When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

“I’m sorry too, Dmitri. I’m very sorry. All right, you’re sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don’t say that you’re the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”

Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

Yeah. Luanti following Minecraft is nothing new. Mineclonia was an early pilot game for the engine.

But there hasn’t been much effort on copying Minecraft lately. Mineclonia is done, and it’s great.

We’ve had more mobs, animals, plants, textures, and such than un-modded Minecraft for a long time. (Which is unfair, as Luanti is a mod-first design.) But my point is the core Launti dev team doesn’t have to work on any of that.

The most noticeable recent Luanti updates have been to make the configuration screens much nicer, and add I think to add native support for more graphics tricks?

I’m not paying attention to graphics in Luanti. As others have mentioned, that’s not why I play it. I actually had a conversation recently about the best way to downgrade Luanti default graphics to match un-modded Minecraft.

That said, the Minecraft team taking notice of Luanti would be new, as far as I know.

Sweet. Thank you.

so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow

I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don’t mind it being an option, but to me it’s such a weird choice for the default.

Yeah. If the whole heating the planet to exterminate all humans gets revealed to be an alien attack on us, I’ll be angry.

But if the aliens simply share a screenshot of Hotdog desktop theme, in explanation of their actions… I’ll probably just nod.

There’s an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I’m cool n shit.

Awesome. Looking into that just got added to my weekend plans. Thanks!

When I get home I may post them.

I would appreciate that.

No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.

Well said.

Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.

I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”

while Linux will boot you into broken system and expect you to know what to do.

But…

even if the answer is a simple as selecting a different entry from the GRUB.

Okay. Yeah. It’s often that simple.

I take your point, but I’ve had my Windows blow itself to hell way more than my Linux has, and putting Linux on relatives machines has been by far the least hassle of the big three, for me.

But that’s just my anecdotal experience.

I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.

Then there will just be some other stuff that has been developed that people want ;-)

Yeah. As a “DOS was good enough” person, I honestly didn’t expect so exited for all the updates in Gnome this year. But the Gnome team is on a hot streak. I really may get to eat my “Debian stable is all I need” words again in a few years.

Oh I understand. I’m the person who reaches for a terminal for my Windows user relatives, when they ask nicely.

Lately though, they just live with it, or they go learn some CLI if they care enough, because Windows throws them all kinds (variety) of crap that Linux doesn’t have trouble with anymore.

(Edit: The frequency of Windows issue is fine. But the variety of Windows corner cases makes casual “I’ve seen that” friend support not work as much anymore for me. I used to be able to help my friends more when Windows was a lot worse, ironically.)

I never have to mess with the settings on my Windows boxes once I have them configured the way I want. Like, ever.

Yeah. Same here. For both my Windows and Linux boxes. Though if I’m comparing, my Windows box is the only one that demands technical support every so often.

And that’s genuinely a big change. Us tinkerers are using threads like this one to come to terms with it.

And we realized we should sort of quietly wave the “all clear” for folks who wanted to switch but couldn’t.

Then we give ourselves permission to go back to pretending Windows users are happy and don’t need our help, for another couple of years.

How is the company fucking me, if I enjoy playing the game and get my money’s worth?

If it doesn’t bother you, you do you.

To me, it’s fucking with me when they add software layers that adds no value and just makes my game harder to play, long term.

Note that I’m not as mad at anti-cheat stuff, since it does add value. It’s usually a shitty half-assed solution, but it has a reason to be there. And most of it works better on Linux anyway.

It’s the weird other extra stuff that makes feel like they’re just fucking with me. There’s no remaining technical reasons a new game can’t run on my SteamDeck better than on my Windows laptop. And most games do.

This is a lot safer on Linux than Windows, this year. A lot of engineering has gone into making updates resilient.

And Linux hasn’t done the Windows 10 to Windows 11 - black screen for a couple hours, hope you know not to touch it - that we sometimes see.

Linux now has a stronger default permissions model, so it’s a lot harder for user error to break the machine in serious ways, even if they do reboot during a sensitive update.

Month and a half into using Mint Cinnamon… frankly it’s hard to feel like I’m not still using Win10.

I haven’t used Mint in a minute, but yeah, I think that’s the dream with Mint.

I’ve been digging the vibe of recent stock Gnome and KDE releases, myself.

So I suppose in your eyes I’m basically an old Windows admin brining bad habits to Linux. I’m just not seeing the downside of these ‘bad habits’.

Yeah. Now I get the best of both worlds. First time I need a setting, I do a nice search, instant result, and click toggle.

If I love that setting, as a power user, I can script the change to every future computer I use.

If not, I search settings, instant result, toggle back.

Gnome is amazing lately.

I’m certainly buying one of whatever they release.

A large scale migration would be wild. It would be like the Commodore 64 all over again - where one of the coolest things in gaming also happens to be the most functional personal PC of the year.

I guess it could happen.