Endymion_Mallorn

This is just late-stage capitalism and the centralization of capital. Areas become uninsurable for “homeowners”, so large companies buy the land and “develop” it, using their influence to get bulk insurance. Then when the middle class have fled or been flattened into the working class, they’re only going to be able to rent a much smaller place than before, which is more efficient for the real estate company.

Oh, and it’s likely that the only reason for the development is because the equity firm involved has other companies they want local staff for.

And that’s why AI music is winning.

Aldebaran whiskey?

This would be great - if there was a Discord/Meetup-style instance so that it could be started for free and communicate with other local communities. As is, I can’t justify the cost, or the time. Plus, I’m in a densely packed area, and each group would want their own space. So as of now, this can’t be a Meetup killer.

Yeah. You might have been able to see what Marina was eating for lunch, but she and Denise Crosby didn’t need rescue oxygen.

Which wasn’t helped by Berman.

I’m quite fond of the long dress she got for one season. I’m sure it was hell as a costume, but I thought it looked tasteful. I also have the idea that the psychological/psychiatric lead on the ship ought to look somewhat “different” when she’s working. Her uniform should be more casual, because her role is one where you want people to be able to get away from the structure, and to trust her confidentiality. The catsuits were dumb, and the Farpoint / S1 miniskirt was scandalous. but I did like the full-length dress.

But SteamOS is Arch? So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

Oh, right. I never see the login screen, so I keep forgetting it.

Basically yes, as far as I know. But some software only works with one or the other (WayDroid only works with Wayland, Cinnamon DE and Hypnotix use X) due to available features.

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland. Cinnamon is built on X.

Short version of the difference, as I’ve been given the knowledge:

X11/X Windowing System is an older system, and still basically works on the CRT paradigm with HBLANK and VBLANK being sacrosanct and real-time. It’s doing transforms from digital to analog and back to digital in today’s world.

Wayland is built for more modern setups, where unoptimized code and excessive memory capacity are the norm, so it renders the whole frame to the GPU at a time and pushes it out, so there’s no concept of scanlines. It’s all just pixels.

A lot of the pressure is due to people transitioning to Mint from Win10 without understanding that they’re moving to an XWS system rather than Wayland. If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

He didn’t get a chance to see her in the '80s. He’d be just as glad to see the old lady.

Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there’s so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.

Everything in the world is propaganda or advertising. You have a choice to believe it or not.

Until there’s a physical product on shelves, I don’t trust that it’s not vaporware.

I always liked how Zimmerman was an inversion of Soong. It made for a good dynamic.

It means Multi User Dungeon. It’s a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.