I burned SM64 to a cd the other day because I was testing the psx port (doesn’t work on real hardware yet). I use optical media all the time.

Who are you and where did you get this picture of my cat?

This is a fantastic approach.

I wanted to learn web-dev so I built a blog and a web hostable 5e character generator. Ended up learning authentication, HTTP stuff, database management, and learned CSS and HTML to handle the frontend (backend is Python).

They’re not production ready, there’s not even a proper server built in, just a basic wsgi dev server, but I’m proud of it and it taught me a ton!

Warum schlecht der Fahrradständer zuhause ist?

Disclaimer: Somewhat rambly wall of text ahead

My egg cracked first at 12 and I let it fester for 14 years until the choice was transition or die (pretty sure apathy strong enough that you’re not eating for days on end is probably lethal long term).

After a few years I managed to bury that I was trans, hid it from myself just well enough I honestly forgot that’s where the anguish was coming from. It manifested as impostor syndrome, and a mask a mile thick.

I stopped wanting children when I realized I couldn’t be a mother to them. Started smoking cigars, drinking bourbon, to put on this aire of pained masculinity, my reference for what sad men do. Fought with my ex-wife a lot, realized after the divorce I was really controlling to her, probably because I didn’t have any control over my own life.

Its been 4 years since I came out, 3 since I began my transition. Nowadays, when I feel bad about myself, its about something I did or someone I hurt in the past, rather than a self-loathing that comes from nowhere I understood. Hatching (but not yet coming out) 5 years ago, helped me realize where my body issues were coming from. I didn’t care that I had belly-fat, I cared that it was manly fat. I didn’t care that I had body hair, I cared that it was curly and thick on my chest. I didn’t care about my giant neckbones, I cared that they were so broad they made me look like a linebacker.

I overcorrected.

All Pink all the time! This doesn’t feel right either but at least I’m cute?

Goth Girl summer? Nah that’s not it either.

Turns out my model of femininity was my mother (who’d have thought😅) and I feel most at home in sweats and a cami, no makeup, with a ratsnest on top of my head.

I’m not often depressed anymore. I don’t often experience dysphoria anymore either. When I do its usually because I’m focusing on something some transphobe said early in my transition.

I’m lucky to be in a very trans friendly area, so its been nice for me to be able to care less. Passing culture is toxic as hell, but before I moved here I was constantly putting in bonkers effort to be cis-passing. Nowadays I don’t care, I just wanna be seen as a girl, I couldn’t give two shits if I get clocked as trans.

Edit: fixed year estimate because I’m bad at kwikmaffs

Lmde7, nvchad set up with some linters and autocompletion.

One of my coeds is in his late 60s. Go to school for the love of learning, and treat the piece of paper as a bonus

First it was for performance, OpenSuse back in like 2004, since then its just what I’m familiar with. I don’t feel like I need to fight the OS like I do on windows machines.

Sometimes I have to use windows in a VM or I need some Software that only works on 2000/XP (psxn00b sdk) and for that I have an old machine that I use.

Haus Labs Brand Black Face Paint.

I use it as eye liner and as lipstick, its already the only product I use. If they stop making it, I will stop wearing makeup because I’m allergic to most products I try.

Ach Scheiße, du bist korrect

Much of it isn’t real German, its English directly translated as a joke. You’ll often see Ichich’s mentioned for example.

Just an example:

I’m a programming student. In one of my classes we had a simple assignment. Write a simple script to calculate factorials. The purpose of this assignment was to teach recursion. Should be doable in 4-5 lines max, probably less. My coed decided to vibe code his assignment and ended up with a 55 line script. It worked, but it was literally %1100 of the length it needed to be with lots of dead functions and ‘None->None(None)’ style explicit typing where it just simply wasn’t needed.

The code was hilariously obviously AI code.

Edit: I had like 3/4 typos here

I like Tk for banging out a UI really quick.

I think they’re holding it near their patio door for better lighting

Documented on the Arch wiki for months now.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Starting_Plasma

Starting from Plasma 6.4, the Wayland session has matured enough to become the default and preferred one: the X11 session is only available separately with the plasma-x11-session package…

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME

It uses Wayland, and the available sessions are…

I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.

I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.

That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.

I like movies 😊

To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.

Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!

If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.

Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)

I don’t think its open source, but ive had no issues with Resilio Sync in the past. Works on all major platforms.

Clickbait title: They’re not urging folks not to Update, they’re urging folks to read the known issues and workarounds page because gnome and plasma are both killing X11 support.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2025-12-08-25-1-anh-linh-preview/183479

Weirdly, my Arch System has a bog-standard absolutely uncustomized kde plasma install.

Its the Debian system which has been customized to hell and back with i3 and lxqt. I’d like to switch to sway but my gpu does NOT like wayland.