Pretty much, yeah. I think Windows uses something like \\PhysicalDisk0 internally, then shows it to the user with lettering.

Thanks for letting me know! I’ve got a lot of experience with SteamOS but not so much the immutable Fedoras. Should give them a try in the future.

Taiko no Tatsujin is on iOS through Apple Arcade iirc, if you like rhythm games.

That’s for mounting, yeah, but when it comes to interacting with the hardware, Linux itself uses letters for some types of devices. For example, serial-connected ones (e.g. SATA internal drives, USB external drives) are /dev/sdx (x being a letter from A-Z). I don’t know what happens when all letters are used up though, maybe someone can chime in there? NVMe uses numbers it seems - my boot drive is /dev/nvme0n1

There are other ways to access devices and partitions besides that though. I just had to put EndeavourOS on a flash drive and the Arch Wiki recommended doing this by targeting the drive via /dev/disk/by-id/, which lists connected drives by name, connectivity and serial number.

I mainly like RCT3 but the first two games do fill a little part of my nostalgia as well. OpenRCT2 is a great project. Need to set this up when I get EndeavourOS installed later.

What I think has happened is that Reddit performed a rollback after the crash happened during the blackout. I’ve had comments from 2021-22 being restored and which ones did get restored were pretty random. Twitter had a similar situation a while ago.

The only thing I don’t like is when I mouse-over the main pages, the menu that pops up doesn’t match at all. Other than that it’s a good update.

I’ve used ChatGPT to answer questions relating to Python. Notably, I asked it how to use QtNetwork to send and receive requests with authentication, as the application I was using did not use any non-standard modules I was more accustomed to like requests but did have PyQt. Not only did it gave me working code snippets but explained it in a way that I was able to understand. No, it’s not perfect. But man it’s better than hunting Google for that one StackOverflow post.

I have heard it trips up on certain less-used programming languages like Swift though, so depending on your use case YMMV. I’ve also not used Codex but a friend of mine has. Apparently it really liked to mention this one specific GitHub profile.

For shits and giggles I asked ChatGPT a while back to represent a Pokemon with a Python class, and it gave me working code. Google Bard would trip up and not use the class when I told it to.

I need to work on refactoring a plugin I made for MusicBrainz Picard that lets you submit chosen tags (typically genres) to matching entities on the site.

I see the Lego comparison and I admit, when I built computers when I was younger I did that exact comparison.

Nowadays I would say it’s more akin to building Ikea furniture than Lego. It can be daunting, especially the more expensive you go, and depending on one’s situation it might even be better to have someone else do it, but if you do build it, it’s very rewarding. IIRC the CEO of AMD made that Ikea comparison and it’s a lot more apt IMO.

I’ll be honest, when I was looking for places to get a PC built, Reddit was of little help either. Constantly telling me to build it myself when I couldn’t even if I wanted to.

(Eventually did get a PC built, paid more mainly due to UK VAT)

For what it’s worth, SteamOS - the OS used on the Steam Deck - is also immutable (based on Arch Linux). It seems like that’s the main benefit, yeah. You can unlock root access in it for development purposes, but it’ll be reset after Valve pushes out an update to SteamOS. Don’t know whether that’s supported on Fedora’s immutable variants.

Eurovision is probably the one I’ll miss the most from Reddit. The people I talked to their were real chill.

• YouTube, with a watch later playlist. I heard on fedi that YouTube’s recommendations are absolute garbage if you use an adblocker. I don’t know how true it is, but if it is it explains why I’ve transitioned to using Watch Later.
• The fediverse instance I use that’s solely for microblogging.
• Rate Your Music. Probably my favourite music site right now, and one of the few sites I’ve given money to. It’s great for discovering new music that you’ll love IMO. It’s been going on for a couple decades now, definitely worth having a look.
• MusicBrainz, which is basically a giant encyclopedia of music releases for computers to use. I’ve added releases to MusicBrainz from stuff I’ve bought. If you’ve used MusicBee, MP3Tag, or their own tagger Picard, you’ve used MusicBrainz. I’ve since replaced Last.fm with ListenBrainz since the data quality on the latter is much better than Last.fm.