Mostly, it's the must-have Indie darlings, with a sprinkling of AAA fodder.

I've loved:

• Rimworld
• Yakuza 0
• Slay The Spire
• Dave the Diver
• Dredge

I've found that I enjoy playing offbeat adventure games on the deck more than I did sat at a PC. Detention, Norco, Loretta, To The Moon, that sort of thing is perfect for playing in bed, propped against the pillows.

I'm personally a huge fan of project zomboid, though I had to tweak the controls a little to make it work well.

I'm sure Stardew Valley is a perfect match for the deck, but I've played it too much already.

Perhaps the strongest example yet of Betteridge's law.

It's really not. It's just getting started. The worst predictions, of 4-6 degrees of warming, are more or less off the table. Current trajectory is ~3 degrees of warming which... is civilisationally devastating admittedly, but we have pathways to reduce that. Even the 1.5c target isn't over yet.

There is a broad range of potential future climates, and this generation decides which one we end up with. It's not over by a long shot.

From your other replies it seems like you're unsure you want kids in any case, but if you do there's a simple thought experiment here: do you wish your father hadn't had you? If not, it's reasonable to think your children would be just as grateful to be alive as you are, sick dad or not.

If you're a programmer rather than a professional typist, you probably can use it at work. It took a couple of weeks for me to adjust, a couple of months to be fluent, but it would have been longer if I didn't use it all day every day.

The biggest hurdles for me personally were

1. I didn't touch type properly before. I was a fast typist, but my hands roamed freely over the board. I realised that the finger I used to press a key depended on the word where it was used, and that took ages to re-learn.
2. I bound enter and space to mode shift holds for symbols etc. It works great, but it does mean I sometimes hit enter and send half a slack message instead of typing punctuation.

Respectfully, this is why we can't have an actual conversation about healthcare in this country. What's objectively a societal good? Medicine? Sure, but I'm not proposing that we stop practicing medicine. Universal access to healthcare, free at the point of delivery? Also good, and a feature of most healthcare systems in the developed world. The specific funding model where the government runs the entire healthcare system through taxation?

I dunno, seems like it gives good, but not great, results, terrible staff morale, and a permanent state of crisis.

Fair, but I don't think they will, and I don't think people will stop voting for them forever, as much as I'm looking forward to the next general election. Even under Labour, though, the NHS gave great value for money, but middling outcomes.

The British NHS should be replaced with a system of national insurance. I'm a staunch labour voter, but the current system is subject to endless tinkering by the party of the day, and it's broken.

In the UK, the NHS is one of the only institutions that attracts broad unreserved support, though, so this is about as popular as "all college athletes should be locked in churches and those churches should be burned to the ground" would be in the US.

The current steam deck isn't going to be obsolete just because a newer model comes out. I'm happily playing through the new System Shock right now, and there's a gazillion things in my steam library that I can install and run any time I like.

At some point there will be a faster, better deck, but this one is going to do me for a while. It is, in that sense, like a gaming PC. The lifetime of it isn't determined by the manufacturer in the same way, because you can choose when it's worth paying more for a better experience.

Like a gaming PC the first question you need to ask is "what's my budget", and the second "what would I like to be able to play". When you have those answered, you can decide whether the current sale price offers value for money. There is always going to be more power available for a higher price.

Nick Tune has done a boat load of really great work on how to restructure around domains, including some really nice Miro templates for the terminally lazy.

Welcome aboard!

Will power is an expendable resource. It's hard enough to give up one thing, let alone everything.

If you quit once, you can do it again. I found when I first quit it was really helpful to do the daily check in and post about whatever I was thinking. It's not the void of the internet if there are people listening: it's a community.

People will find it if they need to. I hope that r/SD continues to function tbh, it's a great community. If it doesn't, we'll be here waiting for the 5th of July regretters.

Well hello, friend. I'm going on six years sober thanks to /r/SD and it just occurred to me that maybe this place exists and needs some more friendly faces, so I'm going to crack open a bottle of rose lemonade and not drink with you all today

I will gladly take one for the team and sell him a Lemmy for a few billion.

I don't. I often work a few hours at weekends, but the pattern is different. I'll tinker for 10 minutes then go do some laundry or play with my son or go for a walk, then tinker again when I'm next passing by. I'm actually pretty productive most weekends despite not spending much time at a computer which makes me wonder if I'm doing it wrong during the week.

If you're genuinely enjoying the work, there's no harm in doing it. Just be sure that you're not using work as a way to avoid other commitments, or letting down your loved ones because you're not present.

It's really good! It does all the things I'd build for myself if I had a few months spare. Only quibble I have is that it can take a while for instances to scale up. I've done a bunch of optimisation on builds so now I get run times under 2 minutes, but wait times around 5 minutes.

I've set up idle runners so we keep a couple of instances warm during work hours, but it's still annoying.

Write down on a bit of paper "I want to spend more time with my son, I can always find another job", then flip it over and write "I'm going to spend my time on work, I can always have another kid" and see how you feel.

Discovered at age 12 that I was actually fast as fuck over short distances and won a 200 metre race, leaving the sporty popular kids in my nerdy dust.

My teacher said "you'd have been a lot faster if you hadn't kept looking behind you"

The Practical Architecture Process is probably the best distillation I've read.

Alongside that there's the classics, Enterprise Integration Patterns, a DDD book of your choosing, Newman's Microservices.

I'm a big fan of ReST In Practice, though nobody cares about ReST any more, and Simon Brownwork is great, particularly the C4 model.

Mostly, unfortunately, you have to learn by doing. Design a thing, document your assumptions and constraints, and see if the design still makes sense 5 years later.