Brian in Detroit

Four solid months into my Linux journey, and I had a realization:

I will never need Microsoft Windows again, for anything. I really cannot express how liberating this feels.

It feels like escaping the matrix.

#linux #foss

I have a close friend whose 17 year old is headed to college this fall. He got accepted into a computer engineering program.

He's very bright and enthusiastic, but his exposure to computing is alien to me: Roblox and tablets. Never built a PC. Never heard of Linux.

So I have to wonder, what will his generation of computer engineers be like? Will they go on to design and build things we can't dream of? Or is the lack of "computing" in their formative years a setback?

I guess we'll see.

Today I donated a few bucks to an open source project that I have fallen in love with.

I was a bit disheartened after searching around a bit to see many people discussing how they've never donated to an #opensource project, even if they use it daily.

So here's a gentle reminder: We think nothing of spending $20 a month to subscribe to a megacorp, so how about instead you take a minute to donate five bucks to an #OSS project you use and enjoy. If everyone did that, the impact would be huge.

Unreal Engine is getting rid of Blueprints in UE6.

One dev created a petition to try to convince them to keep it:

https://www.change.org/p/save-blueprints-keep-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine-6

#gamedev #ue #unrealengine #ue6 #blueprints #unreal

RE: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy/116827332356410817

I actually remember seeing this ad in magazines. I think COMPUTE! magazine? Maybe Antic?

I just described overclocking your CPU as "edging for nerds"

I wrote about the feeling of withdrawal that comes from waking up from a dream in which my son is still alive.

CW: Child loss, grief, brief mention of addiction

https://kanoki.leaflet.pub/3mfiitxguu22e

#fatherhood #grief #writing

My review of the 80+ hour Fantasian Neo Dimension on @infinitebacklog@mstdn.games

"Spectacular and very worth investing the time to explore it. Despite its relatively minor drawbacks, it feels like a magnum opus of JRPG history; a love letter to the entire genre.

If you have ever enjoyed a Japanese role playing game, or any Final Fantasy game at all, you simply must play Fantasian."

https://infinitebacklog.net/users/detroitprime/reviews/fantasian-neo-dimension

#gaming #videogames #JRPG #review

My latest review: The grand, epic love letter to 16-bit RPGs that is Chained Echoes.

#games #JRPG #review

https://infinitebacklog.net/users/detroitprime/reviews/chained-echoes

It's really hard sticking to your boundaries, but I'm not gonna be doing free work in a job application. #work #jobs #jobsearch #employment

RE: https://connectedplaces.online/where-does-community-live/

I want to spit this exact line into the face of the most recent hiring manager who rejected me for not being "technical" enough to run his dev community:

"The bottleneck is not the technical complexity of running Docker but the social complexity of cultivating a community."

Great work from @laurenshof@indieweb.social

#community

I made dis

@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social I too am primarily a gamer, so this was a big part of my hesitation before switching, but Valve has done the damn thing and really made gaming on linux a mainstream-accessible idea.

I have been completely charmed by the set piece dioramas that were hand-made for the background environments in the latest RPG I've been playing (and streaming): Fantasian Neo Dimension.

The details! The lighting! The photography! Absolutely gorgeous. Video games, dang.

https://infinitebacklog.net/feed/2318946

#gaming #games #videogames #rpg #rpgs #jrpg #art #sculpture #diorama #photography #gamedev