They aren't killing the children that live in the town downwind. They aren't covering the crops nearby with heavy metals...

And we can count the animals they kill. Not the unnumberable dead that have already died or fled from coal mines and coal power. And that sounds terrible. It's the lesser evil

I'm not even going to get into it.

So look. I get it. Solar panels and wind turbines aren't pretty, and they aren't perfect. But at least they aren't actively harming their communities and environments with literally toxic waste that fills the whole area around them.

Oh yeah, and they need to take special, active precautions to stop the ecological nightmare of having that stuff start seeping into the water table. Which brings me to my last point: toxic groundwater and the acidification of the water table. Acid mine water is already an ecological crisis.

Bricks, concrete, anything to avoid piling it up into this huge, toxic, acidic, barren semi-mountain that loomed in the distance every time you looked. All attempts failed. The chemistry is so hostile it is basically a non-starter. That whole area is dead for the forseeable future.

But who am I to complain? I'm sure the roosting birds love it. Oh yeah, how about the coal ash? The biggest hill where I'm from is a literal mountain made from acidic, toxic coal ash. Nothing can grow there. Nothing will for a very, very long time. They've tried to use it for making stuff...

When it rains, the water makes it into a toxic and corrosive paste that rusts anything it comes into contact with. And that stuff ends up in fields, in food, in wetlands, in the rivers that provide our drinking water. Oh, and it's also *loaded* with heavy metals and toxic compounds.

I'm sure that is *great* for wildlife. Oh. And the dust. I mean, dust is dust, right? Have you ever experienced coal dust from an open-cast coal mine? It's a thick blanket that covers a huge area downwind from the mines in thick layers of this black, gritty mess. That texture never leaves your mouth

I had sinus pain my whole life. Imagine like allergies, that itchiness of your eyes, runny nose, all that. I had that, coupled with a burning pain, every single day of my childhood and teenage years. It was so normal that it blew my mind when it went away after I had been at university for 3 months.

For some reason I crave wearing sweaters and sipping hot chocolate today. Clearly I've had too much sun recently.

The whole thing is very similar to the "Do you know how many chemical changes there are to" whatever arguments, usually made by people chewing down on their deliciously browned steaks and having a lovely cup of coffee, not realising the frigging irony.

Yup, and to be completely honest with you, I do not know. I've done it on Arch, Pop!OS and and Mint now, so I have a feeling it's more of a Steam thing than a Linux thing. Some don't work, but that has been very scarce.

This is going to sound absolutely crazy, but I've had some luck just running Windows programs through Steam, as long as it has an executable. It doesn't always work, but it might be worth trying if you have that as a thing on your computer anyways. Good luck with whatever you choose.

There's only one rule from here on out: Don't be the one to blink first, in this case.

Oof, yeah, absolutely! It sounds like this is one of those "To the bitter end!" things. I wish you the very best of luck! Keep! On! Coding!

Godot is fun... but maybe not 30 hours in 3 days levels of fun.