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Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.

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There was a decent selection of games on Linux ten years ago. Just because your favourite games didn’t run didn’t make it a nonviable games platform. Xbox doesn’t run all games either, but it’s still viable.

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Agreed! Way better. I just hate how ‘viable’ is such a moving target. You can always find SOMETHING to dismiss it with. Linux is ‘unviable’ because of some random game that doesn’t work or because of some new feature in the latest whizbang. If that is viable we’ll never be there.

Viable is when it meets one’s needs sufficiently, not when it can do some impossible list of tasks perfectly. Viable isn’t perfect, and I hate it when people pretend it is.

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There was a good selection back then too is what I’m saying. Minecraft. Literally every web based game. It was a fine gaming platform, there was more than enough to keep you busy, if you weren’t picky.

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oh man. I played SO much KSP. I think my lifelong love of indie games partly stems from being a Linux user: I tried things I wouldn’t otherwise have tried. Factorio, as well, was a Linux game right out of the box. SNES and NES emulators.

Sure, a lot of the latest and greatest corporate shiny didn’t work (or not without caveats) but there were tons of perfectly good games.

What is ‘viability’? Like, if viability is this Holy Grail state where everything works perfectly, we’re setting ourselves up for failure.

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I guess ‘viable’ means different things? Is this an American usage where something isn’t viable unless it can do literally all the things?

Xbox isn’t a viable platform because you can’t play world of Warcraft!

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I played a lot of WoW back then, it ran fine. Speaking personally. I guess if you want to gatekeep gamer hard enough you could call Linux nonviable back then but I always thought it was dumb. A ball and a deck of cards are viable gaming platforms. :p

I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car (lemmy.world)

In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn’t feel like it belongs to us. Should we finally buy an old school car ? so as not to be affected by this subscription models or is there a way to crack the software installed in...

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I don’t even have a licence. I’d take it. Those gave pretty okay resale value. ^_-

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Raw egg cracked in and beaten to temper and cook in piping hot rice. A little soy sauce. Maybe some sesame seeds.

Tamago kake gohan.

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Nah. A little butter and brown sugar and cinnamon, it’s basically rice pudding.

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Huh?

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I was unaware! I will try it earliest opportunity.

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Theres a lot of great dutch food! I will defend pannenkoek, stampot, oliebollen, Gouda, spekkoek, krokets, poffertjes, stroopwafel… hell, I love pickled herring.

Dutch food is very underrated!

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Some people confuse mild and delicate flavours with bland, too. Young Gouda isn’t particularly strong but it’s good and still distinct.

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Really threw yourself into the deep end there, nice. Hashtags team debian.

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“I’m having trouble with this game on Linux”

“Just install Windows, nerd. Stupid zealots.”

Goes the other way too. :p

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That might do a number on /dev.

Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I’m tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative...

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I block those communities because low effort images spam up the feed super fast.

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Sounds like a Bunny Suicide

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Among the other suggestions people have made in this thread, I’d like to add that just covering something and allowing the food to steam-heat makes a big difference. For instance I will usually poke a well in the middle of leftovers, put a tiny bit of water in (especially with rice, which dries out) and cover it with a plate. The water boils and heats it much better.

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Of course not, I’m not saying anyone’s lazy. I would encourage people to learn how to do it, though! It’s one of those things that is surprisingly easy and can save you some cash and fridge space.

You’re not always going to be cooking a million other things. Sometimes you’re just pulling cheesecake out of the freezer, and at that point a quick whipped cream batch is nbd.

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Sure, but it’s only a bowl and a whisk. I just rinse them, too.

I guess everyone has things they find super easy and this is one of mine.

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I never understood premade whipped cream. It takes two minutes to make. Cream, bowl, a little liqueur, tiny bit of salt, then go to town. Use a mixer if you need one, a hand beater isn’t expensive.

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I was counting that. Whiping cream is super fast once you know how, cleanup is easy. And buying heavy cream is something I would usually do anyway. Buying the prewhipped stuff takes no less effort than buying a carton.

It would definitely depend on your comfort level.

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This happened during our visit to Victoria (BC). There’s a cat marked on Google Maps near the Transcanada Mile Zero marker. Wasn’t there, unfortunately.

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Im curious what non ethical monogamy looks like.

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