At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it’s not worth the effort even for me to bother.

One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it’s a step in the right direction.

After over a decade of using it exclusively at home and partially at work I still googled how to add users to a group last week.

Does a new one every few years count?

I use Linux because it gets out of my way and lets me get things done.

To you Linux seems to be the thing that needs to get done…?

Weakness, If you’re here for anything other than the narrow view.

Even if you’re here for the the narrow view take a moment and consider if an echo chamber is good for you.

Some sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltics.

But every vote from the center is a vote you deny the other party.

So extreme left/right policies have to be twice as popular to be worth it.

Why would that persuade someone living in a swing state that sometimes vote republican and sometimes democrat to vote D?

I think you over estimate how many hard lefts don’t bother voting at all because both parties are too similar.

Going more left will cost more votes than they would gain.

Depends on what you want to achieve.

Video games are an easy way of losing yourself in a hobby for an afternoon. Can become addictive and you may lose the entire weekend.

Do you want games that focus on the social aspect and make friends? The story? Quick reactions and precise timing? Building something? Compete? Challenge yourself and improve (at ultimately a pointless task in a video game)? Simulate something accurately?

Before you start, as a gamer what do you non gamers do to spend your free time on anyway?

If you don’t know where you’re going: French is probably the most wide spread after that.

Getting trapped under something for a few thousand years.

Seems unwise to take that risk. What if I don’t change my mind?

Cryptocurrencies can be useful as currencies. Not very useful as investment though.

Like with any new technology. Remember the blockchain hype a few years back? Give it a few years and we will have a handful of areas where it makes sense and the rest of the hype will die off.

Everyone sane probably realizes this. No one knows for sure exactly where it will succeed so a lot of money and time is being spent on a 10% chance for a huge payout in case they guessed right.

They told me I’d change my mind about not wanting kids when I got older. I’m still waiting for it to change.

Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.

Troll grade: C-.

WPM or KPM? The unofficial world record seems to be 293 WPM.