Its all just to play games.

Ditto - that W3.11 install is just because of the Windows Entertainment Pack, I love a few of the games in it (like Pipe Dream). I don’t even know if it’s able to connect to the internet!

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

I started with a Knoppix-based distro, called Kurumin. KDE 3 was the rage back then!

On your main point: the shell might be hard in the beginning, but for most things that you need to use the shell with, people on the internet already had the same issue and shared how to do it. Unless you’re actively trying to make something different, like I did with my audio switching script.

And even the sort of situation that you need to use the shell for decreased by a lot from back then to now.

Besides what other users said: if you feel comfortable with SteamOS you might want to give EndeavourOS and Manjaro a check - all three distros are based on Arch Linux, and while Arch is geared towards experienced users the later two try to “sell” it towards a wider audience.

In this context it is - it means that the user saw how Reddit used to be, and is likely informed enough to have a good guess on what’s going on.

(Some accounts there are 12, 13, even 15yo.)

It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven “engagement”-fueled social platforms.

Yup. And it’s a bad trade in its case - because even if it leads to more engagement, it makes it too similar to considerably larger platforms, so there’s no point staying in Reddit instead of, say, Facebook.

I think that Reddit blocked LW from automatically retrieving the info.

Just new Redditors speculating with anecdotes

That’s inaccurate given that 2/3 of the OPs and a lot of the commenters have really old (8yo+) accounts.

You’re right - I copied the title of the post without noticing that they flipped it. (I can’t find the original any more.)

The link from .ml opens fine for me.

Anime! The winter summer season just ended, and alongside it a few series that I was following:

• Nier: Automata 1.1 - surprisingly good for something based on a game.
• QA in Another World - it feels unfinished because it is. The manga goes further. I enjoyed the overall cheekiness, specially in comparison with Log Horizon (another good game isekai, but a bit too serious).
• Dungeon no Naka no Hito - I picked this series on a whim. It’s… okay I guess?
• TenSura s3 - hey, s4 was already announced! It was good, but s1 was better.
• Failure Frame skill - another series that feels unfinished because the manga goes on. I hope that it gets a sequel.
• No Longer Allowed in Another World - ditto. Except that this one NEEDS more Calmotin pills to get a sequel.
• Shinmai Ossan Boukensha - eh. It was crap but I still watched it.
• Ookami to Koushinryou: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf - it’s a remake/update of a great series, so I already knew the story. It was still 100% worth watching it.

I also picked Mayonaka Punch to binge watch. I skipped this series because “meh, it talks about youtubers”, but I was bored and I wanted to watch something and the above ended and… wait, it’s actually fun? Main character is a piece of shit, but she’s a rather entertaining one!

A good definition of witch hunting would be “to publicly label one or more individuals as belonging to an undesired group, with little to no regard to accuracy”. It fits really well what the article claims those users to be doing.

Repeated the test now (Friday, 18:30); same lang settings as above. Couldn’t find a single post in Portuguese after rolling across ~30 of them.

x.com and twitter.com are still inaccessible here.

Yup! Frankly it isn’t a really great visual novel, but the soundtrack is fire.

[Replying to myself to avoid editing the above.] I typically don’t give a damn to downvotes but I’m wondering why they popped up in this case. So, just to be clear:

OP is asking specifically about single women and my answer talks about it, focusing on the fact that child raising is a bit too much for a single person. I am not talking about lesbian couples because they fall outside the scope of the question, my views on the later in this regard are the same as heterosexual couples.

(If the issue that people saw with my comment is something else, say it because I don’t have a crystal ball.)

Every time that people talk about Chrono Cross’s soundtrack (it’s great by the way, I agree with you), this reminds me a little SNES game called Radical Dreamers. The soundtrack - largely shared with Chrono Cross - is perhaps its biggest selling point.

This reminds me of that “all mushrooms are edible, at least once” thing.

Well, even if you’re forced to do the right thing, it’s still the right thing. (Thanks for the context!)

My take varies by case, but I don’t think that children should be raised by a single person. Otherwise it could turn really nasty, like the child being alone most of the time, unsupported by any able-bodied adult (as their mum goes to work), effectively becoming the housemate for their breadwinning parent.

The situation is different however if the single woman is well supported by her family, living with them, and at least one of them is able to take responsibility for either bringing money in or taking care of the child as the mum is gone.

The words “update” and “agreement”, when found in the same sentence, usually prompt me to roll my eyes and say “oh look corporation found another way to stab customers”.

This is not the case - what they’re doing is sensible and fair. I don’t even know how forced arbitration is even legal for some countries, it’s basically “we expect you to give up your legal rights”.

What you’re proposing is effectively the same as "they should publish inaccurate guidelines that do not actually represent their informed views on the matter, misleading everybody, to pretend that they can prevent the stupid from being stupid." It defeats the very reason why guidelines exist - to guide you towards the optimal approach in a given situation.

And sometimes the optimal approach is not a bigger min length. Convenience and possible vectors of attack play a huge role; if

• due to some input specificity, typing out the password is cumbersome, and
• there’s no reasonable way to set up a password manager in that device, and
• your blocklist of compromised passwords is fairly solid, and
• you’re reasonably sure that offline attacks won’t work against you, then

min 8 chars is probably better. Even if that shitty manager, too dumb to understand that he shouldn’t contradict the “SHOULD [NOT]” points without a good reason to do so, screws it up. (He’s likely also violating the “SHALL [NOT]” points, since he used the printed copy of the guidelines as toilet paper.)