As someone who has had neighbor’s children randomly walk into my house and demand things like food, water (I won’t say no to children, I’m not heartless), and use of my TV and internet. I’m sorry, but don’t let kids be pest is unironic in some areas. Some people haven’t socialized their kids properly and we were the ones who had to explain to these kids (4 to 6 year olds) that wandering without permission into other people’s houses was not only inappropriate but dangerous to them. We, the strangers, telling these kids that they should be wary of strangers. The parents just didn’t give a fuck and wouldn’t even talk to us, but they were apparently fine with their kids roaming into stranger’s homes. I’m glad we moved away.

Most tweaks on protondb are either copy pasting a few settings to a Steam dialog box, or picking a particular option in the compatibility list on the GUI. Mostly old games take a bit more effort, yet it won’t be any harder than what you used to do to make mods run on Windows. Really, the only reason anything Linux could be intimidating is because it is unfamiliar. As soon as you start seeing the parallels with tinkering and tweaking on windows, you’ll realize that it is actually easier, more intuitive, and more stable than on Windows.

You want to game and you want it to be easy. Just install Bazzite, ignore people suggesting Mint. Mint is the best traditional distro ever made, but it has major flaws and it gets difficult if you try to game in it. Containerized immutable OS are way better for novices and the average user. People want to use their computer, not manage a computer they never use. A lot of us Linux fanatics we tend to forget that fact.

You have plenty of technical knowledge to get it installed. And that’s about it for what is required.

Don’t dual boot Windows, it gets too hands on and too technical fast. Instead, have Windows on a entirely separate second drive. Boot to the desired drive accordingly. Linux plays nice and can work with windows perfectly, but windows actively hates linux and will fuck up any drive it shares with it. So it is best windows is absolutely oblivious as to the existence of Linux in the machine. For that you’ll need to disable secureboot and probably disk encryption as well. As I said, it’s a technical challenge. Not worth it in my personal opinion.

Be mindful about the games you play, often if it doesn’t run on Linux is not because of any technical limitation on Linux side. It’s because of the political will to hurt Linux. This is why virtually all indie games run fine on Linux, it’s AAA slop that is designed to stop working if it detects it’s running on Linux.

Language is natural to humans. It would be hard, but you’ll eventually get there if there’s no alternative. Think that babies learn how to speak without having any previous language of reference. It’s just a thing our brain does spontaneously. Watch or read Shogun, you’ll notice how multilingualism is actually more common than we think. And historically people have always spoken several languages. Depending on which point in time you’d get to ancient Egypt (we are talking about a really long period of time, over 3 thousand years), the high class would probably also speak Greek, Latin, or Arabic. Depending on diplomatic relations and pressures. Not to mention the lay people would also probably speak other languages alongside Egyptian, like Domari and Hebrew.

Another interesting thought, if you traveled to late ancient Egypt, learned to speak there, let’s say five years or so. Then traveled further back in time to early ancient Egypt, you probably won’t understand a single word again. If you traveled to the 800s England, you wouldn’t understand the English they would speak.

Cheap protectors suck, no surprise there. Go with a reputable brand and have a shop install it. I’ve never had any problem and they definitely work. The glass used on modern phones is strong but not infallible, it will eventually scuff and break. You’d be surprised by the amount of stuff you find in everyday life that’s harder than even the strongest gorilla glass. Even then, any high density material the glass is resistant to, will eventually wear it out with enough prolonged friction.

All you have to accept is that screen protectors and cases are like car tires, or shoes, you do have to change them eventually. The idea is that they take the wear and tear instead of the phone itself, and for that they are perfect. Just because your feet could take a hike up a mountain barefoot doesn’t mean it is not a good idea to wear shoes.

High quality protectors come with microfiber cloth cleaners to keep the phone free of dirt and oil, spray with alcohol or slightly soapy water. You should do it to your phone too, even if you don’t use a screen protector, something that is always in your hands and with you everywhere does get filthy and dirty. It’s just basic hygiene.

Classic, straight out of the fascists playbook. Everyone who supports the fash is grassroots movement, everyone who opposes fascism is a paid shill from the scapegoat du jour.

You can sprint now, so, there’s that.

