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I’m a software dev in the UK who’s into sci-fi, fantasy, videogames and music.

Big on doctor who, star trek, discworld, final fantasy, dream theater, and people’s right to be themselves.

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I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default...

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While I too like the analogy, and agree that Windows is becoming increasingly money grabby, I feel the need to be fair: as an OS it has supported native ISO mounting since Win7, just right click an ISO file and choose “Mount”…

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Ha! Good to know

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I 100% agree with the sentiment here, almost exactly what I said to my wife about the perfect blend; it’s uniquely Doctor Who.

However, the gravity bit is almost certainly not unnecessary, because they kept saying “mavity” for the rest of the episode. It’s a clue. This is no longer our universe, shenanigans are already afoot. There’s definitely a reset coming at some point, because it’s not going to be “mavity” for the rest of the show’s life.

And the Doctor is aware (his facial expressions whenever “mavity” was said, and he said “gravity” near the end), but Donna isn’t (she didn’t know what he meant when he said “gravity” near the end)

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Speak for yourself

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Does anyone know if Susan is maybe a classically trained actor or something?

Lots of laugh out loud in this one for me.

Julian’s deadpan sass “good luck with your career”

Sam’s insane (but quite noisy) prize

I’m disappointed Alex only kept up with “(knees and toes)” for Sam’s.

No secret task mention this time I think?

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My guess is a typo, possibly supposed to be 11 or 12? Is 1998 too early for TF2 design to be occurring?

Team Fortress 2 was announced in 1998

According to Wikipedia. So that looks plausible.

The post however talks about gathering feedback from players of TFC, which didn’t come out until 99. Maybe Robin meant the original mod, which he also worked on, or maybe he just misremembered at what point TFC came out or when they actually explored the death stuff that resulted in the freezecam.

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Baguette is pain

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Just to be clear, Visual Studio does not officially run on anything other than Windows.

However, as the linked blog post indicates, since this is .NET based you can use any IDE or code editor you like that has support, such as Visual Studio Code, or JetBrains Rider, which are available for Linux and macOS.

The game engine’s own editor is also Windows only and presumably if that is .NET based then one day it might be cross platform if the community makes it happen. That doesn’t really relate to Visual Studio though.

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I have a separate 4 joycon charging dock.

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Ooh! Are you one of today’s lucky 10,000?!

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

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The client on macos was buggy as hell, but after the UI refresh update a month or two back it’s fine again now

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My anecdotal experience is that Apple silicon support is not usually a major problem. Plenty of stuff seems to be fine through Rosetta. The worse case is 32 bit only games which are unsupported in modern macos versions regardless of CPU arch.

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Agreed. I have a deck and I’m now definitely gonna switch my main pc from Win10 to Linux. Steam deck desktop mode helped show me I could be comfortable using it, and the deck in general showed the gaming support is there nowadays.

I now see no reason to not put Linux on my desktop. Just deciding on which distros to check out. Probably mint. Maybe garuda…

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Thanks for the tips.

I’m a dev by day, and no stranger to bash/zsh and powershell. That said I don’t want to constantly be tinkering in the terminal just to use my OS.

Cheers for the pointer to Nobara, I’ll look into that as an option too!

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A person of culture, I see!

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It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it once that was a mainstream option (Vista onwards).

I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

Full Tilt! was first published in 1995, comfortably before the inclusion of the Space Cadet table in Windows, which iirc was either '98 or Plus! for '95. I’m confident it wasn’t in any of the vanilla releases of Win 95.

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Apparently not, in the web UI at least

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Fewer*

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This guy Markdowns

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Cos he did in the template I used 😅 not intentional, my bad.

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A key stroke?

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They’re non breaking so he should be, well, not broken.

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Oh god email clients are a whole other world of pain from browsers. My condolences.

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At least the bit the mama saw was

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