Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress exists which I still find hilarious.

I’ll preface this by saying don’t beat yourself up for using Apple. You can be critical and still use their products. I am typing this on Windows 10 and have a macbook for work. Microsoft and Google are far from perfect in this space. As the saying goes, “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” lol.

I think you should use open source software but I don’t think you should force yourself if good alternatives don’t exist for your use case. A good example is Photoshop. The open source version is GIMP. I use GIMP mostly because I don’t want to pay for Photoshop but from what I’ve heard from people who edit pictures professionally it is not even a competition.

Compare that to Audacity, my understanding is more people in the audio world use it. Or VLC Media player! It can basically open any format of video, it’s crazy!

If you’re curious to try a linux desktop operating system the choices will become overwhelming like you said. Ubuntu is the go-to suggestion usually. There are ways to create “live USBs” to run it from the USB like a test drive (but it may be slow). I’ve decided my next computer I build I’m going to run Linux primarily but I haven’t got around to building it.

Something something sufficiently advanced compiler should optimize it away

Not really a total scam depending on your perspective but lawn additives. I’m not sure what the term is. Basically when they come out fertilizer out. I say not totally because some people really do want a super green, super short, and (in my opinion) super ugly lawn. I replaced my front lawn with clover and the bees love it. It was green literally until Christmas last year (2022) when we had the big frost (southeast US). Like, okay, it’s a little less green or whatever, but wow it was green that late in the season and everyone else’s was brown.

😃 You mean webassembly right?

😐 You mean webassembly right?

Is the joke here that Fedora doesn’t use apt? Because that’s hilarious and I love it lol

Or as I’ve taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux

I’ve never seen a unit test using the assert keyword, only the JUnit Assert class methods. It throws AssertionError so it is like the assert keyword but can’t be disabled like the assert keyword.

I think you hit the nail on the head about it providing a limited environment but with modern features. It captures the feeling of what it may have been like to make a Game Boy Color game but without the headache of actually trying to get that set up. Similar to how Arduino made programming microcontrollers easy (they were founded because the founders found it annoying to do).

I hate the embedded terminal personally and just use a “real” one in its own window.