ElderWendigo @ ElderWendigo @sh.itjust.works

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Not all that uncommon for the genre and the time. Fitting too, given the story, wouldn't you say?

Windows and Mac don't have standards; they're single solitary stand alone monoliths. The user experience is the same in their walled gardens because they are the same, not because those systems embrace standards. In particular Microsoft's lack of standards has been a point of pain for Linux and FOSS users for decades. Linux has actual standards and that is exactly why there is so much diversity. That diversity would have crumbled into chaos long ago if the Linux community did not embrace standards.

Harlan Ellison also helped turn his story into a pretty cool game.

https://archive.org/details/ihnmaims

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream_(video_game)

How would the game companies profit from releasing fully complete and mostly bug free games on BluRay? Without a profit motivation it will never happen.

I feel like repetitive epic is like a Cardassian version of the dubious literary idea of The Hero's Journey, adapted for the Cardassian heroic ideal of selfless sacrifice to the state. I think Garak would appreciate the "Rememberence of Earth's Past" series (Three Body Problem) for the way that individual heroics take a backseat to the glory and survival of the state.

I feel like any time I get a Teams call, my Windows audio goblin rolls a d20 to determine which combination of devices will be used.

That's like blaming your English teacher for "Don Quixote de la Mancha" being written in Spanish. Linux isn't the reason those things don't run on Linux. Fortnite and Warzone developers are responsible for failing to develop for anything other than Windows, consoles, and sometimes Mac.

That's just custard.

Not true. I can tell you weren't paying attention in your economics or history studies.

If your employer can't afford to give new parents leave, then one way or another you are being exploited for somebody else's profit.

Tell me you're not really a fan of either franchise without telling me.

If those businesses can't afford it, they only exist because of exploitation. Maybe those businesses should fail.

I see you're operating under the misunderstanding that only women have to take time off of work to care for children. Or maybe you just think that somehow women are having babies all by themselves without men at all.

WOMEN DON'T HAVE BABIES, FAMILIES HAVE BABIES. EVERY PERSON DESERVES THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF BEING ALLOWED TO CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN.

I'm sorry for yelling, but it's a fucking important. You're backwards thinking is a key failure of capitalism and a shining example of toxic masculinity.

I feel this. If you could right click to interact with the text objects, then this combo would basically feel like foobar2000 for linux. I'm old enough to have missed how great foobar2000 felt after WinAmp started to get bloated (back before I got my hands on some Linux ISOs), so MPD + ncmpcpp just felt so refreshingly stripped down and a little nostalgic. I just fucking hate having to memorize a bunch of non-intuitive hotkey combos to do anything. Probably the same reason I've never bothered to properly learn Vim.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. You're doing things the hard way and now it's somehow my responsibility to fix your mess? I'm SUPER glad I don't work with you.

Sounds like you're doing things the hard way, making you believe that you are being forced into choosing between security and convenience.

Whose letting you run dozens of servers if managing dozens of passwords is "pretty much unworkable" for you?

It's not all that uncommon for villages and towns to disband their police department and rely instead on county police.

My guess is it all comes down to money.

If I could find a prompt that I could pre set the font, layout of the final work, and then have the program leave me alone, it would be perfect.

You're describing a workflow using TeX or LaTeX, like typesetters for publisher's use. I don't have a specific recommendation, but in your shoes, I'd look for a CLI text editor (to avoid distractions) that supports word wrapping and do your actual formatting and typesetting totally separately from your writing with LaTeX.

A spreadsheet is always going to be a bad fit for a problem like this. You want something like the command line tools sed and awk (maybe combined with some simple regex) to parse a stream of input like this. These tools were literally built to solve this kind of problem. If you are stuck in windows, the Windows Subsystem for Linux will have these tools.