Games don’t age well.

• football
• “the floor is lava”
• chess
• nibbles/snake
• myst
• snakes and ladders
• age of empires
• skyrim

And yet, if you do that to your girlfriend, people have issues. Double standard here, people! Double standard!

Make your MIT-licensed library big enough that the corpos use it, then switch it to AGPL just before you add a really important and tricky feature they’ve been waiting for.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn’t Feel Like Mine Anymore.

Aww.

If you love it, set it free!

Did you get the special chloroform-infused masks? I hear they’re the only ones that do the job properly.

• Endless sky
• Battle for Wesnoth
• Warzone2100
• Simon Tatham’s puzzle games
• Widelands
• OpenTTD
• OpenRCT2 (needs assets from original game)
• SuperTuxKart

Off the top of my head

Your nostalgia is a bad reason for starting anything really. Most hopefully you won’t push your nostalgia on your children and force them to play outdated games.

It’s a dark path. Next you might start making them watch outdated films, maybe even reading outdated books. Before you know it you’re teaching them pre WWII history and Newtonian mechanics.

That said, the LLM isn’t running an array of bonus functions like breathing and wondering why you said that stupid thing to your Aunt’s cousin 15 years ago and keeping tabs on your ambient noise for possible phone calls from that nice boy who promised to call you back.

Because they will definitely put in the work to make sure outputs are all sane and good, and not be pressured to click as many as they can quickly to fill quotas.

Not to mention problems from subtlety of language not crossing language barriers well.

Maybe if you turned the water temperature up.

Thank you, I was mixing up terms. I suppose I was thinking of phonemes, but I see they’re also not purely the sound… Though (I didn’t actually read the article yet!) I wondered if that is what they think they found: units of sound that can vary in exact audio/phonetic expression but ‘mean’ the same sound to the whales. (And from which longer audible communication structures are built.)

Okay, side thought, since I’m also tired and don’t feel like looking things up properly:

In simple communication, such as one might assume whale-baleen* to be, perhaps a one to one mapping of phonemes to morphemes is likely.

*I think the baleen is that krill-filtering thing you were after?

That’s morphemes, rather than a phonetic alphabet, right? Unless the whales have become literate?

Just don’t touch them. AFAIK They’re one of few species in America that can give you leprosy.

(Though if, by chance, you do catch leprosy, it is in fact very easily treatable. It’s the already-done damage from banging toes and touching fire and things, if you catch it late, that’s harder to repair.)

People take pictures of those, too, I think.

common animals

Royalty

“And here on your left you will see a prime example of the common European prince. No longer afforded a natural habitat, the nation of Britain has built special reserves for these princelings and other royalty, called palaces. On certain days you can observe royals being transported in specially equipped vehicles from one palace to another to encourage mating.”

There’s a certain kinship.

I was going to say, I think this originated with cats!

it’s Linux after all and that’s what matters

I agree it’s a good OS to use, and it is Linux, but there are layers and layers of what’s good for the user and the community.

I think there will always be layers of “this could be done better,” and "that’s in someone’s selfish interest rather than for the best of the users and community. Or at least layers of being better for some people and worse for others. Ubuntu has some of those layers - though I’m always grateful for the good they’ve done the community - and other distros surely have some too.

I can’t hear them over the Ubuntu protestors.

Round here we all have some beef with Ubuntu.