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Two tips:
I have not tried running WINE yet but I plan on doing so soon.
Steam “just works” on Linux, you can install it via flatpak (which I use) or from their deb repo. It includes “Proton”, which is a fancy bundle of wine and some extra open source valve sauce to make it nice and easy to use. Any game that runs on the steam deck also runs on Linux via proton, and there’s no messing around at all. It looks and feels just like steam on Windows, and thousands of games just work with no setup or config beyond clicking the big blue and green buttons to install and run. Not EVERY games works, but tons do. I’d heavily recommend this over raw wine to a beginner.
The second tip is not to ask what you can do on Linux. The answer, to a first approximation, is that you can do everything on Linux that you can do on Windows or OSX. I daily drive all three, and mostly do the same stuff on them. Instead, ask YOURSELF what you WANT to do on Linux. Then Google and ask us HOW to do it… or what the nearest approximation is if the precise thing you want to do doesn’t work on Linux.
1·3 years agoI think a couple things are in play:
- Very few people consumed these comics as we are… reading each one in sequence. You’d more likely sporadically encounter them in the funnies section of a physical newspaper. Which was a pretty hit/miss proposition to begin with. No one expected every one to be a winner, and people would routinely skip over stuff that didn’t interest them without thinking about it too hard. You’re operating under the assumption that Far Side is a classic, but at the time people would just cruise by and think “that comic is stupid, just like 60% of the other stupid comics on this page”. And folks were pretty happy to have 40% of comics be a bit funny.
- What made Far Side a classic was not its consistency. Rather, there were a few strips that became cultural phenomena. Basically a handful of hits that were breakout memes of the 80s and 90s. Colleges used to sell t-shirts of the school for the gifted strip with the kid pushing on the door that says pull, which is pretty accessible and one of those breakout hits.
- Because of those breakout hit strips, some folks got into Larson’s style of humor enough that fewer of his strips were inscrutable to them and he had a lasting market.
- Other comments point about topical references and those are also a big deal. If someone sees a beans meme with no context 30y from now, it ain’t gonna be funny. But a few weeks ago on lemmy, it was part of a contextual zeitgeist that was more or less about “these idiots will upvote anything, I’m one of the idiots… I’ll upvote this!” and it kind of captured the exuberant excitement of not knowing what lemmy was but wanting it to be something. Similarly, these strips often weren’t intended to last multiple generations. They assumed you were reading the newspaper RIGHT NOW… and so could reference current events very obliquely and still be accessible.
TLDR: Like a stupid meme, many Larson comics require shared transient context we’re missing now. Some are also just fukin weird, like cow tools. But some were very accessible and became hugely popular. These mega-star strips cemented Far Side’s popularity, and which gave Larson the autonomy to stay weird when he chose. Now we waste time trying to figure out what they meant.
There’s a few potential directions from which to answer this question:
- This community is a fine place to discuss pathfinder 2e things. And in that respect at least it’s similar to /r/Pathfinder2e.
- Lemmy.ml is not a great instance that suggest new Lemmy users to create an account on, as it’s gotten overloaded with the influx of new users and adding more accounts there is disproportionately likely to get the instance into performance problems. See https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770 for details. Instead recommend folks to pick an instance to join that currently has less than 500 monthly users from https://join-lemmy.org/instances.
- No matter what instance someone joins, they can subscribe to this community which is homed on lemmy.ml, and federation will allow them to read and post comments on this community irrespective of what Lemmy instance they have an account on. Well, almost no matter what instance they choose. They should check lemmy.ml/instances/ to ensure the instance they’re about to join is federated with Lemmy.ml, but almost all are.
- The /r/Pathfinder2e mods haven’t made any statements about the API changes or 3rd party apps. There’s little chance of them supporting a mass migration of the whole community anytime soon (it’s also not clear that the Lemmy ecosystem would gracefully handle that many people joining together). This is best thought of as an independent Pathfinder community that likely shares some people overlap with the subreddit (for now at least, I’m in both).
Maybe this gives you a few ways to think about your personal interaction here vs /r/Pathfinder2e, and ideas about what you’d want to suggest to friends or folks you like to chat about pf2e with.
I use k8s at work and have built a k8s cluster in my homelab… but I did not like it. I tore it down, and currently using podman, and don’t think I would go back to k8s (though I would definitely use docker as an alternative to podman and would probably even recommend it over podman for beginners even though I’ve settled on podman for myself).
Overall, the simplicity and lightweight resource consumption of podman/docker are are what I value at home. The extra layers of abstraction and constraints k8s employs are valuable at work, where we have a lot of machines and alot of people that must coordinate effectively… but I don’t have those problems at home and the overhead (compute overhead, conceptual overhead, and config-overhesd) of k8s’ solutions to them is annoying there.