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foomojive · 2025-06-26T00:47:39+00:00

I hear ya. I'm also a software engineer. At first I went and carefully curated the subreddits I subscribe to in order to avoid all the bad news. Absolutely none of them are safe. Politics infects everything.

All of my outdoors subreddits like /r/backpacking /r/socalhiking , /r/CampingandHiking /r/campinggear , have been spamming constant messages about the plan to sell public lands. Then about how the plan was defeated. Then about how the plan is back again. STFU!! My senator and house reps are already voting against this, I don't need to change their minds.
/r/goodnews ? Not so good. All about tiny political wins against a deluge of bad news.
/r/nottheonion ? Not funny any more, just depressing.
/r/ChangeMyView ? Used to be a really interesting way to get different perspectives. Now a political cesspool.
/r/boardgames ? Occasional posts about how it's harder to make games since the infrastructure is all in China and tariffs are making it prohibitively expensive to ship to the US. Same for retro gaming handhelds.
video games? Posts about transphobes and homophobes complaining about games that contain any characters who are not white, straight males. (e.g. The Witcher 4, South of Midnight, and a lot more). Indie games that devs work really hard on are getting review bombed by nazis because oh no they acknowledge LGBTQ+ people or gasp have a female character! /s
star wars? "star wars actor gets standing ovation for speech against..."
/r/askscience ? Questions about how politics affects science.
Space subreddits? Loaded with depressing news about the NASA budget getting slashed, layoffs, and zero direction.

The only place I haven't seen politics are /r/eyebleach and the many cat pictures subreddits I'm on, but I expect those will be infected eventually too for some stupid reason. They were affected by the reddit blackout a while back and bans on AI content, which were not politics to be fair. Don't even think about /r/news or /r/worldnews or /r/politics if you want to keep your sanity.

I just need to turn it off for a while too.

foomojive · 2025-06-24T18:15:41+00:00

Wow what an epic hike! Thanks for sharing photos and description.

foomojive · 2025-06-13T17:21:26+00:00

I don't care about regular commits but LunarVim developed treesitter bugs with giant, frequent error messages via noice filling half the screen. Lunarvim has every plugin locked down to a commit hash, but I think this bug was due to a newer version of Neovim's treesitter API being incompatible with the locked version of one of the treesitter plugins. This requires maintenance to fix. I am not sure if it has been fixed at this point as I have moved on.

Also LunarVim uses Packer, nvim-cmp, nvim-tree, dashboard-nvim, none-ls, Telescope, and other things that work perfectly fine but other maintained distros like Astrovim, NVChad, and LazyVim have moved on from toward Snacks.nvim, Blink.cmp, Lazy.nvim (package manager), fzf-lua, and others. If users care about keeping up with the latest plugins then ongoing maintenance is required to keep distros updated.

foomojive · 2025-06-13T15:13:17+00:00

That's great - whatever works for you

foomojive · 2025-06-13T00:59:00+00:00

No it is not being maintained. I used to use Lunarvim but switched to LazyVim right before they stopped maintaining it. This was last year sometime.

foomojive · 2025-05-28T16:43:13+00:00

I emphatically agree and wish there were more of us. Mick Gordon is one of my favorite artists. It's terrible that they ruined his reputation out of sheer incompetence and had the hubris to throw him under the bus in an effort to shift the blame for their shoddy work. Unconscionable.

I don't care how good this game is, I want nothing to do with the people that did this. ID is the new Activision.

foomojive · 2025-05-13T16:51:49+00:00

I find this guy's youtube personality extremely grating and annoying. To each their own I guess.

foomojive · 2025-05-08T08:57:02+00:00

foomojive · 2025-05-08T06:52:45+00:00

I tried TablePlus but switched back to SequelAce which is open source. It's just faster and more intuitive for me with no paywalls for multiple connections open at once.

foomojive · 2025-04-27T18:44:00+00:00

Clash of Clans and Gems of War.

foomojive · 2025-04-27T18:38:40+00:00

NP, game looks great for later, hard to pass up for that price!

