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Ah, but it’s alright if the government does it.

Should I just head to using basic plain jane Debian or something?

Every time I try a new distro I end up back on Debian. It just works.

No, there’s a surplus.

I broke my own rule and actually preordered something – Diablo 4. Huge mistake.

A fair majority of Lemmings want to burn their landlords and thus anyone that owns their own home – out of pure spite I suppose.

Sort of like how Phillip Morris sells vapes now.

— Invest at least 10% of your income into the S&P or Large Growth fund – Roth IRA or 401k if you’re still in a low tax bracket (12% here in the states). Raise the contribution percentage as you raise your income. It may not seem like a lot now but 40+ years of compounding interest goes a long way.

— A gambler on a good day will just about break even. The quickest way to do that is simply not to play. Remember when the game is rigged against you, you don’t have to play. The house always wins.

That said, play your own game. If you look at someone else’s and try to play like them you’ll mess up your own. Play your own game in life.

Using a typewriter was a nightmare, but the keyboard feel was so satisfying.

Arc Search. I’ve learned more this past year.

Relating to electric cars, Aptera – when they hit the streets everything changes.

Most Linux distributions and thus development feel like passion projects. Each time I try to revisit Windoze I feel like the product. That’s completely ignoring the customization I am provided in Linux. I don’t care about ricing. I just want a functional machine tailored to my use case, which is easier to do on FOSS.

Mastodon maybe? I don’t know, never tried it

You’re right. He also doubles as a teddy bear.

Close enough!

Edit for a recommendation to OP: if you plan to change the oil in the same car for the foreseeable future – get a transparent plastic pitcher and add a fill line mark for the oil on the outside with nail polish, in your case 3.7 quarts. I do this with my car and makes for a no brainier oil change.

AI must die for us to survive.

or the one I got a temp ban at the other place for “promoting violence”: if there’s a threat to your wellbeing and you have to protect your dog, you chose the wrong dog and any harm that comes to you is your own fault.

You can have your anxiety dog, but I feel safer with my security guard dog. You’re dead because you’re dumb.

From my experience in music, drummers are always in demand

I didn’t want to edit my post again so I’m posting it here:

OP, if you’re socially anxious at those local shows and don’t know what to talk about – tell them you play drums and are looking for people to play with The quote I’m replying to is 100% accurate.

I’m not sure if there’s a music scene near you, but the best thing you can do for yourself and your kinsman is to see as many local shows as possible. If you go to enough, even if you don’t talk to anyone – you may get recognized and make friends without having to do much.

That said, if you see some reoccurring faces – those are usually the people to talk to. They seem to know everyone. Most local music scenes have a brotherhood mentality.

That’s how I integrated myself into the local scene, which provided a nice 10 year stint of touring. From my experience, music scenes tend to draw in a fair amount of neurodivergent people, so you won’t be alone.

Also, give Zorin a look.

That’s funny, you’re the second person today to mention Cosmic to me. I hadn’t seen it yet – now I’m interested as well.