Of Sticks and Branches, new album Coniferous Connotations drops October 31st!

You’re not dumb! Thank you for the heads up!

I guess I’m weird and don’t like getting my bed dirty. lol

Why on earth would you shower before getting dirty/sweaty…? If you’re going to shower again… why waste the water then? Humans are a confusing lot, man.

I’m butchering this, I’m sure, but. As you grow older, time seems to fly by faster because your brain is basically culling similar experiences. That commute to work, that is practically the same 90% of the time, isn’t interesting to your brain for it to “save”, so that time basically disappears to you.

I found something that will explain it better than I can. :-P

This is one of those things where I’m actually okay with AI use. I understand a lot of the FOSS community devs don’t have a lot of time for such matters, so if this gets it at the very least 90% there, I would consider it a win! (human review being a big bonus, of course!) :-]

Thank you for that. I’m sure the people who read it and got a grasp of what they are trying to accomplish greatly appreciate your going out of the way like that. :-]

When it comes to documentation, at least for myself when I’m learning new things, I like to look at it like a recipe book.

The book shouldn’t contain just the ingredients and what the final product looks like. It needs to be more in depth than that. It needs to contain the ingredients that go into it, how much of those ingredients, the time to cook, what consistency to look for, prep time, etc.

There are plenty of people out there who have never cooked before, and a recipe book/instructions on how to cook a favorite dish is the perfect way to share your love of the craft and the dish that you made. Then, with your recipe as a guideline, people could change it to suit their tastes, and so on and so on.

That’s just how I look at it. I wish I could interpret developer instructions and write up a more user friendly documentation for them. I would love to be able to give back to the community in some more meaningful way than just barely knowing what the developer is providing and using it and making a mess of it my first few tries until I learn from my mistakes.

I know when I first installed openSUSE, there were a few things I needed to specifically install to get it gaming ready. There might be a missing requirement that allows you to start it. May try “Linux Mint how to run GODOT games/standalone games?” in a search engine? Best of luck!

I’m sorry to hear that! I’m running it on openSUSE Tumbleweed right now. Is there a permissions toggle somewhere in the Properties menu you might be able to tick?

Good lord. This is exactly the type of shit I’m making a point about….

Me bringing up a VALID view point of a woman who is in the process of transitioning to a man, is centering a man’s voice…?

That is certainly a take….

See, I feel like everyone isn’t actually paying attention to what I am saying.

What I am saying is that these types of communities, where only one group can participate in actual conversation, IS an echo chamber.

It’s like if there was a misogynistic community, where only the most vile of men would want to be, where they only hear bad things about women and say bad things about women.

I’m almost certain that that would be frowned upon by normal men/women/people.

Andrew Tate is a very well known douchebag who literally operates in and on an echo chamber…

Really, it’s just not a good look and that’s all I really have to say. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way (not just you, in general) but I will stand by what I said and this: echo chambers, where only one group can initiate and interact, are kind of ruining the whole reason a lot of us left Reddit.

And you aren’t addressing anything I’ve said either, so I think we’ve come to a stalemate.

Have a good rest of your day!

Well, no. I think you’re just not listening to what I’m saying, and I don’t really have a better way to get it across to you right now.

Have a good rest of your day!

I understand the challenges of that, and the challenges of having a safe space for women (hopefully of all spectrums…), but the way they handle it now is just bad and shouldn’t be encouraged.

If I was a woman transitioning into a man, would I still be welcome? I have the experiences that some women have had, but since I am becoming a man, then does that mean I can only comment in other communities now?

It’s just not a good way to handle things, I’m sorry.

Let’s take your example a little bit further than some plants.

I see a community that only allows asians or white people to comment, and actively deletes any comments with any name that even semi looks like a “black username” or a “latino username”.

Would you not call that out as being, well, an echo chamber?

“sorry, pyre, your comment was deleted as this is a whites only community. :)”

It’s just not a good look, or something I want to see here on an open source platform. :/

Not at all. People’s opinions don’t mean much anyway, hell not even my own!

If you want a safe space on a public forum, then I highly recommend just making it private.

I have literally seen them delete someone’s comment because they ASSUMED the commenter was a man, when they were in the process of transitioning to a women. This led to the person being very confused, and probably feeling like the community wasn’t welcoming to trans people. Being so heavy handed with the way they mod their safe space has probably alienated more people than they welcomed.

I just think it’s a crappy way to handle things, whether it be men or women. If I ever stumble into a mens only community that is as bad as WomensStuff, I will be sure to say the same thing.

Have a good rest of your day!

I just think of Dull Mens Club and how they allow anyone to post there.

The problem with WomensStuff is how heavy handed they are with not allowing anyone who isn’t specific enough to post and comment there. Posting, I totally understand. Removing comments the way they do just rubs me so wrong. It’s just not a good look.

Yayyy, echo chambers! :)

Left because of Apollo shutting down. Thanks, Voyager devs, for recreating that experience on a different platform. :-]