To me, it came naturally at some point. I just tried it for the lulz - and ended up staying.

And it’s alright! Luckily, both Cinnamon (like here) and KDE (what I’m using) provide you with such option by default.

Money is hoarded. Hoarding resources is a bad idea overall, as storage prices accumulate over time.

And money can’t buy anything if it doesn’t exist in the first place.

Gen Z onboard with you!

We didn’t even have a decent career start, straight into hell

Yep, but at the same time free horizontal space > free vertical.

Depends on how many apps you use in your workflow at once.

I certainly got to enjoy the vertical bar. Feels more natural to me, like bookmarks.

Quite similar to my setup, except mine is based on KDE (yours seems to be Cinnamon), and I have a slightly wider vertical bar with a little more spacing between elements.

Good job!

We need a world where someone can criticize Israeli government without mentioning they’re not antisemite 4 times in one comment

Me too, I went through my bachelors with nothing but pen and paper. Yet, when I had a laptop during my masters, it helped a lot, not least because we were working with some software, and I’d rather have my machine for that. For postgraduate studies, a laptop is straight up a must, as it’s used pretty much everywhere for everything.

Also, modern laptops typically have their keyboards on a quieter side.

I don’t think the solution is to make basic software Windows-like.

I think I’d rather see more work being done on newbie-focused distributions to introduce the user to all the key differences of Linux, to literally guide their hand in how things are done here. A welcome app with a simple FAQ, a set of wizards (explaining what’s being done behind the scenes) and even direct “click here” advices are all welcome.

Linux way is, for the most part, superior, and once you understand how things work here, you actively don’t want it to be too Windows-like.

Yep, still that same article from 2024. Still cool, indeed!

Mostly still because it’s Apple, and in certain regions of the world, having that logo means a lot for some reason. I mean, I remember there was a heated debate over Apple using different color bubbles for messages coming from Android devices, with concerns that Android users, particularly youth, could be excluded from social life because they don’t have Apple products.

But also because Macs are lighter, have an exceptionally good battery life, and pair well with the rest of the ecosystem.

Me. I’m a scientist and need access to my tools wherever I am. I often move between two labs and keeping all my work with me is essential.

At home, I sync the data to my desktop, and work from there.

As per Mac Neo specifically, I believe students massively benefit from it. For starters, it’s likely their primary computer, as you wouldn’t normally carry an entire desktop PC to the dormitory (assuming you move to study somewhere). Then, a laptop is very useful during studies - making lecture notes, corrections, checking additional info, using computational software for advanced math, completing digital assignments, etc.

Well, for one, they’re OLD. Some people like that vintage fleur, some others were literally born after BG2 was released.

As someone from the latter category (and who is planning a family, oh time), I can’t imagine playing this in its current state. I’ll need a serious remaster before I can approach it. For the time being, only BG3 is playable to me.

Same. Never played turn-based combat before, but it feels like the only sane way to control several characters at once. Can’t fathom any other way.

Here’s what you can do with Manuel transmission:

https://youtu.be/UAIMoRuzps4

Here’s hoping!

Having played both, Elite: Dangerous is a very different game.

Is it good! Yes.

Is it fun? Absolutely.

Does it have more merit than Star Citizen in many ways, while not being a predatory hellhole? Hell yeah.

But it falls short in a few things where Star Citizen delivers - most notably, immersion. That’s their strong suit. In Star Citizen, you can actually freely walk aboard your damn ship, you can visit glorious stations and entire cities, leaving your starship far behind. The world is more alive, cities are filled with NPCs, ads and neon screens are blasting around, you can ride a subway or hop into a bar with friends! And then you walk your friends aboard your ship, and you have a cozy night at the kitchen - talking, sharing life stories, and having fun. The game feels very…real in this respect, and the social life you get there is a major part of the experience.

Perhaps, this is exactly how it extorted so much money from the gamers: making them feel at home, build social ties to the game, and then making them feel they can’t progress and do more and be a worthy part of this society without putting in hundreds and thousands of dollars. Gotta admit - they almost had me, too, to spend $400 on a cargo vessel, and that was almost my monthly income at the time. Common sense took over, though, as I saw people throwing their life savings into the game.

Or, rather, “to exploit the poor even harder than we already do”

I see, thanks for sharing!

So, what do you do with it? Browse something? Play media? Or you connect external peripherals to it? I just can’t imagine much use case of gaming controls outside games, but I might be less creative.