Your comment made me think of this video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xCX9vIkiLqc

I’ve heard it since I was a young boy. It’s the earliest example of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” many boys first experience.

Damn, you beat up a girl? That’s messed up.

Damn, you got beat up by a girl?! What a pussy!

This is generally what happens when a girl is bullying you and the response you get if you defend yourself or if you don’t defend yourself.

It’s usually something unrelated to the OS that I am staying up all night trying to get working. One time I realized it was because I was trying to use an x86 program on ARM for a Raspberry Pi and I felt like an idiot spending so much time troubleshooting to find that out.

Installing the OS is simple. I’d go as far as saying it’s now easier & faster on most distros than installing Windows, considering you’re not hunting down the latest exploit to bypass signing into a Microsoft account or having to go through all the prompts you’re going to say no to anyway and not having to remove all the bloat and reverse the stupid Microsoft defaults and startup crap like McAfee…

A new Deus Ex game was in development at developer Eidos Montreal between 2022 and 2024, but was cancelled by publisher Embracer Group. Unfortunately, that title seemingly did not feature the character of Adam Jensen.

Fucking Embracer… but considering the other shit they are involved in and what dogshit it usually is, maybe it’s best we didn’t get whatever it was they were planning. Especially if it didn’t involve Jensen and his VO. Wonder who else from those games wasn’t involved in this newer development…

Lem.ee was relatively easy to join and IIRC, didn’t require approval like some others require, at least the 2 times I made accounts there. Where you sign up and wait for an acceptance if they accept you.

Because of that is why a lot of shit came through and I imagine that was something he didn’t want to change. It was probably a dealbreaker, either his instance has this or it doesn’t exist. But because of that, you’re going to get more spammers and bad actors, unfortunately.

It was also on the front page of Lemmy for a while, so that probably attracted more people for that reason alone. I know because it was the first instance I joined with because I didn’t know there were other instances to join.

Everyone has stuff they cringe about themselves. If you don’t, you’re probably doing cringe-worthy things lol.

Like others said, you’re growing and this is maturity.

Plus, don’t feel bad about what you did when you felt suicidal. You clearly were not right in the head. I hope you are doing better now.

At least you can say that for yours. Some of the stuff that keeps me up at night is just me being a dumb kid lol…I remember posting on Facebook about “hacking” when I was talking about rooting my phone using tools that were publicly available. Ughhhhhhhhhhh that shit lives with me daily. One acquaintance called me out on it that real hackers don’t post their shit online and I just shrivel up and cringe inside whenever my mind randomly reminds me of that.

Take care. You’ll have more as you grow into adulthood, as we all do.

Start by recognizing the three states: passive, assertive, and aggressive and learn how to maintain that balance in being assertive.

You don’t want to be aggressive, which is when you are on the offensive and is overtly rude/disrespectful and hostile.

You also don’t want to be passive, which is when you let people run you over and railroad everything you do. You let people disrespect you.

You want to be assertive. You are honest and upfront about your wants/needs in a respectful and calm manner. You make compromises when appropriate and necessary. You aren’t railroading others nor allowing others to railroad you. You understand that others exist and ensure others remember that you exist as well.

The difficulty, at least for me, is that assertive can sometimes come off as aggressive. But standing up for yourself in a reasonable manner is not, no matter what people may think or say. Sometimes someone may think that because you speak up for yourself, that’s aggressive behavior, but it’s really not. Simply telling someone else, “That hurt my feelings and I’d like for you not to do that again” on its own is not an aggressive reaction but assertive.

Probably a stupid question, but my thought when seeing that water vapor is wondering if we could do like we do with a desalination method where the water vapor rises and then drips back down into its water form again?

Is it possible to do something like that there? Have a dome/other structure directly above the vents where the water vapor comes from to capture it or most of it, and then that eventually drips the water back into a reservoir and then goes back into the original source for water? It would be cleaner too as an added benefit, right?

I find enjoyment in some of them, but not all. I can’t find entertainment in watching someone else play a game. I often wonder if a lot of the people doing this on sites like Twitch are the “younger siblings” who always watched someone else play and now that’s their thing?

I do find enjoyment in watching a musician listen to music I like, but more so for their commentary like picking up on things I never paid attention to or explaining something and how it compares to other music. Or seeing how they react and if they have the same reactions I do to my favorite parts of a song. I don’t know why, but I get a kick out of seeing reactions like that.

And on the reaction video side, a very rare time I can see it is like watching some old person watch GTA gameplay and seeing their reaction to it. Even then, it’s going to be for the most extreme of reactions like them really going all out crazy over it and having a hilarious response.

I agree with this with my exception being peanut butter which I love. My favorite snacks always involve peanut butter.

But plain nuts are gross. And I’m sick of everyone’s instance on putting nuts in salad 🤮

I largely agree except one: bananas.

I know it’s not truly chocolate, but still in the realm, I like to make a peanut butter, Nutella, and banana sandwich sometimes.

Have you tried Garuda Linux yet? Another dragon themed distro with tons of dragon themes.

Your Surface Pro actually might be able to run it. I’ve been playing on the Steam Deck and it works great. The requirements are super low spec for PC.

You should check out BallisticNG on Steam. It even has VR support and it’s only $10 USD right now on sale https://store.steampowered.com/app/473770/BallisticNG/

Back in September, I think?

It went pretty well, actually better than I expected. She wanted to stay out until 11 PM with me and we spent much of the time talking and finding a lot of commonalities and good conversation. At the end of the date, she was very physical with me. Got super close to me and asked me if I wanted to go out with her again and she wouldn’t stop kissing me.

But then the next few days, she spent the whole time only ever talking about herself and never asked me a single question about me or seemed to show any interest in me. I thought she might have lost interest in me so I stopped replying to one of her messages to see if that was the end, but then she messaged me again to tell me more about her day. Was super weird how different she was after and I told her I wanted to stop seeing her the day before our next scheduled date. I was a bit conflicted despite the mixed signals. I really liked her despite the mixed signals but I’ve been burned before like this and that combined with the distance was enough to not keep trying to force something to work.

Haven’t cared to get back into this dating game since. I feel frustrated and like it’s largely a waste of my time. I’ve been spending my time in other ways since.

Ironically, if it got Steam, Valve’s gaming client, it might actually be more popular.

This was prior to the RAM rising, but Valve stated that the Steam Frame would be cheaper than the Index which was at $999 USD.

That could change now after RAM pricing, but nothing has been said yet.

All I gotta say is use a cup of water and a cover and your microwaved food quality will be so much better.

I like to buy those premade breakfast sandwiches from the store and the microwave is so much nicer since it is faster. The directions for ovens always want you to do something like 20-30 minutes which is effectively how much time it takes to make the damn thing, piece by piece. Granted you’re not making it, but I digress.

But the microwave makes the bread hard and the center cold.

So use a cover and place a single cup of water under the cover with your food, or use butter in the cup if you want a little extra flavor added. It’s not really that noticeable, so I don’t do it often.

You’ll notice your food comes out so much better. I did this last night with one of those sandwiches and it was so perfectly cooked and the bread was perfect. I also do this to reheat pizza and it works wonders so you don’t end up with hard crust and a watery underside.

It seems to be a trend. They started with Zach Braff and Donald Faison and then AT&T got Luke Wilson and Billy Bob Thornton and now T-Mobile is responding with more celebrity appearances.

I don’t know how any of this is relatable nowadays with all these people making money well beyond any of us will ever see in our lifetime. It’s just obnoxious to me.

Makes sense to deter pirates from attacking Chinese container ships.