One of the first games we had as kids, was The Broken Land, a shitty Diablo knockoff.
It was our favorite game. The map consisted of a big castle, which we were really struggling to conquer. But I mean, you don’t want the whole game to be beatable so easily, so it was fine.

There was one thing, though, we didn’t understand. A vendor outside the castle had an inventory slot, where you could place gemstones, but it didn’t do anything. Unfortunately, we couldn’t check the manual, because the game came as part of a collection.

After actual years, we suddenly placed an armor in one slot and a gemstone in the other and it enchanted the armor.

So, we started enchanting all our gear and suddenly, the castle was easy.
In the castle, you could rescue a mage, which casually doubled your party strength.
And the mage told you to head East, where there was a portal to …the second level.

All these years, we were stuck in the first level of actually quite a lengthy game. All these years, we thought you’d just play with a single character. All these years, we were biting our teeth out, because we hadn’t grokked one specific game mechanic.

But also, we liked it even beforehand. So, you cannot imagine how blown away we were, when the game suddenly opened up to be so much more.

Still a shitty Diablo knockoff, though.

Yeah, it was a bit of a joke, because we do tend to take them a bit too serious. 😅

“Religionsfreiheit” ? 🙃

Yeah, we’re also still on 24.04. And from what I’ve seen, 26.04 will ship with Plasma 6.6, not 6.7.

Maybe the kubuntu-backports repository can give it earlier than that, but yeah, I don’t even know yet, when we’ll upgrade to 26.04.
Good point, though, about the .01 release. Maybe I’ll start bothering IT when that’s out.

I would have a use for it at $DAYJOB, but unfortunately my work laptop is on an ancient version of Ubuntu, so gonna be a few more years before I can use it…

Yeah, the naming seems to be all over the place.

From what I found online, what you ate would be referred to as “chicory greens”, if we’re being specific.

And the white ones, Wikipedia primarily calls “Belgian endive”, but then also:

Belgian endive is known in Dutch as witloof or witlof (“white leaf”), indivia in Italy, endivias in Spain, chicory in the UK, as witlof in Australia, endive in France and Canada, and chicon in parts of northern France, in Wallonia and (in French) in Luxembourg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory#Leaf_chicory

The atoms are there for sure, but we could argue, whether it is a thing/object without an animal being aware of it, since it’s us that define things to be objects.

The universe doesn’t care whether a pile of atoms behind Pluto happens to be chair-shaped. It’s only when we look at it, that we declare it an object.

Interesting, I only know chicory as these bad boys:

Gonna throw in EtherPad. It’s been like ten years, since I properly used it, but I believe, it’s relatively minimal, so pretty much just Markdown.

There’s also lots of publicly hosted instances you can use: https://scanner.etherpad.org/

Yeah, I feel like Christians make a big deal out of life vs. death. Life is declared this super great thing that was gifted to them by their god. And death is described like an eternal departure into the unknown.

Meanwhile, if you view things in a much more mundane way, life is just your atoms jiggling about. It’s not particularly bad, when they stop jiggling together.
But even if you do prefer them being part of a pile that’s deemed ‘alive’, your left toe is probably gonna get eaten by a worm and brought into a field, where a plant will pick up the atoms and grow some seeds, which get carried by a bird into the next forest and so on. Your atoms will almost certainly be part of many alive piles of atoms going forward.

I think, that might possibly take quite a while still. Pop!_OS currently is still in the process of rebasing on Ubuntu 26.04, from what I understand. That won’t have this update. If they stick to the Ubuntu LTS bases, then that might mean you only get it after 28.04 is release, which is in 2028.

I read somewhere that they wanted to speed releases up again after their COSMIC Desktop is out of Alpha, so maybe you can get it earlier.

Maybe it’s also possible for you to activate the Kubuntu-Backports repository and get the release earlier that way. I really do not know, how good of an idea it is, though, to activate that on Pop!_OS.
Would not recommend doing that unless you find documentation or one of their devs saying that it can be done…

Well, yeah, but it does also say that he was born in “Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia)”.

I mean, OP did respond by now, so I guess, it isn’t about that guy either way, but don’t think my brain did too bad of a job. 🙃

I’m guessing, it’s about this guy?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duško_Popov

Do not ask me why my brain remembers shit like that…

Falsche Community? 😅

Hmm, is the last staff thing just the death message from Sif Muna? I seriously don’t play often enough with Sif Muna, because Heplhjdtfhxhdh always seems so good… 🥴

Yeah, in particular, anything close to 100 million users presumes that non-gamedevs will use this. For anything beyond simple variations of existing games, like e.g. “Skyrim with spears”, you need to have an actual understanding of game design. It is not enough to have cool ideas.

So, I really don’t see many non-gamedevs using this. Especially when they can pay less to play a properly designed game.

Haha wow, my initial thought after reading your post was “signatures went away”, but then I figured I’m biased towards that being significant, because I recently was on an ancient forum that still had them.

So, instead I tried to formulate the more abstract development. I had read about it a long time ago, so I did not pull that whole comment out of my arse just then, thankfully.

But that it is then precisely signatures which elicit a reaction, that’s hilarious. 😅

And yeah, I do not miss signatures. Within minutes of reading on that forum, I had grown a disdain for some users, because they’d respond with half a sentence and then a distracting GIF in their signature. And of course, they would respond multiple times to a topic, so you could get 10+ instances of that same GIF on one page.

Unfortunately, this does mean I now need to demonstrate that by including a shitty signature:

I’m not a signature, I just clean here.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Not sure, I can articulate this thought well enough, but I feel like there’s been a split between “personal” and “impersonal” social media.

Early internet forums were usually about some specific topic and pseudonyms were paramount, but each person was still given room to present themselves.
So, what I mean by that, is that forum posts had signatures, big profile pictures, as well as typically some additional information about the user, like “Rank: Lord Supreme – Joined: March 2005 – Posts: 3 trillion”.
The forums generally weren’t focused on the people, but you still knew the regulars.

Then came Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon etc., which put people into the focus. You were discouraged from using pseudonyms. You were encouraged to post pictures of yourself. You were encouraged to broadcast any random thought you had.
And while you can use these networks to read or talk about certain topics, you’re really supposed to follow people and get to know them.

And then, sort of as a counter movement again, you have your “link aggregators”, i.e. Lemmy, Lobsters, Reddit etc…
Discussions only happen when there’s a topic, i.e. a post, to talk about. You can’t just broadcast thoughts without context, but rather have to sort them into specific topics/communities.
And while there’s a tiny profile picture next to posts and we do have some regulars that are more widely recognized, most users are not.