I use Arch with XFCE. Yes, it took a while to get running properly, and just the other day I went to print something and realized cups hadn’t even been installed yet, so I spent 15 minutes getting my printer up and running, so I totally get that it’s not for everyone. I like it because of the detailed wiki with great tutorials and instructions on getting things working, like the one I used to get a nextcloud installation working on my computer. And I like it because of the extensive Arch User Repository, so I know I can install whatever I like. I mostly just play Stardew Valley and trackmania on it. I’ve used Manjaro before and enjoyed that too, and it comes with all the benefits of arch.

I installed Mint on my friends computer, which works totally fine, but I don’t know how it is for gaming; she definitely doesn’t game.

It’s not an instance, but what about https://join-lemmy.org/ ?

I’ve found that the motherboard is often the make or break item with PC builds. Pay attention to how many 1 star reviews there are on Amazon or wherever, I think they tend to suffer from poor quality control.

If you find yourself in a fight that you keep dying to, you may try exploring other areas to make progression elsewhere before coming back and trying again.

I would not use a third party app with ads, tho. Ads are a curse to the internet

I sure hope people aren’t deleting all their old useful guides and troubleshooting posts. Yesterday I was playing Stardew Valley, I had a simple question, so I duckduckgo-ed it and found some promising links on r/StardewValley, but StardewValley was private. Very frustrating. I hope this isn’t the norm. So, so far…that. I miss StardewValley. Besides that, I will miss r/bestofredditorupdates

Lol, I’ve put 120 hrs into TotK and I love it, and still haven’t finished all the side quests or shrines. I can’t get my wife to play past the tutorial, she’s disappointed that it doesn’t foster creativity like Garry’s mod

I was playing TotK and today I finally figured out a hint that I’d puzzled over for hours. It felt very satisfying to finally get the answer without using a guide.

This terrifies me…

No, it’s pronounced in two syllables, as so: “Ni-key”, with the first syllable pronouncing the I as in the word “I”. It’s named after the Greek goddess of victory.

I just finished redoing an old Excel spreadsheet at work so that things update automatically. It’s a good feeling. Years ago I made a spreadsheet for my independent contracting work that I just had to input the date and it generated a summary of my work to give to my boss, I was pretty proud of myself. I also used it to understand which days I made the most money on so that I could make better decisions about when to work. I wish I could have a whole job just making spreadsheets…

I played vanilla Stardew Valley once, and now I’m on my second go around, and I’ve installed a bunch of qol mods so that I don’t have to keep checking the wiki and my collections to see if I should keep or sell this item I got because I don’t know if I need it for an achievement, and now I have a notification that it’s an NPC’s birthday and I can just check to see if I own or am carrying an item they have. It just makes the game less stressful for a completionist like me.

I actually pay the $2/month for squaredle.app for the extra features. I play this game while in boring meetings so that my mind doesn’t wander and I can keep my concentration on what people are saying.

I’ve been playing TotK since day 1 for over 100 hours and still haven’t run out of content. Breath of the Wild was my favorite game of all time, and Tears of the Kingdom easily beats it. I wonder if it plays well on Yuzu yet?

Daisy! She’s the beeest!

I’ve been playing TotK like it’s my second job since day 1, and I still don’t feel close to maxing out on its content. Breath of the Wild was my favorite game of all time, and somehow Tears of the Kingdom is even better.

Money is access to labor. Even if you’re buying a phone, you’re getting the labor it took to mine the lithium, design and run the factories, the people who assembled it, etc. I’ve been thinking about the idea that if you have friends, you are rich, because those friends will give you their labor if you cultivate the relationship. But the truly wealthy never have to do any labor they don’t want to do because people will clamor over themselves to do labor for them in exchange for the privilege to have others do labor for them in turn.

Now that you said the thing about privacy tho, interestingly that fits in with my idea, because if you have money, you don’t have to cultivate relationships to get the labor you need. But if you’re poor, you have to get the labor you need through friends