Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml

Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Sometimes you get your heart broken by who you thought was “the one” and it becomes hard to trust it again because “these are the same feelings as last time and look how that turned out.” Even if you want to, there can be a “fool me once” element to it that isn’t so easy to shake.

    And for me personally so far it’s that everyone seems to expect me to fall in love within a month and marry them within a couple years. Bruh I’m slow at that shit sorry idfk what to tell you and the more you pressure me the less likely it’ll ever happen because it’ll push me the other way.






  • I mean, I understand where you’re coming from, they absolutely shouldn’t log IPs. BUT, if you’re committing crimes or even doing legal things the government doesn’t like, it would behoove you to put in the absolute bare minimum of OPSEC at least.

    Like, some people know they have STDs and don’t warn people and spread them, right? And while the spreader is obviously the problem there, some commonly accepted advice to the victim is “you should have worn a condom anyway.” And they should have worn a condom to protect themselves (and also the spreader should be held liable.)

    Like the previous example, anyone using any online service (for secrety things) should know to put a VPN condom on before they put their data inside that sexy, slutty server rack. And like how contraceptives were that knowledge needs to be spread.









  • Though tbf when searching for linux help you’re more likely to actually get it, and it may not work or you may have to kinda translate it to your distro, but it’s less likely to be that type of malicious tool you speak of on windows.

    Meanwhile those “tools” are either SEOd to hell and back so the only thing that comes up when searching is them instead of some useful stackoverflow page, or windows docs post-w8 themselves tell you to fix every problem by reinstalling.

    Actually that’s a BIG reason I finally swapped to linux, for years it had been “but idk how to fix shit like I can on windows” until that tipping point when it became “well at least I can find a fix for linux, windows just keeps saying reinstall and the internet says ‘use this totally not sketchy proprietary and sometimes expensive software.’”




  • Meanwhile on fedora over ~5yr or so I update at least once a week (or daily when I have home internet, but currently I do not so I bring my laptop to friends’ places and update on theirs every so often) and I’ve had updates break stuff only two or three times, and only once was it that serious. Like once it broke vlc and I just had to use mpv for a day or two until it updated to match and whatever issue was fixed, nbd.

    If something breaks every time you update it’s either your hardware and you’ll just always have that until you switch it up (which sucks, so hopefully not) or try a new distro if you’re having that many problems with Mint. “Every time” isn’t a “normal” user experience, it should be an uncommon annoyance, maybe common back in the day, but not anymore.