I played Arknights for a bit because there’s actually a pretty solid tower defense game in there. There’s not a big selection of good games for Android and I wanted something I could play when I have no laptop with me.

Unfortunately the good gameplay is buried under tons of attention hogging gacha bullshit.

I stopped playing once I realized that I was spending more time doing chores than actually playing through interesting content. Also, while the BGM is nothing short of lavish, the presentation of the story is like a very cheap VN, which basically killed any hope of getting engaged in the story or the characters.

I didn’t spend much more than maybe twenty bucks on it so it’s not too bad given the partially solid gameplay. But yeah, I’m done with live service bullshit games.

We don’t eat the fruits of carrots and onions, though.

In addition to what Wolf told you, here’s a few little extra tidbits:

Some games have native Linux versions. If they don’t, you typically play them through Proton, a gaming-ready version of the Wine compatibility layer. Steam directly supports this through compatibility settings (Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility for default settings or Game properties -> Compatibility for per-game settings). Sometimes specific Proton versions will be better for specific games but usually you don’t need to worry about it much.

Proton is damn good. Expect performance for most games to be within ± 5% of the performance you’d get on Windows. Yes, some games run better on Proton than on native DirectX.

Valve recently decided to enable Proton by default for games that don’t have a Linux version. You can enable it yourself in the settings if it isn’t enabled yet.

You can even force games with a native Linux version to use Proton by setting it in the game’s compatibility settings. In that case Steam will download the Windows version.

Seconded, with caveats. Garuda is basically a gaming-ready Arch with a few of the rough edges filed off (and a 1337 G4M3R desktop theme preinstalled). I quite like their convenience stuff but in the end it’s still Arch.

Pros: It’s easy to set up and conveniently comes with everything you need to start gaming. It defaults to the KDE desktop, which will feel fairly familiar to Windows expats. It allows you to do whatever you want to do, in true Linux fashion. Cons: It’s still Arch-based so you will be living at the bleeding edge. A certain amount of occasional instability is to be expected. The default theme might put you off if you’re not into the whole gamer aesthetic but it’s easy to change.

I also see people recommending Bazzite and similar immutable distros and honestly, I can see the appeal. They’re harder to break and Discover (or whichever Flathub frontend you use) is very welcoming and convenient for managing your installed apps.

Pros: You’re less involved with the OS’s technical underpinnings than with an Arch-based distro. Immutables are designed to be robust. The Flatpak-centric workflow feels slicker than a traditional package manager. Cons: The design restricts your freedom to a certain degree. Flatpak has a few caveats compared to native software packages.

In the end I’d say that Garuda is great if you’re interested in learning more about how Linux works and want to be able to tinker with the system. There’s a ton of resources on technical stuff in Arch and all of them apply to Garuda as well. On the other hand, an immutable like Bazzite is great if you’Re not interested in Linux internals and just want something that works and is hard to break.

I wouldn’t call that a good foundation for a diet.

yFood kinda sucks taste-wise IMO and I think meal replacement shakes from a sports nutrition company offer a better bang for the buck. (Plus the whole thing where Nestlé owns a share of the company these days.)

Piracy isn’t piracy. Piracy is copyright infringement. Real piracy involves boats.

So if you want to be a proper pirate, run your BitTorrent client on a boat.

No, I think it works without a network connection. But it’s an Electron a React Native app now, which means it’s a glorified webview displaying an HTML document pretending to be an app because apparently even Microsoft don’t give a shit about MAUI.

Electron apps (and similar shit like React Native) are notorious for being slow and extremely resource-hungry. You know, exactly what you don’t want a care part of your OS to be.

Fair enough. Of course with public transit you could send some of you home with some of the goods while one person waits for the tow truck.

Shared IPv4 addresses are not to deter hosting but because there aren’t enough v4 addresses to go around. Most ISPs will happily give you an entire block of persistent IPv6 addresses but won’t give you a v4 because of address space exhaustion.

Ein Argument ist keine Argumentation. Wenn andere Argumente schwerer wiegen, dann kann eine Position mit einem validen Argument trotzdem verlieren.

Abgesehen davon ist das Argument nicht mal widerlegt – Brüter sind weiterhin die einzige bekannte Möglichkeit, eine Endlagerung mit heutigen Mitteln technisch umsetzbar zu machen.

