OpenRGB can control your LEDs if you use dragoncenter for that. The rest of it should be ready to go without installing anything special. Most major distros have some kind of ‘power management’ built in, and gamemode is built in for the big gaming distros. CUPS can handle just about any printing tasks. You’ll be fine.

Not to be overly pedantic on the internet, but that’s not a catch 22. A catch 22 is a situation in which the only way to prevent a problem is to already have dealt with the problem. It comes from the concept in the book of the same name where the only way to get out of the draft is to have already served in the military.

I mean… I was half surprised, but mostly because Tetris is so ubiquitous that there are >2500 projects on itch.io alone that have Tetris as a tag. It’s like being the CEO of ‘Rolling Dice.’ So many other creators have taken the idea and run with it into spaces the original creator(s) probably never envisioned. At this point, is there anything but a ship-of-Theseus style construct of red tape holding up a name on something that barely bares any resemblance to what it was 30 years ago?

Take a moment and think about what you just said. You presented a potential obstacle to implementing their idea and then a fairly accessible solution to that obstacle, and then concluded that it somehow can’t work, and then focused on ‘inspiring girls with the work of woman CEOs’ which suggests you think it is a better way to get women into game dev. However, only the most corporate-brained person would ever look at a CEO and feel inspired, and it wouldn’t be to make a game. Please don’t dismiss a real, practical measure, which could be implemented tomorrow and would make discrimination much more difficult, in favor a hand-wavey possible benefit via the nebulous space of ‘inspiration.’

Overlap of snoring and door sounds. If you want to choose, snoring is more relevant for subtitling as it shows character state.

As long as the sample size is large enough outliers can be absorbed.

There is another process at work here: semantic territorialization. A neologism was created by someone with a certain kind of knowledge. Doctorow has the kind of mental map of the world that comes from being a tech-focused author for decades. He created the term as a shorthand for a concept that is important within the domain he wants to discuss, giving a set of landmarks on his mental map that he hopes will transmit enough c0shared context to convey the shape of the territory. Then people who do not have anything like his level of experience with that area try to interpolate the space he has delineated on his map as ‘enshittification’ and think ‘Uh… platforms… that’s like what colleges do with Nazis, or something… and uh… customers… that’s us, like me when I buy things at the store… and uh… fuck it, this is too hard. I’m taking the literal approach. En-shit-ifi-ca-tion… shitty-fy-ing… make shitty. Enshittification means make shitty. Too complicated. Enshittification means was good, now bad.’ They strip out all the elements they can’t understand and are left with a shiny new semantic territory (word) that makes them feel clever, despite revealing how little they actually understand.

It’s incredibly depressing that language is such a godawful way to transmit meaning despite being the absolute best way we have yet discovered to transmit meaning.

But, but, but da butt…

Oh, hey, it’s the kid from that episode of the Psi Factor

Never forget that it isn’t thinking, at all. It comprehends nothing. It’s just a very big, expensive autocomplete. It didn’t understand when it was using the right property, it just rolled its d10000 and got something that fit requirements, but on the time it failed, it rolled outside of the desired range. No thought, just numbers.

The taco toots can be vicious.

Only one I got to try was Approximately Up. I’ll probably get it if they keep going with it. I might over-simplify it as Archean I can run without a raytracing GPU.

A person paid by a government to follow orders and enact violence upon a target or targets chosen by the authorities in that government… Am I describing a member of the military or a contractor for a PMC like Academi? It’s a legal distinction without a functional difference, like a corporation vs an LLC. There are limited circumstances where, in a court, they are treated differently but the product that comes from them and the processes by which it is produced are essentially the same.

Got the first one purely because it had soundtrack by Sidewalks & Skeletons. Turned out to be a pretty good game. Hopefully this one won’t go the way of Wizard of Legend 2 and turn into a big disappointment.

Now I’m chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

Jeez, I could do better than a DnD find&replace. Can I get paid $400k?

Yeah. There is unfortunately a lot of media being made as just a cynical attempt to milk people via nostalgia. Remind everyone you can: just because it has the same name as something you once enjoyed doesn’t mean it will be good. Nostalgia marketing is always a lie.

There are inherent limits to the idea.

Videos are almost never the best medium for advanced learning. That’s why universities aren’t just collections of DVDs. Books remain the best method for the dense transfer of ideas, and are unlikely ever to be surpassed.

YouTube algorithms don’t analyse content, only user behaviour. Someone who likes an in-depth discussion of Anti-Oedipus might also like a Japanese music video. YouTube does not care why, only that they engaged. YouTube also actively fights niche feed curation. Liking A, B, and C, will get you A, B, and C, but also G (because it’s kind of like C, even though a human would know they’re different) 8 (because it’s vaguely similar to B) and whatever the current versions of pewdiepie, the Paul brothers, mr. beast, etc. are (because if they can get you to watch their BS, they can sell more ads for more money) regardless of how disimilar they might be to anything else you watch.

It’s kind of funny that I’ve heard of this game all of 3 times. All three were because of articles saying they didn’t have a strong enough player base.

Not a doctor but having a cancerous tumor with a hollow core filled with even dead bacteria sounds possibly worse.