Kind of seems like punishing a person for doing what you do.

Yeah, that’s the Olympian gods for ya.

There’s a reason almost all of Greek mythology can be summed up in only eight words:

“Unfortunately, Zeus was feeling rather horny that day.”

I’m not even that interested in kitchenware (mostly) and I still enjoyed that video! Just goes to show how great he is. Hehe.

It’s Technology Connections.

It’s always worth it. Because

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My apologies. Your comment came off (to me anyway) as the former.

That is so weird. Haha.

I don’t mind self-learning. Hell, if I’m interested in the subject matter, I usually find myself experimenting and researching.

I’m all about that “wait, I wonder if…” mindset. 😎

I work as a cashier at a dead-end retail store in a town of 5000. (Seriously, the closest reasonably large city is like 30 minutes away.) So I don’t think there’s much of an opportunity at my current workplace. Haha.

But you still make an excellent point and it sounds like a good starting-off point. Thank you!

I didn’t know that. Thanks!

Which distros, out of curiosity?

I really appreciate the effort! My dream is to eventually learn enough from free online courses to then take a certification test and then maybe I can get a job even though I don’t have a degree. I fear my lack of a degree will doom that goal before I ever get a chance, but I have to take that chance, I feel. Also, I fucking hate customer service. Lol.

Honestly, I had a bunch of little confusions. I thought the input() function was only a string until the user typed in a value when prompted, and then it became either an integer value or a floating-point value depending on what you typed in.

Thanks to Labna@lemmy.world and your other response, I understand that it is always a string regardless until you convert it after the fact.

Also, I meant to type an asterisk instead of a plus sign when typing over my code snippet into my post. Fixed now.

Also, to answer your last question, if I do h+r or h*r, I get “5010” for the former (which makes sense) and the standard “can’t multiply sequence by non-int of type ‘str’”, which also makes sense to me now that I understand the above point.

Oh, I think I understand now.

Thank you for clarifying that to me!

But I thought the “value” doesn’t exist until the end-user types in the value, due to the use of input(). So it starts off as a string, then becomes whatever is typed in, which then gets filtered through the next line. So if I type 3, it’ll be considered as an integer, and likewise as a float if I type 3.00.

Maybe. I’m busy right now.

I might do it later. Maybe I’ll do it on

🎵 FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY 🎵

THANK you for the advice. I will keep that in mind. I might start writing today while I’m at work. :)

Lol, that’s why I said yet. Give it another couple years; we might have started plasma cannons out of toothpicks and bra straps. Haha.

Wow, thanks for all the information! Very fascinating, I think. I enjoyed reading it! :)

That is a good example. Thanks.

One can only hope.

Yeah, not all games work on Linux in all situations though. It depends for example on

• which distro you have,
• whether you have an Nvidia or AMD GPU (for example, SWTOR evidently runs fine through Lutris, but didn’t last time I tried with an Nvidia GPU, so that might better with AMD—same thing happened with Dragon Age: Origins)
• what driver for either you have installed (Nvidia is getting better, but good gods the flickering could be better with some of their driver versions—games may play without being playable, after all),
• whether your computer’s firmware is even Linux-compatible, let alone Linux-friendly (I know Lenovo laptops used to suck in this regard—they might still, though I don’t).

So, no, although it’s gotten a LOT better in the last 5 years, the notion that it “just works” is only situationally correct, and is by no means correct to the extent that justifies ridiculing those who say that it is not so plug-and-play as what is claimed.

Furthermore, doing so only sets up new Linux users without the optimal hardware or firmware for disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.

I’ll be married for 5 years next month. We haven’t killed each other (yet)!

That’s good news!