Flee to England.

It does seem to me that complaining about gendered language in source code is about as stupid as a moral panic over daemons in systemd, or vulgarities in source code comments. There is some place for it… but not much

On top of that, ‘he’/etc has been effectively gender ambivalent for a long time. I understand the desire to change that, but it’s still a normal thing in English language. Similar to ‘master’ in git repositories and IDE connections, though those are both much more recent and arguably referencing much worse.

If a dev insists on ‘she’ everywhere, or ‘they’ in places that read awkwardly, should we flame and blame? In fact, why not go and convince Firefox to use exclusively feminine language in their source, to balance things out. It sounds more sensible than taking up a political fight over this!

Also while you’re at it, ethical hacking is now done only by natural-human-skin-colour-hat hackers; background process on your computer are called abstract beings; your computer does not boot[strap], (‘pull itself up by its bootstraps’), it has affirmative action from the motherboard to get it started; and when I saw the article headline, I thought the issue would be bigger … that’s what they said.

Came here to say Simon Tatham’s puzzles.

I also like, from f-droid, Tower Jumper, and from Play, hillclimb racing.

• seen much praise of mindustry here on Lemmy, but not got into it myself
• rabbit escape is like lemmings/pingus
• I like go, but play casual. CrazyStone on Play works well for me. It’s doing something with the internet on startup, probably benign model updates, but I block its internet access.
• I also remember Doom and Destiny being very fun and fairly casual. The free version is not too bad on ads. The second one I never got far in - felt like it was constant ads interrupting gameplay

I didn’t realise they were rechargeable. Makes sense though.

You mean that lady who was in a movie once, right?

Took me a long time to understand this was stairs!

Also doubles for keeping leftovers fresh after a restaurant meal.

Depends, I think, if there’s an insulating gap between it and your metal skull.

And yet, if a ‘top NASA official’ were to ‘leak’ that the moon landings were actually fake, or a ‘journalist’ wrote a ‘dazzling exposé,’ we’d all dismiss the claim instantly as fake, instead of doubting the moon landing.

Anyway, everyone knows the moon landed in 1982 in Wales and that orb up in the sky is a projection by the US government to cover up their mistake.

Games don’t age well.

• football
• “the floor is lava”
• chess
• nibbles/snake
• myst
• snakes and ladders
• age of empires
• skyrim

And yet, if you do that to your girlfriend, people have issues. Double standard here, people! Double standard!

Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they’ve been waiting for.

Counterpoint: even without lock tight secrecy, leaks can be ignored and covered over. Also there are certain secrets governments really have been good at keeping for a long time.

In and of itself, I don’t think this is a good argument against any particular conspiracy theory.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn’t Feel Like Mine Anymore.

Aww.

If you love it, set it free!

set sail

Dude, nobody told me Cybertrucks are also wind powered!

If taking Cybertruck to an automatic car wash is necessary, Car Wash Mode closes all windows, locks the charge port, and disables windshield wipers, Sentry Mode, and walk-away door locking.

Doesn’t seem too stupid to me. The rest of your link looks mild enough too, just don’t use anything harsh on your exterior or the steel won’t look its best any more.

Then again, I forget the sort of rich person who buys a Tesla is also probably the sort of person who cries if it doesn’t look brand new every day, so yeah - sneeze and your beloved car is irrevocably besmirched.

Did you get the special chloroform-infused masks? I hear they’re the only ones that do the job properly.

• Endless sky
• Battle for Wesnoth
• Warzone2100
• Simon Tatham’s puzzle games
• Widelands
• OpenTTD
• OpenRCT2 (needs assets from original game)
• SuperTuxKart

Off the top of my head

Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won’t push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.

It’s a dark path. Next you might start making them watch outdated films, maybe even reading outdated books. Before you know it you’re teaching them pre WWII history and Newtonian mechanics.

Unity in Diversity