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I was not technically a newbie since I had previously used ubuntu in the distant past (as if ubuntu would truly prepare someone for a more advanced distro), and probably a few others I can’t remember, but I came back with EndeavourOS and I’m having a great time. I did have a few challenges though I am fairly tech savvy and I knew what I was getting into so I was definitely not a regular novice.

After a single serious oopsie that bricked my system but I was able to fix I’ve been running a very stable system. I’ve kept with it for nearly 2 years now on my initial install with practically no issues, at least none I wasn’t willing and able to solve. I troubleshot an issue I was having with a package installation the other day without finding any help online and that made me proud of myself.

I would have considered myself a decent power user on windows, and I feel like a sub average arch user, but hey I get to learn and improve more now.

Exactly, and the only thing they have is increasing the guilt factor. But they’re gonna learn when put up against a cliff and a little guilt trip I’m just gonna take the guilt.

but of course. unless stripping them nude is an option.

it’s going to be corporate, In-store managers have practically no control. The person in charge of these practices is likely to be titled a regional director or similar, and even then they are going to be “translating” and implementing board/owner instructions.

My tipping follows the inverse of how much I am paying for the product. If the product is well priced and the service was good I have been known to tip 100% for excellent service. Now that everything is nearly double the cost of what it used to be I am more inclined to tip 50 cents to a dollar max.

They should be paying exceptionally well for what they are charging, but we know that isn’t the case. I don’t have unlimited wealth to spend either, fuck me for being poor and wanting some comfort “restaurant” food occasionally.

Honestly sounds like a disaster, what stops someone from controlling information by aggressively seed-boxing their chosen agenda?

Are there people that can afford stuff anymore?

I use the assistant on kagi, model is Claude 3.5 Sonnet

First question:

And what you are replying to is the output from my second question:

Y’all need better AI :) The one I “use” gives a good argument in favor of the musk is a fascist interpretation

Even worse the password was accepted in full when registered, but the login field won’t accept the full length.

Fair, the only reason I was watching that long was because I was just a young child, once I was able to provide for my own entertainment I never looked back to TV.

We’re back to television content-to-ad ratios

I hate ads too but we’re not there yet. When I stopped watching tv it was like at least 30% ads and I am sure it got worse the decade after I quit while it was still relevant.

To provide some additional anecdotes to support jul’s comment. I’ve personally been experiencing better performance than windows even with nvidia. Though it does vary per game, with the occasional workaround especially when going outside the realm of plug and play to mod games.

I’d say most games are great, the “10% low” games are still good, and the “1% lows” where things just don’t work are pretty rare but sometimes there is a fix. Proton.db is a good resource for those instances.

And being honest… windows has those moments too, people just ignore them because windows is the ubiquitous gaming OS.

It’s a lot better than when I had last “tried” and it may be more impactful to bring up that this time I haven’t gone back even once, and I actually went ahead and pulled the plug on my windows partition.

Linux is just better now, there’s one thing windows had but I gave it up. Linux is just better for most things now and to make that win even better… windows has increasingly been becoming worse than itself.

My GF is a dysphoria girl, she transitioned because of intense dysphoria, I’m kinda half-and-half in that there were/are parts of me I get bad dysphoria about, but also parts of me that were/are not and my decision to transitioned was also based on feelings of euphoria (though oddly transitioning actually kinda adjusted my dysphoria dials from what they were originally). It sounds like you could be one of us that doesn’t have dysphoria, but instead would just feel better transitioning.

You have a lot of thoughts of a trans girl, or at least of a gender fluid or non-binary person fwiw. Be the u that makes u comfy.

For me that meant transitioning, for u, maybe just being comf as you are?

Yeah it’s “too late” for me too, I’m locked in, and if there was a pill that did that I’d have some serious ethical concerns regardless. What I mean is more if I could have decided before being born.

While I love the trans community and all my friends I’ve made through being trans… I’d rather just be cis, even cis as my birth sex. Being trans isn’t a choice, if it was I would not be trans, it’s hard, very hard, and society makes the difficulty 10x worse.

I feel like this one is like mid season 3… but that’s a way out there guess

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It feels good physically, but sex is something much more emotionally, mentally, and socially important to me. It fulfills an intense desire for sexual intimacy and emotional bonding. I love to be touched, to intensely desire, and that intense desire matched by another for me. Feelings of fire and lightning deep inside, and bruises on the outside, pain, crying, and for a time my mind blank with bliss. For me, sexuality is a defining feature, I would not be me otherwise…

I would say however, if you are asexual and just don’t have these desires you aren’t missing out on much. Most of the benefits are “I get my needs fulfilled,” and if you live a satisfying life without having those needs to fill then there is not much lost, and maybe even something to gain.

I totally would