All I can say is that the Wiki article is not representative of the show or the manga.

We just keep inching closer and closer to Planetes instead of Star Trek

I have also worked on many engineering teams, both as management and engineering. Still, the execs are the ones that get left behind. The juniors at least have knowledge and ability to continue honing their craft. If they’re passionate about it, they will push through and make it work.

The execs just extract money, even in the scenarios you presented, and without any developers they can’t accomplish shit.

Having said that, I get what you’re saying, but again that is something that exists without this idea of “deprofessionalization.” Juniors get the shit end of the stick in a lot of industries, even outside development and engineering. On the flipside, so do seniors when the execs aren’t willing to pay what they’re worth, so they hire green juniors instead.

People in between will be left out.

The way I interpreted this was, “the execs will be left out because they can’t do any of this themselves.” They don’t even have the ideas.

Also yea, Factorio is an impressive game. Even the modders are insane, and I don’t really run into bugs ever. Well… software bugs that is.

If nobody else understands it, you can make up literally anything you want about how much more complicated it is than initially thought.

lmao… the TED talk is hilarious. Midway through, he starts explaining how Jurassic Park did vfx, basically showing how absolutely beastly and talented they were overcoming challenges in practical effects at that scale; then goes on to show this slopshit garbage.

It’s really sad that it took the “artist” 2 whole weeks to make this.

The modern luddite may want to set their sights on certain data centers…

I don’t think it’s about having extra functionality to no one else has.

SteamOS is more restrictive than other distros out of the box. A user with no experience whatsoever would have a harder time messing things up because rootfs is RO and gets wiped on every update. Kinda forces the average user into using flatpak/Discover to mimic Windows and Apple app stores. In other words, it’s all about the psychology, not the distro itself.

Not to mention there is an actual company with an incentive to maintain the distro, with a massive focus on gaming. They have a ton of testing resources that a lot of distro maintainers do not have in that regard.

Having said all that, installing a distro other SteamOS on my Steam Deck was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’ve been using Linux for 32 years, I do not like SteamOS because they are trying to make it dumb for general consumption. Similar reasons why I despise Windows, besides the whole being owned by Microsoft thing.

Not to mention the sense of pioneering something. Like I imagine calculating the Moon landing is something you’re happy to spend 80+ hours a week on, especially when basic needs are taken care of.

I was going to try and do some hunting for potential RPG Maker gems, but then I searched the tag on Itch 😅 I’ll probably stick to the Multiverse mod for FTL…

doing roleplay in my head and making up story

I used to love doing that. With the tech mods, I always RP’d I was sent ahead of a colony ship to get production and residence setup and ready.

Give NixOS a look-see. Takes a different approach to package management, but for an engineer that want’s customization abilities it’s probably one of the top choices. I don’t usually recommend this for newbies, but if you’re an engineer it won’t be too bad and simply using it may give you more skills to add to your repertoire when looking for work.

A lot of people put time into maintaining their dotfiles, but NixOS takes that idea to the infrastructure-as-code level when you use it as your daily driver.

ETA: in terms of gaming, with Wine/Proton + Steam/Lutris/Heroic pretty much any distro will be workable

Only 4? Pretty sure you could double your catalog for the price of one oblivious remaster

Just so you have more reference. Original link is in OP’s link, but I think they had too many tracking arguments in the URL so wayback didn’t work. Always test before going live!

Original Article

Working Archive Link

This is pretty much the exact same experience for the remastered, except it’s 120GB (vs 5GB) installed and the gfx are modern.

If you want the Skyrim experience, but a different game, try out the Enderal workshop overhaul on Steam.

My first thought as well. Feeding on the anti-Tesla hype to gain some clout and probably funding.

Probably for the same reasons that healthy food is a luxury. Make it easier and far less tedious to get the shitty end of the stick. Most of the proles will just give up and accept it, especially in a world that seems to put instant gratification at the top of the TODO list over self-reliance and self-respect. In other words, fashion over function.

If they can surveil our conversations and control what we see and hear, then they can advertise shittier foods, which then puts us in the pockets of insurance and pharma once we develop conditions and diseases from said shitty food. Once you’re in that loophole, it’s already been said by the pharma execs themselves, “healing your customers is a bad business model.”

I spent what felt like many moons trying to compile Gentoo when I was a kid. There was only the wiki and a gritty forum for getting answers, nothing in real-time. I didn’t have very much knowledge of the kernel or messing with modules, and was certainly lost on getting a desktop environment going even after I got past the kernel part.

It was such an experience, I decided to become a janitor.

ETA: also this guy (not strictly linux, but same vibes)

IMO, anything dubbed a “War on ____”, especially by officials, is actually about precisely this.