I’ll have to give that one a try!

With a 2025 release, is may not even come out for Switch, it may release on Switch 2/successor.

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.

Game strategy advice for a 30+ year old game? I love this so much, you guys are awesome.

omg YES. Nothing I have found since then has quite scratched the same itch of flying around with a friend on some random dude’s server. So much fun!

Puppy was going to me my suggestion too, before I read that you’d already used it. Maybe try some of the other versions? If you used a Debian- or Ubuntu-based Puppy, you could try a Slack-based one, or vice-versa. Puppy’s organization is a little confusing, in my opinion, but it does give a user some options. You also might try some of the “puplets” that aren’t official Puppy distros but are part of the Puppy family.

https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html

I had one of these plans for over a decade. It was fun while it lasted—I won’t be staying with the company after this.

Native support. 👍 I haven’t played it yet, but at this price I’ll give it a try.

Good point. As I understand it, the Cybertruck’s stock tires are not, in fact, a good tire choice.

https://jalopnik.com/cybertrucks-keep-getting-stuck-in-snow-1851148697

Who else watched this and thought of the jailbreak scene at the beginning of The Goonies?

https://youtu.be/Fh2AvpJTIrA?si=98vVWYEbQjx9gqzl&t=227

I’m fine with this, particularly since you can just tick the box and still access them. Linux Mint is such a good gateway for new Linux users, it makes sense to hide unverified flatpaks until they understand the risks. Plenty of people (perhaps myself included) won’t ever need to worry about unverified flatpacks if their needs are simple and they don’t add much beyond the standard software.

It is fairly short, but at $25USD, it was priced reasonably enough that I didn’t feel cheated. And frankly, I don’t have time for very long games, I really can only manage short games, so it works out well for me.

Little Kitty Big City, which is some great, silly fun.

tab grouping

Sure, okay.

vertical tabs

To each their own.

profile management

Whatever, it’s fine.

and local AI features

HOLLUP

Both are risking the lives and safety of the non-consenting public as they beta test 2-ton vehicles on public streets. Damn them both.

2014 phones also fit in my hand. I miss that size, you can’t even find them now.

I appreciate when ads say “Free to Play” up front so I know not to play it. (There may be a few exceptions here and there, but as a general rule, that has served me pretty well.)

I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.

. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)

I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.

Yep. sigh I guess I’ll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.

The comment on that website is chef’s kiss:

“Instead of a Dark Lord you shall have a Queen!”