Der Umstand, dass sie eine Menge Probleme haben ändert daran nichts, kann aber als Gegenargument angeführt werden, wenn es um die Entscheidung geht, ob ein Bau sinnvoll wäre.

Im Netto nicht, nein. Habe ich auch so gesagt – es ist ein sinnvolles Argument, aber immer noch kacke.

Went mask off early on, caught the heart of a neurotypical. A personality consists of more than dopamine effectiveness and sometimes the rest makes for what someone considers a compelling package.

The comic does point out that the litterer is not a good person, though. You could argue that this cutesy depiction of a gleefully evil person serves to normalize misbehavior but it doesn’t try to hide the fact that it’s misbehavior.

I agree that Mimi is being a dick in this comic and that anyone acting like that in real life is a dick.

That being said, dropping the plastic bottle in the generic trash hole is something I could ignore. (And if your area has a bottle deposit I damn well expect you to put the bottle beside the trash can so less fortunate people can at least get your deposit – of course a gleefully evil person wouldn’t do it in this case.)

Wie auch schon dem Nachbarn gesagt: Ich bin mir bewusst, dass Brüter eine furchtbare Lösung sind und sich als Kraftwerke nicht lohnen. Wir haben bisher keine andere sinnvolle Entsorgungsstrategie gefunden (die nächstsinnvollere wären 5 km tiefe Bohrlöcher). Und selbst mit diesem bisher alternativlosen Status ist diskutabel, ob sie sinnvoller sind, als das Problem einfach ungelöst zu lassen.

Sie sind halt ein valides Argument für AKWs – mit einem Haufen Gegenargumenten.

Ja, ich bin mir durchaus bewusst, dass Brüter absurd teuer wären – zumal ich extrem strenge Kontrollen einführen wurde, weil Proliferationsrisiko. Brüter sind für mich keine wirtschaftliche Stromquelle, sondern ein Teil der einzigen technisch plausiblen Entsorgungsstrategie, die wir bisher gefunden haben.

Sie sind eine auf vielen Ebenen extrem schlechte Lösung. Sie sind selbst für das Entsorgungsproblem keine gute Lösung, sie sind nur die beste, die wir kennen. Und selbst da ist es diskutabel, ob es sich statt dessen lohnt, das Problem für immer ungelöst zu lassen und ggf. mit Grundwasserkontamination zu leben.

That’s my point. Being at peace with yourself only works until you have to regularly deal with someone who isn’t. Of course you can isolate yourself from those people if they fail to adapt but that means you get to choose between being in a relationship and feeling tension over your neurodivergence on the one side and being alone but at peace with yourself on the other.

I’m not saying that you can’t make a satisfying choice but it certainly ain’t an easy one. If you get a partner who meshes well with your brain, congratulations. But a lot of people don’t.

Also, making a choice about your relationship means making a choice that affects two people (or more if you’re poly or have a dependent). And sometimes you can’t in good conscience end a relationship because you know that doing so will majorly screw over your partner.

Life is complicated. Inner peace is a precious and fragile good and sometimes you trade that good away. Appreciate it if and while you have it.

Though, to be honest, plastic recycling is mostly a myth in in the first place. For most plastics, the “recycling” procedure consists of paying some impoverished country to let you dump them there.

Basically, every plastic bottle can be assumed to contribute to microplastics contamination sooner or later. Glass and aluminum bottles are better (as are cans); both of those are economically feasible to recycle.

Das ist tatsächlich das eine verbleibende Argument für neue AKWs: Wenn wir schnelle Brüter bauen, können wir den bestehenden Atommüll in eine Form hochbrüten, die 200 Jahre lang sehr stark strahlt statt einer, die 10.000 Jahre lang moderat (aber immer noch gefährlich) strahlt. Das macht die Lagerung zu einem lösbaren Problem, wenn auch teuer und aufwändig.

Aber: Schnelle Brüter können problemlos waffenfähiges Material brüten und haben außer der Langlebigkeit des verbrauchten Brennmaterials alle anderen Nachteile eines AKW.

Ist halt immer noch kacke, aber es gibt immerhin ein Argument.

Then you get into a relationship and feel your partner’s disappointment every day because it turns out that while you have gotten comfortable with how your brain works, the rest of the world hasn’t. But don’t worry; tomorrow is the day when it’ll all get better…