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Non-mobile-specific version:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/investing/us-stock-market/index.html

Half Life

I don't think that Half Life was all that influential. It was a successful game, had a story at a time when FPSes tended to barely bother. But I think that it was less that it was very innovative and more that it competently executed on mechanics and technology that already existed.

Minecraft

I don't know if I can agree. Yes, it was successful and a sandbox game, but (a) Terraria, for example, came out earlier, and I don't feel like it was that transformative. It certainly inspired some sandbox games, but I don't think that this was really an incredibly broad shift.

The Sims

This one brought a lot of new mechanics, but I don't know about influential. There wasn't really a large Sims-like genre that it inspired.

Baldur’s Gate 3

It a 2023 release. How can it be influential? Hasn't even been time for a generation of games influenced by it to come out.

must be doing software rendering

Could try running it under mangohud. Dunno if that indicates the renderer being used, but I'd guess that it likely does, and would let you test that theory.

One Windows user here had some problem with very low FPS in the game, and found that limiting FPS in the Nvidia software resolved it. I'm suppose that it's not impossible that it's some bug in the game that you're also tripping.

https://www.swim-central.uk/what-age-should-children-learn-to-swim/

In England, swimming becomes a part of the national curriculum around Year 3 or 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_1_(education)

Year 1 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. It is usually the first year of compulsory education and incorporates students aged between five and seven.

Hmm. So she probably should have had swimming instruction by that age.

If so, wastewater concentration levels should remain high.

“B-but the old testament said…”

While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.

e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:

Romans 1:26-27:

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Any time you find a statistic that uses the term "real" on income, they're making that adjustment.

Here's Real Median Household Income in the United States.

I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don’t know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders).

If what you want is organization from a workflow standpoint, I think that you'd have an easier time just using some form of launching system that doesn't show a single monolithic menu of all your installed executables. Either have a launcher that permits breaking up stuff by task and lets you customize those groups, or just use a non-menu-based launching system.

I mean, /usr/bin on my system has 2694 entries. I don't see them, though, since I'm launching software via bash or tofi, so...shrugs

VMs can have uses, but I'd mostly either use them for software compatibility, or to isolate things for security reasons. They wouldn't be high on my list of tools to organize workflow.

Or are electronics getting to an unattainable price point? What 8 year old has $400+ for a console and $60 per game?

The Nintendo Entertainment System launched at $179 in 1983.

In 2025 dollars, that's $573.45.

Super Mario Bros. 3

which I think is probably the best NES game

ran for $50 in 1990. That's $122 in 2025 dollars.

If I ever need to unload 40 tons of illicitly-obtained meat, I'll be going to you, Mr. Semi.

I'm not familiar with tvorog, but a quick search turns up this:

https://delifo.net/cottage-cheese-vs-tvorog/

I guess that's a positive.