This webcomic is top notch…but man, this has to be one of the best ones ever.

Dude, things get better. Find support.

There are going to be a lot of good machines that should hit eBay for cheap as companies dump their old stock. Grab home servers, media machines, secondary devices, emulation rigs, etc as the opportunity presents itself.

Haven’t gotten deep enough into it for the soundtrack to stand out particularly yet…but looking forward to it.

Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

Roguelites are my jam. The only thing that pulled me away from STS was Balatro. Now Into The Breach on my phone has pulled me away from Balatro.

Way too many great games out there. Way too little time for them.

Please see my other post related to this.

Started Metroid Fusion for GBA. So far so good.

Gran Turismo 4 continues. That holds up remarkably well with upscaling.

Still playing through Hollow Knight… Neglecting Silksong for this.

These handhelds will die down when they don’t sell well. The low end retro gaming handhelds are in an amazing place right now. The high end PC handhelds will be great to buy on the secondhand market in a few years as they come onto eBay. They’re great for patient gamers. PC gamers are obsessed with running AAA games bat top settings and they’re going to have a rude awakening after wasting their money on these devices. The patient gamers are going to capitalise on this.

That soundtrack still lives in my music library and gets played regularly. Same with the game itself.

Binding of Isaac.

Played it as I was coming into adult life. This was my first roguelite. It sounds dumb…but it really stuck with me as a life lesson:

You can try your best and make sacrifices, and still end up unlucky with poor rewards. You get the opportunities you get, but even in this seeming randomness, you make choices to make the most of them. Training and skill makes up for some of the poor opportunities. Life is a roguelite.

Now I’ve got BoI on my Retroid Pocket 5 now. Still playing it.

Do you realise that cats consider themselves to be god? That’s their religion. Cats are the diety.

None of that logic matters man. Regulators don’t understand this shit. Do you think the UK’s online age restrictions make anyone safer? It’s all bullshit for their own purposes.

Jessica Jones season 1 was good in this regard. A problem and a villain that can’t easily be handled by just throwing punches.

The Watchmen is another good one that has less focus on just punching bad guys.

Completely agree that it is problematic that when your basic story is about super strong individuals, then the only story you will write is about problems that can be solved with violence. No one wants to watch a movie of the Hulk doing shifts to rotate a turbine to generate clean electricity.

Did you see how difficult it was for “Stop Killing Games” to get momentum and be considered by regulators? And that was arguing for products you’ve already paid for.

Google will argue “security concerns” and point at Apple’s practices and easily get a free pass from regulators.

There needs to be an alternative to Android and Apple. Money may be better spent on funding non-Pixel hardware that can use Graphene.

Seems like the artist has recently seen The Ugly Stepsister movie.

I know. That’s why I’m saying it’s worth trying…for the improved UI.

Which distro should I use?

Them’s fightin words round here. Fuck [Distro 1] and its fanboys. [Distro 2] is clearly superior.

For real though:

Things for you to decide:

Which desktop environment do you want (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, cosmic, etc)

Do you want it to be super up to date all the time (quick updates, but may break something)? Or are you OK with slower updates for a more stable system?

Difficulty: How hard do you want things to be? Do you want things to be set up out-of-the-box and lots of solutions online? Or are you willing to dive deep, do stuff yourself and figure stuff out from wikis?

I wanted KDE (objectively the best desktop environment obviously) and started with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and loved it. Highly recommended. I didn’t know about TuxedoOS at the time and that seems like a good place to start too. Now I know more and am on CachyOS and am super happy with it.

Try Kwrite. I’ve liked it a lot more than Kate.

This is the correct answer. Very beginner friendly. Very capable of growing on from this. Great way to onboard beginners.

I started with a 2 bay Intel CPU Synology. Used it for a couple of years.used it to learn about Docker. When I started using too many Docker apps and Synology couldn’t keep up, then I got a mini PC for compute and kept the Synology as just a plain NAS.

People recommending manual options for any “make your own” solution is throwing someone way into the deep end. OP can do that if that’s what he’s up for. But my first recommendation to anyone would be to pick up a secondhand Synology and bookmark:

https://mariushosting.com/