I feel all of this. Trump is a clown but he has taught us something useful: the Democrats had the power to just do shit this whole time and they refused to use it. The few times they did, it was to control mean words on the internet or ban people like Snowden and Assange from the country. They are not good people or leaders.

No I’m not saying the Republicans are better or desirable in any way, but if all you’re doing is VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO, that’s not going to fix a god damn thing.

Evangelicals and Zionists are death cultists who want to end mankind to bring about the conditions of their salvation.

They are dangerously stupid.

Women often have to trade career progression for motherhood. That’s a big ask considering the decades we’ve spent letting neoliberals devalue motherhood and labour in and out of the home.

~20 years ago my wife was mocked at university for wanting to have children. It hasn’t improved much since.

Real estate agents are largely an unproductive group of parasites. They are also professional shit take machines.

Name something you care about. Now be honest: do you scroll past everything that spreads misinformation about that thing?

Investors have very big brains and are never wrong, so when a company drops staff they say it’s good to see the company losing dead weight.

Us stupid small-brained normies see a company struggling to have an original idea shaving staff to stay afloat and say “that doesn’t look good”.

Then the big-brain investor loses money and posts on social media about how you can’t win them all. The joke is that us normies also lost money; the investor didnt lose their money, they lost yours, because they were managing your pension fund.

I can’t speak for rekabis but my wife has agreed with everything rekabis said, as some of her own friends and many coworkers are exactly like this.

As for my own experience: back when Facebook was still “the Facebook”, I was in a Human Sexuality class in college. The prof split up the men and women and then had each side list what they want in a partner to illustrate that men and women have different values, and I was utterly disgusted by both sides.

Men: I want a woman with little sexual experience who will be obedient and faithful (translated: doting kissless virgin who will suck me off whenever I want, and never talk to other men)

Women: I want an independent man who can take me places, help me get what I need, and who listens (translated: a man who lives on his own, owns a car, will buy me things, and who will not challenge my braindead assumptions about life as a man)

I was listening to both sides construct their ideal person and then realize they couldn’t say what they actually wanted to say, so they reworded it, hence the translations. That’s the day I decided I would go find an intelligent woman who actually wants to touch grass and start a family. ~15 years later I have never been more glad I made that call because it does not appear that things improved at all.

Do you think that generated depictions of the sexual abuse of children are ok in any context?

False equivalence.

Guy atomically made of shit takes has another shit take, colour me surprised.

Warren Buffett is also betting against the market (in his case liquidating positions), and both of these two have a history of good calls. I wouldn’t be anywhere near the tech sector right now.

Running away saved me a lot of times. It also failed me twice, and those two times left me with a scar and a permanent disability. As a complete self-defense solution it’s a bad idea, but as part of your defense it’s a great suggestion for any able bodied people.

I can no longer outrun potential attackers. This door is closed to me.

I’ve faced many attempts to severely harm me but I usually escaped. I failed to escape twice: got kneecapped with a bat once (leaving me with a permanent injury), and stabbed once miraculously missing anything vital.

My crime: having to work late, growing up in a poor neighbourhood.

I’d feel a lot safer if I could be armed. I don’t want to die.

I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It’s been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)

If you can get your hands on R.A.D. (Robot Alchemic Drive), do so. It’s a very interesting robot combat game developed by Sandlot, who would later become famous for Earth Defense Force

18 years

I know of child predators and murderers who got less time.

just the thought of having to configure it all again makes my skin crawl

It took me ages to get the nerve to redo my media server. Then some of my hardware failed and I had to redo it again… By the third time redoing it I had become a lot more confident.

Also you learn to take notes on everything you touch and make backups lol

I just feel like bringing these pain points up in the hope that someone might have an answer for me or others, I guess?

Completely valid and I encourage you to keep doing so. Denying there are usability problems does not fix them.

This kind of thing is why backups / snapshots are so important to do. On Linux we actually get that option so much more easily than on Windows, so it’s worth doing. On Windows, updates are painful enough that out of habit I just reinstall Windows every year to head this problem off.

Not trying to minimize your pain, it’s something I had to learn to deal with too and it does take time and energy to properly resolve, which isn’t free. The experience will also vary dramatically between distros and hardware.

Lastly if you’re a long time Windows user try to remember what it was like when you were new, when you had no idea how the pieces connect to each other; it takes time to get into the groove.

You might prefer a more curated experience like Bazzite.