Something that might happen once in ten years isn't worth the additional security surface exposure. IMO

Be not afraid.

And then you have Terry Pratchett who gave us Mister Teatime.

So mad at them for cancelling that. It was a bright spot in a bleak landscape at the time.

"Hey let's make a game for nerds and ignore the OS with a dramatically higher uptake among nerds"

Haven't had trouble with wifi on Linux in like 12 years.

Bluetooth on the other hand...

I guess English isn't a language in the same way that male isn't a gender and white isn't a race and hetero isn't an orientation.

I accidentally pocket-dialed 911 the other day, and was able (much too easily, I thought) tell them that it was a false alarm. I was bounced to the cop line, but they just asked a few basic questions and let it go.

I was relieved, but on another level, concerned about the damage that a good bullshitter could do.

oh man. I played SO much KSP. I think my lifelong love of indie games partly stems from being a Linux user: I tried things I wouldn't otherwise have tried. Factorio, as well, was a Linux game right out of the box. SNES and NES emulators.

Sure, a lot of the latest and greatest corporate shiny didn't work (or not without caveats) but there were tons of perfectly good games.

What is 'viability'? Like, if viability is this Holy Grail state where everything works perfectly, we're setting ourselves up for failure.

It's funny how stories of actual refugees hit callused emotions but some damn bunnies hit the spot every time.

I still reach for Perl when bash isn't enough.

100%

Nobody forced you to click this thread. =p