As Big Black sang back in the '80s

🎵 The only good love’s unenforced

I acquiesced to marriage twice over the decades. Both times I didn’t really want to get married. The problem was I didn’t really NOT want to get married either. I think these choices, well-intentioned and made with love, kind of fucked up too big of a chunk of my approximate 4000 weeks of life. Unless there is a seriously pressing reason to do so, my very subjective advice is always: DON’T DO IT.

Not Vim? WTF?

When I’m on my home instance (piefed.social for you I suppose), I see a list of subscribed communities on the sidebar. I think you can go into your profile and see as well. I used to just look at someplace like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to find new communities, but I don’t know what the goto is now, it’s been awhile since I’ve looked.

One weakness/strength of the fediverse is that it’s not a single point of failure. By that I mean reddit might just nuke /r/foobar and it’s all gone. The fediverse may break up that single community into several, ie foobar@piefed.social, foobar@lemmy.world, foobar@whateverhost. Now you have 3 or more communities discussing foobar, but they aren’t linked. The weakness is that they aren’t linked and can split the userbase. The strength is that if the owner of lemmy.world fucks off and their server disappeared, the other choices are still there. If you find <hobby or interest>@skism.net, but there only are a handful of people and 3 posts over the past 6 months, you may find the same <hobby or interest>@another.com that has a super active userbase.

It can be a little annoying at first, if you are used to reddit and 10k people commenting stupid shit all over the place, most of Lemmy you’ll usually find 10s or 100s of people commenting stupid shit. It’s worth it for me, and I haven’t opened reddit in over a year. Your mileage may vary.

• Fight Club
• Click
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Spanking the Monkey
• Punch Drunk Love
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Those are just off the top of my head. Pretty standard list I think. The more I was thinking of the question, the more I was thinking that the majority of films probably could be used as an answer.

I’ve seen it mentioned that his speech was more of a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, highlighting that shit needs to change. Personally, I lean more toward your sentiment.

That is the one that’s killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.

I absolutely hate all this container shit, for my uses. That said, they make sense when you need to sandbox applications for whatever reason, but most of those uses seem like they would be better served with VMs.

It always makes me kind of sad when people disparage CLI use. It’s like people thinking they don’t need to actually learn anything because they can always look up what they need to know on their phone. It seems a shame to miss so much of the richness of the experience. I found myself arguing, promoting, whatever, terminal use a few times and then realized how pointless it is. It’s like arguing with someone about what food they like. You can just hope they develop a more sophisticated palate at some point, or at least become more open-minded, but you can’t force it on them.

This was a long way to get around to saying I like that you had that change of frame and are embracing the fun of personalizing your interactions with your computer.

Farting. I had a teacher who would send kids to the nurse for farting. So, of course, we’d fart as loud as possible and blame it on someone around us. You know, whip your head to the side and say,“Damn, Chris!” They usually got sent to the nurse. This was at least 2-3 times a week. I got blamed enough times that she upped the seriousness and sent me to the principal. Fair enough, I mean, I had gotten more kids sent to the nurse than they got me, and the principal just sort of rolled his eyes and sent me back to class. 7th grade.

Unless you have a real reason not to use X11, why not just use X11?

In 10 years they’ll have laid off the senior developers and will be using actual AI to translate C-suite dorks’ grunts and marketing speak to code.

I take like 1 minute to poop

What sort of wizardry is this?

I probably messed up something somewhere. And, yep, I can’t see MrKaplan at sopuli.xyz, but if I open in a different container tab where I’m not logged in, still sopuli.xyz, I see the posts. It’s not just MrKaplan, but really it happens on most pages. I’ll see <x> number of comments, but I can only see one or two. It’s been like that for a long time, I just can’t be bothered to figure it out. ¯\(ツ)/¯.

Paintball cosplay.

Very weird. I can’t see MrKaplan’s post unless I logout, but he isn’t in my blocklist. Maybe he’s blocking me? I don’t really know how the blocks work. Weird, but not a big deal.

I’m over 200 blocked now. It would be nice to have that site maintenance idea working to clear out my list. I’ll have to remember when I hit the limit.

You aren’t wrong, and I’m not sure why the other person is arguing with you. Seems like that Monty Python sketch about arguing.

.ml is awful, but you’ll find a lot of those knee jerk purity types spread all over the lemmyverse.

righteous?

I stopped sitting in on interviews at my old job. Everyone that I thought was a great interview ended up being a shitty employee.