Same with music. And video games. And writing books (self-publish to Amazon for pay-per-read). Content creation technology/platforms are very readily available now.

There’s more good stuff to find than ever. It’s just that it’s hard to find. There’s too much volume of content out there to sift through, and mainstream tastes have changed so it isn’t as easy to find since the stuff that’s popular really isn’t your taste. You likely liked the stuff that’s was popular back then. Look harder. Find the niche like-minded communities. Look for content related to what you already like. There are tons of new good movies, games, music, etc out now and you just need to find it. Even for news you can find the sources you like and filter out toxicity.

Toilet water is literally right there. If it was good enough for Steve Jobs, then it’s good enough for you.

“Make people study”? You’re mistaken. No one is making anyone study.

Charge people to study? You bet your ass they’ll take as many people as are willing to pay their overpriced fees. Finding a job after? Getting decent pay? That’s a you problem as far as they’re concerned.

Bring a whole laptop to play games? Get a Steam Deck! Or if you want a smaller form.factor then get a Retroid Pocket 6.

Other than this:

1. Learn something (language, art, etc)
2. Read something
3. Listen to podcasts
4. If it’s a private office then do a Costanza and sleep under your desk
5. Watch TV shows or movies
6. Take up knitting or crochet

I’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.

I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.

When I update I use this:

sudo apt update && \ sudo apt upgrade -y && \ sudo apt full-upgrade -y && \ flatpak update -y 2>/dev/null; \ sudo apt autoremove -y && \ sudo apt autoclean && \ sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=7d

Twin stick shooters/bullet hell games are different though.

And I found enter the Gungeon before Nuclear Throne, and somehow was always drawn back to Gungeon. Blazing beaks was fun though.

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Any suggestions? I love brotato, but have struggled to find others I like.

Ones I haven’t liked: Soul stone survivors, death must die, nordic ashes.

if things continue more and more towards enshitification, I do care, I hope it doesn’t happen

Inevitable I’m afraid and quite far progressed in many industries. The sad part is that it doesnt even matter if we refuse their product. There are more than enough people willing to keep paying them billions.

If that happens: Don’t watch shit and certainly don’t pay for shit.

Even if nothing good is made for years, I guarantee there are millions of hours of undiscovered movie and series content for you to find in older releases. These companies are going to consolidate more and more, and will churn out sequels, spin offs, low effort movies, AI trash and easy cash-grabs. We need to not watch that shit and let these companies die. Pick the indie movies. Pick better quality older stuff. Wait for however long it takes for the industry to get over its unacceptable enshitification.

Games have the same problem. It is your responsibility to not pay for this micro transaction hell.

A couple of years ago I spent a while looking to try every rollerball fountain pen I could find. Here are my suggestions:

Schneider Ray rollerball pen

This is easily the best. Smooth. Writes great. Starts writing immediately. Never leaks. This is easily my most used.

Downside: I like ultrafine line width, this is kinda medium line width

Schneider Ceod Rollerball Pen

Similar to the above, but slightly thicker line width (if you prefer that).

Kakimori Rollerball Pen

This is a premium and smooth pen with ultra-fine line width, but that comes with feeling very scratchy on paper. This is the best I could find for ultra fine line width.

No-name ultra cheap Ali Express pens

These are dirt cheap from AliExpress and come in fine and ultra-fine line width. They work well enough. Would probably recommend sticking with these if you want fine line width. Probably not worth spending on the premium option above.

Herbin Rollerball

I wish I had small enough hands to use this. Really good pen. Looks premium. Very pocketable. The small size limits it to small size ink cartridges and makes it difficult to use with big hands. You can put the cap on the back to make it a comfortable size, but that the makes it back-heavy.

I’ve used these pens for over a year. They’re still working fine. The only problem has been that if I don’t use the pen the ink dries up and it stops working. That only pen that gave me trouble with leaks was the Kakimori pen, and that was only because of temperature changes (leaving it in the car, then taking it indoors to a warm environment…this leaking went away when I left the pen in an office drawer).

Kramer? Dat you?

Here’s everything you need to know about being grown up: Nobody cares, and you’re on your own.

If you’re a kid and eat a trash diet, skip school, don’t take your medicines… someone will care. As an adult you could literally go outside in your underwear in the rain right now and eat mud and no one will stop you. As long as you’re not hurting other people or breaking their things, no one cares. As an adult no one cares if you eat cake for 3 meals a day, spend all your money on Funkopops and refuse to ever shower or get a job…and as much as kids might think this is a good thing, it actually really sucks.

It’s all meaningless anyway, so my purpose is to appreciate the joy of what is in front of me and enjoy my existence while it lasts.

Depends on the definition of cheating. Here are a couple of ways in which I “cheat”:

I didn’t have the skill to progress beyond 4BC in Dead Cells, so I downloaded someone else’s save file with all items unlocked.

If I hit a wall in Silksong to the point that it starts to put me off the game, then I look up a walkthrough to see where the nearest undiscovered bench is or where to fine the thing I’m looking for.

For any game if I end too frustrated by a boss, I’ll watch a YouTube video to learn the attack patterns and avoid repeatedly dying to learn them. This is especially true for roguelites where I may have to cross 3 levels to get to a possible chance at a boss, and then get killed.

In FTL I used to copy out the save files to allow me to save scum if I died. The game is a roguelite and doesn’t allow loading saves in case of mistakes of death…so this is a workaround to save scum.

one of two things will happen

So both outcomes are a win in this solution.

This is likely not going to be a welcome comment on Lemmy, but here goes anyway: I would not have been able to stick with Linux without AI and I would recommend you use that.

It’s really difficult going through tech support steps with people online (all commenters are looking for more information and would have to guide you through multiple steps). AI has the patience to put up with absolute beginner questions.

Now it’s important to know how to use AI and not think it knows correct answers to your short questions. Claude had worked best in my experience. Primarily you should use it in this way: feed it a detailed description of your problem. Give it all the context of what hardware and software you have and exactly what you’re trying to do and what’s not working. Then it will give you an answer with some idea of where the problem might be. Then you should go and do an internet search of that identified problem to find a solution (not just take in the solutions AI gives you, although you could try initial simple solutions, but you may break things if you just go pasting commands into console without understanding). This is what AI is most useful for, pointing you in the direction of the cause problems… Not being a know all oracle. Paste in a detailed log output and it will interpret and tell you where the problem is, then you must go looking for solutions from a reputable source.

There’s a lot that sucks about AI, but I wouldn’t have been able to adopt Linux or set up my self hosted services on my home server without it; and I’m grateful for that.

Hard to explain that tab I’ve had open for 8 months for something I’ve been meaning to read.

Fantastic episode