A quick search of the dialogue options shows its a Dating sim on steam apparently.
We've come a long long way from newgrounds dating sims in the last 20 years.
Does anybody like these visual novel style games? I've watched a few twitch streamers play games like this (both with live actors and with computer graphics) but not really into it myself.
more like undercover plainclothes cops instigating violence at peaceful protests
Like you, I tried a making a new account a few times over the past 5 years. (I wanted to do local things like giving away/selling things before moving. I ended up using NextDoor or asking friends & family to post on facebook instead)
Shadowbanned every time, so I could never build up enough karma to post or comment in subreddits with those restrictions. Wonderful catch-22 you got there reddit.
Finally I just gave up and added a filter to my uBlock Origin reddit.com$document to block my habits from checking it when I'm bored. I still visit a handful of subreddits once a day through old.reddit.com/r/..., but otherwise I'm fully here on lemmy for comments and posts. Which is for the best because of all the bot generated posts and comments there, along with the shills and astroturfing. I remind myself of that every time I feel like I'm missing the old place.
I've accepted that at most I'll lurk in the niche communities there, and I'll do my part to build new ones here in the fediverse.
Yes, hiring is really at such a bad state right now that it's not worth my time filling out another application through Workday, ICIMS, Taleo, ADP, eightfoldAI, OracleCloud, SuccessFactors, ADP, those stupid slow application chatbots that ask you one question at a time while and make you wait an excruciating amount of time while it loads the next questions (seriously who thought that making an application form into a chat bot questionnaire was a good idea, that PM should fired and blacklisted), and all the horrible ATS I have yet to encounter.
There's an entire subreddit dedicated to how shitty the job search is right now, a lot of gems like this to commiserate in our trauma bonds.
is that hiring really at such a bad state right now
Yes, people are losing their houses, cars. I had to move back in with my retired parents. Tons of long term unemployment. Job posts get 100+ applicants in the first day and thousands of applicants in the first week.
They’re Skipping Car Payments; That’s The Final Warning Sign
Trump tarriffs, Muskrat DOGE layoffs, several years of tech layoffs and LLM induced layoffs. Its rough out there.
Why do you make baseless claims like that? They refunded everyone when they didn't meet their funding goals, and also committed to creating a special edition phone in the next campaign for everyone who supported. You can see the campaign here on indiegogo
Edit: Librem and Purism the controversial ones, not Liberux
This linux phone by Liberux seems like the most promising option in the near future. The crowdfunding campaign failed this summer but the project is still moving forward, just waiting to hear more from them @Liberux
Also GrapheneOS but not sure how far along any of this is: "We plan to partner with OEMs to have devices produced meeting all our requirements, providing additional privacy/security features beyond them and ideally shipping with GrapheneOS rather than massively lowering our standards."
Edit: here's a recent post from GrapheneOS from August 2025:
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.
Based on the 2024 H1B numbers, that translates to roughly 35,000 NEW H1B applications for 2025 Q4 that will be affected.
Over the next year the expected impact is 85,000 jobs (the cap of 65,000 plus 20K advanced degree holders) and $8.5B in salaries to US workers, assuming that no company is willing to pay the fee, that no role is outsourced, and that the job vacancy is actually filled by a US worker.
I'm not sure what renewals look like if they are also affected by the $100K fee or included in the 85K cap.
Pixel Phone for GrapheneOS, unfortunately the only option for now.
I get that 'decaf' taste if I over extract. Too hot of a brew or too much time. Just last night I did decaf in an aeropress, 30 seconds at around 90°C (I let the kettle go longer than usual and was too lazy to cool the water down to ideal temp) and it brought out that undesirable flavor.
Whereas brewing the same beans at 75-80°C for 1-2 mins I don't get that flavor profile at all.
Ever since I read that comment, I gave decaf another go and have been very pleased. Been drinking one cup of coffee in the morning and a cup of decaf each night.
Ive had the best and most consistent experience with Illy decaf espresso ground coffee (in the round blue and silver aluminum cans) and roasted to order decaf green beans from my local roaster, also espresso grind. Brewing in an aeropress for around 30 seconds and 75-80 °C
I haven't had any good experiences with pourover decaf in those single serve pourover packets, tried maybe 20 different brands from specialty gourmet decaf to cheap 7 eleven finds.
