It's a hypnic jerk.

They'd no single agreed on cause, but they happen during the transition from wakefulness to sleep.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

There used to be an influx of young students to the internet every September because most people used it at university for the first time. That changed when home internet became more widespread leading to the eternal September.

Write down on a bit of paper "I want to spend more time with my son, I can always find another job", then flip it over and write "I'm going to spend my time on work, I can always have another kid" and see how you feel.

Usually Indies, a lot of slay the spire recently, but I've just started Street Fighter VI.

Tempted by System Shock next cos I never played the original.

Mostly, it's the must-have Indie darlings, with a sprinkling of AAA fodder.

I've loved:

• Rimworld
• Yakuza 0
• Slay The Spire
• Dave the Diver
• Dredge

I've found that I enjoy playing offbeat adventure games on the deck more than I did sat at a PC. Detention, Norco, Loretta, To The Moon, that sort of thing is perfect for playing in bed, propped against the pillows.

I'm personally a huge fan of project zomboid, though I had to tweak the controls a little to make it work well.

I'm sure Stardew Valley is a perfect match for the deck, but I've played it too much already.

I think they meant they've seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.

I ... Have to assume so, anyway

From your other replies it seems like you're unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there's a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn't had you? If not, it's reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.

I think they meant they've seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.

I ... Have to assume so, anyway

Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it's not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.

Will we end up with islands of trust?

Agreed on all points! It turns out Lemmy has a mechanism for federating block lists. What will be interesting is when instances disagree about bans. If you get banned from an instance because - hypothetically - you disagree with the actions of one government or another, it's not obvious to me that other instances should repeat the ban.

Will we end up with islands of trust?

I saw someone use "Lemmurs" the other day and I'm sticking with that pending a better idea.

It's really not. It's just getting started. The worst predictions, of 4-6 degrees of warming, are more or less off the table. Current trajectory is ~3 degrees of warming which... is civilisationally devastating admittedly, but we have pathways to reduce that. Even the 1.5c target isn't over yet.

There is a broad range of potential future climates, and this generation decides which one we end up with. It's not over by a long shot.

I will gladly take one for the team and sell him a Lemmy for a few billion.

The current steam deck isn't going to be obsolete just because a newer model comes out. I'm happily playing through the new System Shock right now, and there's a gazillion things in my steam library that I can install and run any time I like.

At some point there will be a faster, better deck, but this one is going to do me for a while. It is, in that sense, like a gaming PC. The lifetime of it isn't determined by the manufacturer in the same way, because you can choose when it's worth paying more for a better experience.

Like a gaming PC the first question you need to ask is "what's my budget", and the second "what would I like to be able to play". When you have those answered, you can decide whether the current sale price offers value for money. There is always going to be more power available for a higher price.

I've been usung a Moonlander for a couple of months after a friend at work lent me his Ergodox EZ. The learning curve for someone who'd been trying freestyle for 30 years was tough, but I definitely prefer it now I'm accustomed.

Most ergo keyboard users are somewhat zealous, so if you know someone who uses one, they may be happy to lend you one on a temp basis.

Asus ZenFone 8.

I love it, it's a nice bit of kit, and the few gimmicks it has are useful: scheduled charging for better battery life, digital well being stuff to stop me being glued to my phone.

Battery would be a problem for a super power user, but lasts me all day with commuting, reading the web etc. Camera is not on a par with flagships but I rarely take pictures.

Prior to this I had a Huawei until the battery died on me. I upgrade when I have to, I hate consumer upgrade cycles.

I have zero android ecosystem products.

I'm Android/Linux all the way unless work force me to use a Mac, which happens periodically, as part of the great cycle of life.

Some things can go faster if you add more workers, some things can only go faster if you make the workers bigger or faster .

If you're tidying a garden you can get it all done more quickly, and tackle bigger gardens, by getting your friends to help. That's horizontal scaling.

If you need to get a parcel from your house to Burkina Faso the only way to do that more quickly is to use a bigger, faster machine. That's vertical scaling.

The way Lemmy is designed right now (says the op, I don't know the detail) you can only support more users by making the server bigger and more expensive, not by using lots of smaller servers.

Edit: note that Lemmy as a whole scales horizontally: more instances == more users, but each instance has to scale vertically.

/c/nocontexttoiletcosy

I wholly agree, but that photo has been on my camera roll for years waiting for just the right discourse.

Discovered at age 12 that I was actually fast as fuck over short distances and won a 200 metre race, leaving the sporty popular kids in my nerdy dust.

My teacher said "you'd have been a lot faster if you hadn't kept looking behind you"