One of the goals of neovim was to introduce tools to build a GUI around vim. Imo the terminal is by far the best option, but there are some fun options. Neovide is an interesting one. Mostly because it doesn’t do too much – just eye candy.

I have a fond memories of the game for sure! The world was really cool to explore and I did keep coming back to it. I think I got to the point where the combat became really easy – I recall finding a way to almost cheese it.

Sort of a dumb reason, but imo, flying a spaceship is not really what the game is about and that’s all I wanted to do. For example, I wanted something where I had to use orbital mechanics to dock with a station, but the powerful SciFi boosters in Elite Dangerous take all that fun away.

GTA for the Gameboy on the other hand, kinda rad.

I was really disappointed with this one. I tried it out per a friend’s recommendation after they heard I was playing a freeware space flight simulator (Orbiter, which I do actually recommend).

Kingdom come deliverance. It was a rollercoaster. One of the first games I played after building a new computer. I progressed far enough and finally found that the combat was jank and the story was pretty garbage. Still have fond memories of the game though. Almost like the first time playing Oblivion 🙂.

Lol everyone should go read the couple of posts on the community / magazine with the same name. Hilarious seeing people so triggered by people pointing out that the name is a bit problematic.

After you explained it a bit further in another comment it was pretty obvious you didn’t mean cryrocurrencies. I really did latch onto “crypto” as cryptocurrency, unfortunately the case for a lot of people.

Yes, we all know crypto and scalability go hand in hand /s

Don’t join the biggest instance.

What’s the advantage of running this server side?

Godot can run on fairly low end stuff, just use the opengl based renderer. The official Godot docs are actually pretty dang good nowadays. Join a game jam asap https://godotwildjam.com/ you’ll probably find a team willing to take a newbie. You’ll learn a lot. Good luck!

I’ve been trying out an IaC services’ (Pulumi) chatbot to answer questions about how to spin up architecture. It’s really bad. Totally makes up properties that don’t exist and at times spins up code that doesn’t even make sense syntactically. Not to mention that the code it generates has the potential to cost not insignificant amounts of money.

Definitely not a replacement for stack overflow, github, forums, or random blog posts. Not for a service that spins up critical infrastructure. Like, you have to know to some degree how that stuff works. And if you know how that stuff works, what’s the point of the service? Saving a few minutes typing stuff out and looking at documentation?

Oh I feel silly now. I guess I’ll go back to drinking from the tap.

No boiling, but I bought a filter after listening to a story about PFAS.

Try out Godot. It uses a really simple language (gdscript), has excellent learning material, and you can make games!

Depends if you want a managed service or not. As stated by others, any Linux vm can do it: Aws ec2, Azure, Digital ocean, etc. Cost won’t spiral because you pay a fixed fee for the vm you choose (can be like 5 dollars a month).

The options that can spiral if for some reason your app started being used a lot. But likely these will be pretty much free:

A lot of cloud platforms have some sort of managed container service. Wrap your app in a docker container and pay per 10K API calls for example.

Another option is to use a managed service that handles the runtime for you (AWS Lambda, Google cloud app engine, etc.) These options should have the option for a dotnet core runtime. They can also be really cheap if your app isn’t used much.

On Android (maybe iOS)? You can hold down on the space key and drag left and right to move the text cursor. Very useful.

Creating a silly sig (signature) for a web forum (gimptalk?). I think they had a specific sub forum for sig critique.

The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

• bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
• rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
• diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
• cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
• Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

That’s just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a “gui” (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