I read a lot of fantasy with muskets and such. It's even called Flintlock Fantasy. Doesn't extend as commonly outside of books though

Proprietary software I use on a regular basis with no Linux alternative:

Revit, AutoCAD, Houdini, 3dsMAX, SolidWorks, Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign (and/or their Affinity alternatives), CUDA optimized simulation and rendering plugins, etc.

I use at least one of these every day, almost none of them have any functioning compatibility with Wine or other emulation. Even just using Affinity has caused some issues with team projects when someone picks up where I left off and there's no layer information and a ton of clipping groups instead.

If all you do with your computer is program, work with documents, use a web browser, and play video games sure go wild don't use Windows on any of your machines. But I just don't understand how some people in the FOSS community cannot fathom that there are entire professional workflows and industries that just have zero possibility of moving to Linux.

Do I like using Windows? No. But I do like being able to use all the programs my work and research requires.

I contribute actual, tangible research into FOSS CAD/CAM/BIM software development and implementation. I love it and want to see FOSS options grow and become widely adopted. But it just isn't anywhere close to having feature parity. And that matters, just as much as industry interoperability matters.

I'm just so tired of this thought process in the community that the only reason someone isn't using Linux/FOSS is because they're some fanboy or something

“I don’t like,” Tariq, 8, said of the series. “It creeps me out. Every time I go to the toilet, I just want to get it quick done.” Tariq, who lives in New York State and is known online as Corn Kid, said he was not familiar with the other terms.

Corn Kid's got no rizz

If you've got the big monies and like gamified learning go with Pimsleur over Duolingo. For any language but especially learning Asian languages as an English speaker. Duolingo is shit at them. Over 4 months of daily usage for Japanese, while living full time in Japan, and it's still quizzing me on teriyaki and sushi. Did a single free Pimsleur lesson and learned more actual conversation and grammar than I've gotten in Duolingo this year.

Or 🏴‍☠️ the older workbooks and audio lessons instead of the app. It was originally a CIA program so it's not like American money didn't already pay for it. Their Spanish ones were quite good

I had a roommate who made cacio e pepe and accidentally used my szechuan peppercorns instead of me black pepper haha

Socialism is when I buy chip and workers steal them all and I get no chip 😢

Alt: any laborer born after 1983 can't work. All they want is eat my chip, watch my cable, and lie