I enjoyed The Long Walk for the same reason. Very faithful adaptation of my favourite Bachman book, although I am hoping for a director’s cut. I didn’t see any trailers before watching so I was very surprised and pleased to see who the actor for The Major was. The interactions between all the kids is just great.

So you enjoyed the remake of The Running Man over the Schwarzenegger version? Or was it just a different beast?

I’ll add to your dose fediverse fun instead of reddit comment regret.

Of all the people in the world, he’s probably the easiest one to make an AI avatar from. People already think he’s a robot.

He could be having a midlife crisis. Maybe he wants an AI avatar to succeed him after he dies.

I’ve been saying that since the Xbox was released. But I’ve been anti Microsoft for a long time.

Has Microsoft added much to gaming other than DirectX? I know they just bought Halo so they could have an exclusive. I was pretty upset that Halo wasn’t going to be released on other platforms.

I like 1-16. Some people like the rivalries that develop, but I think the variety in matchups would be more interesting. But I guess some locations could get stuck with awful travel setups.

Filthy tip in!

I learned Ian’s Secure Knot because sometimes you get shoe laces that are slippery and never stay tied. The secure knot is way better than doing a double knot as you can easily untie it.

I also visit the site right after buying new shoes or boots and look up lacing patterns and pick something fun. I’m currently using Spider Web lacing.

Recently had the sewer backup into my basement. Didn’t expect the return ticket.

I was in the sane situation as you and what I did was buy a new drive to put Linux on so I could dual boot and get used to things without wiping everything. Linux can even mount your Window drive if you need to access data on it.

I tried a few distro myself but landed on Garuda Dr460onized Gaming. (You can look at different versions here) The gaming version came with steam and Heroic installed and had a nice colour theme picked. Gaming has been great and all Windows games that I’ve tried have worked better than when I was running Windows. (Rocket League, Hades 2, Uncharted 4 to name some) You can always keep Windows on your other drive and boot it for games like Fortnite that have kernel level anti cheat.

The only issue you might have is that Garuda is pretty bleeding edge with when updates get applied. This can be good or bad. There were some issues getting dual screens working for me at first, but those issues have gone away completely now. I also had issues with the top menu bar crashing and disappearing. Lasted about 2 weeks and then an update fixed it. (Survived by using the Meta + Spacebar search launcher and Ctrl + Alt + T to get into a terminal) So updates to fix issues come out somewhat quickly, but issues pop up too. I actually think it’s been pretty stable right now.

But isn’t Bazzite an immutable distro? I heard that has some advantages and some disadvantages especially when installing software. I skipped on it when I heard that for my desktop OS, but I haven’t actually tried it.

I never played the DOA Beach Volleyball, but I loved the Summer Heat Beach Volleyball, mostly because of a Kylie Minogue song on it. (Then there was you) Now every time I hear that song it makes me think of summer.

I’m happy to see some activity in the /c/hockey community!

I think you could add: “Enjoy a very colourful desktop interface?” and go from Garuda to Garuda Dr460onized.

Does StoryGraph offer anything that could be useful for this project? It’s a competitor to Good Reads. I’ve been using it because I’m getting away from anything that Amazon touches.

It really doesn’t need to be a picture.

“We are implementing AI in our business processes!”
Looks inside
The PM now uses ChatGPT instead of a calculator

Was it Teams or Teams (New) or Teams (School & Work) or Teams…

"But I do very much miss using my skill-set, and I very much miss the art. I just found I got to do so little of the bit that I actually enjoyed.”

I can totally understand this, especially when you get big enough to call the shots on what you work on. The actors seem to have to be everywhere in the media nowadays selling access to their lives in order to sell the movie. Now of course you could say that’s why they get paid as much as they do. Maybe actors should start taking a hefty pay cut to not have to do the media circuit?

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I used to have this really awesome early 2000’s transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn’t really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000’s, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.

Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.

edit: I can’t believe I found it! I’ve tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!