I feel like after he gets over the slight he’d be fine with it…

Depending on which government…your misread ain’t wrong

Year of Linux wen? Now? Ples, B now?

It’s broken on some instances.

Somehow I collect low-powered laptops.

Don’t lie to us. It’s not a mystery. I can almost guarantee 80%+ of the people in this thread have something they both collect and pretend it’s a mystery/weird that they do.

I used to collect fixed blade knives. Had to give them away when I moved to the UK, not worth the hassle if I was asked about it.

Now I have the start of a collection of old mini-synths that I keep meaning to circuit bend but never get around to.

I do this with stonework. My wife’s started doing it now too. When we first got together, we’d be on vacation and she’d point out what she thought was great stone work. Without being a dick about it I would automatically point out things that are super obvious to me, 15 years in the trade next summer. “That’s a structurally severe crack, that’s an obviously amateur patch, why the fuck that person was let anywhere near a restoration job is beyond me, that’s got another 5 years max until it could potentially fall and kill someone…” Etc etc etc.

Now our vacations tend to be us going from restaurant to attractions or whatever, and stopping along the way to criticise shoddy stone work.

I know I show favouritism with people and pets- - - had to consciously remove that behaviour

Yeah, definitely feel that. And I do my best not to let those feelings colour how I treat any other beings…but, you know… sometimes you’ve got that one friend or pet, and you love em to bits, but they’re the asshole of the bunch. 😅

Also, favorites are just way too situational. My favorite color? On what? A hamburger? Pink. My clothes? Black. My computer? Mauve.
My favorite food? For which meal? How was my day? What have I eaten recently?

I had to really think hard to even come up with a favourite colour. Dunno what the name would be for it, somewhere between turquoise and seafoam green?
But I’d never wear clothes that colour, or drive a car that colour, or pick a phone that colour. So is it actually my favourite?!?

There are some easy favorites. My favorite hoodie is the one that my, now ex previously partner, brought to me while I was going through one of my lowest points in life. I’m grateful they let me keep it.

I have a favourite shirt, it was my stepdad’s, I had stayed at his after a show just a few months before he started to get really sick from cancer. Hadn’t been diagnosed yet. My buddy had puked and hit the shirt I’d had on, so the next day my stepdad gave me an old shirt of his. It was full of holes. That was almost 10 years ago. He passed away less than 6 months after he gave me that shirt. It’s now more hole than shirt. My wife always forgets it’s history, that it was one of the last few things he gave me before he died. She’s tried, soooo many times, to get me to toss it. Thankfully she’s started remembering, and I don’t have to fight to keep it any more.

My favorite thing about life is learning.

Me too, a quote I like about it, that I’m certainly going to butcher, goes kinda:

The more I learn, the more I realise I know almost nothing.

Had an ex that was working on a Master’s degree in medicine, can’t remember exactly what field. Lab/research stuff. She hated that quote. Said it gave her existential dread.
I personally love it, feel like that realisation of not knowing as much as I can pushes me to learn more, to grow. You know?

I’ve always been bed at picking favourites

Fuuuuuuuck…✊ The struggle is real…
My wife’s tried to spark up the whole “death row final meal” discussion with me a few times. FFS, on the rare occasions I actually get a food craving, I can’t even decide what I’m craving!

Option paralysis

This is the theme of my life.

First comment:

Hard agree, I like to reframe stuff like this in the same way the OP picture is. I have a really close friend in the States. He’s a GOP backer, his parents were, and their parents ad nauseum. His instinct is to be liberal, not like…L liberal, or D democrat. But he wants better affordable healthcare for everyone, he wants to be able to give a homeless guy he sees on his way to work every day a sandwich but can’t for fear of trouble off the cops. He didn’t vote, literally wasn’t able to afford to leave to vote. Staunch Trump supporter, weirdly considering his obvious socialist/liberal beliefs, until everything started falling apart these last few weeks. Won’t admit he was wrong. But we had a long conversation about how he’d side with Canada if it came to an invasion. Every time he comes out with something he was told growing up, hammered into him as truth… Civil War was about economic differences, stuff like that. I gently disagree, with us that usually takes the form of me cussing him out, and pointing him to innumerable sources that counter, with evidence, what he was taught. He then calls me a dirty so and so, says “well fuck…”
Been friends 5 years this December coming, maybe with a few more years I’ll have him deprogrammed enough to not only participate in his democracy (if there still is one) but to do so in his own best interests.

These people for the most part aren’t our enemy by choice. They’re the victim of systemic underfunding of education, and the twisting of the historical narrative. This is a generational effort of cultural programming.
Are some people beyond saving? Maybe. Probably, actually.

But the spectator-sportification of the American political system is at fault.

Second comment:

This is fucking gold. I’m inspired to look back through my comments. A month or so back I had a chat with someone here asking for help fleshing out ideas for Godzilla Through Time creative writing. I think you might jive with that.

I don’t reread conversations for entertainment, but I do find myself going through my comment history on Lemmy for reference. Same with text convos. I’ll have a memory of saying something, and look back to sanity check myself.

What was your favourite comment that you made? Is there one that makes you smile?

Actually it in this instance it mea… Ahhhhhhh hahahaha! You got me good!

Note the second sentence where I thought I made it clear I was joking.

VEDadnap? I don’t get it.

Yes I’m being intentionally obtuse

It took me awhile to find the info. I looked through their documentation pages hoping they would give me a clue, nada. I googled it and had to reword it 3x and then go through a couple articles. Would have been nice if they’d just put it on the about page.

Serpent OS is an independent distribution written from scratch by Ikey Doherty, which means that it’s not based on an existing GNU/Linux distribution.

From this 9to5Linux article.

Instead of Debian, why not tinyCore?

Eh, don’t let it get to you buddy, things will either get better, orrrrr… we’ll all be dead and it won’t matter anyway.
Not saying: don’t be aware, don’t try for a better more just and fair tomorrow.
Just… don’t let the machine grind you down. Anxiety, desperation and despair make people compliant. Be happy and keep fighting for whatever you want for tomorrow. 🍻

🍻 no worries bud, they can keep spazzing out, and I’ll keep trying for liberation of the workers and calling fascists fascists. Hope you have a better day than BraindeadInABox, they seem like they’re coasting on towards an aneurysm 👍

Right? I figured I’d just let them keep winding themselves up. Never even said I was pro-Biden. Honestly, imho, he’s not great, didn’t do much I liked during his tenure and a bunch I didn’t. The stuff he did before was mostly anti-labour which I very much disagree with. BraindeadInABox is frothing at the mouth so hard that they should probably be checked for rabies. The Sartre quote was delectable in it’s blind use as some kinda gotcha. The bozo’s reping a fucking Cheeto, who’s a known rapist, insurrectionist(not even in the respectable way,) and undoubted racist, and if he believes in anything at all further than his own personal power and wealth… he’s certainly an anti-Semite. It’s been interesting watching the masks come off these tankies. Marxist-Leninists my fucking foot. They’re rabid fascist neckbeards, simping over Putin, Xi, and now Herr Trumpf.
Which is a bit sad, they were so close to actually getting it.

Anyway, fully expecting this post to be removed. Probably too close to the truth for these soft bootlicking snowflakes.

One, I’m Canadian, two I’m firmly left, well past “liberal”. Two, you’re not really worth talking to. Have fun screaming into the void buddy.

Edit: heh, I’m just going to leave the poorly numberedness.

Righto 👍