True, fair point.

I want to say a steak, but if I had an infinite supply of perfect steak available to me, I would probably die of a heart attack in about a year.

So instead I’ll say crispy, corn-starch-battered stir fried marinated tofu. Tastes very good, and I usually fail to plan ahead for marinating it, plus the corn starch can sometimes make a mess, so having it magically made for me would be nice.

Thanks, that’s good to know. I heard the Framework 13 wad solid; I thought I was replying to a comment about the Framework 16, though. That must have been a different comment. I heard the 16 has a little flex.

I’m curious about this as well. The keyboard flex was always brought up by early reviewers for the Framework 16, and I think Framework said they would make a more sturdy keyboard for it later, but I haven’t heard any updates about that.

It’s a screen cap from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, which was the movie for Monsterdon last Sunday. It’s significance is that 1) it is an impressively bad movie, and 2) this character held this grin on his face for like 15 seconds, which was funny.

This took me a second to get. Freaking great. :D

For those who aren’t familiar with this game, it’s in the same genre as Mount & Blade, but with spaceships instead of horses. Or Sid Meier’s Pirates, but spaceships instead of pirate ships. Definitely one of those “I’ll just make one more quick cargo run…” type of games.

This update looks great. In additional to new strategy options through diplomacy, they’re also tweaking how ships handle.

This is such a great writeup, thank you! I always can’t believe the actual photos I see of Group B races, lol.

There’s a used bookstore near me that has the oldest cash register I’ve ever seen. It has keys like a typewriter, and makes the most satisfying “ka-ching” sound when it opens. They always use it to add up your purchase and print a receipt, even when you’re paying with a credit card. But I always try to bring cash when I’m there so that the drawer gets used. (And also, y’know, screw credit card companies taking their cut.)

I know that’s not really “in widespread use” today, which is probably what the question meant, but that was the first thing that came to mind for me.

Having a game out there on any platform is super cool. I love the art style, too!

First time I’m hearing about this; looks great!

I didn’t have the patience for RPGs like that when they were originally out (and I was a little kid), but I’ve also been enjoying them on my Anbernic device. For me it’s been Phantasy Star IV.

Total War: Shogun 2. No idea why I decided to reinstall it out of the blue; just wanted to pick it up again after not playing for a long-ass time. I played it a bit when it first came out, but just didn’t really get into it. I’m seeing if it’s playable on the couch with a Steam controller now. Verdict so far: maaaaybe.

I have a soft spot for Gentoo, even though I haven’t used it in years. It was one of my first experiences with Linux, since it was installed in one of the computer labs in college. I just remember that the windows had this physics jiggle effect when you dragged them around. I was so surprised that Linux had a more “fun” aesthetic than Mac or Windows did.

Yeah, I think XFCE is my new favorite desktop environment, regardless of which distribution I use in the future.

Unfortunately, I don’t have great insight on those two, since I keep my laptop setup pretty simple.

I don’t really mess with the init system very much, so I can’t really weigh in on that. I’ve probably only run “sudo service start <thing>” a few times, so aside from the CLI being a little different from systemd, I haven’t noticed a difference. There would probably be another learning curve if you’re looking to actually create system services, but I never end up doing that on my laptop.

I haven’t had any issues with the packages, but that’s probably because I use the Flatpak if it’s available. So yes, the debian repo wouldn’t be current, but all of the daily things I use (browser, Thunderbird, Steam, text editor) get updates from the Flathub repo. The built-in MX package manager has a section for Flathub, so you don’t have to add anything for that.

I’ve been curious about antiX ever since I installed MX Linux on my laptop. MX Linux says it’s a “collaborative effort between antiX and MX” – it seems like a slightly heavier version of antiX, using XFCE instead of IceWM for the desktop, but otherwise leaning towards lower resource use.

The one thing keeping me from checking out antiX is that I’ve just been liking MX Linux so much, it stopped me from distro hopping, and I just don’t want to start again, haha.

Reposting what I said on Mastodon, since a few people seem to be falling for this one:

[…] but this looks like satire, and searching for that poster’s name suggests that he’s not being serious here.
Case in point: he has a blog that shows he’s not a Trumper.
https://drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maoism-trumpism-as-a-third-world

Conservatives have a hard time understanding satire (article about this), let’s make sure progressives don’t become the same way. (I know, it’s hard, especially when a lot of conservative opinions are indistinguishable from satire.)

I downvote if it looks like they are posting in bad faith. I’ll upvote some comments that I disagree with if the poster was trying to contribute to the conversation – I usually do that to offset the fact that they’ve been downvoted a bunch already.

Many of the communities I’m in are fairly small, so I upvote almost every comment that I read. I figure it lets someone know that someone else read what they wrote, and I think that’s what a lot of us are here for.