Fuckwad doesn’t even deserve the residual attention that comes from being parodied, though. He deserves nothing but obscurity.

That’s the neat part: you can’t repress your gender identity because ‘straight’ wasn’t an option!

(Unless you actually are straight, but whatever – it won’t kill us to be the ones who have to just fuckin’ deal with it, for once!)

If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it’s because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.

If a person plays as a same-gender character, it’s because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.

There are no other options.

like this

Nah, skill issue. Get gud and resolve the dependencies manually. 🤓

Yeah… but who was that guy named after?

Wait. Wait, wait, wait – are you saying he actually named two of his kids literally the word “unnamed” (as opposed to the names not being publicly known)? 'Cause that’s both fucked-up and disturbingly plausible.

If it were backend, Voyager would be slow too because it’s requesting the same data.

Maybe Voyager connects to the backend using something other than XmlHttpRequest.

It can’t be the backend because it’s got to query the same data whether it’s feeding the web UI or Voyager, so that wouldn’t explain the vast loading time differences between them. If the backend were slow they would both be slow, but Voyager’s load times are great.

I’m pretty sure .world being slow is a web frontend problem. It often takes forever to load in my browser, but the same content loads quickly in the Voyager Android app.

I should probably try the several alternative web UIs they have available to see if they’re faster than the default one, but I can’t be bothered to walk over to my desktop PC right now.

I ran out of fucks almost a decade ago, so I use basic-bitch Kubuntu and barely bother to customize it at all. (I turned on dark mode and picked a wallpaper, but that’s about it.)

My self-induced pain point is that I get mildly annoyed about snaps once in a while, but not enough to be worth switching distros.

Okay, I guess there’s one more criterion for computer literacy: being able to distinguish between a reasonable workflow and a batshit-insane one. (That might even include a little bit of understanding of complexity: not enough to be able to classify an algorithm using “big O notation,” but maybe enough to avoid a basic “Schlemiel the Painter” situation, for example.)

Typing is irrelevant. Office software is irrelevant. There is one thing, and one thing only, that determines whether a person is computer-literate or not: whether the person can put together a custom workflow to solve a novel problem.

I don’t mean “programming,” per se, and I don’t mean “scripting,” per se, and I don’t mean “piping together commands on a text command-line,” per se. But I do mean being able to (a) understand the task you want to accomplish, (b) break it down into its component steps, and (c) instruct the machine to perform those steps, while potentially (d) reading documentation and/or exploring the UI to discover how to do said instructing if necessary.

A computer-literate person can be sat down in front of a computer running an OS and/or other software they’ve never used before and (eventually) figure out how to use it via trial-and-error, web-searching for tutorials, RTFM, or whatever, without shutting their brain off and giving up or demanding that some other person spoon-feed a list of steps to memorize by rote.

Ukraine borders Europe

Sure, in the same way that Ohio “borders” the US.

Joke’s on you, I’m into that shit.

(Seriously, listen to this one.)

Well, I could be wrong, but I think Unix (IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Xenix, etc.) might also be Unix-like.

I would figure it would be just the opposite: that you’d want to try Gentoo specifically for gaming, in order to wring every last FPS out of the system. At least, that was part of my motivation back in the day (despite Proton not being a thing yet, IIRC I could at least play some games on Linux back then).

I think of Gentoo like the Fast and the Furious-esque customized sports coupe you drive when you’re young to try to impress your friends. In contrast, I’m at the point where I can’t be bothered anymore, so I drive the boring minivan of distros, Kubuntu. Point is: try Gentoo sooner rather than later, while you still give a shit. (Edit: of course, with a username like @MidsizedSedan, it might already be too late, LOL)

They’re on the good drugs.

Well, yeah, but that’s what you sign up for when you choose to use Gentoo. Custom-compiling every app, every time, with your chosen USE flags, is the advantage of it. (I suppose Gentoo has “binary packages” available now, but at that point I don’t see why you wouldn’t just pick Arch instead to begin with.)

Also, that’s another reason you should update frequently (e.g. daily or weekly): to keep compilation times reasonable by only ever updating a few packages at once.

Also also, as I said, I last used Gentoo two decades ago. Even back then, I found the compilation times… uh, at least “tractable.” 😅 I can only assume that with modern hardware they’re not bad at all, as for the most part, processing power has scaled faster than FOSS code complexity.