If it’s a Windows game, you could use something like Inno Setup. Most of what you’d need is possible to do via easy to use GUI dialogs, and it has a scripting language to do more complex things if the need arises.

For Linux games you’ll probably use a Flatpak, or a package for your distro (e.g. .deb packages or such). You can look for a guide somewhere.

Games usually come already in installers if needed by the game. You can get away with just zipping up the directory if it doesn’t need things like e.g. Windows registry entries or additional supporting software like runtime libraries.

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Plays My Favorite Game by The Cardigans

A guy who didn’t cligma link, and lived happily ever after

Ah, good to know.

I haven’t downloaded anything from YouTube recently, but will switch to YTDLnis.

Thanks!

If you use Android, I recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp internally, nicely packaged into an Android app.

Now it’s slightly under Doom for portability

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Steve Jones died of ligma

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Related to that, what’s up with labeling the buttons “Sign in”/“Sign up” instead of a less ambiguous “Login”/“Register”? (Looking at you, Github)

(My native language is not English, and I always confuse the two 🤷)

I’ve been a computer nerd since I was like 10. When I was younger (damn, am I that old already?), I used to install PC games for friends (including ahem cracks). I always did it for free just, well, because they were friends, and because it took no longer than 10 minutes in the worst case. Their parents always threw a few bucks my way anyway, which I always tried to refuse, but ended up taking because of their insistence.

I also started contributing to open source from a relatively young age (I think I was maybe 20), not with the intention to make a career out of that, but because I found it a fun activity, and liked my contributions helping people.

In both cases, my family was all over me for not making a career from that. Like, my brother in Christ, I don’t need to be fucking working 24/7 from birth to death. People are allowed to do things just for fucking fun.

FWIW, I recall someone mentioning that the Facebook post with the most comments ever is a similar post, where it garnered reactions and comments just because people like to fight each other for who is correct, while the engagement farmer laughs all the way to the bank

Ah! Bummer :(

I haven’t used Excel in ages, tho

Well, IIRC there’s a flight simulator hidden somewhere in Excel

Edit: https://www.exceldemy.com/7-excel-easter-eggs-for-power-users/

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I really hate “phone bad, book good” people.

Ebooks are books. Audiobooks are books. Wikipedia is as good as a physical encyclopedia. Not all books are quality books just because they are printed. Physical books also degrade over time, particularly modern ones.

There are advantages and disadvantages to every medium. Just let people use whatever they feel is better.

(That said, research from trustable sources and verify the information, have some critical thinking, don’t just believe in random Facebook posts/magazines/whatever regardless of medium)

+1 for Luanti and Simon Tatham’s Puzzles.

I used to use Lemuroid too, but now prefer RetroArch. Both use the same libretro “cores” (plugins/emulators/programs). RA has many more features, but is mainly gamepad oriented (though its default UI is quite usable via touchscreen). Lemuroid has less features but it’s easy to setup.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is also quite nice if you like roguelikes.

Vector Pinball is also cool.

Here in my country (at least public healthcare, which my mother and I use, and the private provider my grandfather uses), pharmacists give you enough full boxes to cover the month, even for controlled substances, even if that means giving a few extra pills.

As an example, I take 1 ½ Risperidone pills daily, which makes 45 pills a month. Boxes are 20 pills each, so they give me 3 boxes (60 pills). The leftovers helped me a couple of times I was sick or otherwise couldn’t get the refill on time.

There was only one time where they gave me two boxes and a blister (50 pills), but it was still a full blister.