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<p>Grew up on C64, BASIC and Comal 80, continued onto Linux and have gone on to program in a slew of more modern languages I don&#39;t care to mention here.<br />Naively got myself a computer science education and realised a bit late how much of a tech-bro infested hellhole the industry was, and how much worse it was going to get. Managed in the end to find work at a library.<br />Volunteers at a heritage railway during summer, reads manga and graphic novels frequently, plays games, knits occasionally.<br />I&#39;m trying to learn sewing, and I&#39;m also getting into pixel art. My pfp is one of my first creations and will almost certainly end up receiving some updates along the way!</p>

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    On recommendation from @datarama I got myself a new keyboard, a Model 100! My previous Maltron keyboard had many more keys, so I needed a few months of iteration to set this up! - The basic letter placement is just cribbed from the Maltron. &amp;#39;Maldel 100&amp;#39; is an acknowledgement of this. - Many special characters have become unshifted on this layout. I&amp;#39;m getting more and more used to it, and it feels good! - Thumb-row with Tab/Home/End/Enter dual-mode keys with Ctrl/Alt (tap...

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    #lego #trains Building a lego railway in my bookshelf. 100% safe, will never fall down or cause a horrible crash.

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    #lego I will not settle for simply a train-line in my bookshelf. My small lego community needs access to all parts of the bookshelf, not just the top! Is it safe? Well, as long as motor construction holds and the lifting thread doesn&amp;#39;t break, it will probably stay up and not cause a disaster.

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    @datarama I thought about this a little bit and realised that I&amp;#39;m actually coming to a kind of... optimistic conclusion, of sorts? What generative AI seems to be ruining for me mostly is actually my traditional media consumption. Like, as soon as I know generative AI has been more or less significantly involved in something, I am suddenly much less interested in reading, watching or playing it. As an example, I was fully intending to play Clair Obscur eventually, and then grew much less...

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    @datarama @EI3JDB And I have a copy of Mutant: År Noll lying around that&amp;#39;s never seen any use!

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    @EI3JDB I just borrowed the sourcebook from @datarama ! I was leafing through it when I visited this week. I really like the idea of &amp;quot;Nordic Horror&amp;quot; (I&amp;#39;ve played a lot of Arkham Horror LCG, and the Lovecraftian stuff has become kind of rote at this point). To clinch it the sourcebook uses Uppsala, the city I live in currently, as the default hometown/starting point for the investigators :D

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    @datarama @krig I&amp;#39;m honestly getting increasingly tired of it as well. At least I don&amp;#39;t have to deal with &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; use being mandatory in my workplace (though we shall have to see with a new incoming director general). But I&amp;#39;m slated to attend a national meetup for Koha users/developers/administrators in May, and they&amp;#39;re planning a short hackfest I was hoping to participate in to learn a bit more of how the Koha internals function. I&amp;#39;m not e...

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    Yessssss! Arkadia Fallen II is finally out on Thursday! https://galdra.itch.io/arcadia-fallen-2 I consider the first one to be a masterclass in how you implement moral choices well. Many choices were easy for me, some were genuinely difficult. But I don&amp;#39;t think I ever felt I could truly blame or judge anyone for making different choices than me. And as far as I can tell neither did the game. It never narratively pointed a finger at me to tell me I should FEEL BAD about my choice! Conseq...

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    @datarama A weirder suggestion: audit? It came to mind mostly because I was thinking of Discworld. In real life it usually belongs in a financial context, but the meaning kind of fits?

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    @datarama Don&amp;#39;t forget an important classic, possibly the first(?) game with a reptile protagonist. Snake! It might in fact be an entire subgenre with more reptile protagonist games than the rest of the games industry combined :D