I mean, I’m sure there’s a very common stitch pattern used in most people’s clothing, but I’m guessing most people wouldn’t be familiar with it. 🤷

I’ve never had cause to work with anything related to databases. I’m familiar with SQlite being a database software, but I haven’t ever had to open a .db file before, so I wouldn’t have known .db is specifically the SQLite format.

I’ve never interacted with database software directly before, I wouldn’t have the expertise to tell the difference between any database formats without doing some research.

Dammit :(

Gave it a try and I have to say I like it quite a bit, and I like that it exports everything in markdown files for backups.

Unfortunately Logseq also has a claude section in their github, so they are using LLM’s too, though I do not know to what extent (the cloude bot has few direct commits, but the devs could be using it for their own pull requests).

I felt the same way about the dialog when I tried the demo. I love the art style, but the dialog was just a bit too out of place for me.

However, the author mentioned in a reddit thread I found that his skills improved quite a bit over the 12 years he spent making it, though ultimately decided not to re-do the art and dialog from the start of the game as it would’ve taken too long, so I’m guessing it might start feeling less out of place as the game progresses? That’s definitely not ideal though, as first impressions count for a lot :\

I’m pretty sure one of the creators/writer of voyager was really disappointed that it never actually fulfilled the premise at all, so he went and made the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2003 as essentially what Voyager should’ve been if the premise was taken seriously.

Despite being cleared by the FCC to sell in the US, Netgear routers have a backdoor from the factory that is constantly listening for the correct SSH key, allowing anyone with it to infiltrate your network (likely for three letter agencies to use). Virtually all consumer router manufacturers have extremely poor security practices, but one way of combating this for now is to make your own router with something like OPNSense.

They also discuss the direction all of this is heading in, taking into account the new laws being proposed around the world trying to attach your identity to your device to remove anonymity, they suspect that eventually ISPs and governments may mandate the use of approved locked-down routers or wireless access points that have those backdoors in place, both for easier government surveillance and for the benefit of corporations, who would prefer to remove anonymity to access and gather more valuable user data to create more in-depth profiles for selling to advertisers, and to limit the user’s ability to block certain devices from accessing the internet, like modern TV’s that send screenshots every 3 minutes to the manufacturer to help identify what you’re watching.

Same here. It’s not the type of game that seems worth the time investment, but it makes for a great video essay! Maybe some of its ideas could be re-used in a more polished experience someday.

I definitely had a few blue screens with XP over the years, maybe once every 5 or 6 months?

7 was super stable on my hardware, I’ve probably had about the same amount of blue screens on that as I did on Windows 10, maybe about 4 or 5 from what I can recall. The bigger issue I had back then was AMD’s GPU drivers were insanely unstable at that point, resulting in constant green screen crashes from youtube videos.

At least for me, blue screens haven’t been too much of an issue, especially since after they reboot, everything is still working as normal. That’s in contrast to Windows 11’s bugs introduced from updates, which often introduce a new persistent problem that a user either has to actively troubleshoot to resolve, or cannot resolve on their own, leaving them to wait until Microsoft pushes out a fix.

Examples of that being:

• KB5077181 breaking Blutooth and causing Samsung devices to lose the ability to access the C: drive
• KB5085516, preventing users from resizing or moving windows, which itself was supposed to be a fix for KB5079473
• Microsoft themselves admitting that multiple major core features were broken for months

I personally consider the severity and frequency of these issues appearing in Windows 11 to be fairly unprecedented in the history of Windows, which happens to coincide with the QA team being fired.

(I didn’t downvote you, btw).

I think a majority of people would consider needing to disable multiple parts of the default installed system to not encounter potentially breaking bugs to be a pretty big indicator that the platform is not as stable as it used to be.

Personally, I never had to disable anything, perform any specific actions, or disable a particular part of Windows XP, Window 7, or Windows 10 LTSC to achieve a very stable system, and new updates generally didn’t introduce any bugs either since MS had a pretty big QA team.

There are now regularly reports of major or critical components of a windows system failing or even becoming unbootable due to updates or bugs in new features in Windows 11, which is very much a change from the norm.

It is likely these bugs are being introduced far more frequently due to MS laying off the majority of their QA team, and instead relying on regular users to report bugs after they have already been shipped.

90% of youtube thumbnails have a face in them, usually of an exaggerated emotion, and that goes for both male and female youtubers. Many youtubers have confirmed time and time again that the algorithm favors faces by a pretty wide margin, and thus most play that game.

I’m not a fan of it, I wish they didn’t or the algorithm was changed to not favor it, but I understand why they do it. Though I don’t think it’s particularly gendered as your image claims.

Donate to PostmarketOS so they can support more phones and polish it up. It’s based on upstream Linux, and once polished would give us a true and permanent alternative.

Unfortunately we’ve allowed ourselves to use proprietary venture capital built apps, which inevitably will bring with it enshittification that makes continuing to use it against our own interests, but by then the network effect makes it like being caught in a sticky web that’s hard to escape.

We can only avoid this from happening again and again by using open-source libre software that allows for self-hosting and federation, just like Lemmy and Piefed, which makes them virtually immune from enshittification.

In this case, we need to migrate our friends and family one last time to something that will let us relax almost permanently for once.

Right now, our best option for a Discord alternative is Movim, which uses XMPP as its back end, an old, open, and proven framework. It has the essentials like group video calls and screensharing (without audio, yet), and is currently working on implementing discord-like channels with rooms.

The Dev has been working on it since 2010, and only receives $41 a month from their patreon. If you’d like to support the development of a truly federated, E2EE discord alternative, I’d highly recommend anyone reading this to consider helping out with a donation, if you can’t contribute with coding help.

Star Trek is written from the perspective of post-scarcity. There is unlimited free energy, replicators that can create virtually any object from base materials, and an abolishment of money (there is no need for it in post-scarcity, as money is ostensibly just a way to distribute resources).

Rowan J Coleman explores the practical ramifications of that in a 3 part series here, if you’re interested.

Ah! Totally misinterpreted your comment then, sorry 😅

I thought its discussion of how much Civilization focuses on conquest, colonization, and combat over most other systems, to the point of it becoming a bit ridiculous if you try to go pacifist, was interesting. The year it was written didn’t seem a detriment.

CEO’s are almost universally out of touch with reality, and usually chase trends thinking it will help them get higher profits and garner more investment. AI is just the newest bandwagon for them to mindlessly jump on.

It’s genuinely impressive how the whole ecosystem of proprietary software is speedrunning enshittification at an unprecedented rate. The net is tightening, and the only escape is FOSS.

Since it’s a native linux game, should work a treat on Steam Deck.