TimeSquirrel

I thought we were the Oregon Trail generation.

That’s what Anthrocon is for. Once a year is enough.

https://youtu.be/eFa1eHOEvyg

Just trying to make your day a little brighter.

The line between the people and the corporate/political elites is getting more defined and visible every day. I hope people notice.

If there’s only one physical ethernet port, I’m not sure why there are two wired connections. You try deleting the inactive one? Could have been a bug in an update script that hosed it.

I’m here because I DON’T want to have to read fucked up opinions. People here are mostly nice compared to mainstream platforms.

I’m all for difference of opinion, but not when one of those opinions is “we should oppress LGBT people” for example. 10-15 years ago, I’d have been more receptive to discussing opposing opinions, but shit has changed. A lot of those opposing opinions are now simply unacceptable to even entertain, because they’ve become a real, actual threat to my well-being. People aren’t discussing tax policy anymore, they are discussing imposing states of emergency to do some kind of purge on undesirables.

Some people call it an echo chamber, I just call it chilling and having fun with like-minded people. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s what forums have always been.

Lemme tell you something, DO NOT learn BASIC as your first language. As a hobbyist, I avoided C/C++ for 25 years because I just didn’t get pointers and memory manipulation, and messed around with other languages like JS and PHP instead (also BASIC’s GOTO and GOSUB kinda ruined me as a programmer for a few years). But once it finally clicked a couple years ago, I now want to write EVERYTHING in C/C++.

I think plain C at least should be everybody’s first language. It literally reprograms your brain to think exactly like how a computer internally functions. I never got that with other languages, because they were so far removed from the actual machine.

Edit: also, after learning some of it, it’s pretty neat when you do stuff like look at parts of the Linux kernel source code and think “wow, I know what’s actually happening here now!”.

You’d be happily married to a sexbot, wouldn’t you?

Promise *bullshit = new Promise; delete bullshit;

I would also go as far as hiding a mini snake game as an easter egg

If you want some code for that I have my own C++ version I made for an ESP32 with OLED screen, it can easily be adapted to most other languages. I did it to get some programming practice. I have Tetris too. All you gotta do is replace the GPIO button inputs with keyboard inputs (or some other boolean on/off user input element) and replace the graphics framework and routines as well (it’s only simple stuff like lines, boxes, and setting individual pixels). The whole thing runs in a “neverending” while loop, first checking inputs, then checking collisions, then redrawing any objects that need to move to another position.

I can upload to my GitHub and link them later after work. They do use OOP though, treating each sprite on the board as its own object, and feeding pointers to them into a collision detection routine every game tick. I dunno, some people have a visceral hate for OOP.

He DID push for single payer. It was Joe Lieberman who fucked us over with that, not Obama. As you know, presidents aren’t kings and the policies they want to enact must go through Congress.

Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won’t fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.

Linux and Windows are, I think, too different conceptually

That is correct. Linux is a UNIX variant/clone, one of many. UNIX isn’t just an OS, it’s an entire concept on how to build and organize an OS. People keep wanting it to be Windows, but it will never be Windows. I wish it could just stand on its own as a flexible, open, UNIX-like system with its own strengths, not just be a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop. Let’s make the UNIX way of doing things the normal, everyday way of doing things.

I am fully aware how fucked we are. I don’t recall displaying any enthusiasm over that prospect…

Because Wine and Proton exist. And they can run much more recent software, sometimes faster than on Windows. It’s a duplicated effort with not much benefit. Why limit yourself to just Windows programs when you can run Linux AND Windows programs on the same OS?

I’d rather my food not cost three times as much as it did five years ago.

Good. I hope they feel the need to look over their shoulders every two seconds. I hope they lie awake in bed at night questioning every noise outside. I hope they’ll home cook every meal themselves from now on.

Softie grew up with gravity plating and intertial dampers and never had her face caved in by a 15g burn.

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Maybe not one. Several dozen, however…