Discovering the open source remix of 1997’s Total Annihilation was a gaming highlight of 2025 for me.

The game I’m speaking of is Beyond All Reason.

https://beyondallreason.info/

I can’t straight up “quit Reddit” for Lemmy yet. There’s not enough of the content I want to see here, yet.

A while after Reddit practically blocked the Apollo app, I realized just how much I loved that app. It was the perfect Reddit interface. Not long after, I discovered how great Voyager did of replacing the experience, and that’s what ultimately brought me here “permanently.”

So, Reddit has lost browsing time from me big time, and that time is now shared with Lemmy.

Also, I love a good Rust project 🦀

lol _new(3) gives me some flashbacks

Rooted in reality Astronaut: Always has been.

Man, Arch is so easy to install these days with archinstall, there’s no reason not to give Arch a shot first!

(I use Arch btw)

That’s fair!

Or, it appeals to people that have had had to take over an old codebase where the comments were all lies.

“Code never lies. Comments sometimes do.”

Deep Rock Galactic. I was really excited to play it and I tried to like it. The colors and graphics were 10/10 awesome, I just found it to be extremely boring and repetitive.

Project Reality, a Battlefield 2 mod.

I think the Galactic Contention (Star Wars) mod for Squad looks very impressive, albeit I’ve never played it.

https://youtu.be/hl4m5HkRiUI

The few times I’ve used Postman, I found myself doing everything I needed in Python shortly afterwards. It’s not cURL, but it could easily be such; I prefer the self organized “text” interface of code.

I installed KDE a few days ago, I instantly fell in love. I wish I made this switch years ago!

Okay- I’ve installed KDE a few days ago and instantly fell in love with it. I have been missing out, big time!

Arch user here who enjoys Gnome because I started my Linux journey over a decade ago with Ubuntu. Tell me which desktop environment I should be using. Which desktop environment will make me question why I’ve spent so much time with Gnome?

It’s probably not a problem… probably

A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).

I left Debian for Arch recently and let me tell you, you immediately feel the difference with running the latest drivers for your machine. The bleeding edge drivers have upped my frames per second significantly in videos games compared to sticking with stable releases on Debian (and Ubuntu).

With the built-in archinstall script making Arch so easy to get going, I’d only reach for anything else if I really needed the stability.

I left Reddit after the Apollo app was no longer usable due to the whole API thing. Their app is garbage and until recently their mobile website wouldn’t work (it would force you to visit with the app to view some subreddits).

Now, I use Voyager with Lemmy. I still check in on Reddit from time to time or when searching for info, but I use Lemmy mostly now.

When I tell people that I use a GPS app, they almost always insist that it’s easier for me to just head down about a quarter mile south on Aniston Street (if you crossed the train tracks, you’ve gone too far) and make a left on Evansdale, it’s the one with the tree branches covering the stop sign. From there you’re just going to get on the nearest ramp for the express way and get off on 257. Now remember, 257’s exit is actually going to be on your left after about 5 miles, the signs won’t tell you that! Once you take the exit, there’s two burger kings, and you’re gunna wanna turn right after you’ve passed the second one. After that you’ll take your fourth right turn into a large parking lot—you can see the house from there!

Heads up: once in a blue moon it’s on “sale” for free on Epic Games.

(Ask me how I know.)

Ah, yes. I keep hearing more and more of people buying merchandise through TikTok among some other seemingly app-only interfaces.

I miss “old internet” :(