All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there’s others – especially from when I was very young – that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I’m struggling to even remember how I got home from school then – even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that… It’s strange what sticks in memory and what doesn’t, sometimes.

I believe we’re now talking about how he murders children

Unfortunately, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike

I’ve been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.

Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).

I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.

That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…

No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!

Thanks Humanity. 🙄️

I thought I was lucky to be in California…fuck me.

You should go read the actual requirements because it’s probably the sanest version of this that exists.

Your OS just has to have a way for you to say “I am this age” (bracketed into several groups) at account creation and software is supposed to respect that. Not a fucking face scan or ID or any of that other bullshit that some other idiotic “verification” attempts require.

I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.

Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.

At some point a few years ago, I went to https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top and just downloaded everything from the list that day that looked interesting and threw them all on an old kindle. They haven’t all been winners for me, but a decent number were readable enough.

Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️

Yeah, that’s what I mean by AI-nese. Formality in Japanese is great point.

Classes won’t necessarily help you there as much as you’d like though. Even after 3+ years of them as a kid, I was told on a foreign exchange trip (where my host brother spoke much better English than my Japanese) that his family found it weird how formal I was, and I had to explain that my teachers literally had not taught me how to speak informally yet!

Don’t get me started on how frustrating Japanese language curriculum is… I took 7 years of classes (starting in elementary school) and not a single teacher even mentioned the word 君 – which is in damned near every pop song! (grumble grumble…) I had to learn that word from TVTropes rather than any of my textbooks because after 7 years of study, I still couldn’t understand the variations of “you” that are actually used in a typical episode of anime. 🤦️

Can you imagine going through seven years of English classes and no one brings up the word “ma’am” even in passing? Or going through three years of classes without introducing contractions like “can’t”?! (rant rant rant… 🙄️)

For the lecturing portion of what a teacher does? Probably; YouTube’s replaced/supplemented mediocre professors and tutors for a decade already on a number of subjects (e.g. math).

I hadn’t considered using an LLM to practice my Japanese, but if it can spit out entire articles of mostly coherent language, it could probably serve as a practice conversational partner with reduced feelings of embarrassment for some people too. Doubt it’d be worse than the “split up into pairs (of non-native speakers trying to talk to each other despite insufficient vocabulary)” exercises that we had to do back when I was in school… Picking up an AI-nese accent would be a risk though, like learning too much of your Japanese from anime or your English from Hollywood movie trailers. (I didn’t really understand that until I heard a guy on YT several years ago using the “In a world… where blah, blah, blah…” movie trailer cadence repeatedly as part of his plain old regular commentary. That was… enlightening.)

For the “babysitting” part of what teachers do? Probably not any time soon.

IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)

Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy

Haven’t run into this personally, but most of my gaming on Linux these days is on the Steam Deck without anything particularly interesting going on storage-wise.

It’d probably help with debugging if you add the distro you are using into the text of your post. Also, how are you launching the games? (Steam? Lutris? Heroic? Something else?)

For RE4 specifically, Steam has it listed as “Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: The Enigma Protector”, so you might be running into some shittiness from DRM on that one, perhaps?

If you’re running on Fedora or related distros, check your system logs to see if SELinux is complaining about anything. Sometimes the security features are overzealous.

Best of luck!

I don’t know about bears, but I wouldn’t it put it past a bonobo…

Edit: Dolphins are also famously kinky and some of them would probably do it if they could.

We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it’s better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don’t actually need it. That’s stuff we’re running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we’re paying for.

I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.

I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

I wonder how they’d take to being called “morbidly rich”? 🤔️

I talk to my Dad about once a week or so for maybe 20 or 30 mins. Usually just “How’s it going?” kind of small talk. Work. Health issues. Sometimes about food or hobbies. Commiserating about politics. Updates about relatives moving/getting jobs/etc. Things like that. Helps us both stay sane in this crazy world.

Once a month or so, I talk to my uncle. He’s more chatty, so those calls go on for longer. He likes to tell me bits of family lore, about his interests in detail, about food and his pet and what’s going on with his friends and neighbors – like trips he’s taken with them to go out shopping and such.

My other relatives don’t talk to me very often, so those are more of life catch-up talks every couple months/years or conversations about specific things that I have skills in that they’d like help learning.

Maybe try asking your mom what’s on her mind lately – other than you – and take it from there? Most people love to talk about themselves if given a chance. Ask questions about what she says and try to find a topic of mutual interest.

No, we are communicating. People can coordinate their actions to achieve things that are impossible for an individual. We obviously don’t have perfect shared understanding, and miscommunications are not uncommon (as others have already pointed out) but we can exchange enough information to do useful things.

Also, we can make jokes. The fact that it’s possible to craft a joke and make someone laugh by setting up and intentionally subverting expectations through language is pretty good evidence that we have shared understanding and similar processing.

Looking back through your history, that’s a post by a user local to your instance. You can see it because you’re on the same instance.

If I understand how federation works correctly, posts don’t go directly to the instance a community is on when they are made. They are created locally on your own instance, and then federate out if/when they can. Since you’re both on the same instance, you can see the post and interact with it, but the post and your comments are (presumably) stuck in a queue trying to federate to the now defunct instance. Since lemm.ee is gone, it can’t federate out, so other people don’t see the post/comment on their instance.

I think that’s what’s going on.