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Go to anyone who mainly game either on consoles or a non-hand-built computer this. They won't do it, because it requires they spend a couple dozen hours researching not only parts but also distros, which is something they know they already don't care about. I think you might be underestimating the expertise you have in this subject by having it as a hobby if you think that's easy.

yet another proprietary box like a console that affects repairability and how much of it you actually “own” it just because it has linux on it

Even if I assume the steam hardware is as proprietary as any other random piece of hardware (don't think that's true), the reality is that I easily trust Valve 2-10x more in this regard than a Sony / Nintendo / whatever prebuilt to actually deliver a product that doesn't ship my data off to an advertiser and let's me replace the ssd without hardlocking itself. The Steam Deck has already done a better on this.

Limits can resolve to infinity. The coastline paradox is just the observation that the (semi-reasonable) assumption that landmasses are fractal shaped implies the coastline tends towards infinity with smaller yardsticks.

Speaking of PICO-8, there's also TIC-80 which is pretty similar (albeit with a smaller, less polished library of games). I'm a fan of Shadow Over 12 Lands, but I don't know if a JRPG like that is too close to what OP considers a "traditional RPG".

has a topic related name

"wallwiz" is also pretty closely related to the topic. As OP states it also sounds less juvenile.

unique new logo

using a penguin as a mascot in foss is hardly unique.

uses ai in a useful way

we're on lemmy so there's almost certainly going to be a couple other replies that hammer on this specific point. But for my part: use of AI, to me, communicates a lack of effort. If they had commissioned someone who could be more familiar with the actual project to do the branding, that would tell me it's a project they gave a shit about.

expresses art

I don't consider "ai art" to actually be art. This is a whole debate we could have but I'll leave it at that.

Unless you're talking about the functionality of the program, but that's separate from the branding issue OP is complaining about.

provides stuff to theme your distro

Yeah that's just what the program does. OP has no issues there.

has a unique branding

The branding is ai generated, which is to say: it looks like any other github repo with a filled out README.md

is inclusive

What do you mean by this? Feels like a random adjective to throw out there.

Disposable sure, but it sounds like they're describing using rechargeable ones?

I find it's even worse with music than movies, especially if you include not knowing the thing in question at all. The movie guy reaction to not having watched the #8 top grossing movie the year is "dude how have you not seen it??? You've gotta see it!", the music guy reaction to not hearing any of the #8 top musician/band this year is "are you a shutin or a dumbass? everyone I know listens to them!". I've even seen both of these reactions from the same person lol.

I swear, a lot of gay dudes just don't have "bisexual" in their vocabulary. Like they don't stop to think that maybe "hey, any straight guys around here like the thought of making another man cum?" reads like "hey bachelors, hows the wife doin?" to anyone who knows what words mean?

Like, I can get there being some fetishization/roleplay around "converting" a straight guy gay. But that's never the angle. They just use the word straight like they know everyone on earth wants to suck their dick.

I like the idea of scaled; boosting posts from smaller communities seems like it'd be a great way to find the niches I'm into.

The problem I run into is that it goes so far that not being upvoted at all is enough to put a post on the front page. That'd be fine if it was pulling from a variety of sources, but testing it out just now I saw 5 posts in a row from the portugal comm, all with a +1 -0 score. Is it supposed to work like that or am I missing something?

edit: 6 actually lol

I find broccoli discorse fascinating, because it seems like there's a lot of people who feel the need to shower it in praise because it's the default "eww vegies suck" vegetable.

IMO broccoli is ok. it's like median tastiness veg. Makes some dishes good, makes others suck.

But if you look at the dishes where broccoli is good, it's always something along the lines of "we lathered this in cheese" or "dunked in salty oil and roasted". It's good and the broccoli definetely makes it better, but I also question if you just like cheese and oil.

Whenever some tabloid interviews some 112 year old lady, without fail she'll attribute her longevity to some random habit like having a lot of chocolate. Maybe this is what she meant...

It's got an N shape in my experience. Stuff someone recorded just because the're horny sucks. When they know how to operate a camera then it'll be the most genuine fulfllment of whatever specific thing you're into. When they're being payed to do it you can tell everything's kinda stilted and it sucks. When they have enough budget and acting skills to make it theater quality then it's good again (though I've rarely seen that for whatever reason).

The reaction to "I'm not your fucking therapist" being "Do you believe there is truly not a single valid reason to use windows whatsoever" is just as absurd IMO (though some of these threads show that, yeah, some people think that).

The scenario described by OP is they're just complaining about something about Windows/iOS/whatever just to vent and these people come in thinking they're being helpful by mentioning an alternative. I've come to find that there's 2 (relevant) personality types; people who complain because it's cathartic, and people who complain because they want their problem solved. Linux users are overwhelmingly the latter. So, from their perspective, they see someone who is complaining yet expects people to just sit there and listen, hence the "I'm not your therapist" comment.

I don't think any of that is new, except for maybe the OS part. As a kid I remember seeing a bunch of interactions like this and it's always been much more a personality than a culture thing.