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Given that I mostly play heavily-modded games, a run is usually "complete" when it is abandoned due to its inevitable TPS death.

Right? At this point I'm just sticking with WordPress because I can't be bothered to migrate a bunch of sites off of it. Every year for the past decade it's felt jankier. Tumblr's backend has to be a dumpster fire for this to seem like a good idea.

My criticism aside, WP still has the convenience factor of being the open source web platform that has a plugin for just about any need. Whether those plugins are gonna break for site or introduce interesting new vulnerabilities is a different discussion.

I think "legalese" might be close to what you're describing. It can still be ambiguous, but it seems to be our best attempt at avoiding that. Some forms of technical writing may also meet your definition.

I love this, but also found it hilarious - especially the towel as a helicopter blade trick and your description of it being "very undesirable for the fly." I'm picturing your partner or housemate sighing and being like, "there they go again, herding flies." I can definitely see it working though.

It's funny to see you comment here because I was literally coming to this thread to mention that I see you in seemingly every comment chain and thus consider you "Lemmy-famous."

Who wore it better: this black metal vocalist or Humpty Dumpty?

I used to wear pants that tight when I was a young man, but that's when I had the body of a stick insect. His continuing to rock that look well into his beer belly era takes some balls (which we can pretty clearly see). Kudos to him.

What we're begging for: A Linux client for Proton Drive

What we get: A fucking Bitcoin wallet

I mentioned this in my own top-level comment, but I just use different browsers for work and personal. Firefox for work, and my distro's fork for personal. That keeps those nicely separate.

I use them instead of virtual desktops - each with a specific hotkey, and some with customized pinned apps.

I have ...

General: Email, shopping, etc. Gaming Media Two Work activities - a primary, and a secondary for when I need to compartmentalize different ongoing tasks Other - for anything transitory that doesn't fit in the others.

I realize this could largely be done with virtual desktops, though I don't think you can have a different pinned app loadout for each?

The downside to setting things up this way is when I restart my computer, it seems to randomly decide which browser windows go in each activity. Also, with apps that I use across them (like Notion), I have to go hunting for which activity it opened in. To get around the issue of splitting Firefox across different profiles, I just use two browsers. Firefox for work, and Firedragon for personal stuff. They share the same external password manager, so it's pretty seamless.

Avoid hoarding? Let's just say I bring a real "gotta catch em all" energy to the trackers.

I've never gotten around to actually reading up on this, but I've always suspected it has to do with the frequency of gratification. In real life you could study for 8 hours and, while you'll learn a lot, you don't get that dopamine (or whatever) hit until you complete the test, succeed at the project, etc. Games, however, are constructed so that you get little rewards at regular intervals to keep you hooked, like levels, new gear, etc. Some, particularly a lot of mobile games, obviously prey on susceptible people with that loop, but even "regular" games can get pretty addictive with that sort of progression.

(I'm far from anti-gaming. It's my main hobby. This is just my guess at how the psychology behind it works.)

That Costco employee knew exactly what they were doing when they placed that sign there, and I commend them for it.