Leave. Go for a walk, or a coffee, or go home. Nobody knows you aren’t in a meeting room.

If your co-workers are into it, have a LAN party. I used to work at a place that had a daily management-approved kill session. It was good.

Totally agree. I am not compatible with summer.

Winter! Winter sports are awesome. Snow is beautiful. Long dark nights are cozy.

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I started programming as a teen. I didn’t realize I could do that as a job (weird, I know), so I looked into lucrative careers I could do so I could afford to have lots of free time to program. Then I discovered that programming was also a job.

This is the level of sympathy I have come to expect from the Internet.

You don’t want to run afoul of big slop

Cyberpunk RED TTRPG community.

Shadowrun TTRPG community.

Polandball.

A community for my home town.

A Canadian politics and current affairs community.

A community for some of the podcasts I listen to would be nice.

We have a few of those here, but they aren’t too active and they have a pretty narrow Overton window (ie, I tend to agree with most posts and comments).

I tried posting that kind of stuff. It was thankless. Nobody else started posting. I gave up.

How does the group reach consensus on N?

They have to be actual cross posts though, don’t they? Would that catch the same link spammed across multiple instances and communities?

For our first kid we got an audio monitor. After a couple of weeks we sort of stopped using it. With our second kid, we didn’t bother.

I immediately came up with the name “poop wagon shit horse” but nobody wanted to join.

Pick up sports, or adult leagues. It can be hit or miss, but I made some good friends playing in rec soccer.

Their cars. There were also a few staying in an abandoned building, but it burned down.

It’s really the stick I’m interested in. So you can just go get your own staff? Nobody awards you the staff, or stops you from getting a staff?

Even the ladies! The ladies!

I feel like beards are a reaction to the clean-cut look of the 1980s and 90s. The mainstream aesthetic was clean-cut brutalism, from architecture to facial hair. People in media lived in almost empty spaces made of concrete and hard lines. Even the grunge/plaid look of the 90s featured beardless dudes with a hint of stubble.

In the 2000s, there was a reaction against that. People looked for alternatives. Hipsters grew beards and mustaches. Instead of IKEA catalogs, movie characters lived in cottage-core wizard hangouts or busy apocalyptic shelters. This will continue for a while.

In the next decade or two we’re going to see a reaction against that. Politics are going to get funky and I think that’ll help get us back to clean-cut and brutal. But here’s hoping for a hirsute solar-punk future. Given a choice, I’d take a 1990s-style perfect shave in a solar-punk future, but that’s just me.

Do the other wizards just give you the staff, or do you have to go on a quest or something?

For some of us that’s “new”

If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev

None of /dev will want your interface.