Nyanix

Thank you!

This interaction made my day, love this place

I moved from Google Podcasts (which is pretty good) to AntennaPod, which is FOSS and honestly, pretty damn solid

She certainly is <3 celebrating 10 years this year

It's funny, she's become more of a Linux evangelist than me, she really went all in.

I've been on Manjaro for 3 years, honestly love it, it's treated me great for gaming and given me so little to have to fix that my wife has also been running it for 2 years.

Realistically, it doesn't make sense for folks to be using bleeding edge distros like Arch for a server anyway. LTS of Debian or even Ubuntu are definitely the right answer

I feel a bit of both ways, on one hand, I love having a familiar universe that I can throws hours into and making it my sort of gaming home base (FFXIV). But when I play something else, I get nervous about them being huge or time demanding. I've been enjoying finding and binging through shorter games that I can knock out in a couple days, experiencing other worlds and stories, but not having to commit substantial life to them.

There's an amazing amount of trying to make games "worth it" by adding tons of side content, and my ADHD ass can't ignore it...So when a game doesn't do that, like Singularity, Remember Me, or even Alan Wake, I love it. A nice, linear, intentional story with none of the "help my farm from the rats" bs.

One issue is that Microsoft makes so much on data collection, that they actually pay manufacturers to put Windows on there, it's one of the methods used to try to keep stock computer prices low. While this is scummy and anticompetitive, it helps the consumer and gives me a chuckle that installing Windows inherently decreased the worth of a computer.

Infinity was my absolute favorite, I shall watch this app with great interest 😁 lemme (Lemmy?) know if you need any additional testers

Thank you so much for your thought out response! I've been encouraged to give Rust another shot, and I'll certainly be taking this advice to heart.
One thing that I've noticed in many careers is that the ability to break things down is a mark of expertise, to know what things can be broken down to, and I'm hoping going through something as granular as Rust will help expose what many of those things are. It's what made Javascript oddly frustrating, is that granularity felt less like providing me with options, and more like riddling me with extra hurdles.
I'm excited to take another crack at it (as if I need another time sink, lol), and hopefully some day I can help contribute something of worth.

Likewise, you gave an amazing response and I want to dedicate some time to properly reading and responding to it, so I'll be responding when I have a good opportunity to commit :) Thank you so much for such a thoughtful and thorough response, I really look forward to going over it
Edit: While I still can't thank you enough, I've finally given a more thorough reply here