If I had to pick from the four decades I’ve personally experienced. 2016-2026 is probably the fucking worst.

Of all time? 1936-1946 is probably up there.

Probably 9th or 10th grade. A group had ganged up on one of my friends. They bullied him mercilessly, shit in his locker, pushed and shoved him whenever they saw him. I wasn’t the target but there was nothing I could do that would stop them. He cracked it one day and hit one of them after being harrased for 30 minutes straight, turned into a group brawl.

Our group of friends all got on well but we all felt like we were on the outer. Thankfully it got better in subsequent years after the worst of the bullies dropped out of school.

Nobara has been great. I fucked it up once and had to do a full resinstall. I also tried Mint and Bazzite but ended up going back to Nobara. Only had to go boot into Windows a few times to use some old programs but pretty much everything else has been perfect for me.

I played it for the first time this year. Finished it in like 5 hours, so can’t say it would be worth full price…but I still enjoyed it a lot for what it was.

Truly a land of beauty and contrasts

Half joking of course. There are bits of Ferntree Gully and nearby which are beautiful

Then add a second currency for just 3 hour blocks that can only be bought in groups 5

Watch Hackers: Computer Outlaws

https://youtu.be/YbvfJ3RGYE4

The company I was working for offshored all our jobs to Manila. To be fair the only reason I got the job was because the people we were replacing had their jobs out sourced to us. Just corpo shit.

I saw a man at the local show today (Regional shows are like a county fair), he was wearing a MAGA hat with an Australian flag sewn into it. We are not doing doing a good job of preventing shit.

From the article

“Aura farming is an earnest attempt to look cool. Vice President JD Vance was aura farming when he declared he would take vengeance for Charlie Kirk. Trump was aura farming when he threatened to jail Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Pritzker was aura farming when he responded with “Come and get me.” And Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was aura farming when she paraded on the roof of Portland’s ICE facility in supposed defiance of antifa.”

Try this one. See where you fall. Always interesting to compare across countries as well.

https://votecompass.com/

The octogenarian who was found wandering around on the roof? That guy? The same guy who seems to have forgotten about the Epstein files?

I kinda had to accept that Lemmy wouldn’t have the same hooks to trigger impulsive scrolling because Lemmy isn’t a corporation desperate to mine you for every ounce of data you can provide.

Also took me a while to find a group of communities with content I like.

I sometimes reinstall Reddit just see what’s happening over there, whenever I open it, it feels like I’m being inundated with ads, both obviously and via the ingenuine comment threads.

Yeah I recently replayed IW. I actually enjoyed it. I felt I didn’t appreciate it for what it was in its own time.

They decided to wait and see if Trump won, and if Homan then accepted bribes. It would be a much more airtight case. So the Biden people handed the investigation off to the Trump people, no doubt holding out the vain hope that the career people would persuade the political people that someone taking a bag of cash was something that ought to be investigated.

The fucking ineptitude of the Liberal elites never ceases to amaze me.

I love that they had to publish an explainer article for everyone in Australia under the headline:

Trump is so rarely challenged, simple questions can seem hostile

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-17/president-donald-trump-and-hostile-relationship-with-media/105783964

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I’m dumb as rocks and I’m not exactly a fan.

I use a dock with my steam deck. Highly recommended. I was shocked at how seamless it was as an experience.