marionberrycore

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

When I was a kid they were almost always like movies - I wasn't involved at all, just watching things play out. Sometimes they would be first person though. In early adulthood it flipped, now they're almost always first person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Speaking as an omnivore, it's not indestinguishable from meat, but it is delicious. The texture tends to be less fibrous than meat and the flavour is sometimes better imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

coming up on my 5 year anniversary soon! still no surgeries (between moving cities, changing careers, and the pandemic things got a bit off track) but my body is livable now. the effects stabilized after a couple years, i finished getting my documents changed around that same time, and now i'm just living my life. i always forget to include it in my lists of medication lol, it's just my normal now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've been working on a fix for a similar issue, but it might not apply because my issue is caused by my mouse's wireless reciever. I wrote a little script to replace the bluetooth wakup config file, and it works when I manually run it. However, this resets every time I restart and I'm having difficulty getting it to run on startup, probably because it requires sudo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

About a year ago I somehow fucked up installing a new window manager on my tablet so badly I had to start from scratch - to this day I have no idea what happened there, but it just wouldn't boot properly or anything after that 🤷 I needed it for school pretty quickly though so my top priority was getting it working again, so I set up a fresh install instead of continuing to fuck around.

Not the same level of destruction, but I fucked up my first ever install a couple months in trying to resolve dependencies related to python and wine, which is why I'm more interested in sandboxing whenever feasible these days. After only two months I guess I had been fucking around with linux long enough to have a little too much unearned confidence, lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I used Pop on my main computer for almost a year before switching back to Mint last year. There were a lot of good things about it - for instance, it had the best compatibility out of the box with my hardware out of everything I tried. But I also saw some stability issues, and I personally dislike it's aesthetic, and I'm not really interested in trying Cosmic. I still recommend it to people but it's not for me.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (7 children)

If voting did nothing, there wouldn't be so much voter suppression and gerrymandering.

Personally, I would say absolutely do not stay home. If you want to abstain from the presidential vote or primaries it might not make a difference, depending on your state, but in the more local ballots you can make a difference for sure. Even better, consider getting involved in local politics, even just in the school board. Showing up to meetings and speaking can change minds. Shifting your town's culture and making local connecions makes a bigger difference than a vote for Biden in most states.

Voting is not enough, but as someone else here said, vote for who you'd rather negotiate with. Additionally, when people like Trump get elected it sends a message to their sympathizers that they're in the right, and it helps the overton window shift to the right. Look at the increase in hate crime after Trump won. Who is in power can cause cultural shifts that also make activism harder or easier, or even literally safer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wow! With vpn on (as usual) I get tons of other people's stuff - almost entirely movies and TV, lots of Bluey episodes in particular? Makes sense I don't see anything of mine, bc I haven't torrented anything in the past few days. When I turned the vpn off, nothing showed up. I suspected my rommate wouldn't be torrenting bc he always asks me to do it for him lol, he's less tech savvy, but it would be funny if something of his actually did show up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My vote is for mint. If you've been a long time windows user it should be the easiest one to get used to. PopOS is also newbie friendly if you're not into the feel of Mint for whatever reason.

My biggest recommendation though is to spend some time with a few different OS's and try setting things up different ways. Like if you start with Mint, try something new a month or two later. It's a good way to get used to the way linux OS's work under the hood.

I'm not a programmer at all, but if you have some background with computers and are willing to sink some time into learning and setting up a new system you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I do agree that cats and autistic people have a lot in common - I have no proof but from my immediate circle it seems like we're more likely to be cat people. I gotta disagree on sleeping a lot though bc I've had insomnia my whole life and I thought that it was common among autistics?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Don't insult mushrooms like this, lmao, what did they ever do to hurt you?

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