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From what OP wrote, they aren't total strangers given he knows she likes comics. He sounds fairly young so I'm guessing she's in his social circle or someone from school. If they were total strangers or just met for the first time, then yeah I'd say it would be a good idea to strike up a casual conversation or two before asking them out. You just really don't want to develop strong feelings for them before you ask them out. It's a recipe for pain if she says no, and can make things pretty awkward if they're going to have to keep seeing each other regularly.

It's a good idea. You may want to plan a second activity like lunch or a walk in the park as well.

And just be direct. Something like "Hey, do you want to go on a date with me? We can grab something to eat and go to the comic store."

If she says no, don't push it. Just say okay and wish them well.

I too was terrible at talking to girls. I still am but my girlfriend doesn't seem to mind lol

Whatever you do, just don't try any pickup artist or smooth talking tactics. It's gross and cringey, doubly so if you don't have the confidence to pull it off.

I would also disagree with a lot of the other comments, if you want to date this person, make it clear you want a date. Don't try to do the be friends then turn it romantic thing. It can work but not when you already know you want to date them.

Yeah seriously. As a dev, that 30% cut gets you a lot of stuff with absolutely no additional charges. Trying to roll your own distribution for your downloads could exceed that 30% by itself after you:

• Host the files somewhere that can be downloaded anywhere close to as fast as steam's servers
• Handle payment processing fees
• Develop and maintain a site with high reliability

And that's only downloads. With steam you also get:

• p2p networking tools
• game server hosting
• steam community integration
• analytics
• cloud saves
• voip

And like 50 other things. It's ridiculously good value unless you're developing some super low rent single player indie title. Even then, just having it available on steam will get you way more sales to make up for it.

Sure, epic charges 10% but you basically only get distribution and some super half baked community features.

Nixos is great, but unfortunately I can't use it at work. I have migrated my home server infra to it though and plan to migrate my desktop the next time I have a free evening.

You can take the quotes off too big to fail, they literally are. Their only competitor in the world is Airbus. Boeing going bust would be catastrophic to the global aviation industry and doubly so for the USA.

That said, I wanna see Lockheed step up and do a commercial plane. Gimme a jumbo jet that breaks the sound barrier and has a radar signature the size of a credit card pls.

Why ansible? It's the best tool I know of for configuring systems when tyou can't build a premade image. I've tried puppet and chef but really like not needing any agent on the target system despite the pain of YAML syntax.

I had family members who told me the vaccine was going to kill me and various other stuff they heard from Fox News and similar.

They all caught COVID at a party in 2021 and died. Seriously. It's awful what all this conspiracy crap is doing to people. It costs lives and affects everyone around them.

This is kind of a bad translation tbf. It is literally correct but not figuratively. It's more like "Nobody can escape the finality of death."

Caveat: I don't know Japanese but I have seen this frame discussed before. I've also heard some other odd sayings in JP media, like "He wouldn't die even if you killed him."

How does this help though? It just makes people annoyed at protesters and, if anything, detracts from their cause. Protesting is great, blocking traffic is a criminal offence.

There's no standalone fan controller in existence I'm aware of with Linux support unfortunately, blame manufacturers for that. I use an aquacomputer quadro and just fire up a windows VM with USB passthrough to change settings the once or twice a year I need to. What else isn't working?

Regarding blender, what render options are missing? If it's GPU rendering that's missing, are you using Nvidia or AMD? I'm not familiar with how mint does things but you might need cuda or HIP packages for Nvidia or AMD respectively.

You're severely underestimating how much engineers and construction workers make.

It's a very purple state. I travel there often from a red state and it's very different. The trump supporters just tend to be way louder than most, he does after all seem to capture the most unhinged people in society.

1.6% of gamers is still millions of people. Entire industries exist on the back of much smaller customer bases than that. Might as well say we should stop caring about desktop linux completely since the server market dwarfs it.

Mixed VRR is not an obscure feature for one. Most of my friends with gaming rigs have a primary monitor with VRR and use their old fixed rate monitors as secondary displays. Does it make a massive difference to run fixed refresh rate? No but it is noticeable and nice to have. Windows can do it and I paid for the hardware. Without parity on this kind of stuff, Linux is a hard sell to the people who do care about it.

Does it matter to Joe Schmoe? Probably not, but Joe Schmoe probably doesn't care about Linux to begin with. You have to go for the tech enthusiasts first before you can get it to the masses.

With VRR? Xorg definitely did not support this as of a year or so ago without running a separate xorg screen for each monitor which prevents you from doing stuff like moving windows between your displays.

Mixed refresh rates worked okay-ish but VRR definitely did not work well in multi monitor setups.

There are some really major deficiencies in Xorg that aren't present in Wayland. The main one that made me switch was proper support for variable refresh rate, and the ability to mix and match any fixed or variable refresh rate displays you want.

It's a super common use case to have a primary monitor with high refresh rate and VRR, plus one or two cheaper monitors that don't. Xorg doesn't really support that at all without some really hokey tricks that severely impede usability.

Proper sync support is another one. Yes, you can set tearfree in X but the implementation is crap. You'll still get tearing in a lot of programs and at least in my experience, it introduces a pretty significant and perceptible input lag, far more than needed to eliminate tearing.

To be fair every FOSS license will prevent a company from having exclusive rights to use your work. Even if you get a bit lax and include MIT and BSD licenses as FOSS, a company still cannot take your work and stop other people from using it.

In the case of Duolingo, it's pretty different because that volunteer labor output is gated in a proprietary walled garden.

Whereas contributing a patch to chromium for example will never gate that contribution, even if it makes it into chrome and produces millions of dollars of profit for google. You can always and forever freely access and use a version of chromium with your patch as long as there's still a copy left to access.

They should make it play the Jetsons car sound.

And God forbid you're anywhere right of Marx himself or you'll get people telling you you'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Like come on, we want 95% of the same stuff, let's just work together and have some productive discussions and enrich our political mindsets instead of flinging shit at people who are basically on the same side as you.

I've had good luck with nicotine giant, but pretty much everywhere has stock issues. They definitely carry both of those flavors but no stock at the moment.