This is the way.

Almost nothing is worth my time to dance around their adblock blockers and almost anything on the internet can just be found on a different site.

Discovering the open source remix of 1997’s Total Annihilation was a gaming highlight of 2025 for me.

The game I’m speaking of is Beyond All Reason.

https://beyondallreason.info/

I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

lol _new(3) gives me some flashbacks

Rooted in reality Astronaut: Always has been.

Man, Arch is so easy to install these days with archinstall, there’s no reason not to give Arch a shot first!

(I use Arch btw)

That’s fair!

Or, it appeals to people that have had had to take over an old codebase where the comments were all lies.

“Code never lies. Comments sometimes do.”

Deep Rock Galactic. I was really excited to play it and I tried to like it. The colors and graphics were 10/10 awesome, I just found it to be extremely boring and repetitive.

Project Reality, a Battlefield 2 mod.

I think the Galactic Contention (Star Wars) mod for Squad looks very impressive, albeit I’ve never played it.

https://youtu.be/hl4m5HkRiUI

The few times I’ve used Postman, I found myself doing everything I needed in Python shortly afterwards. It’s not cURL, but it could easily be such; I prefer the self organized “text” interface of code.

I installed KDE a few days ago, I instantly fell in love. I wish I made this switch years ago!

Okay- I’ve installed KDE a few days ago and instantly fell in love with it. I have been missing out, big time!

Arch user here who enjoys Gnome because I started my Linux journey over a decade ago with Ubuntu. Tell me which desktop environment I should be using. Which desktop environment will make me question why I’ve spent so much time with Gnome?

It’s probably not a problem… probably

A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).

I left Debian for Arch recently and let me tell you, you immediately feel the difference with running the latest drivers for your machine. The bleeding edge drivers have upped my frames per second significantly in videos games compared to sticking with stable releases on Debian (and Ubuntu).

With the built-in archinstall script making Arch so easy to get going, I’d only reach for anything else if I really needed the stability.

The misconception that we’re the person to go to to fix your printer…

…I mean we probably can fix it, but it’s a waste of our time…

I’m not crazy about Google’s part in Go, but man, I’ve been using Go a lot and I love it. It feels like a “modern C” that lets you focus on logic instead of memory allocation. I know it violates your requirements, but I’d suggest checking it out anyway! 🤷‍♂️

I feel your pain. I once worked at a place that hired an “expert” as a senior dev who asked me on the first day, “what is this import on the first line of this code??? I’ve never seen this before. 🤔” They were unfamiliar with the concept of packages and importing them… Senior dev, hired specifically because they were an expert in a specific language…

They’d call me upwards of 12 times a day for help with the most basic of tasks with anything technical, to include how to install the basic runtime to be able to run code in that language.

(I’m speaking quasi cryptically on purpose.)