I agree. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn’t at all be hard to draw by hand.

I can confirm this Christmas season that extended family members do in fact click on recommendations and so on, reaffirming that awful approach.

The amount of random crap we got… sigh. The thought counts, I guess.

Him 20-30 years ago probably would have. This is a man who, when I was a kid, made a custom UI for msdos so my brother and I could play games easier. He wouldn’t just tinker, he’d probably be contributing.

Old age and alcoholism has kind of robbed him of that, though. At this point he’ll probably just ask me to fix it if it goes wrong, lol

There’s actually research on how little correlation there is between interview performance and job performance in most cases. This includes cases with “objective” tests during the process, if I remember right.

Oh, it sounds like the dog survived too! I’m kind of surprised; usually stories like this are like “he shot the dog and kidnapped the girl” but instead they were both found.

It’s unfortunate that years as a tech guy at his job has made him less software curious, so probably bazzite then. Rather, I guess when it’s your job to fix things, tinkering isn’t fun anymore.

I ended up with CachyOS over Bazzite but I’m looking into the latter for my dad since I’m guessing it’s more stable and easier.

I just… Idk, I like Arch over Fedora. I blame the little pacman eating my progress whenever I install stuff in konsole. Desktop mode to desktop mode it’s the same KDE Plasma I’d be using, though. Are there any other striking differences between Cachy and Bazzite?

Edit: it was good to bring it up here, y’all are very knowledgeable on these things. It sounds to me that I need to get bazzite for my dad mostly because he won’t want to fuss or work on it and that I made the right call for myself since Cachy (and Arch in general) gives more flexibility. Frankly I might not even give him desktop mode default, he strictly wants something to play from bed in full on retirement mode.

The shitheads who drive chargers in my area are 100% not the EV demographic. They’re more the “aftermarket exhaust mods, wake everyone up at 3am” type of folk.

I can confirm they do actually break quite easily… uh, from experience. They don’t shatter, at least, you just end up with very leaky milk and a grocery store worker disappointed in you.

The irony if I stopped using Reddit because there wasn’t new content, at least not in popular. Once I saw the same stupid, fake story on wholesome for the seventh time in a week from yet another repost bot, I left. Lemmy revisits shit from like 10 years ago but at least if there’s a bullshit wholesome repost, it’d promptly get shit on. Lol

I used to take my friends wax and make cool pen toppers during class because I was bored.

It’s true what they say: a picture is worth a (couple) thousand words bytes. When indexed properly, anyway.

I love the idea of someone trying this stupid question irl only to realize it wasn’t even plugged in. That’s … well fuck, that’s most IT work. The convoluted approach is definitely the wrong one. Lol

Believe it or not, it gained 10fps running on Arch… doing… whatever that thing was doing.

Auto-translators in a nutshell. Lol

I think we’re all kinda beat down by life, so I don’t really judge people on it. I just am not one of them, haha. (But I don’t even watch TV or movies much so I’m admittedly a weirdo).

Not a crime podcast, but I’ve baked Christmas cookies for a fairly religious family while listening to atheist podcasts before.

However, it’s not as ironic as it sounds. The main podcaster is super into Christmas and turns out you can just celebrate it secularly. After all it’s technically a knockoff of a pagan holiday anyway.

It’s the mitochondria of your cell, the powerhouse if you will.

Oh no. Those weren’t ghosts, Daph, those were police officers and members of ICE!

Silly mistake, can let you off the hook just this once.

My dad entered in codes for me when I was really little, but that’s kind of another thing entirely. I don’t think little kids have an achievement oriented sorta version of play, so anything goes with them. Once you’re older, that dopamine rush just hits differently, though.

In education you could also consider it a form of scaffolding. Enabling someone to do something they normally can’t do is a form of development, like giving handicaps in games and stuff can foster the skills to not need them eventually.