My other “dailies” include Rogule, Mazelle, and Hexcodle. Sometimes Decipher as well. Check them out!

Over the years, controllers have gotten more standardized and are generally well supported. I have a few, and have never had issues with them in Steam (both Mint and Manjaro).

I’ve gotten a few from 8bitdo and they’ve all been solid. If you have a favorite console from your childhood (or adulthood), they probably have one that resembles it.

For most of the games I play, I prefer to have the left stick above the d-pad (like the Xbox, as opposed to the PS). I also recommend getting a controller that has trigger throttles (similar to Xbox or GameCube), as those can be nice to have for many games. This one seems pretty good (I have an SN30 Pro, but don’t love the left stick position).

You’ll get used to it with practice. It’s fine if you prefer to type differently, but you’ll probably hit a plateau with how efficiently you can type (or you’ll rely on looking at the keyboard, which is not ideal).

I just switch to the num pad. Also worth practicing on if you do a lot of typing.

I’ve been running Linux on my laptop for a few years now (started with Mint, on Manjaro now). I have our HTPC set up with Mint, and the family is good with it. When my kids are old enough for their own, I’ll probably keep them going with Mint as well, we’ll see.

My wife’s laptop still has Windows, but I’ll likely move her over if she gets a new PC at some point.

Soy sauce, maybe some diced vegetables

Slow down there, what’s wrong with good ol’ assembly?

All it takes is a little hypnosis and a bunch of LSD.

I usually move static assignments outside the DHCP range, but in general, most routers will avoid re-allocating it even if it’s within the DHCP range.

Yeah, does anyone else remember the menu bars that would show up and disappear depending on what you were doing? Those were awful–the ribbon method of context-specific tabs is better (IMO).

I got a TecWare Phantom 104 for my first, it’s been good so far (about 3 years of use). The “shroud” cover piece helps with noise and light leakage. I have the brown keys, they’re pretty nice. I’ve had to replace a couple of the most used ones, but it came with some extras.

The keyboard comes with a key cap puller tool, but I recommend getting a key puller tool (to remove the keys themselves, not just the caps). They’re cheap and will make changing keys a much better experience.

I already have to do this. My office wants everyone to use the MS authenticator app, won’t run on LineageOS. Even if it did, I wouldn’t install it, but still.

Ended up making them purchase a hardware security key for me instead.

I hope someday to have as much self confidence as someone who lists a “slightly shat” chair for $75.

Capitalism. Specifically, the stock market. IPOs make good companies into bad companies.

Being owned by stockholders effectively removes any amount of “human” in the company’s choices and direction. There becomes a single goal, to which everything else is sacrificed: make stock prices go up in the short term. The C-suite execs will say all sorts of other shit, but any appearance of accountability or altruism is solely geared to making more money at any cost. Any leadership with a soul will be forced to either give up trying to be “good”, or they leave.

Tried installing Windows 11. After a few hours screwing around trying to find the right drivers for everything, I tried a live USB of Mint. Everything worked great out of the box.

Also, the ads, and Microsoft’s insistence on forcing user accounts.

It was updated this year. They moved on from the mini-CD limit (50MB?) to a regular CD (700MB). Spiritual successor, newer target.

And won’t survive things like… getting sprayed with water.

We don’t need more than basic math in programming–anything else is application-specific.

Programming requires logic and reasoning, which is a common foundation for other areas (such as math and philosophy). But we often lump “logic” together with math, which is probably why people assume math is central to programming.

Programming is also a very broad field (when someone says “I’m a programmer,” it’s like saying “I play sports”). Some fields (like embedded software) require more math than others.

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