LOL, somebody’s been watching

I haven’t played with vanilla Debian in forever, but if there’s a good “Software Center” style overlay to the package manager, I bet he could find some good stuff on his own. The “Discover” app in Ubuntu actually categorizes the games by genre. Pingus, Minesweeper clones, Sokoban clones, Poker, Chess, Checkers, Go, Reversi.

Hush!

And if they’d done the math wrong, they’d have landed among the stars.

Counterpoint: They already know you can’t “do” the job-specific tasks because you don’t work there yet. If you know the tools, that’s extremely helpful as they teach you what to do with them. If there’s pile A and pile B and they’re mostly the same except B already knows JIRA or Visual Studio or whatever, then that’s a legitimate differentiator.

When the existing team is forced to get new software, there’s a presumption that they already know what tasks the tools are supposed to help them do. There’s no “other pile,” so might as well suck it up and kill your productivity by ten percent for a year. It’s okay though; you can improve it by 1% from the original baseline for nine years after, because the McKinsey and Accenture people totally promised us that makes sense. Rinse and repeat.

I can haz cheezburger?

If anyone ever needed evidence that here at Lemmy we’re all a bunch of Gen-X olds, a zero-context Mama’s Family reference would be sufficient for summary judgment. 🤣

That didn’t happen until the Department of Education in the Carter administration started talking about whether students at BYU should be getting federal grants and loans, and I believe the NCAA was making some noise as well.

Growing up Mormon in the 80s (I got better!), they insisted to us kids that it was just grape juice, and for adults they simply put a social stigma on asking too many questions, or any uncomfortable questions.

If there is a theological principal in play it’s that they view their prophets as still able to receive Bible-level revelations, and if their non-trinitarian God committee tells Joseph Smith that wine is bad now, then wine is bad now. If human nature then results in believers feeling like sinners who need to make it up to their community and their church leaders, then oh so sad, but it can result in the Lord’s work being done.

In general Mormon theology is rather literal and childlike, only getting complicated when trying to work around some established Christian doctrine that no new book overrides (yet!). It’s almost like some provincial huckster was making it up as he went along…

I mostly play older games on my Ryzen 5 2400g with 16gb of RAM and an RX 580 I bought off a crypto miner, though I did manage to get Starfield running at 1080P in Win10 with a framerate and detail level that doesn’t make me want to gouge my eyes out. Still, I think I should be pretty undemanding for the current state of Linux gaming, and I’m just about ready to bail on Windows but haven’t yet. Currently dual booting with Kubuntu.

Beyond a few stubborn games, I have Windows CAD software I think I could run in a VM with maybe 8GB of RAM and access to my GPU. What’s the easiest way for a motivated amateur to get that set up? Having come up with MS-DOS, I am comfortable with a CLI conceptually, and I can copy and paste commands like a mofo, but I generally don’t know the exact use and flags well enough to do much on my own beyond apt and mkdir. :-)

Okay, in the absence of good holistic data on which to base my judgment, I’ll go with my gut.

LOL, that pun was unintended when it popped into my head, but I could have changed it and yet I choose not to.

Had some antibiotics mess with my gut flora and lead to the creamy peanut butter. It’s not that bad except that it creates urgency not unlike diarrhea. For gravel, you’re gonna have to define “medium,” but that tends to come from constipation, which can lead to hemorrhoid issues in addition to general discomfort. On the whole, I guess the peanut butter, but it’s a close one.

Butlerian Jihad intensifies…

Counterpoint: If people from Europe love the metric system so much, why are their musicians using eighth notes instead of tenth notes?

There is, of course, a Canadian alt-country novelty song about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6nod0cmbc

Folks like your mom and dad are just

Shock troops of gentrification.

Sure it is. English just has multiple generations of “phonetic” that overlay, and are not consistent with, one another. It has, if you will, codebases that were forked, re-forked, and then occasionally merged back in after developing on their own for a few centuries, and no official steering committee was ever established. There is semi-official documentation, usually from self-appointed pedants, but even that adjusts as more features are merged in willy-nilly and workarounds emerge.

English spelling is hard not because it lacks any logic, but because this entire language is a case study in modularity and extensibility at all costs.

Add in that Jet plane was being a dickbag and punching down.

There’s certainly some interesting stuff to consider there. For instance, my wife and I are less than one year apart, but I have a brother seven years older than me, and she is the first born in her family. We’re both in between, kind of, but I have a lot more Gen X memories and experiences, while she has more Millennial ones.