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I had a very similar situation many years ago. I worked for a public school district for 23 years in the IT dept, and one of the teachers told me about 10 years into working there that he finally has learned how to work with me. When I asked what he meant he said, “First I’m going to ask you for help with something and you’re going to tell me no. Then you’re going to laugh and say yes.” While I obviously thought my variety of snark was funny and not at all irritating for someone who just wants help, it really made me stop and think.

After resigning from that job, I emailed him to thank him because it really changed my attitude on how to respond to people in tickets and calls. He probably didn’t think much of it at the time but I hope he understands now how much of an impact he made on me.

I might still be an overly sarcastic fuckwit to my team (who responds in kind), but I’ve been told my customer service is always some of the best and I’m able to talk them off the edge, whether they’re pissed at our organization or if they’re in a tech crisis. I feel I’m able to read them much better now and if they get sarcastic, I can return their energy. But otherwise my default is warm responses and keeping calm until we’re done with the issue.

Lol yeah I still have old adventure games on floppy and CD from like 95. Obviously don’t have a floppy drive anymore nor an optical drive in over a decade.

Wow I hadn’t seen that since pre-YouTube.

The first example I ever have seen and my favorite was that Day of the Tentacle had a computer that would allow you to play the entire first game, Maniac Mansion.

While I do agree it was memorable (shit, we’re talking about it literally decades later), they weren’t exactly appetizing for a restaurant ad. I don’t remember a single sandwich name from them so it didn’t give me any meaningful brand recognition. Maybe it worked at the time, but no idea.

At this point you’re just fighting semantics. Even a commercial NAS is reliant on the software too, like with Synology. They run the disk management but also can run Docker and VMs with their built-in hypervisor.

Lol by your definition, it’s only freedom if they follow your silly sky magician. So yeah, absolutely not.

Yeah definitely fair enough. Lol thanks for the laugh about the icon though, sounds like something I’d do too.

I do think that Heroic is the perfect level of automatic vs manual for me. The only confusing bit for me is that if you specify an alternative executable, there’s no way of launching anything else except that executable until you delete it out, even if you use the launch drop-down to pick something else. Every once in a while I have to juggle those because of a config utility or something, or even a mod installer that I want to run in the same prefix. It’s little quirks that are annoying, but once I get things setup it’s all moot anyhow.

Haven’t even heard of Faugus until this post, so I won’t be able to sell you on it.

I used Lutris for quite a while but had to drop it because there’s some really bad network coding in there that causes it to essentially DDoS my DNS server if it can’t give what it expects. For example, when I had installed Dead Space Remake, it was looking for OG assets, which has been moved to a new location, and Remake took that original location. It was sending well over 1000 DNS requests a second for several seconds before my DNS server would 10 min blacklist my PC. If took me 2 weeks to figure out exactly what was happening because I wasn’t noticing it was Lutris specifically and was thinking my NIC drivers were killing my connection.

I moved to Heroic and tbh, I don’t see anything in Faugus that Heroic isn’t already doing. I have GOG, Epic, and Amazon games in there, cloud saves with GOG, achievements with GOG (but no pop-ups), and they’ve been using umu for a long time. Also automatically adds my games to Steam with assets. They also have a Wine manager and will actively check for game updates.

Does anyone know what Faugus does better? I’m interested, but like OP, I’d have to be sold on it too.

Was thinking the same thing, we lost our last one like 15 years ago. Actually really liked their subs, but I’ll always think of those terrible ads with the Spongmonkeys. No idea wtf they were thinking with greenlighting those.

You invited this guy but not us?!!

Well it’s one thing and then the other. I’ll let you decide what that means.

Ooooo I also have a dick. Can I have my own bowl too???

Yeah this is why I run a Mealie instance at home. Does a similar thing but also saves it to my own server where I can favorite things, setup cooking mode (shows ingredients per step), and even go to the original URL if my import missed something.

I still get the daily All Recipes emails about their recipe of the day and I’ve taken to deleting them immediately if they don’t give me the dish’s name in the subject because I’ll never have a need to look in my email for that recipe that some celebrity’s grandmother made for them as a kid.

I think you meant to reply to the comment I just made.

Nice touch adding it to the painting too.

That’s the level of inane all Hallmark movies are. Zero character development, no conflict plot devices, just a bunch of “awww that’s sweet” without making the audience use any kind of critical thinking. Eating cards is a step up.

I just rewatched that in the past few days, what a stupid but fantastic movie.

Agreed. As someone who dd’s Arch, never suggest Arch to a true Linux newbie. It’s just a lot more involving than someone new is prepared for generally. CLI has never bothered me, but I’ve been using CLI since MS-DOS 5.

Arch is something I would wait for until someone has had a chance to dip their toes in first to see if they even care to invest their time into learning.

Happened to me for like 15 years. I’m so glad she finally gave up it, especially when I was vehemently against having kids in the first place.