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[–] acow 1 points 11 months ago

We tried it once, but it didn’t grab my son’s interest at the outset. I’m going to have us try again as I’ve heard nothing but praise for it.

[–] acow 5 points 11 months ago

I've had the typical disasters with partition tables and boot loader mixups, but the one I keep coming back to is updating my Nvidia drivers too eagerly. Whether something gets messed up with an external monitor, or the laptop starts resisting switching away from the integrated GPU, or an electron app I use regularly that makes heavy use of 3D acceleration breaks, or I just need to bump the driver version in a reproducible system state record... it's just bad news.

[–] acow 1 points 11 months ago

Programming, writing, notes, email… and basically a whole lot of what I use computers for is done with emacs.

[–] acow 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My son and I are like 95% done the end-game content in the Super Mario RPG remake, only Culex 3D remains! It’s been a total blast. My biggest struggle is finding more games like this.

We’ve loved all the Paper Mario games we’ve been able to play (original, Super, TYD, and Origami King…. unless I’m forgetting one), but trying out miscellaneous JRPGs hasn’t had any success with him yet. He’s too young for a lot of games, but seeing things from that pre-tween point of view I also feel like we all could do with more games that aren’t fueled by adolescent angst or grim brooding. Bright, fun adventure on a foundation of silliness paired with great music is such a good recipe.

[–] acow 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I adore the Outer Wilds vibe, but had the same experience and it still doesn’t sit well with me! Years later and the game still comes to mind, but the periodic resets were so unpleasant for me that I didn’t see it all the way through. Maybe this will be the year….

[–] acow 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t think you’re missing anything. I didn’t like the first episode as I found the humor somewhat jarring, and didn’t like Mariner. I kept at it as a show I watch while exercising, though, and it grew on me. While Mariner still annoys me at times, there’s a warmth and enthusiasm in LD that is quite infectious. I think they do a great job at teasing Trek while still loving it, and I am there for it.

[–] acow 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The stress of those moments left a weird impression. I’m very against splitting the party now when entering checkout territory.

[–] acow 11 points 1 year ago

“Are you getting it? These are three separate browsers.” - Anonymous

[–] acow 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve used powerline-go for a long time now. The modules I use are, modules = ["cwd" "ssh" "dotenv" "nix-shell" "gitlite" "exit"]; (from my home-manager config). It tells me everything I need, and looks pretty, too. Maybe I should mix it up for some variety, but I do like the info it provides.

[–] acow 1 points 1 year ago

NixOS wherever possible.

I was drawn to Nix because it addressed panic points I'd long had with system administration:

  • Ad hoc notes listing interactive commands needed to get a system up and running
  • Underspecified versions of software making reproducibility impossible
  • Implicit environment dependencies of well-intentioned bash scripts
  • etc

Then I had the experience that contributing to nixpkgs was surprisingly easy despite me never having contributed to another large distribution before, and I was sold.

[–] acow 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like the looks of sqlite-query, and hope it makes it to melpa soon. Being able to so easily spin off CSV results from sqlite queries will come in handy.

[–] acow 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Curious about how sniem compares to other approaches to modal editing. I've been happy with god-mode for years, but exploring variations to modal editing is always a good thing in my book if it can encourage others to give it a try.

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