If your controller works in steam you can install RetroArch in steam and it should work there too.

I’ve had online friends I met in games who I’ve remained in contact with for many years well outside of the original game. Some of them I’ve met in real life as well. I’ve also run into many other ‘friend groups’ who hang out in their favorite chat app and jump around between games or other hobbies for whatever fits their mood. It seems common enough to me that it shouldn’t be that rare or difficult for anyone willing to put some effort and trust towards it.

Absolutely, just as you can wander into the wrong bar and end up in a fight.

Competitive games will definitely bring out the worst in some people though, but there’s plenty of co-operative and role-play games that can lead to good lasting friendships.

They certainly can be. Plenty of online games center around socializing. It might not be enough for those who need daily physical contact but it is far from an anti-social hobby.

Yeah I actually respect them for that since it means their employees never have to work on their day off even if something went wrong with the site.

Since I stopped using newegg for computer parts (and I really dislike amazon’s storefront for browsing) I started using B&H and have been pretty happy with their web design, prices and selection.

The time machine I invented already works. Unfortunately it only allows you to travel forward in time about 10mins. And it takes about 10mins to warm up but I’m sure with some funding I can improve on that!

Great response, which also helps to answer one of the first questions from non-tech users: which anti-virus do I download for Linux?

I had the exact same thought. I get the intent, it’s a “hello fellow kids, we understand you!” but the fact that there are so many people in that situation to make it relatable is already depressing enough without making it sound like it’s the normal everyone should just accept.

City of Lost Children (1995)
A carnival strongman teams up with a young orphan girl to rescue his little brother from a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams in the hope that it will stop him aging.

It’s completely nuts but the surreal visual style and editing makes it pretty fun to watch.

The problem with this is that they would have to be suspicious in the first place to ask for it. If they are already suspicious then the scam will likely fail anyway, they tend to only really work when the assumption of who they are exists and they get that by raising stress levels by claiming some kind of emergency.

I use Quassel, it’s been a few years since any major updates but it still works great. I like that it has a server+client model that functions like a bouncer so you can move between machines without reconnecting to networks. It also allows all the configuration from the client’s GUI so you don’t have to remember commands to change anything.

I think any software the government funds the creation and maintenance of should be open source, but not all software government workers use should have to be. Lots of niche applications out there that wouldn’t be worth the cost to rewrite or retrain a handful of users.

When a drug company in the 80s scaled up production they accidentally created seed crystals that spread around the entire Earth’s atmosphere that prevented other companies from manufacturing a generic drug without it attaching to the seeds and converting to the patented drug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph#Paroxetine_hydrochloride

But what about the theory of the large throwing stone that states those tasty radiated cockroaches are my dinner and not yours?

um, isn’t it easier to just:
sudo apt install yt-dlp
yt-dlp -U

I’ve read it twice and enjoyed it both times. It has some slow parts for sure, especially at the start, but it does setup the framework for how the characters view the outside world which I find really fascinating.

*Edit:
I think it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking of them as monks who only follow faith and prohibit secular technology but the whole point is that they are enclaves of philosophers and mathematicians. It’s like refusing to use a calculator in order to train your mind to better work with numbers. If you did that you wouldn’t be confused by finally using a calculator, its use would be simple and obvious.

yeah, back when I used nvidia I had to run their driver installer or nothing would work right, and of course any little system update would bork everything until I ran the installer again. Thankfully everything with AMD just works now.

Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it’s rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.

But what are the odds of having these issues? It’s a bit disingenuous to tell a large audience that this is what they can expect if the reality is the problems may only effect one in a thousand.