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Anytime, feel free to dm me if you get stuck during setup.

I can also recommend getting a Steam Deck for WoW. Install the ConsolePort addon to easily play with a controller. Its great for casual levelling :)

I play both Classic and Retail on Pop!_OS using Lutris. Chose Pop! because my machine has an RTX 3090. The setup was super easy, and I actually get better overall performance than I did on Windows.

Occasional moisture is fine, but don’t let it collect sitting water.

In my experience, the best pipeline is GDScript > Python > (HTML/CSS/JS) > Then branch out depending on needs/interest. My students are 10-15 year-olds, and throwing them directly into something like C# would not work.

Almost all students are extremely aversive to coding at first. Godot is brilliant in the way they can build most things visually at first, getting them invested in their games before programming with all its debugging and hair-ripping is introduced.

I also recently discovered the Block Coding Addon for Godot, which has been a game changer for my dyslexic students.

After the Unity debacle I switched to using Godot in my classroom, for teaching programming through Game Development. It’s been a huge success! It’s a much more user-friendly engine for beginners, and it’s so lightweight that even a bunch of shitty school laptops run it with no issues. Love Godot!

But that would require them to reign in the very same companies that sponsor them. One can hope, but it seems unlikely.

I have an unfinished Software Engineering degree. While studying, I started a small businesses to do some freelance IT work on the side and one client offered me a full-time job, so I put the studies on hold and then never looked back. Been climbing through different positions and companies since then. Experience is valued much higher than a diploma, especially in an industry that evolves too quickly for education to keep up. I quit the industry recently to start teaching, because there is huge need for teachers that can teach programming, and working with people is much more rewarding than a big paycheck (imo).

In all of my job interviews, I’ve been asked more about the company I started while studying, than the degree that I quit. So I guess my tip is to start your own thing or start teaching. Having your own business with a license also makes it way easier for big companies to hire you for contract work.

For a democracy to work it’s people need to act like political consumers. To do so, they need to be informed about the products they consume and their alternatives.

Also, a lot of Scandinavian libraries are switching their public desktop PCs to Linux.

LightBurn should hire better developers then

Imagine a company going bankrupt being the reason you lose your (AI) partner. The future is odd.

I have a palm tattoo, and I would definitely give that a red. I dread going to get it renewed.

And 99% of computer use for most people is in a browser. No need for an overly complex OS, with constant stupid pop-ups to ruin that browser experience.

Defintiely! I recently bought a used Thinkpad and slapped Pop!_OS on it for my father-in-law. He’s 73 and he’s loving it! He proudly tells his friends that he is now “a part of a computer revolution”.

I really like the idea of Nebula, but the way they market themselves as “creator owned” without being an actual workers cooperative seems deceitful (still much better than YouTube, though!)

I hate heat guns. This is a brilliant alternative, thanks for the idea!

Made the switch to Pop!_OS from Win10 half a year ago, and my machine’s been purring like a happy cat ever since. All my games still run (thanks, Proton!) and some even had a significant performance boost (RDR2 being the best example) with a 3090. Only problem I had was getting DaVinci Resolve to work properly, but I caved and bought the Studio version which runs perfectly.

I’ve printed usable pieces on my Prusa Mini with the highest detail settings. Far from perfect, but definitely usable.

If you haven’t heard of it before, LeoCAD is pretty cool for modelling with LEGO.

If you need DaVinci Resolve, just know that when you switch to Linux, you will lose the ability to read and render mp4 files. You will need to buy the full version to be able to do this on Linux.

I use my desktop primarily for video editing, 3D modeling, and a bit of gaming, and it’s been running Pop!_OS since December with absolutely zero issues. The only annoyance has been the mp4 file thing in DaVinci.