I did once, for about nine months when I was 18.

Then an exorcism happened, I became doubtful and finally stopped believing.

I changed jobs during the pandemic. I asked if I could work remotely permanently, they said yes. It’s in my contract I work from home, not the office. I’ve been watching the “sea change” as working remotely has been removed from various companies and wondering why? If all the research points to it being better, then - again - why? The speculation about it being related to real estate is depressing!

Oh the horror! I have a laptop running Linux! Two laptops even!!!

Somebody help me!

Windows is too bloated to run on said laptops. On one, during it’s life, it could barely do an update! I eventually wiped Windows and put Linux on it. It worked fine, just not very fast. I mean 4Gbytes is a bit of a squeeze.

12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.

I deleted mine by hand, they still returned. I’ve taken to editing them and replacing the text with [deleted]. Seems to be working better for now.

My main system is Windows, I’m a Windows developer. My older machines are Linux - because Windows runs like a dog on them and no longer supports them.

I found the best way to study for me was to follow a video tutorial and copy the steps involved. See the results myself.

Learning a new game engine for example, I try doing something simple with, do I understand what I’m doing?

Been OK. Used to go on marches but my partner’s recent operation has reduced that quite a bit. We used to go every year here in London (and sometimes Brighton). We saw Pride in Canada a few years ago… it was odd to us seeing our hotel celebrating it.

I still remember my first gay pride march in the mid '80s when it was political in the UK, and we marched outside No 10 Downing St and yelled “Gay Rights!” back then.

I worked on DECmate - the PDP8 system that DEC had for wordprocessing. I learnt the machine code instructions to support the software.

300baud from work. Fun times logging in with it. Eventually moved to 2400baud.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil - rewatching again, loved the series and the story.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched it.

Mine was No Man’s Sky…

I was 18 when the realisation hit like a pile of bricks. I was all at once terrified and scared… and realised I knew absolutely noone else who might be gay. Then an incident at University caused me to nail the closet door shut… until eight years later I finally came out as gay.

Took until I was in my 50’s before I realised I’m pansexual. I thought I was bi, but more attracted to men than women. Made me think I wasn’t bi.

I remember when they took a group photo of all the people involved with the racing games at Codemasters. Around 600 of us… someone commented, “who are all these people?”. Well, programmers (AI/Phyisic/Audio/etc), Artists, Sound Engineers, Producers, HR…

And there were women as well. Yes, that’s right, women develop games as well. There’s one of my team.

Seems pretty reasonable, even the federated stuff works fine - unlike Mastodon, oddly.

I’m debating it, but deleting content seems pretty much a lot of work.

Reddit to me felt like I’d found a home. My score shot up into the thousands and I felt it was somewhere that was mine. I was on Twitter but never got into it, left when the orange babboon was allowed back on, and don’t miss it.

me too… though not sure how long on reddit