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I find it hard to believe a significant number of people have a phobia that strong. I don't mean any disrespect to you or anyone else with a phobia, I just don't get it. You obviously understand it's just an image, but you still feel so close to it that you can't handle it? I have a fairly strong fear of heights, and have felt slightly panicked in a game when falling before. But that just makes the game more immersive, in that kind of horror-movie exciting sort of fear. If the same difference could be drawn to those with phobias, I imagine such people would completely break down, and take days to recover, if they encountered their fear IRL. But in the case of spiders for instance, they're kind of unavoidable. I probably see one several times a week. How could you even function in society with such an extreme fear to something that you must be interacting with at least occasionally?

Your mother, last night.

So, I don't know much about this kind of thing, but if you're getting the GPG key from the same site as the iso, wouldn't it be redundant? If the site is compromised, then the key could be too, right? I get the whole distribute the key in advance thing, but that only really works if you get the key (or record of the previously published key) from a separate, more trustworthy source. Unless you're going to make your own excruciatingly detailed records of publishers and software you don't know you want yet, how do you get much more security from a file integrity / authenticity check?

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Factorio has a mod manager built in. It can browse, download, install mods all right there. It even syncs mods to save files and checks for updates. Factorio mods have better support than most games do. I really wish some other developers would put that kind of effort into mods. Just think of what, say, Minecraft could be if it had that.

It's easier than you think. You can just download an exe, point lutris/steam to it (ie, just paste the path into the gui), and run the game. I have yet to find a game that doesn't work. Troubleshooting is rare, and in my experience only involves changing proton versions. I have never had to mess with drivers, aside from initial installation when I installed the OS.

What do you mean no alternative to VS? There are many IDEs on Linux. What does VS do that nothing else can?

Well letters don't really have a single canonical shape. There are many acceptable ways of rendering each. While two letters might usually look the same, it is very possible that some shape could be acceptable for one but not the other. So, it makes sense to distinguish between them in binary representation. That allows the interpreting software to determine if it cares about the difference or not.

Also, the Unicode code tables do mention which characters look (nearly) identical, so it's definitely possible to make a program interpret something like a Greek question mark the same as a semicolon. I guess it's just that no one has bothered, since it's such a rare edge case.

I've seen shitposts with more compelling stories than some of those isekais.