The Acela (faster one) is also several times a day now, but it’s more like every 2-3 hours instead of 1

Boston to NY is more like hourly - Amtrak has a lot of trains going on the line from Boston to/from DC (DC also has a very good transit system for the US at least from what I’ve heard).

The problem with those trains is that they’re expensive and slower - the Amtrak northeast regional costs $75-300 (depending on the date and time, as Amtrak is a company and charges more around holidays and during peak travel hours 🙃) each way from NY to Boston and takes ~4-4.5 hours. Driving can take 3.5-4 if you plan around rush hours in both cities.

which I regarded for how light and well optimized Windows 8.1 was

I don’t think I’m alone in saying “light” and “well-optimized” are not words that fit the Windows 8.1 experience.

Mediocre in almost all aspects is the best descriptor for 8.1 and honestly that’s pretty generous given how bad 8.0 was

I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.

Please don’t throw one of the only cities in the country with a semi-functional public transit system into the sun :(

As far as I can tell from a quick search it seems like it’s closed source.

sigh The search continues, why can’t I just have folders in the app drawer in lawnchair :(

Edit: according to a closed issue on the lawnchair GitHub, app drawer folders have already been in nightly builds for ~6 months, so hopefully it’s in the next beta release.

There was a massive Game freak data leak a few months ago that leaked source assets and code from a bunch of the older games, and there were some lore-type folk stories about Pokemon. (I think based on Japanese folk legends?) There was a particularly weird one (putting it nicely) about a typhlosion that married a human woman

My bad I should’ve clarified on the half-serious part, I actually like chikorita and tepig :sigh:

Favorites from each gen:

Starting some flame wars with the half-serious takes tho

Entertainment is not a necessity, it’s not like people need it to survive. When it doesn’t move with wages people find ways to make it affordable (e.g. piracy, 2nd hand markets, or sharing physical copies with friends), or they find something else (steam, indie games, etc.). Wages are directly responsible for game prices in a lot of ways, and there are pretty good Steam statistics on this as well (which is why a lot of Steam games aren’t priced with 1:1 conversions in different regions, because doing so would basically price entire regions out of buying games).

Pricing fans out of games is exactly how AAA studios go under. A big AAA game flopping is basically a death sentence for a studio in the current landscape, and if Microsoft isn’t immune to that then Nintendo definitely isn’t.

It doesn’t matter if a $60 game in 2008 is worth $88 now if wages haven’t gone up to match that. Did you know that (at least in the US) food prices usually aren’t included in inflation calculations because they fluctuate too much? People have other things to pay for with their wages that aren’t video games, and those costs aren’t going down either.

Now that I can get behind

You say that like Nintendo ever puts their games on sale

I think I’ll pass on $80 for Mario kart ($90 for a cartridge) ngl, it can’t be that much better 😭

Doesn’t W3C already maintain the ActivityPub protocol?

Edit: nevermind I misunderstood this

Kitty has multiplexing built in so it can also replace a lot of what tmux does (unless you’re using tmux over ssh)

… and are keeping the hate to the appropriate boards (X, I believe it’s called nowadays). Should we contract his work and apply it where applicable?

There is no “appropriate board” for hate speech, whether it’s antisemitism, transphobia, or anything else. If you wouldn’t want someone to be a nazi in your office, why would you pay them if you know they’re a nazi somewhere else? Is it fine as long as it’s someone else’s problem?

On another level, if you had to pay a developer, and you have reason to think they might donate the money you give them to an antisemitic cause, or directly use it to fund their own antisemitism, would you still want to give them that money? Or maybe look elsewhere, even if it means getting something slightly worse?

Somehow this post has negative down votes and I’m all for it.

Pretty interesting how the number of active users per month has been fluctuating up/down but the number of comments and posts per month has been steadily going up