Rust’s unique design also leads to many design patterns not normally seen in most other languages.

I’ve heard quite a few people talk about how good they realised Options were, and that they now try to use that same pattern in other languages like Python. It really does teach you new tricks!

It’s perfectly acceptable to not want to use a certain tool.

You would be the kind of person on SO to reply to a question saying “how do I do A” with “nobody does A, do B instead”. That’s not constructive.

I would read more about you.

That made me smile more than I expected, thank you! Knowing that, I might do another pass on that post since it was somewhat rushed.

I’m a big fan of game jam games

I also intend to upload the game I mentioned for people to try if they were interested. While I haven’t added it to the site yet, here are some links to the game and the source code. If you look through the source you’ll find hints to some cancelled features as well as the source for the Android version too (it was experimental but it does work if you have the right dependencies installed).

As for a game jam video, I don’t remember too much about the process of making this, so a video for this particular game is unlikely :/

As for the interests, yeah they’re all over the place. I like to have a broad range of interests so I can join in no matter what the topic is! You might be surprised at how closely related some of them can be!

I conveniently wrote a small blog post earlier where I mention this story in more detail. You can read it here if you’re interested :)

I had an intense moment of hubris while playing Hammerwatch with some friends where I thought “I could do this”. That’s how I learned C# and got the job I have now.

It’s almost like Android fans are fans of the OS and the features it provides instead of who made it.

If they deleted/privated it right after uploading it that suggests it might have contained some factual inaccuracies or something of the sort.

I pretty much exclusively play modded, where I set up a server in my homelab for me and my friends to play on. There’s just so much new content to explore than the base game!

If I get invited to a Vanilla server, I’ll always use some form of lightly modded client with some QoL stuff (e.g. a Fabric instance with performance mods like Sodium/Lithium/Phosphor, OkZoomer to mimic the handy Optifine zoom, and a map like Journeymap/Xaero).

I dislike playing pure Vanilla without at least some performance mods on. I don’t get low frames, but the fact that I’m missing out on efficiency irks me.

Wrong race that would upset my parents

Your parents aren’t going to date your partner, so their opinions on her race mean absolutely nothing. It’s like going to a restaurant with a friend and they tell you you can’t order salmon because they don’t like it. It’s not their food, so what they say doesn’t matter since they’re not eating it.

Feeling that my interest in the other person is not genuine and that I only see her as a sexual object

This felt a little too real to read. I know that feeling, and it’s not nice. I got no advice here, just letting you know you’re not alone in feeling it.

I have this dreadful feeling that I missed out on something important in life

The best part about life is that you get to define what’s important to you. Some people may find meaning in having a family, but it’s not the only objective way of finding meaning/purpose. You could find joy in creating things, exploring the world, even just working. There’s no secret formula or shortcut to finding it, and there’s definitely no hard rules about what it can be. I hope this helps you feel better.

I got my last 3 phones used, all were at a great discount, and all lasted about as long as you’d expect a new phone to.

I’ll continue buying used until new prices become reasonable again, and even then I will still probably buy used because it’s cheaper and helps combat ewaste (if only a little).

I’ve reinstalled both Linux and Windows on the same machine a few weeks ago and it was considerably easier and faster to install Linux. It also had less problems post-install too.

Changing the UI elements isn’t the reason why Android exists. The purpose of a phone’s OS is to act like a phone. Both Android and iOS do this perfectly well. If they didn’t, nobody would use them. Everything else they can do is just a nice bonus.

Don’t get me wrong, I much prefer Android because of those features (plus I hate walled gardens), but I think your usage of the word “purpose” might be a bit of a stretch here.

What? Cars and trucks are built for different purposes. Do you think Android phones and iPhones are built for different purposes?

They’re not really that different. They both have apps which you open and use to do different things. In a car that would likely be to communicate with people, listen to music, or to navigate.

Fuck you, well done.

I think it’s a bug. I tried watching something a few hours ago and it also wouldn’t start. There’s a bunch of CORS errors in the console. It also won’t play on my phone either. I’m using Firefox on both, so it’s kind ironic that the “privacy-respecting” frontend won’t work on the (relatively) more privacy-respecting browser.

e2e encryption makes it difficult to provide fully cross-platform messaging experience

Why?
I can easily encrypt a message on my x86_64 Windows desktop, send it to my x86_64 Linux laptop, and also my ARM64 Android phone, and be able to decrypt it perfectly.

If I can do it then a development team can too.

Haven’t ads always been recommendations in some roundabout way? Regular ads are technically just a company recommending their own product/service to you (whether you need it or not).

Who would have thought that cancelling something cancels it? Incredible find, mate.

It reminds me of the mini battering ram the UK police use to break open doors. They call it the “big red key”.