Edit: I also tried taking the ground decaf out of those single serve pourover packets, and brewing in the aeropress but that didnt improve the flavor. So the beans and decaf process has to be a factor, and not just the brewing process.
This is a newer product on the market, its a great idea, where the USB-C plug can swivel. I assume their goal was to make it easier to charge your device while also using it, and to make the cable last longer. The swivel part is great when it works but it's super fragile and broke for me in two weeks.
TLDR:
www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ for the last picture with the key layout
Details and Flavor:
This is my first hot swappable mechanical keyboard after having a few Durgod keyboards (switches are soldered to the board).
After the INCIDENT- I spilled a whole jack and coke on my Durgod - the entire thing was unsalvageable because only thing I could do was remove the keycaps, I couldn't remove the soldered switches or take it apart further. So the whole thing was a sticky mess even after drying it out, and the spacebar and CTRL were never the same. I probably could have dunked the whole thing in rubbing alcohol or something, but I just recycled it. So that led me down the path towards customizable mechanical keyboards with hot swappable switches.
Keyboard: System 76 Launch
84 Key variant of the 75% layout, with a split spacebar and extra key for super/function bottom left Super fucking useful why aren't all keyboards made like this I'm never going back to a keyboard with a full spacebar.
Keypad: Keychron Q0 Plus QMK Custom Number Pad
Has survived one accidental drink spillage, luckily it was just water (a whole pint) and I got it unplugged immediately and taken apart to dry. No shorts and all switches and the board were fine after air drying. There was some green paper taped to the bottom of the PCB that did not survive though. I bent a few pins when I manhandled the swtiches back in place, but nothing some tweezers and reinstallation couldn't fix.
Keycaps XDA profile:
I like the profile but these seem to be rarer and its difficult to find any see-through variants with the numbers/letters clear (to let the RBG shine through so I can PWN more in FPSs) Also having keys with a standardized profile, same shape keys regardless of the row, was important because of the oddball layout and key sizes for the system76 keyboards. XDA Tricolor Keycaps
Handmade Abalone Mother of Pearl Keycaps.
These are abalone round beads (meant for a necklace or bracelet) glued to 3D printed keycap mounts. Purchased for around $3 each from my local keyboard shop. They have some cool custom keycaps here: https://shop.yushakobo.jp/collections/artisan-keycaps?page=1 And even more in the store that never get put online. If you are ever in Akihabara Tokyo they are definitely worth a visit. Big disclaimer though: "Every product from this store is hella overpriced." https://maps.app.goo.gl/s4pksssA9sGrz75Z6
So look at the pretty things, but maybe check online or somewhere else first before buying anything lol
DIY if you wanna recreate the abalone keycaps:
There's a bunch of free models you can find online for the "keycap mounts" that might work. I haven't gotten around to making my own, still need to figure out a program in linux I can edit 3D models and figure out how to use it. Super easy to get them 3D printed once you get/make the models. The beads you can find on sites like esty, "mother of pearl round beads"
Switches: Cherry MX SPEED SILVER Switches RGB
I found the Kalih Box switch options from system76 to be too scratchy and I didn't like the Gatreon G Pro switches from Keychron either. I was used to the Cherry MX Speed Silver from my old Durgod keyboard. I prefer linear, super smooth feeling switches especially for gaming, so I went back to the MX speed silver.
Layout:
I used to prefer 96% or 100% (a lot of excel formulas) but the wide keyboard kept getting in the way of FPS gaming and I'd be constantly hitting my mouse against the keyboard, even with maxed out mouse DPI and minimal wrist movement, the keyboard was too wide. So for about 8 years or so I've been using a separate numpad.
Festivus Airing of the Grievances:
I had trouble customizing the keymapping on the Keychron keypad. I wish the keychron keyboard was more straightfoward to customize in linux, or at least compatible with system76's keyboard configurator https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator so I didn't have to dig through 10 year old arch forums and reddit threads.
Dating sim apparently