I might even recommend naming it or tagging it with your name or something similarly identifiable, like ‘local/whatever’ so that 18-month-from-now-you will remember you built this one locally and to update it yourself from source, rather than being like “where the hell did this come from and why can’t I find it now!? Did they remove the repo? Why!?”

I’ll admit I don’t use dockge, so it’s possible I’m misunderstanding…

But I think if you have a source folder on the box, separate from the one you keep your compose files in, you can run:

docker build -t someName:someVersion .

and that will build the image. Then in your normal docker compose folder you just specify the image as matching whatever you built it as, and docker won’t pull images it already has, so it’ll just use the one you already built.

So yeah this source folder is different from the compose folder, but you don’t have source folders for all the stuff you didn’t build, so this shouldn’t really be that different. And the compose part doesn’t care where the images came from once you have them.

I can least kinda appreciate this guy’s approach. If we assume that AI is a magic bullet, then it’s not crazy to assume we, the existing programmers, would resist it just to save our own jobs. Or we’d complain because it doesn’t do things our way, but we’re the old way and this is the new way. So maybe we’re just being whiny and can be ignored.

So he tested it to see for himself, and what he found was that he agreed with us, that it’s not worth it.

Ignoring experts is annoying, but doing some of your own science and getting first-hand experience isn’t always a bad idea.

I’ve played a bunch of Valheim with friends, but I can’t do it by myself. The openness is cool, but I can’t grind, so any kind of survival or crafting game becomes tedious so fast.

It seems like fun when other people do it, but it just doesn’t happen for me. Oh well!

A few people mentioned Saint’s Row, and it basically wasn’t even on my radar as a series I knew about. I’ll check it out!

All good info, thanks! Time to put some stuff on a wishlist…

Agreed! Okay, if Just Cause 3 is alright, I might give that a shot. And it’s good to know the newer GTAs are still recommended. Thanks!

Yeah, I said in another reply I didn’t even think of Spiderman, but I actually have been playing the remaster of the first modern one, and I agree fully. It totally matches this vibe and it’s pretty great!

Subnautica and I have a tricky relationship…

I tried it once and bounced off basically right away due to needing water constantly.

Then years later I tried again and got into it for about 15 or 30 hours, and was having a great time, but then I hit a point where I lost immersion. I could feel what they needed me to do to get the resources I needed to progress, but I wasn’t into it, and then a big monster broke my favourite little sub and I was like “fuck this, I’m not going to grind around getting the resources to rebuild my sub, I’m out”

But there was some time where I enjoyed it in the middle there!

Oh yeah! I didn’t even think to mention it, but I did really dig just swinging around in Spiderman!

I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.

But yeah, if they’re too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.

As a person who didn’t work on New Vegas, and in fact has never even played a Fallout game, I’d like an invitation if we’re giving them out!

Huh. I didn’t know this was a feature Steam had. Weird!

I hear people say this sometimes, but I don’t know what they mean. Is there part of Valve’s system that has a gambling mechanic I’ve just never engaged with?

Or is it one of their games that has gambling?

Because I’ve been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven’t seen any gambling.

FuckyeahZZT!!!

So good.

The good news is that’s the first step to being maybe eventually okay at this!

You’re almost not wrong, but I think what you’re discounting is how much power a lot of email clients have. Especially the “old” ones. People were hanging out on mailing lists before the web existed, so there’s a lot of tooling in there around filtering, tagging, flagging, etc.

Remember flags? That feature of mail clients that’s like “why would I use this?”, or smart folders, that feature of mail clients that allows you to use a pre-written and saved search filter and browse it like a folder? These were written at a time when the email client was the social communication interface.

And if something in there should be insufficient, you can always write a script or something that interfaces with email as an API of sorts.

While it’s true that a dedicated tool could be good, in a sense the email client is a dedicated tool for this, and importantly it’s one that I control on the client side to do anything I need it to, regardless of whether or not anyone else on earth needs it to do this. My email client serves me.

Quick addendum before people come for me: I claimed email was “the” social communication tool. Yeah yeah IRC gets a say here, but we can all agree it’s different. And then also newsgroups, but I don’t want to open that can of worms. Just know that you’ve been named.

I’m not an ffmpeg maintainer, but it’s actually not as hard as you think. You know how when you get an email it shows up in your list of emails? That’s your list of issues.

You know how when you get a reply to an email, all email clients that aren’t the most absolutely basic will put the original emails and its replies into a thread together? That’s the conversation about an issue, in context, with threading.

You know how emails can have attachments? That’s attachments. You can put screenshots in there, or patches, lots of stuff.

Now you may be wondering, that sounds like a lot of emails. That’s true! But most people who live the mailing list life have filters and stuff setup to expect a lot of unsolicited emails. Like there are headers in the emails from mailing lists that tell you which list it was from, so it’s really trivial to have a thing that puts all mail from this list into a folder or something and then not notify on emails in that folder. So, like an issue page, you can check it periodically, maybe mark certain ones as notification worthy, and ignore the rest.

The main upside to this is that the theoretical barrier to entry is relatively low, because every human who has touched a computer basically has an email. And you can have ultimate control of your experience because really it’s all about what features your mail client has. And even if the mailing list server goes down you won’t get any new emails, but you already have all the emails you’ve received before, so it’s distributed! And you can still send replies while it’s down, and they’ll just spool until things come back up. Magic!

The main downside is that the practical barrier to entry is relatively high because people aren’t used to joining mailing lists and aren’t setup for it, and so it ironically feels like a much bigger deal, if you’re any “normal” kind of email user, than creating a new username and password account. So for casual users, it’s kind of a nightmare.

Also, because mailing lists are usually public, it’s really easy to make a web frontend that contains the archive for non-subscribers and search engines and stuff, but while these could look like anything, in practice they look like ass, because mailing list people don’t really care about what web stuff looks like a lot of the time. Which makes sense, they’re not looking at the web frontend, they’re ssh’d into a jump box using mutt through screen, or some set of emacs plugins 😛