Came here to write advertising. Your product should speak for itself.

Landlording, however, is not an occupation. They’re just parasites who’ve convinced people it is.

A really good way to do linux is to play around and break things, but to have a backup you can restore from.

I don’t know about other distros specifically, but Mint comes shipped with Timeshift, which is easily configurable and can be set up to include your home directory. Make a backup on an external drive every now and again so that if you break everything, you only lose a bit of work instead of all of it.

Search engines are your friend. If you want to do something, look it up first (ex/ “How do I [x] on linux”) and read some of the answers. Don’t just go with the first option you see, and if it looks decent but you don’t understand it try looking up the commands it uses to find some documentation.

Learning linux isn’t something you can do as passively as you can with Windows, so take time to really try and learn things you’re looking to do.

And a good rule of thumb is that if you think your system should be able to do something, it probably can.

I have terrible but defined habits for my ROMs. I use the same folder structure for all of them.

./[platform]/[game]/[game].zip

./[platform]/[game]/[game].iso

./[platform]/[game]/saves/…

If it’s a series, using Pokémon as an example, I also have:

./Pokemon/Backups/[game].zip

./Pokemon/[generation]/[game]/[game].iso

So it’s not that good of a backup, mainly there in case the iso corrupts, but I think it’s better than nothing.

I think at this point I am more excited for, and have higher expectations of, Skywind.

I only noticed with my partner after they already told me they were a lefty, and we were working together one day and kept bumping each other.

Now we make sure that I sit on the right and they sit on the left.

Mine’s outside, but I also have the same version… who’s out here cloning this cat?

Oh I’ve been trying. He’s tech adverse in general, so the concept of open source software scares him because it means trusting others with regards to tech.

It also doesn’t help that my dad still isn’t filly convinced Linux isn’t a virus/dangerous to my PC.

Honestly. I genuinely have to fight to not say please and thank you.

There are other things that get self-censored due to filters. The two that I’m thinking of are “suicide” and “murder” (which a lot of people reword as “unalived” or “committing game over”).

Another one that I saw was a history summary channel I watch on YouTube couldn’t get monetized because they kept mentioning Hitler (in a video about the end of WW2) so they had to keep saying “the toothbrush moustache having Austrian man” to get around the censor.

Get high and watch the entire Star Wars original trilogy. Been too long since I’ve watched them. May throw in the prequels too.

Just to your point about The Martian, I would argue that the book wasn’t ‘objectively’ better than the movie, but that the movie had a different vibe than the book due to the change from written text logs to the video logs.

It’s a limitation of the format, but the movie almost feels like it belongs to a different telling of the story than Weir’s original? As if there he’d written in the 80s, someone rewrote it slightly different in the 00’s, and the rewrite got made into a movie?

I am definitely biased because I really enjoy both The Martian book and movie, just in different ways.

Planning to play Stardew with my buddies, work on a coding project, and see what all else happens

When I was a kid (primary school, ~2010), I watched a History Channel show about it with my little brother.

Back then, we just thought the “Boston Molassacre” was a funny name for a tragedy, so it’s stuck in my head.

Boston

It did add an international arms market, where you can trade excess things for civs.

Mee too, Gale.