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I still bring Trine up everytime the topic of platformers come up.

I can’t stand platformers. I don’t think I’ve played any of them for more than half an hour before moving on. Yes, that includes Mario, since it’s first incarnation (sigh, I’m old).

Yet Trine hooked me in the first five minutes. The puzzles and mechanics were so much fun. The art style was also beautiful and vibrant. It is the only game in the genre that I have ever finished.

I reckon when I retire one day, I might get the whole series, and finally play them all.

Sigh… I get my wholegrain pre-packaged. I guess I’ll die.

My understanding of the joke is less about tables, more about pontification; I.e. “it is so because we say it is”.

To start Firefox without any plugins loaded, go from

Menu > Help > Troubleshoot Mode...

On mine it’s only available from the Izzy repo, not the main fdroid one.

Edit: Here’s the source code. Try with either Izzy or Obtainium to install.

You know what’s funny, the two clients that don’t support your dropdown/spoiler for anti-commercial licences were commercial closed-source Lemmy clients.

I say sod them and go back to your dropdown.

I can’t stand Rossman’s videos; but I respect the hell out of his ideas, principles, and efforts to better the slices of technological life that he cares about.

Me in the late 90s: CSS is not a language!

Today: Holy crap, it’s now Turing-complete.

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“It’s a deck of playing cards. How much more fun can it be, compared to the 50+ other solitaire games? And why would I want to play poker by myself?”

So I got a bit of money leftover after bills, and decided to get it anyway cause I haven’t played anything fun this year. Went in blind without reading or watching any reviews.

Turns out it’s NOT just your standard deck of playing cards. You can do all sorts of crazy things to your deck. Like playing illegal hands such as five-of-a-kind, or a flush house. It’s a lot of fun.

Obligatory link to the Rustonomicon.

Should you wish a long and happy career of writing Rust programs, you should turn back now and forget you ever saw this book.

Thus just feels like a lazy LLM-generated article.

Here are some secrets of Linux that many people may not be aware of. *Proceeds to list things that Linux is famous for*

Speaking of stores, there’s also Obtainium if you like living on the edge. It can pull directly from GitHub releases, which may or may not be desirable for different people.

Another obvious one is Firefox or its siblings Mull & Fennec, with their add-on support for a better browsing experience.

There’s also system-wide ad/tracker blocking solutions. I don’t actually have a recommendation on this as most of them share each other’s blocklist anyway.

all work in floats

We even have float16 / float8 now for low-accuracy hi-throughput work.

Omg how have I not heard about this. I’m blaming you for my lack of social life in the next couple weeks. Not that I have one to begin with.

My parents still double click everything on their mobile…

But then people will see how many bugs your code actually has, and how you actually can’t be bothered fixing any of them!

I hate how soy has been used by bigots as an insult. Soy products are bloody delicious!

Nothing much. What’s up with you?

I don’t know where you are, but painter’s tape (or masking tape) comes in all sorts of colours. Including white.