helo

Jerboa is working with lemmy.ee now!

“databases” is pretty broad - the literal meaning of the word is adequate and sufficient to describe what they are - just things made to store data. analogies may obscure the generality of the term…

particular types of databases all have different analogies that could help beginners, though

it would be nice if instances had a health status to let users know about issues proactively

you’re right, it’s a security issue!

client UIs must make it easy to keep track of who is who.

steam’s proton extension (or mod, whatever) to wine has really increased the number of games that run well in wine.

these days most productivity “apps” are just web based, so wine isn’t as relevant.

I keep a Windows partition around for a little better (~10%) performance in intensive games, but plan to ditch it when I upgrade my CPU.

it’s still early, have hope!

Subspace - Meet people from all over the world, and then kill them.

One of the first online multiplayer games. It has a very long skill curve, and a ton of variety in game types.

It’s still alive in Steam as Continuum!

it will be interesting to see if NFTs are “properly” implemented using the web browser DRM that Google is creating

can this “fix” NFTs?

I think there is - legislation.