GOG for offline games, Steam games that are online multiplayer or can benefit from cloud saves.

Noita, Slay the Spire, Children of Morta, Brotato…

Donwside to 2: Your VM becomes harder to move between hardware, you lose snapshotting capabilities from a copy-on-write image.

5 is flexible, but has limitations. For example you wouldn’t want to run databases on NFS volumes.

If initialization time is the only problem with 4, you could create several smaller images on the disk. Create the first one, initialize the VM and set up an LVM volume on it, then start creating more volumes and extend the LVM volume.

Right?!! Consider this - if you replace the scroll wheel with two buttons, which one would you press to scroll down?

I’ve had acquaintances waste away trying to delay cancer death. Hospice is not fun, so I’d rather go out on my own terms.

Plus, any kind of money making scheme I’d think of is likely going to end up like the “aim for the bushes” scene in The Other Guys.

My favorite example is this one, because it’s a faithful translation of the meaning of the song while substituting words to keep the rhymes.

That is literally called The Gallop!

No. Most large Reddit communities are toxic, both on the user and mod end. Let Lemmy grow at its own pace without repeating the same mistakes Reddit made.

The alternative would be a non-standard diaper app that, rather than hiding the incoming call, would pick it up and drop it. I don’t know if such software exists.

I assume you meant dialer app 😆 . But anyway, for some Android phones you can use call screening.

He refers to the fact that the web app does not have default access to your device sensors, microphone, storage, etc.

The rationale for using LTS distros is being eroded by widespread adoption of containers and approaches like flatpak and nix. Applications and services are becoming less dependent on any single distro and instead just require a skeleton core system that is easier to keep up to date. Coupled with the increased cost needed to maintain security backports we are getting to a point where it’s less risky for companies to use bleeding edge over stable.

There cybersecurity part would be covered by infosec.pub. Devops and similar communities are more fragmented however.

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Rubber. I went in knowing it was a WTF film, but had NO idea how far out it was. It made Sharknado make sense by comparison.

Both are concerning, but as a former academic to me neither of them are as insidious as the harm that LLMs are already doing to training data. A lot of corpora depend on collecting public online data to construct data sets for research, and the assumption is that it’s largely human-generated. This balance is about to shift, and it’s going to cause significant damage to future research. Even if everyone agreed to make a change right now, the well is already poisoned. We’re talking the equivalent of the burning of Alexandria for linguistics research.

Any “survivors” type game - Brotato, Vampire/Soulstone Survivors, Nordic Ashes, etc.

Roguelikes (I like Noita these days).

Card based games - Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Guild of Dungeoneering, …

Darkest Dungeon.

Server: Ubuntu at work (previously CentOS), Debian at home. Toying with the idea to switch the home server to NixOS, given that all the services I run there are already configured declaratively.

Desktop: Ubuntu mainly due to inertia from back in the day when it was the simplest way to get Steam and ZFS support, but my loathing of snaps increases every day and I would be willing to consider alternatives if I had to reinstall. I don’t care for rolling release as long as I have flatpaks. An install option with LVM is a must for me, however.