Normal person sad. Temporary sad. A-few-manageable-aspects sad.

Not that the sad bit is even the deciding factor here when we’re talking about an expensive face brick that would probably give me motion sickness in games.

Tell us without telling us

Still using a 1050Ti, non-fiber internet, not buying stuff, and not even the right kind of sad for that.
Mark Zuckerburg sniping me for sport is a more likely scenario.

To me it seems like the VR market might have a high-end foothold but otherwise seems like a “try again in 30 years” for the general market (so, slightly better than 3D TV’s fate). Which isn’t really Valve-specific.

Though I’d also say <top level comment> is uncharitable way to frame it, the headline reminds me of the free PC codes for Portal 2 with Co-op crossplay early on in the Steam days. Though I’m sure AI-market-induced cost increase is a big part of it so apology actually isn’t a bad way to put it, without ‘failure’ factoring in.

I don’t use Gnome3 because I dislike CSD, also Gnomes should be sending me to the Nordic mythology realm known as “the Hidden World” NOT removing features from my file manager.

I’ve done similar things with pan-roasted vegetables (some mix* of zucchini, onion, carrot, celery, red bell or jalapeno, mushroom (roughly that order for most-to-least used) lid is used on-and-off). I’ll throw pepperoni bits in at the end to brown a bit.

If I’m lazy I’ll just add sauce after plated, sometimes cheese in the pan (not long enough to cause a mess), or throw it all in a tortilla and cook it again in an old electric grill (easier to dip it in sauce instead, too).

A few times I’ve pre-soaked pasta noodles in a 28oz bowl, microwaved them, drain then brown the noodles a bit in the pan with everything else and transfer it back to the noodle bowl and layer in the other pizza ingredients (w/further microwaving, plate-as-lid).

* usually 2-3 things, though I’ve done just zucchini+sauce before

It’s absolutely true. And that my outdated Arch system is likely still more fresh than Debian.

That said yeah I would like something that can update itself whenever without breaking*, certainly if it expects me to update frequently. And manual interventions (ideally used for things that actually have a choice/fix, not just what ends up being a pasted command or two) should be a warn-step/update-blocker (depending on situation).

Though what the image is probably about (2025-12-20, nVidia 10-series turned legacy, legacy driver put onto AUR) is a bad situation in its own right particularly later when the AUR issues started happening. And it is really an update-or-don’t (or get an AMD card somehow) issue.

Other distros likely do solve the issue of updating, though from what I can see aren’t as good with packaging (dependency handling, lacking optional dependencies) and package availability. Which can be worked around somewhat too, but still needs more trial/input.

Annoyances are also multiplied for me by having non-fiber internet (also shared).

* TBC I also mean the act of updating itself (outdated keys etc), not just the outcome

this year

And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support

Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

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I still don’t and I’m not young. At this point due to cost-to-benefit it’s becoming increasingly rare for me to buy things.

Health issues probably don’t help, though. EDIT: I also once had an unpaid internship at a car dealership (nothing else was available) and that didn’t paint employment in a great light for me either.

I’d probably get a monkey’s-paw trip to 3000-years into a bleak future* or straight-up non-existence.

The time portal, after I tried to explain it: “So you want a low-bureaucracy down-to-earth human life, in the far future where you’re a not-always-online symbiotic cyborg?”

* where I wouldn’t understand anyone, but they’re just speaking Swedish

Neat. Nearly watchable. I tried kitty/sixel options but those are too high-res and cause even more frame-drops (at least on the older hardware I tested it on, no drops playing with normal mpv), with a 360p video it’s isn’t scaled up.

Then again, I guess it’s a whole lot more watchable than the blinkenlights (Starwars) thing via telnet.

Seems like if it could do full XR maybe it could work via positioning without a camera, particularly at a distance where accuracy won’t matter so much (make it larger+closer). Mapping every billboard would be a community effort. Art selection, too… though I wouldn’t trust people to not put their own self-promotion up either.

It also wouldn’t help with branded trucks.

I mean it probably does cover that, one concept is bridging (connections between different groups, someone you met by chance not because they’re your neighbor) and political polarization has actually increased due to our voting system.

Similarly I’d bet a lot of people only called themselves christian because it really wasn’t a choice (upbringing, peer/family/institution pressure, cognitive dissonance), the sort of thing that makes a lot less sense in recent years where hypocrisy is on full display (be it politics, cover-ups, or megachurches).

For race, I think the most homogeneous communities that exist probably are still more alone today. A lot of the community options were built around places or conditions that disappeared and never recovered, or clubs that may still exist but don’t get new members.

The Void install was relatively easy, though maybe because I used the XFCE edition as I wanted that anyway.

That said, I’ve used Arch for 7+ years and am still using it on my main machine just can’t update. Give me a Polaris-or-better GPU and some faster internet and yeah it probably wouldn’t be an issue. I probably still would prefer slower+more stable updates (and ideally not just a specific time-window) though.

The last time I tried to use Flatpak for Krita, it had to download the Flatpak-specific nVidia driver which is my issue when it comes to internet speed again.

I don’t actually care about it either (or any sport, really) but it was once a symbol for social connection, and y’know the book Bowling Alone.

I feel like I covered it in the other half of my comment. See also Bowling Alone for further context. Car-centric living (and sprawl) is a big part of it in the US.

Bowling together. (And a lot of other social things that are a result of a lack of trust, not lacking trust directly related to said activity… unless you’re counting high cost/private equity as part of broken trust)

On Lemmy, the save function (star icon) does give a number beside the comment count icon. Like 4 comments (2 new). Still a manual check, though.

Also Lemmy’s comment discovery (the chat sort method) is harder to follow with context, not as good as Kbin’s unread highlighting was.

For me the legacy nVidia driver put on the AUR is a no-go. Even before that, non-fiber internet added friction to updating especially when I forgot about it for a while (or when manual intervention is needed).

I installed Void Linux on an old machine, I think updating might be more forgiving but the packaging system isn’t quite as good* and for some things I’d have to rely on appimages (I don’t want redundancy from Flatpak etc).

Tumbleweed/Slowroll might be a better answer if I didn’t hate Patterns.

* after adding some applications, already had to manually install missing dependencies, optional dependencies is also not handled

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Marked safe from
spiral cult
today until they have mechs or can turn me into a “biocomputer*”

* head in a jar that can connect to stuff