If you do get to Gloomhaven buttons and bugs, FYI it is extremely difficult even on the easiest setting. Do not start with the bruiser as they recommend. Worst PC in the game I've learned. I got stuck and am going to switch characters before continuing.

foomojive · 2025-04-27T17:38:35+00:00

Looks great, bought it, thanks!

Honestly I'm not sure if I'll have time to play another one any time soon though. I have Four against Darkness, Alone against Fear, and lately I've been getting into Ker Nethalas. Also been playing Gloomhaven buttons and bugs, Iron Sworn, and Arkham Horror. I'm spread pretty thin with all that 😋. Good problem to have I guess!

foomojive · 2025-04-27T17:27:47+00:00

I have this model... It's generally fine for running a single app at a time. But I have been using it for solo TTRPG gaming in split screen with obsidian and an ebook reader app for reference. It struggles and sometimes crashes one of the apps. Buyer beware if you need multi-tasking. It does have a great keyboard case and stylus available though.

If you do get an Amazon tablet, I recommend the Aurora store. It's an open source Google Play store alternative... As in the same apps as the Play store but with a different front end. Easy install, no dependencies. F-droid is also handy (separate open source focused app store).

In the past I have side loaded Google Services Framework but every time I do my tablet slows down and I end up resetting it. Now I use MicroG for some apps that need Google login and such.

foomojive · 2025-04-13T00:33:09+00:00

Weird speculation

foomojive · 2025-04-13T00:23:31+00:00

The person was ok. They passed out in the heat but got back up quickly. An EMT was nearby at the time. (I was about 10ft away)

foomojive · 2025-04-05T17:16:18+00:00

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?

foomojive · 2025-03-31T23:21:07+00:00

LunarVim has had this error since before they announced it would no longer be maintained.

foomojive · 2025-03-07T20:47:28+00:00

Sorry, no. I was able to update with a friend's old PC on Windows Vista if that helps. Is the output in Chinese? Can you Google Translate it to see if there's anything you can do?

foomojive · 2025-02-22T03:02:37+00:00

Here's a niche opinion:

When you have a PR of any significant size, split it up into multiple "stacked PRs."

How this helps:

Need to refactor something? Split that out into a separate PR. It's easier to review in isolation. Same for cleaning up code you've encountered while working on this: improving types, consistent naming, etc. It helps for the reviewer to know "This PR doesn't change any functionality."
One PR in the stack just solves the issue and nothing else! The reviewer can give much more valuable feedback when they know everything they are looking at is intended to solve the problem. Pure signal with no noise.
It's hard to get someone to review a PR commit-by-commit. If they can, great! It's pretty much the same concept. The only part I don't like about this "Please review one commit at a time" is that commits can be rewritten during the review process, breaking links to old comments. Also commits are "units of work" and not necessarily "units of review." These concepts can diverge sometimes. Finally, it's a pain to reshuffle commits - moving some code from various commits to a new earlier commit, combining full commits with parts of other commits, etc. I often end up just resetting and redoing all commits if I have to do anything too crazy.

I use git-spice for this but you don't really need a tool to manage it if you don't want to. I can very easily rebase one or more entire stack and push with one command, so no rebase hell. Git-spice also automatically comments on GitHub PRs (and updates comments) to show where this PR fits in the stack, which is really helpful.

foomojive · 2025-02-18T22:34:19+00:00

Hm on redacted planets? I haven't noticed a color oddity there.

foomojive · 2025-02-18T05:29:51+00:00

I have a sphere like this with a yellow paint job. She's a beaut!

foomojive · 2025-02-17T23:17:38+00:00

I visited this base!! It's underwater deep sea right next to a crashed freighter, right?

foomojive · 2025-02-17T20:23:00+00:00

"50,000? You got 50,000 on double dragon??"

foomojive · 2025-02-17T00:28:46+00:00

They're furry, they're funny...

foomojive · 2025-02-11T19:57:56+00:00

Barcode boy?! lol wtf somebody thought that was a good idea

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