and games just tend to run.

Entirely too many people give a shit about a shitass collection of bronze age bullshit in the first place.

You’re basically correct.

There are thousands of individual Linux distros. All you need to be a distro is to put together an operating system and distribute it. Hannah Montana Linux is considered a distro and all that is is Miley Cyrus scented Ubuntu. The vast majority of the time, a distro is a modification - or fork - of another distro. They form family trees in a way; for example, Linux Mint is a fork of Ubuntu which is a fork of Debian.

There are five major family trees in the GNU/Linux space: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Arch, and SuSe.

Debian is an older distribution, it was the first that shipped with an online package manager, APT. Today they favor stability and compatibility with older systems, so you might not have the latest features but Debian won’t break your workflow. If you want the Debian experience but a little more up to date, you want to use Debian Testing rather than Stable. Debian is by a good margin the biggest of the family trees, a LOT of stuff is based on Debian including Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary and Pop!_OS.

Red Hat’s big claim to fame is support for Enterprise. If you’re a big business that is going to run Linux on servers or workstations, you may want to pay for Red Hat because then you get professional support staff. Most end users and even small business types will use forks of Red Hat such as Fedora or Rocky Linux (ex CentOS). And for some reason there are Fedora Linux based gaming distros like Nobara.

Slackware and its few forks aim at being the most UNIX-like of the distros and hence they’re nowhere near as popular, there’s a certain old guard that uses it out of sheer stubbornness. The package manager makes a point of not having conflict resolution.

Arch almost breaks the distro model, or it used to at any rate. With a focus on performance and customization, what you downloaded was basically the kernel, coreutils, a shell, a text editor and a package manager. From there you were meant to install what you wanted and only what you wanted, ending up with a system that is custom to your needs and with nothing you don’t use. Nowadays with the archinstall scripts that’s been diluted somewhat but you still get the excellent Wiki and access to the AUR. Some ready-made distros based on Arch include Manjaro and EndeavourOS.

SuSe is basically like Red Hat but German. It’s developed for enterprise solutions and there are forks such as OpenSuSe that sees use on the desktop, though I don’t really encounter a lot of that in the Anglosphere.

Honorable Mention: Gentoo. A distro that is more Arch than Arch; where Arch’s whole deal is building your own OS from pre-compiled binary packages, Gentoo’s package manager distributes source code which gets compiled locally.

My old desktop, a Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080 mini-ITX build. After using a Pi 4 with Kodi for awhile it’s nice to have a media machine that can run Crysis.

I actually did that with an actual bicycle and one of those “make any old bike a stationary bike” stand things. Harvested an old motor out of…what was it, a printer or something? Photocopier? It was the upper-left third of something that used to be office equipment, and built the circuit out of a 7805’s datasheet with an extra big capacitor on the generator side. It charged phones. It was jank AF though. All it did was offer 5V at I have no idea how much current on the power pins of a USB Micro-B cable.

i just want a stationary bike that can charge my phone.

For most of the 1990s the internet wasn’t much of a factor in pop culture or daily life. Email was something of a newfangled gimmick in the movie You’ve Got Mail.

Jethro, god of processed corn snacks.

IT makes me wonder…

First of all one has to remember that the ancient Greeks weren’t as united as we think of them now; I’ve heard it described as “a collection of city-states that mostly spoke the same language and worshipped some of the same gods.” But even within that, or swapping ancient Greece for ancient Rome…how much innovation really took place during those eras? How many old men died in the same world they were born in having seen nothing of note change about society?

Meanwhile, just look at the United States Navy. In 200 years we went from building ships like the USS Constitution to the USS Monitor to the USS Nimitz. There were Americans who read about the invention of the airplane in the newspapers who also watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon live on television. Those events were only 65.5 years apart.

How would a polytheistic religion full of “gods of something” cope with or support that level of progress? I associate the industrial revolution almost exclusively with North America and Western Europe who were and are related flavors of monotheistic.

Doing a quick Google search, apparently Silenus was the god of beer and drinking so he’d probably get custody of whiskey and other spirits unless specifically delegated to another god like wine.

It’s been a minute since I’ve walked into a brewery or beer shop and found something I’d prefer over Yuengling, my go-to grocery store beer.

You consider an ESB, an Extra Special Bitter, a sweet beer?

Good for you I guess, but why’d the variety have to disappear? I want my ESBs and barleywines back. I haven’t seen a locally made wheat beer since before the pandemic.

It’s a thing that happened and I’m not sure by what mechanism. 2018, lots of microbreweries and brewpubs most offering a wide variety, by 2021 you’ve got seven IPAs and one token stout on the menu.

For a hot minute there near the end of the Obama administration, craft beer was a thing in this country and we had some excellent beers. Then Trump got elected and I haven’t seen a craft beer that wasn’t an IPA or a token jet black “oatmeal stout” since.

So, the first thing you need to know about alcohol is it’s an intoxicating drug. It is a depressant, its short-term effects include reduced inhibitions which in the moment can feel like increased confidence, and overall reduction in physical motor skills, plus a mild euphoria. Also makes your face feel slightly numb. That’s most of alcohol’s selling point.

Alcohol on its own is rather unpleasant to have in your face. A lot of cocktail culture sprung up around hiding alcohol with other flavorings so they’re in any way pleasant to swallow.

You might try something like whiskey and coke, I’d specifically go with American or Canadian whiskies here; scotch doesn’t really bring the right flavors for this. There’s a reason Jack Daniels or Crown Royal are stereotypes. Vodka can also be a way in; it doesn’t bring a lot of flavor of its own so adding it to fruit juices can get you used to booze within familiar flavor profiles. Don’t worry about sticking to posted recipes, drop a tablespoon of vodka into a tall glass of orange juice and see what it does, then start upping the ratio.

Get used to that, you may then start exploring cocktails, getting into wine or beer, or neat spirits.

Yeah remember the “disregard wenches, acquire currency” meme? It’s just that.

This sounds like it can be engineered around.