There’s several of these things all over the world, they are as old as road themselves.

We call those intrusive thoughts. The answers are literally meaningless. There’s no punishment or failure state on stardew valley, it cannot hurt you. Full optimization is not something that exist in or has any impact on the game at all.

Bazzite uses boxbuddy for distro box automation. It’s literally two buttons on a gui, then the app is just another icon in your start menu. It even works well with autostart and desktop integration. It updates on its own. It has an extensive but easy to understand documentation. I’ve seen literal children do this without issue.

Advocate for more Linux support with VR vendors. Remember that most of the time, what halts Linux development is not technical impossibility, but lack of political will. Companies refusing to spend money on development of compatibility for their hardware or intentionally blocking open source efforts is what halts the ecosystem. It’s the same exact computer, if it works on Windows but not on Linux is because someone in a suit angrily said “no”.

The counter argument is that some games don’t run on Windows anymore either. All the software, all the time is the classic disingenuous argument that is always levied against Linux. It has to do something that not even windows does anymore. Then people ignore the fact that Linux sometimes offer greater compatibility with old games than windows itself.

That’s still a five year old stance. Just install bazzite and have a steam deck like experience on any PC without ever touching a terminal. It even does nvidia drivers out of the box for you. The curve is not steep at all. It’s still there, but it’s getting much easier very fast.

If you walk over the border, or use another form of transport (plane, bus or taxi), then return in a car. Yes, you’re importing at that point.

A friend learned English from an Italian teacher, she had an Italian accent when speaking English. She doesn’t speak a single word of Italian or ever studied Italian. Pronunciation has nothing magical to it, and accents are very flexible. I can speak in almost any accent I want (thanks to linguistic training), but I tend to naturally and unconsciously gravitate towards the accent of the person I’m talking with. It makes others uncomfortable sometimes (those who have learned many languages and thus notice it), but most people don’t notice and think they actually like me because I talk like them. On my own, the most natural would be Austin, Texas English pronunciation. But it’s because of my heavy consumption of YouTube and Twitch content from that area during my teenage years, I’ve never been in the US. In Spanish I have like three or four different accents depending on the topic and context, code-switching is very common.

It’s the kind of thing that goes unnoticed when you don’t learn any new language or only speak a single second language. If you never interact with anyone who speak differently than you, then you don’t notice that the way you speak is not universal and you probably have a “heavy accent” in front of others who speak your same language.

I watch quite a lot of series and enjoy some of them. TV has never been too good, and nowadays its the most obvious that write-as-you-go model has blatant flaws. Storytelling is difficult enough already, but it’s worse when you don’t know how many episodes you actually have to tell the story, and you have to argue with other writers to include your scenes and plot lines.

I constantly find myself enjoying miniseries the most. The ending makes the story. So, the second best shows are those where every season or series has a self-contained opening and ending arcs. Cliffhangers bore me, most hooks are lost on me. Usually when characters seem to meander and roam aimlessly is because the writers are lost as well. And plots of convenience (where magically something just happened by chance to create or resolve a new plotline, or deus ex machina) just completely bore me.

So, anyways, to answer the question. True Blood lost me completely midway second season. Awesome world, but the writers didn’t know how to write for shit.

This is probably gonna blow your mind. But most shoes are worn on feet. Crazy, uh?

I say this with all the kindness in my heart. If stardew valley estresses you out, then the problem is not the videogame. Your perfectionism and minmaxing POV might be what’s causing the anxiety and you would feel anxious and estressed in most other activities as well.

I’ve always heard it explained like this (which I wholeheartedly agree with). Imagine you’re hiking a trail in the forest, and you trip on a rock and fall. By chance, you land on turd of excrement, luckily it only smears part of your arm and elbow with shit. Would you be fine just taking a piece of toilet paper and scraping it off? Or, would you feel compelled to wash it off with water, perhaps also soap?

Why wouldn’t you just use paper, if you scrape hard enough it wouldn’t even smell and be just as clean, arguably?

If you would at least use water, why do you extend to your elbow a courtesy that you don’t extend to your anus?

The point is that there’s a lot of people who walk through life with a dirty asshole, but then try to act morally superior regarding personal hygiene, and I think that that’s not right.