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by itsboring 14d ago
I grew up with a CoCo 2 that I got for Christmas when I was 5. I remember the BASIC book it came with that had programs you could type in. Also, Demon Attack!
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by itsboring 28d ago
By downsizing, you mean cramming my family into a crappy, small apartment in a terrible school district?
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by itsboring 3mo ago
I switched my kids to Linux too. They have a multi-seat setup so now they can both use the PC at the same time. With the state of Linux gaming, we have yet to encounter a reason to boot back into Windows.
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by itsboring 3mo ago
Interesting point! How about if instead of a burrito I order yakisoba or chicken tendies?
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by itsboring 4mo ago
Unreal Tournament and Quake 2 for me.
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by itsboring 5mo ago
I like TUIs for a lot of reasons, but this one might be the biggest.
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by itsboring 5mo ago
I agree, I never found changing diapers that difficult or bad. I was also hardened by years of chronic insomnia so the sleep disruption wasn't a big deal, I took most of the night-time duties to let mom sleep. The thing I remember bein
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by itsboring 7mo ago
Not to mention that it seems like everything has to go through like 10 redirects just to log in, and then you have to dismiss various pop-ups before you can just do whatever you went there to do. Some will say that the last part is just a U
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by itsboring 1y ago
You’re not alone. Like many in this thread, I have kids and a house, etc. etc. Never needed anything like this. Maybe jotting down a note with pen and paper now and then, or at most, e-mail myself a reminder of something. I have to wonder i
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by itsboring 1y ago
Hmm, when I think “old Internet” I don’t think Napster, IE, WAP… I think usenet, gopher, telnet MUDs, IRC netsplits and FTP warez.
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by itsboring 2y ago
I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. The brain zaps I got when stopping Lexapro (Escitalopram) were identical to brain zaps I get when I’m sick from something like the flu and I’m very tired. I have no idea as to an explanation. An
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by itsboring 2y ago
I found this disappointing too. I know they don’t have the resources to build their own equivalent of Nanite and such, but… On top of the performance issues, there were a number of things that actually looked so much better in the 2014 game
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by itsboring 2y ago
I just found out the Talos 2 DLC is out on Steam this Friday!
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by itsboring 3y ago
It really kills my productivity too, although I don’t suffer from ADHD. For me it’s about the feeling of being seen/watched that makes me feel anxious and self-conscious all the time. I’d also be happy with a cubicle as long as it bloc
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by itsboring 3y ago
and Outer Wilds!
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by itsboring 3y ago
Unity has been quite solid for me on Linux lately. It’s mainly just minor annoyances like the project settings window being too small when you open it so you have to resize it, little stuff like that. Nothing that has prevented me from gett
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by itsboring 3y ago
Keep going and you eventually arrive at GLib
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by itsboring 3y ago
All of those things are better done in writing so that: - There’s a record of decisions and the thought process behind them - When asked for input I can take time to consider a response and therefore give a higher quality reply - I can refe
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by itsboring 3y ago
Probably a multi-year class action suit where everyone who got screwed over eventually gets $0.79 for their troubles while lawyers on both sides get a fat payday for creating exactly nothing. That’s what this precious “social contract” gets
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by itsboring 3y ago
Very interesting. Jutting my jaw forward makes a very obvious loud squeal at what sounds like a lower frequency than my normal background tinnitus. I never noticed that before. I do clench my teeth a lot from anxiety and get muscle pain in
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by itsboring 3y ago
I always just assumed this was a normal thing that everyone had and never bothered to look it up. Sounds exactly like the roar of a high wind to me.
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by itsboring 3y ago
I don’t have any (diagnosed) neurological disability but I would do poorly in that situation too. Excessive context switching is a major source of stress: adrenaline, fast heartbeat, high blood pressure. Makes it almost impossible to stay f
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by itsboring 3y ago
Honestly, I kind of agree. I’d be hard-pressed to think if any concrete advice I’ve received from other parents that was worth a good god damn, either from my generation or older. If you ever wander into any parenting forums, it gets so wei
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by itsboring 3y ago
I know what you mean. I’ve got two girls, 5 and 6, who love to fight over the pettiest shit. Like, when they’re in the car, one will yell “she’s looking out MY window!” “NO I’M NOT” “YES YOU ARE” etc. The good news is that at their age righ
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by itsboring 3y ago
Two kids having some kind of competitive tantrum is so much more difficult than just one kid having a tantrum. They set each other off over and over in some kind of fucking feedback loop from hell. Sometimes the only strategy that works is
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by itsboring 3y ago
Those shows are so formulaic, they have to do something to entertain themselves I suppose.
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by itsboring 3y ago
Isn’t it obvious? More browser tabs.
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by itsboring 3y ago
An appropriate comment in this, the month of September.
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by itsboring 3y ago
There’s this bubble where people who work with AI seem to assume that everyone else also wants to work with AI on their PC. It’s strange. Let NVIDIA have their CUDA and their datacenter GPUs, most of us just want to put pixels on a screen.
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by itsboring 3y ago
Somehow this reminded me of when I worked at a bank some 20 years ago, and there was a ton of VBA code with “On Error Resume Next”. People would just pop that in there to “fix” their errors. Also HTML parsing and Postel’s law. To me, that’s

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