It's like watching a Let's Play, but morally bankrupt and resource-devouring.

Added to wishlist! Am I seeing things, or is this environment a small ringworld?

Overall, ditching MS seems doable if I give myself the time. But unlike my shift from Google/Gmail/GDrive, this will involve replacing a lot of deeply ingrained muscle memory.

.NET: Although I don't use dotnet professionally anymore, I still use it for gamedev with MonoGame and Raylib. However, I've been replacing it more and more with Godot, which will likely be the direction I continue in. Or maybe I'll just use Raylib with other languages.

VS Code: I think it will be painful to switch away from it, having used Atom and subsequently VS Code for over a decade now, but there's always Emacs and Neovim. Zed looks like a potential option, but I'm worried about the overly heavy focus on AI junk.

GitHub: this will take a while to shift away from due to the amount of repos, but I'm moving my shit to sr.ht/~eddy/, including openglbook.com and my MkDocs plugins. GitHub was a huge part of my career, but let's be real, its soul has been missing for a while now.

Windows: if a game doesn't run on Linux because of a rootkit, I probably shouldn't play it anyway. I've been begrudgingly dual-booting into Windows 10 for a few years *just* to play games, wasting a precious NVME drive. As of this weekend, I've nuked that drive and allowed btrft to eat it up.

...and it's been disappointing to see the direction MS has taken since, especially very recently. I hope the good folks working on C# and open source .NET stuff can somehow detach themselves from this rotting, bloated corpse, but I doubt it.

These are the specific things I'm ditching or replacing:

Nah, sounds about right

Where are my Silicon Graphics adults at?

I do have a copy of that queued up. Should I read The Book of Accidents first?

I’ll add it to the to-read pile! Thanks!

Not sure if this is asking for too much of a toga lift, but since Creel is president in both Wanderers/Wayward and Staircase, do they share the same universe or more of a parallel one?

Either way, I just finished reading it and loved it!

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Unhinged af

Yup, I totally get it. DS9 is still my favorite Trek and I really didn’t care much for Voyager when it aired. But I have to say that I was sad it was over when I got to the end of my latest rewatch.

Have you warmed up to Voyager yet?