Just a below average idiot that mostly comments for one of 3 reasons:

Catharsis, expressing exasperation over the general state of things.

Looking to make someone laugh.

Self deprecation.

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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • people who don’t even seem to invest are the ones worrying about it. I can’t help but wonder why that is.

    If I had to guess it’s probably because those people, like OP and myself, have very limited funds so losing that investment is losing “everything” and putting them back to having nothing.

    Having a very inadequate income makes losing your investments tremendously impactful as you know it will take many many many years just to get close to whatever level of investment you had before. We’re counting on years of growth to make it something worthwhile, but if we get kicked back to nothing then by the time we catch back up to where we were the amount of time left to invest and grow is so much shorter.






  • It became “my thing” around when I turned 19. I had previously been exposed to a bunch of conspiracy theories that I never really bought into by a friend and in trying to learn more about it all I ended up following politics more, eventually learning my way out of the conspiracy land and instead watching the decline of the US for myself instead of having some internet weirdos say it’s the Jews or the annunaki…

    It’s unfortunately more of a sick addiction now, I feel like I need to follow what is happening even though it just makes me extraordinarily depressed, seeing how no matter what we as a population will always be lead to make the wrong decisions and how there are so many people that revel in hatred and inflicting pain on “others.”

    The more I learned about politics the stronger my support became for my candidate:



  • I’d second Mint suggested below. I mentioned this on another thread today, but if you’re really concerned about being able to play whatever games you want then just dual boot (use a secondary drive for Linux, not a partition) and upgrade to Windows 11 then install O&O shut up as it will allow you to disable all the telemetry and AI bullshit then just search your installed apps/programs for one drive and delete the app.

    I use Mint for everything except gaming. It still runs a lot of what I tried with Lutris and a little tweaking, even got a game working where I just dragged the fully installed folder from Windows over to the Linux drive, but I have some things that work better on windows so I just neutered windows and only run that when I want to play something.



  • Antifa has been branded by the GOP as a group that does not follow a specific ideology purely focused on fascism, they’ve been marked as a “dangerous, violent, leftist (important point) group.”

    The politicians are using the antifa boogyman as a political tool and the MAGA supporters are just opposing a group they see as “leftist terrorists.” In their eyes it has nothing to do with any kind of “legitimate” resistance to fascism so they’ll outright reject the notion that being against Antifa means your for fascism.

    They’ve been conditioned to absolutely loath anyone on the left with the most pure burning hatred, so in using the qualifier “leftist” in their description they invoke the thought terminating process, leftist means you hate them without thought, and antifa is now a label you can put on anyone you want to persecute. The “base” may have been conditioned to despise “the left,” but I think we’re still at the point where the right can’t simply say “we’re arresting them because they’re Democrats that are protesting our actions” so they need this “dangerous terrorist group” to exist as the enemy.


  • As others have said it seems to be great. I made the switch to Mint a month or so ago and while I haven’t tried anything multiplayer, any game I tried on steam worked fine. I even used Lutris to get some games running that I acquired… 🦜 🏴‍☠️… and they worked as well with a little tinkering.

    I was even surprised to see I could transfer an already installed game folder from my windows drive over to Linux and then set up lutris to recognize it and it worked as well! I’ve been pleasantly surprised with it so far, I’d say dual boot (using a separate drive) and test it out!



  • Asafum@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.mlMigration from Win 10 to Mint
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    As someone similarly unfamiliar with Linux I’ll say I just made the move as well a few weeks ago and haven’t had any issues so far! Ive even started playing with wine and lutris to get games working, with a little tweaking I was even able to drag the files of an already installed game from Windows over to Linux and then get lutris to run it. I was pretty surprised to see it worked lol





  • The invisible stuff or the things that go along with these huge purchases are often times not that far off in price from the initial purchase.

    I work for a company that makes a specific accessory for yachts. Some orders we get depending on the configuration can cost as much as a car for just one of them… These people will order 4+ in one go. This is an accessory to the yacht, something you sit on… It’s crazy