Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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Remember folks, it’s a crime to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay person, but totally fine to force a company to employ a bigot against their will.

I live by the “there are no heroes” philosophy myself. You can like some of what a person does while admitting that they are still flawed like the rest of us.

Way too much of the tech industry culture is rooted in idol worship.

Thank you for validating my feelings here. I don’t know why we idolize this kind of behavior, but berating someone on a mailing list should not be acceptable, much less desirable.

I’m all in on helix, it has replaced emacs and vim for me quite handily.

Cue surf rock guitar solo

Gacha comes from the Japanese capsule toy vending machines that give out a random prize for money, very popular with children.

A Gacha game lets you buy loot boxes which provide playable characters and gear randomly, and tend to feature a gameplay loop designed to tempt you into paying real money for those boxes.

The A1 is 256x256x256, which is pretty generous for an out of the box printer.

I personally use a Bambu P1S which has the same volume, and is larger than the Prusa MK3S I upgraded from.

The A1S is definitely smaller but still capable. I started on a Prusa Mini which is similarly sized and it worked great for me for a year or so before I upgraded.

Edit: I honestly would not start with a multi color unit. Wait a year and get some print experience under you first before you add that extra complexity.

The Bambu A1 (mini or full size) may be a good fit for you. Price point is there or below if you opt out of the multi color unit, and they are remarkably beginner friendly.

It was a happier time, I miss my atomic purple floppies.

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I rewrote that several times because I have the mind of a child, but atomic purple 3.5” was even worse so I give up and you get to enjoy both.

Hi Animateonio!

Every mp3 player I owned in the 2000’s worked this way. Screen above, controls below, list UI for tracks, usually volume rocker or dial on top.

Sometimes the UI would be more complicated and would include a left/right button for navigating horizontal menus (like my all time favorite Zen Vision:M) but the basic playlist was still a vertical scrolling list UI.

Sounds like grouping these together is unwise given the large disparity of behavior between them.

I have often heard religious people site the “no civic duty” argument against atheism, which appears to be groundless.

Yeah I’m not sure where you’re getting this from. Digital “ownership” has always been a hot mess, because you purchase the right to play the game on the publishers terms.

Ethically Steam should provide a refund, legally I can’t find any evidence that they are compelled to.

My two refund rejections from steam disagree with you.

My refund requests got denied by steam because I have more than 2 hours in the game.

This layout makes sense if you have used an old school mp3 player or similar.

Volume is left and right because it’s an analog of the volume bar on the screen.

Up and down is previous and next because play was controlled by a list UI so you were moving a cursor up and down between songs.

It’s not how I personally would prefer it, but it’s not as outlandish as it seems.

Literally unplayable.

Having a physical disc doesn’t really fix the ownership problem anymore, when standard fare seems to be DRM checks and day one patches. I don’t think it’s functionally different to go physical or digital today in most cases.

Kagi is hard because it is so very much better than any alternative I have tried. I don’t like the guy’s views but it would substantially impact something I do for work and pleasure dozens of times every day to give it up, so I’m really struggling with that.

It was indeed