I spent most of my 20s alone, and met the woman I married at age 33. It’s never too late.

“Gifted” education in the US means they burn us out with weird “critical thinking” extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

I transferred schools in the middle of 10th grade, and the new Algebra class I landed in was several chapters ahead. I never caught up, but the teacher passed anyone who turned in literally anything for homework so I did that.

Now in my 30’s I’m getting into indie game design, and I need that gap filled so I can write the code I need. So I went to the local thrift shop and picked up a couple old textbooks (since it’s safe to assume that nothing groundbreaking has happened in the field of basic algebra in the past twenty years) for fifty cents and I’ve been working my way through them. I don’t understand everything that’s happening, but I’m pushing ahead with the faith that somewhere along the line things will “click”.

and here i’d been blissfully unaware of it for days now. damn you all.

(wear earplugs to concerts kids, especially if you’re playing)

hint for the identity police: it has to do with generations of historical discrimination and otherness. sorry our culture isn’t yours.

i find that people who cry about this-or-that is destroying humor or whatever, are pretty much universally bad at being funny. maybe up your game and stop blaming punctuation.

the funniest thing to me is that “the red pill” is supposed to represent estrogen

right? my first thought was pro-palestine, then i remembered my local closet trumper is obsessed with Star Wars and views himself as part of the Rebellion/Resistance and the other interpretation became clear. did we learn nothing from the obama-era liberal harry potter fetish?

yes.

For the curious, the image is from the movie Automata starring Antonio Banderas, which is more or less an extrapolation of I, Robot’s premises in a PK Dick style post-apocalyptic setting. Worth watching IMO. wait nvm i looked again and it’s K2SO lol im high

oh look another troll dragging geopolitical culture war bullshit into everything

not at all, thank you!

fuck it, where do i start? if spending a little bit of my time writing a css sheet results in Google losing market share i’m 1000% down.

look im as stoked as anyone else but that information should really be in a section explaining it in detail further down the page, for Tyson, for Simpson, and even for Trump. Say who he is and what he did that’s notable, not what the government did about it. it should say “fraudster” if anything, because that’s who he is. i don’t think labeling people vaguely as “felons” helps anything, and mostly serves to dehumanize people who have caught charges whether it was justified or not. that’s just my two cents.

or, as i like to call it, gnu plus linux

that’s not special

basically everything beyond launching itunes/safari/whatever is tucked away in weird non-obvious places. i literally had to have someone show me how to get the list of all apps (it’s called something absolutely baffling that i’ve since forgotten) after clicking on and combing through things for like half an hour. the longest it’s taken me to suss out the same, to get a list of applications, on literally any other OS has been seconds, maybe a minute at longest.

so yeah, my example is the single most basic thing a user should be able to do in order to use the computer, is so unintuitive on mac that a grown ass adult who is a chronic distro-hopper needed help figuring it out. and god forbid you want to change a setting beyond the wifi, screen brightness, and audio volume.

versatile

sure. idk about “the most”, i haven’t seen it do anything that other DMs can’t do with some tinkering. hell just installing cairo-dock yields a very similar ui experience imo.

usable

i can’t agree, my experience is things not staying where i put them, random crashes, layout and themes not “sticking” between logins, and occasionally the entire session crashing - all this from a fresh install on an untinkered-with system, and it’s been a consistent experience through the years. maybe you’re luckier than i am?

best applications

i never met an application i wanted to run that i couldn’t because i had the wrong DE. what are you talking about?

integrated intel graphics, actually. some people are poor you know. though back in the day when i had a 390 it failed to impress then as well. what a weird association to make.

nice assumption. i’m a brokeass who typically runs hand-me-down hardware, stable all day.

also that copyright license is hilarious, you know it’s the neckbeard equivalent of posting “i do not consent to my data being collected” as your fb status right? or are you going to take a giant company to court for copying your nerd insult from lemmy?