It must have been traumatic for that Arch user to discover such rebellion in their child. /s

On a more serious note, if my kids find this post: I hope you know we can talk about closed source software if you’re curious about it - and about maintaining a proper virtual infrastructure to protect the rest of the network from it.

Programming with AI help is like having the expert chef at my shoulder, giving me tips, but he’s high as hell on three different mild altering drugs.

Then he’s like “That cake needs some lemon juice. Trust me.”

For being a sick burn, that was ice cold. I love it.

Yeah, this can be a generational cultural difference.

I mourned the death of my grandfather three separate times when my mother texted me “please call”. Each time when I called back I learned something different:

1. We had to change our lunch plans.
2. There was an alarming local news article about driving conditions.
3. My grandfather had died.

I’m a big fan of paying the people who make things for me.

But digital piracy is the only thing keeping archive copies of obscure media around today. Even libraries aren’t keeping up. Plenty of media creators have revived their thing that found an audience after decades forgotten - through piracy, and only successfully revived it thanks to archivist pirates, since they had thrown that thing away.

It’s not black and white.

Patronage funding, early access, streamlined delivery, and white glove support are the funding models that are working for creatives today.

I found Obsidian good, and Markor the best, on Android.

“Ronald Reagan, the actor?!”

I had curated perfect-to-me PS1 and PS2 game collections, and had the later, smaller versions of both systems. Both whole collections fit in a bread box, but I gave both away to save space. I cannot believe how much I regret that.