Trump is inclusive too, doesn’t mean he has to protect black people, right?

I’m an old gamer (almost 50) and I don’t have time to play every game out there. I know that I should play Symphony of the Night but haven’t had time to try it yet, but I will.

Hollow Knight is fun for me because it’s not complicated, it’s pretty, the music is nice (I bought it on Bandcamp), and it’s a slow game with a lot of levels and a quiet and/or peaceful lore. I haven’t played it for a long time (any kind of game actually because I’m busy) but I know that when I try it again, it will be there as usual, and I will be able to explore old or new levels whether I have 10 minutes or 2 hours to play.

I don’t know if it’s a good metroidvania and I don’t think I care. I would put it on the same level as Shantae: there is no rush, have fun. You may say that it’s good for old people and I would agree. There are slow metroidvanias (Hollow Knight, Shantae, Guacamele 1/2) and fast metroidvania (Shovel Knight maybe) where you have to play regularly or you may forget what the thing is all about. With Hollow Knight, the story will stay in my head for a long time.

Last but not least, I would put Metroid (and the 2D variants: SNES, GBA) in the slow category since you can stop playing for some time and get back to the story without too much hassle. I guess it depends whether you prefer the Metroid OR the Vania side of those games.

2025 after the Fourth Coming of Jesus, which should be the year 5837 for us.

And what are they gonna do with all the meat grinders that they bought? They won’t give it for free to random families.

I already knew how to touch type with QWERTY/AZERTY and I switched to Colemak because it’s modern, it seemed good, and it is supported by every OS out of the box (except for iOS and the iPhone which was a problem for me). Colemak-DH should be no different except for the DH keys but I wouldn’t worry about it.

It took me one year to be able to type fast in Colemak without making mistakes. It’s so fucking worth it!! You can also use https://monkeytype.com/ to train on random texts or words, but I’m a lazy guy and I only did that for 3 months like 10 minutes a day.

Last but not least, put Colemak-DH on your phone (Android only I guess, definitely not iOS) if you can. I had an iPhone before with QWERTY, and I guess it somehow hindered my learning because I was still using QWERTY a lot on that phone and I don’t think it’s a good thing. When I switched to the Google Pixel, the problems went away because I had Colemak everywhere.

the learning curve is already pretty rough

It’s annoying but not that difficult. You have to do that all the time, every day, and forget the pain that is QWERTY.

Torrenting in a café? Get Mullvad and stop complaining.

It happened to me and I refused in an internal email with a lot of people in CC (the CEO was included). I politely explained why it was very illegal and why I wouldn’t do it. They stopped asking me because “they knew that I knew that they knew.”

If it’s the same kind of company, you would say yes, the client would discover the lie, and your company would fire you in less than a few minutes. You usually don’t last long in that kind of environment.

Spamming the same shit over and over / 10

I think corporations using it in unfunny ways to sell something is the worst and killed it for real. But all your examples are good too.

It was in every movie in the 80s. You were eating a pizza in New York? Quicksand would appear under your feet!

AI will replace human beings by generating shitty JS games and solving leetcode problems. But still no concrete example on a real codebase that is not written in JS.

Why are they spending billions on this?

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You didn’t get a palm pilot to play games

Actually we did. There was a lot of good games. Also I don’t believe the author ever had one if he forgets this important detail.

Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.

“I hate you guys, kill yourself” said Jesus probably during daylight saving time because he didn’t sleep enough.

The average user is pretty unaffected

The average user complains about Windows all the time around me and I have to fix their crap constantly. It is fucking over their daily life, either by preventing them from working or by swallowing their files into a black hole. Windows users at work don’t care about it, but around me when it’s their personal computer, it’s a disaster.

switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things

Any Ubuntu from 10 years ago is identical to the latest Windows. It’s laziness, fear, or being hostage, but it’s certainly not learning something new. Also, Windows 11 is completely different from the previous versions and it didn’t seem to bother them.

People say Stockholm syndrome is fake, but when I see Windows users, I know it’s real. They have been suffering for years and never thought once about alternatives like Ubuntu.

“Oh Linux is too complicated, I can’t do that.” Yeah, you can’t click on Firefox to open Firefox, or LibreOffice to write a document. That’s too hard.

To rant a bit, the last time I helped my parents, I removed every icon from their desktop and installed Firefox with uBlock Origin. Only Firefox on the desktop, it was idiot proof. When I came back, Firefox had disappeared and on the desktop I saw: Edge, 2 copies of Chrome with the most scummy plugins ever, and one Chrome fork that came from an adware that they purposefully installed (WTF). I told them that they had a virus, and that from now on I wouldn’t help them anymore. They like to suffer, I let them.

As a new convert to GrapheneOS, I can testify that it has everything you need: Aurora for privacy (Google store proxy), the real Play store if you want, Android Auto, and a lot of privacy features enabled by default. It’s restricted to the Pixels though which is the only issue.

A bit unrelated but anyway:

I could technically afford some of those but I chose to remove all my subscriptions to get a better life for my wife who can’t work. No more fitness apps, music streaming, movie streaming, computer clouds, big projects that have no reason to be there, or stuff where I depend on random companies.

It requires some adaptation but it works fine and I’m now in control which is better: replaced my old Mac (expensive but dying) with a mini-PC with Linux that cost me 150 Euros, replaced my dying iPhone with a cheap Android and a custom ROM, found free courses on YouTube instead of expensive subscriptions, and secured all my files to a few hard drives that I manually backup regularly.

Those subscriptions are small convenient things but it can cost a lot every month. I now have a good routine that’s only 10 minutes of checking some tasks every day, but I gained money thanks to that. And I’m in control of my own destiny which is good.

Last but not least, I’m playing the guitar again and reading books again (yeah, free activities), instead of wasting my time on stupid stuff.

Every month. It’s hallucinating APIs and language features.