The FOSS community have generally grown a kind of tacit acceptance of proprietary computer games. Everyone loves them, so nobody wants to make too much of a fuss, but I think we have good reasons to treat them differently.

Computer games do not - by default - require environment interaction. They can (mostly) operate …

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I never had the money for serious gaming, and perhaps it did me well; I've focussed on other things. But when the pandemic hit, I decided that this was exactly the time to start playing again, so I bought Tomb Raider from 2013.

Having not played anything much since Metal Gear Solid 3, I was blown away. The seamless way …

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Games are a great way to learn bash.

• mapscii.me is an interactive terminal map.
  1. Install telnet.
  2. telnet mapscii.me
• Over the Wire teaches bash with small challenging you can do over ssh.

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