I’m an older dude whose phase of staying up all night playing was back in the early console days. I prefer in-person tabletop RPGs like D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. Just not into computer games anymore, but that and social media seem to be most people’s primary computer activities.

Game chatter has changed over the years - I used to see a lot of talk about graphics quality and massively powerful hardware - maybe that was during a period when it was rapidly improving, I dunno. But the current focus seems to be more on game industry business decisions sucking.

Anyway I’m just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.

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    10 days ago

    I mostly use my computer for:

    • CAD (both 3D modeling and circuit board design)
    • Programming (mostly embedded firmware in Rust lately)
    • Chatting because doing that on a phone is too slow and autocorrect sucks.
    • Work (remote desktop, mostly)
    • News
    • AI tomfoolery with stuff like Stable Diffusion and LLMs.

    Every now and again I’ll get addicted to a new game and use my PC for that too. My latest addiction was Baldur’s Gate 3 when it came out 🤷

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        8 days ago

        Oh yes! Loads of fun.

        Trying to get a good workflow for Micropython at the moment. It’s so I can make things easier for a robotics team I’m coaching.