I played around with it in a VM earlier today. I liked the overall feel of it quite a bit, even as someone who prefers not to use gnome. But there are quite a few inconsistencies in using the alpha compared to what’s in the handbook, particularly for installing new packages. I wonder if that’s something that’s still being implemented in Orchid.

I liked it though, I’ll definitely keep following it.

It’s hard to put into words how amazing it is that every Sabres fan has memories of listening to RJ as a kid. That’s something truly special, Buffalo has been so lucky to listen to him all those years.

I’m glad he was able to enjoy a full year of retirement with his family, the man worked nearly his entire life. We’ll never see (or hear) another like him.

Finally, I have been so tired of having to scroll to the bottom of every game’s page to find entries relevant to my hardware.

It’s been a while since I played it, but I feel like something like this was in the Divinity: Original Sin games. So you might be right that they simply didn’t want to or couldn’t implement it in a way they liked in BG3.

Debian (and most other distros) will have what you need, my lab runs Ubuntu and most of our statistics are in Python and R, except for the people who still use SPSS. What I tend to do is start up docker containers for them to access rstudio from a browser, but renv would be the other way to go if you want versioned packages. Either way, you’ll have the same access to the packages you need.

NTFS will work, I used it for a few years without even realizing. I eventually switched to EXT4 for my games drive from an old Windows install when I realized ntfs-3g was using a decent amount of CPU and had a small impact on performance.

Prince of Nothing is one of the grimmest, darkest series I’ve read lol

Lots of atrocities committed in the name of religion, power, etc. Lots of visceral depictions of pretty serious subjects. Lots of philosophizing about pretty dark things.

Through it all though the characters are compelling and the story is engaging after a point. The world and characters feel very real, even some of the more outlandish ones. There’s certainly no “fun” in it like there was in the First Law books. I get the sense that it probably goes way too for in the grim dark direction for you, regardless of how well it’s written.

Not to be that guy, but Malazan strikes the perfect balance for me between a grimdark feel and a hopeful theme with fun characters. If you haven’t read it and have the time, those are always worth picking up.

My first guess is unattended-upgrades is running, especially if this is shortly after booting. As others have said, ps aux | grep apt will tell you what’s running. If it’s holding up all the time there might be something wrong with apt causing the update to hang.

If I had a Deck I’d probably use it more for Calibre than anything else honestly. The thought of having my entire book and game libraries on one portable device sounds amazing.

He’s my answer as well. I’ve been listening to them for seven years and I feel like he’s only gotten better.

I think that’s mostly true, but Caps fans would probably hope to be better before the contract is up in eight years. Take it from a Sabres fan, that long of a rebuild does a lot to your love of the game.

My worry is that Wilson will be awful in the last few years when/if the Caps are ready to be good again at that point. Sure he can be the tank commander, but at some point he’ll just weigh them down with a contract that will be very hard to move.

I’d been reading the First Law trilogy at night before bed for the last year and a half or so (I’m a slow reader when I fall asleep). Thought it was pretty good, and the perfect kind of story I needed. If grimdark could have pulp, it would be the First Law trilogy. Just overall very entertaining, the characters were fun and memorable, and this all balanced out the general bleakness of the setting. The running jokes were a lot of fun.

Now I’m probably going back to the Warrior Prophet (Prince of Nothing book 2), the other book I had been reading before bed before the First Law really grabbed me. I love Bakker’s writing and world building, so I’m excited to see where it goes.

That is a long time to be paying a guy whose style isn’t known to age well in a player’s 30s. I could see this getting bought out or cap dumped in a couple years.

Rigmar has a pretty large collection (around 500GB when I downloaded a couple years ago) of most of the famous songs you’ve ever heard. If you have the bandwidth and disk space I’d go for that. I use cdgtools to burn to CD-Rs or just open them in VLC.

While I think it’s true that AOC represents one of the biggest steps in the progressive direction we’ve seen from US Congress recently, the use of the word “plenty” here makes this feel like we shouldn’t still expect more. I both appreciate the good that she has done while also hoping for more, and that’s really the best I can do.