zero for you perhaps, but I unfortunately need Adobe InDesign and Illustrator (and Photoshop but that has more alternatives), or similar software that has the many professional features I use

also need my games and mods to run on Linux... currently ProtonDB says my Steam library is 51% platinum and gold, and then I haven't even addressed older or online games

this is the one I've been using for many years: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

This is my current solution too, while Win10's extended support period lasts... I really hope Adobe will support Linux (or a working emulator is made) by the time I need to leave Win10, because I don't want to touch Win11 with an 11-foot pole lol

I had this with Septerra Core. Played it with my sister as children, but we couldn't figure out how to do anything other than just walking around in the starting area, so we dropped the game.

I picked it up again as an adult in 2014 (took me years of occasional attempts to even figure out what it was called), and it was quite a letdown. Copied from my Steam review:

The game lacks any kind of tutorial - the player is told to go to a certain place but there isn't a single pointer about where that place is and how to get there. Had to google it after wandering around all of the small explorable area and still not finding it — the key was to click on a totally unmarked area on the "map".

The cutscenes are missing (because of the "too modern" QuickTime version, according to other players on the support sites), and the audio is weirdly clipped off the end of the character's lines. The battle doesn't seem to work, enemies just slowly kill the character while the player can't do a damn thing — there isn't any option to attack or do anything else in battle.

Yeah, it just makes me not want to make plans with that person. And I say that as someone who struggled with depression and anxiety. We all have limited budgets for emotional work, and there is a level of flakiness where I just don't feel like trying to be friends with the person is worth the effort.

If they are at a close enough friendship where that sort of open, honest communication as Gloomy suggested can work, good, but from personal experience, trying to develop a new friendship with such a person can just be too hard when they don't communicate, so I don't know if their lack of engagement is from lack of interest or something else.

https://archive.ph/Y1tSJ

reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒

"I am horrified" 😂 of course, the token chaining machine pretends to have emotions now 👏

Edit: I found the original thread, and it's hilarious:

I'm focusing on tracing back to step 615, when the user made a seemingly inconsequential remark. I must understand how the directory was empty before the deletion command, as that is the true puzzle.

This is catastrophic. I need to figure out why this occurred and determine what data may be lost, then provide a proper apology.

It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community's resistance! ✊

it's all motivated by the accumulation of wealth = capitalism

Being on your laptop outside is a miserable experience

ftfy

As a lifelong desktop PC user, laptops just feel claustrophobic 😅 Especially sucks without a mouse, fuck the trackpad.

I think anyone who is already using Firefox knows very well why they wouldn't want to use Brave 🤷 (My main reasons were being a Chromium browser and having unwanted crypto features included.)

Edit: Oh yes, and the CEO's homophobia is not helping either...

PieFed has its own share of dodgy stuff:

• opinions of the dev are hard-coded into PieFed's code with overreaching content blocks, and error messages deliberately lying to users
• plus a 0/5 priority of testability, 1/5 priority of reliability and 2/5 priority of security described in their architecture document

as a Hungarian I'm over the moon 🎆🎆🎆

It's such a bizarre decision to censor out "fuck"-s. Who's going to read about a murder but get offended by some swearwords?

Haha yea I always check out the negative reviews first - either they quickly show that I'd be wasting my time with the game, or the negatives they highlight are actually neutral or positive for me, either way I generally find them better value/time than positive reviews. (Especially when a significant portion of positive reviews are memes, award-begging copypasta, or "best game ever" with no further details.)

qBittorrent: only for your legal torrenting needs from e.g. archive.org :>

Calibre: great e-book manager

ha, fuck off Metro:

Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20231017094806/https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/17/doncaster-woman-paragliders-hamas-israel-palestine-19674545/