I used my first Wacom tablet for a long time. 15 years or so?

It used serial port. Kids these days often don't know about serial ports, I guess.

Linux support was rock solid though, all the way. (Edit: however, I think toward the end they basically said "serial tablets are unsupported now, but you can try to enable the support and recompile and see if it still works")

Well technically oxygen isn't scarce, it's just that the atmospheric density is too low to support continued human habitation. Wait, literally speaking oxygen molecules are more scarce. Don't do this to me, language no longer works that far up in the mountains. I'm no mountaineer, I don't know know how to make it work, maybe these experts can

Local photo shops (yes, this city has a few) all sell albums and have print services and I think one of them even develops films (weekly, not really in a hour).

We also used to have a service where you could mail in film rolls and they develop and print and scan them. (Ran into a few floppies and CDs from them recently. Nostalgia blast.) They're still in business! Though they just offer "Download our photo album design software and turn your photos into epic printed albums (or whatever)" sort of services.

(Ironically, read this post just as I was scanning 35mm negatives)

I'm in the crowdfunding credits for Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, and that film was made before crowdfunding was cool. Preordered the DVD too, and wasn't disappointed.

See, America? Gun control is not the end of the world! You can safely implement sensible firearms legislation. You can just move to Some Other Thing after that! It's not hard!

Er, yes, my point was copyright very much concerns what you're allowed to do with data. But that goes beyond distribution. Derivative works are a complicated topic.

My point stands, whether you technically can copy stuff has no bearing on whether you're allowed to use it and for what purpose.

Neverwinter Nights is the best PC game I've played, all thanks to the custom content the players made.

Bioware made the toolset and modding support a big part of the prerelease interviews and live demos. The message to the tabletop RPG crowd was "hey, you can finally build and run your D&D modules as a real DM-led multiplayer group experience online". Probably the only problem with that marketing was that making modules from scratch was still an involved process and making usually needed scripting skill, so maybe the TTRPG crowd didn't end up as enthusiastic as they could. But people still ended up making boatloads of great singleplayer and multiplayer-capable adventure modules! And the multiplayer persistent worlds were essentially like MMOs but in small scale.

I think the built-in campaign was more of a hindrance in retrospect, because if you hadn't heard this, you probably expected another game like Baldur's Gate 1/2. A lot of people went in thinking that the official NWN campaign was the main offering. The campaign was incredibly mediocre by Bioware standards because Wizards of the Coast was incredibly needy. They wanted high level of control, and essentially only approved a committee-built pile-of-meh plot, leaving Bioware to build something around that.

This, by the way, led to Bioware swearing they'd not work with needy licensors anymore and ended up designing Dragon Age instead.

(And if anyone is saying "wait, didn't this just happen again with Baldur's Gate 3?" Yes. Yes it did. WotC is basically impossible to work with.)

I'm sure they spend a lot of time monitoring right wing extremists.

Now, acting to stop them? That's a matter of debate if they ever do that effectively.

But the monitoring part? That is what they do diligently. Learning as much as possible!

Can someone still developing tell me what I should use for the backend today?

I recommend checking out Python (Django) and Ruby (Ruby on Rails) if you want nice and easy modern Web frameworks that also aren't that weird if you have PHP experience.

Also I can never understand GIT as a single developer. The fuck is that? I've tried everything to understand.

Versioning your code with Git makes it much easier to experiment with new ideas. Cocked up a file? Pull it from the previous version. Create new branches for experiments, merge them in if they work, toss them if they don't, or keep them around just in case, without them ever getting in your way in the "real" version.

And if you keep the code in a server (GitHub etc), that gives you a backup location and makes it easier to work on code on multiple systems.

Reminds me of how in some old Unix system, /bin/true was a shell script.

...well, if it needs to just be a program that returns 0, that's a reasonable thing to do. An empty shell script returns 0.

Of course, since this was an old proprietary Unix system, the shell script had a giant header comment that said this is proprietary information and if you disclose this the lawyers will come at ya like a ton of bricks. ...never mind that this was a program that literally does nothing.

That's it, I'm going to skip Switch 2 and get a Steam Deck next. And I'll stick to stuff that can run Dolphin.

(Learns that Xbox Series can also run Dolphin without modding) Well shit, I'm set for life, now just need to sort out the portable console situation

Mastodon is my go-to "shout in the void about my goings-on" platform.

Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.

Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.

Edit: Oh and I have a Matrix account but despite the fact that I mentioned it to literally all of my friends, nobody uses it. I keep it around in case someone actually wants to send me private messages because Mastodon is kinda badly suited for that.