Basically every decently pricey art peripheral: Linux support? Hell yeah we got you covered, here you go, we wrote drivers no problem. Basically every decently pricey art software: Linux support? Go fuck yourself and die in a fire freak. You'll get a Linux support never, and like it.

My last word on the matter

Vaxxed?

Help, I've fallen down an Art Hole™, and now I just want to make little 3D vignettes.

Part of me is like, "you could build a more suitable PC for half the (ideal) price again of the Steam Machine", and then the other part of me is like, "you just spent $40 on the sketchiest possible SATA SSD w/ reviews that say it dies in 3 months for your 8 year old laptop, no you can't moron".

The cheapest I can get a build with similar RAM, architecture, and storage to the Steam Machine is $850. That's *without* a case and power supply because I have ones sitting around. That's for an RX7600, R5 7600, and 16GB of DDR5. If Valve beats $800 in that form factor its a great price.

ONE WEEK! UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

I can't wait to derail all my makerspace projects making new faceplates for my Steam Machine.

IMO, it's kinda a massive whiff that the Steam Machine doesn't support common storage standards like NVMe and SATA. That said, if its priced right, I will absolutely buy it to do Blender work at my local MakerSpace so I don't have to drag this ancient laptop around.

The original Steam controller is one of the cheapest feeling controllers I've ever held, so someone with access to a free one of those things or too much money is gonna have to convince me it's not ass this time around.

Can't wait to lose my robot tail by going up a down escalator. Just like Jason Bourne would.

I can't tell if my laptop is slow, or Zed is just a little buggy when it comes to building, but I spent most of my hour of downtime in the middle of the work day just waiting for my Bevy project to be indexed / built. I really like Zed and don't want to go back to VSCode but this is a bit much.

I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm very, very good at drawing the circles for the owl, and very bad at drawing the rest of the owl. Metaphorically speaking.

I'm really tired of living in what I call The Devil's Grundle, which is the economic space where making more money actually loses you money. Now that includes moving out of my state's expanded Medicaid range, thanks to spineless worms like Chuck Schumer.

Idk man, seems kinda overboard to have a hockey highlight that runs 30 seconds of ads every 1.5 minutes.

I've been slowly setting up a home server based syncing system and git for my projects because there's not a trustworthy person in all of tech these days, and I just nearly nuked my entire Obsidian vault trying to unfuck a few files.

Color me somewhat disappointed that Guillermo del Toro was unable to overcome his sentimentality to make a Frankenstein suitable for the current cultural moment. It's not bad, but it is far too focused on the interpersonal drama, and far too little on the more prescient technological themes.

As someone who worked in media, the immediate reaction to the Wired/Conde firings being "it doesn't help anyone to cancel your subscription" is profoundly strange to me, personally. Your readers' relationship with the company that employs you has nothing to do with their feelings towards you.

At what point do we just all agree Geoff Keighley doesn't actually like games or the people that make them?

I spent all day cycling through linux desktop environments trying to find one that isn't being weird about Blender (Hyprland) and authoritarian nonsense that thinks you're going to light your computer on fire if it gives you any options (Gnome). I'm not sure I'm better off, but Cinnamon is it.

Yeah, hey, hi, um, WHAT?! YOU'RE DOING WHAT WITH WHAT?! youtu.be/fdI1ZJtAJmI

Very fun to watch the GOPers get washed basically everywhere. Very annoying that I have to pay a county that canceled all the transportation projects that would benefit my town a regressive sales tax now.

Having to look at but not buy these is the world doing a terrorism against me specifically.

God Gnome is just awful man. I had to switch because hyprland was being weird and now it's trying to auto suspend in the middle of a long build because I can't actively use inputs.

Blender is absolutely cooked to shit on anything running hyprland right now. This is not a themed version of blender, this is what hyprland is displaying.

I've reached the point in this bevy project where I'm tinkering with different ideas that I just add a comment along the lines of "TODO: This shit sucks ass, but it technically does what I need so make it suck less later, idk" when something is 70% done.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

The full zip hoodie I've had for 20 years now is finally properly falling apart and I'm beside myself, because I know I'll never own another piece of clothing this good again.

My costume didn't arrive in time so now I've descended into the hell of Sprit Halloween for the first time in my life. This shit is crazy.

I still think Zed's patronizing "you really should use AI before you decide you don't want to" spiel on their website is insulting bullshit, but the fact that the AI shit goes away when you turn it off and the outline panel in the sidebar have sold me on never opening VSCode again.

Never mind, disregard this, the vibes I got off Graphite are now proven accurate by their website. It's possible someone forks it and strips the AI nonsense, but right now they're full bore on that stuff exactly like I expected they'd be.

I knew that Canva was going to take a big, messy, AI generated shit all over Affinity but it still fucking sucks ass.

I'm stuck in a room where I can't run cargo update on my laptop because it'll turn into a leaf blower and it's killing me.

You can tell I'm having a normal one because leaving work my brain went from "I don't know what a Quaternion is, I just know the sound I make when I see it", to "Quat sounds like an arcane slur you hear playing CounterStrike", to "Ray son, Quat daughter" in the span of about 5 minutes.

I booted up the PlayStation store just now and got the sinking feeling that Microsoft cynical, gross strategy to mulch the games industry into a homogenized mush they can use their money to hoover up is actually going to work. Fuck.

I don't know what it is about Bevy, but despite eliminating all the cushy features of other engines, I'm just enjoying working in it. What felt like completing an inscrutable chore in other engines actually just feels like an accomplishment in Bevy.

My laptop falls on its face when I plug it into a 1440p monitor and I think I'm going to expire.

Living on the edge*! (* typing cargo run into the terminal and then trying to do something else on my 8 year old laptop and just saying fuck it if the thing locks up)

This is some absolute S tier bullshit. No, in fact, I do not want to "build" with your dog shit "agent mode". This isn't even main VS Code, it's the OSS fork, this is supposed to be the light weight version. Why the fuck is this shit in here by default?

Why change for the better, when you could get on board with *squints* doing the same thing, but this time with some extra stuff that lights your constituents neighborhoods on fire every summer and/or kills them.

I just tried to access the Unreal Engine source code on github for the first time in a while, and man is github fucking cooked man. Support site is completely useless for anything, and it kills the UE repo's loading after 30 seconds for taking too long.

3.5hrs of neighbor's small dog barking every 30 seconds. I fear I shall never escape this waking nightmare alive.

I have slightly miscalculated on the length needed for the handle of my Bob Barker microphone. Also I am just straight ass at designing threads.

The true toll of ADHD is that I have no practical use for any of these amazing little planners and diaries.

Reflexively ran a build command on my 8 year old laptop, send help

I gotta extend an apology to Phil Spencer. I have referred to him as *the* video game terrorist, and clearly he's part of a larger organization that seeks to cause maximum industry chaos.

I now have access to an occasionally functional California Speed cabinet. Which I think has fuck potentiometers in the pedals or just fucked connections in it somewhere. Idk. I replaced one of the pedal springs, but it's either 80% on or completely off and has a second hand pot on the brakes.

I genuinely don't understand what has compelled so many people to take swipes at Hades 2 in my feed lately. All I've seen about it is people being like "Hades 2 is a waste of space, here's something better" and like... the fuck is this desperate ideological vaulting maneuver?