The Linux propaganda here got to me about 2 years ago and I switched to Linux mint. Pretty smooth sailing for day-to-day stuff. However, a few days ago I decided that I wanted to try modding fallout new vegas on my computer and that’s been a pain in the ass (still trying to figure it out). The problem is that a lot of the default packages in the mint repositories are outdated and cause a lot of more recently updated programs to malfunction. So I’ve had to figure out how to get updated packages by using the terminal (first time I’ve needed to open terminal this entire time) and update them one by one, figuring out which new thing is breaking one by one until everything is working.

For that reason, I’d recommend going with a distro that doesn’t have as much of a lag between updates if you’re planning on doing anything like what I described. There’s almost certainly ways to do what I’m trying to do that are less tedious/frustrating in mint, but I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing, dont understand most of what I’m reading, and there just isn’t much out there for my specific issues.

Despite my gripes, I’m still enjoying Linux more than windows. If something didn’t work on windows, and it couldn’t be solved with updating drivers or something similar, I’d just give up. Since everything is wide open in Linux, I know that the solution to my problems are achievable if I just do it right. Instead of being told no by my OS, I’m given a list of reasons why something isn’t working, and then I can just go and fix it

My wife is currently playing an asamar druid that was a drug dealer to the noble families of baldurs gate lol

It’s because you have personalized ads turned off. Half the ads I get are in languages I don’t speak

I watched the what we do in the shadows movie on mushrooms, wouldn’t recommend. I don’t like horror though so ymmv

To be fair, I have a ~fairly common name (not gonna out myself but most people know a couple of people with my name). And my name has very rarely been spelled right by the government, employers, schools, various offices, banks, or friends. My spelling is the common spelling, I don’t pronounce it weird, yet I always have to get my first paychecks fixed at a new job, have to go back to offices to get spelling corrected (when it matters), and correct friends repeatedly until it sticks.

Just in the last month I had to go to my states department of health to amend my vaccination records from my childhood because my record submissions for a job got rejected . Then I had to go back to the place that I got my flu shot from for the same reason. You can do everything right and still get screwed by inattentive bureaucrats. Your point still stands though. Don’t name your kids dumb shit people

How’s graphene been serving you? I’ve wanted to take the plunge for a while now and this no side loading bs has me looking into it again

I’m in school for respiratory therapy and we learned about laplaces law as it relates to alveoli in the lungs. What are the typical applications of laplaces law? Just wondering because I’m drawing a blank on other ways it could be/is used

The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.

I’m not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends. Seeing fascism as immature/childish certainly has validity, but I think the OP fails to fully capture our current political context with this lens. It would be better to see the state of american politics through the perspective of a failing proto-fascist empire metastasizing into a full fledged fascist regime, informed and shaped by its own reactionary propaganda, of which a large amount appears childish upon first glance.

We already have a word for that phenomena, it’s called fascism

Alt name for xiu xiu

I feel like an opposed strength check would be the easiest way to settle that

I was relying on sandwiches for a while there and made myself sick of them haha. It’s been a few months though, I may have to give it another shot