Can’t comment on the work / tools part, but while not perfect, gaming on Linux is excellent now. The only Windows system on my network is my wife’s work computer and that’s been the case for years.

I like the steam deck and use it as a controller, but you could make the same argument about the switch. Regarding the switch, my answer would be that while it is a controller, it is - IMHO - a poorly designed and uncomfortable-to-use controller.

While you and I like the ergonomics of the deck, others may not. One can hardly blame those people for wanting something they feel more usable.

The impulse is understandable, but yeah. You’d think they’d learn.

Absolutely!

While I agree, we shouldn’t criticize people for learning and changing for the better.

“Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”

(Even then I’m not so sure)

Three stories? You’re a brave soul.

Originally they started the title with … Sigh … A hashtag. In markdown, starting a line with this makes it a header, which generally increases the size of the text. Probably your client tried to respect this, though I think it’s unusual for a client to do that for a post title.

I have heard, but never in any way verified, that there was code that tried to identify whether you were running 95 or 98 by looking for a version starting with 9. If true, it would mean some code might treat Windows 9 as 95/98.

How’d it go?

I’m going to?

It’s not impossible, but I don’t really plan to have to.

It looks like the player character is miming holding a shotgun.

Must make it challenging to express “uwu.”

Whenever I see an image with this caption, it usually looks mostly fine but seems like something about it would cause neck pain. Usually it’s because the TV is on the floor, but this time it’s because it looks to me like sitting comfortably in that chair and leaning back would require craning your neck to view the TV.

Also, I can’t tell for sure, but the chair looks like it’s a recliner. If so, it seems like reclining would bump into the bar area. Might be misjudging that, though.

That could be, but the bowl is communal between our four animals. I wish she wouldn’t.

That does sound very annoying! The first time I noticed my cat doing this, her food and litter box were in the basement, which was stone and dirt in that house. (We put them down there because it was the only place in that house where we could practically prevent the dog from getting to them.) Nowadays the cat stuff is in, essentially, a much cleaner sun porch; as a result, we still have to clean her bowl more frequently than seems reasonable, but it lasts a lot longer than it used to.

For some reason one of my cats only drinks water that she scoops up with her foot.

It means we have to clean her bowl way more often than should be necessary because the debris her feet collect gets deposited in the water bowl.

It’s worth noting that much of that time was during a lockdown and subsequent years involved working from home. Also in the intervening time I bought my wife an EV, which provides most of my transportation.

The gas vehicle is used about once a week to pick up heavy or large things or to take large boxes to the recycling area; plus there are occasions where my wife is out in her EV and I have to go somewhere. During these occasions I am grateful to have my own transportation.

It’s true that I don’t get much use out of the car, but I live in a fairly rural area. The closest non residential building that I know of is 2-3 miles away and I have limited mobility due to an injury. There’s no presence whatsoever of any Uber type services; I don’t even know of a taxi industry, though there likely is one. If I didn’t have reliable transportation I would be pretty screwed. Even during the week or two between when my Flex broke down and I replaced it, I had to cancel two doctor appointments and miss other things I wanted to do.

I probably would survive if all we had was my wife’s car, but I would lose to a lot of convenience and my schedule would definitely get more complicated.

The “replied to wrong comment” bit might be a mistake by your Lemmy client, not you.