Weird. I haven’t flown recently. What happens if you get plastic surgery or into an accident or something?

If your library is on steam, then there’s nothing to worry about! Works natively on Linux. If your library is on other platforms, I’d honestly think twice about switching full time. Dual booting might be a better option. My library is split amongst multiple platforms and I decided that it wasn’t working well enough for me. Steam games will work great though!

Many distros are easy enough to install and navigate as a newbie. My go to for years now has been Linux Mint! It’s based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian.

Ease of gaming if you don’t have your entire library of games on Steam tbh. If you do, then it’s a no-brainer. If not, then ehh.

Also sometimes Nvidia cards do not play nice in Linux.

New LGBTQ just dropped

Gesundheit

So first of all, I’m with you.

But would that affect waterproofing at all?

You’re being down voted, but I feel you. It’s why I picked one of the largest instances when I joined, despite what other Lemmings tend to tell people to do. Picking a small instance is a bad idea because they die out like that. I’ve seen several fairly significant smaller instances die out at this point. I don’t want to wake up and my account suddenly vanished one day because the host forgot about it.

I’m really out of the loop. Why is lemm.ee shutting down? I thought it was one of the more sizeable instances.

Lmaoo omg I totally relate when you talk about kind of wishing you were just gay because it would be easier! I have thought about this myself, really! Honestly, sometimes I’m not even really sure because I do have a tendency to find the same sex attractive in my limited way. I’m probably on the bi and ace spectrums in some limited capacity, but sometimes it makes me wonder if it’s something hidden deep down inside somehow or wish to just be gay!

Lmaoo my coworker always talks about the baby smell too. I find it funny because I have never sniffed a baby hahaha

Thank you very much for sharing your story! I’m sorry to hear about your friend, btw. But I’m glad you got to share your life with them for so long. I’m lucky that I have a really good friend right now too at least! They have a family of their own so it’s not as if we can mutually prioritize each other to the same extent, but that’s ok.

Omg I had the same experience during puberty lol. Even into my late teens and early twenties, my mom would kind of bug me about it. When I still wasn’t taking anyone home, she used to drop hints that it would be ok if I was a lesbian and had a girlfriend lol! Thankfully at this point, people stop bringing it up haha.

Yeah I’m definitely working on trying to get rid of the FOMO at this point in time. I have a lot of great people in my life tbh and I’m trying to branch out and be a bit more social with things that scare me. But even if I do, I’ll never really have the “standard” human experience. Gotta figure out how to eventually be ok with that.

I’m not a spiritual or religious person, myself. I briefly looked into Taoism, but it seems that the westernized idealized version of it isn’t what Taoism necessarily is in reality.

Thanks for your offer to chat! Hope you don’t mind if I’m just giving a long winded response here lol.

I found out about asexuality in my teens. Even today, whenever I approach asexual communities, I find that most of them are filled with very young coming of age people who are so extremely “terminally online” to the point where it makes me a bit uncomfortable. And I’m saying this as someone who is terminally online myself. It’s difficult to explain what I mean and I hope I am not offending other asexuals out there. But it’s refreshing to hear from your perspective, as an asexual in the “real world”, with thoughts, feelings, and experiences based more in reality as opposed to in an online hypersensitive safety zone.

Hope the best for you!

I don’t think I’ve ever really spoken to an older asexual on the internet before. I know it’s a tangent from the main OP, but do you think you could expand on some things for me?

1. When did you realize that you were asexual? And how did you deal with it considering it’s a relatively new term that wouldn’t have really been spoken of when you were growing up.

2. Do you find your life fulfilling? I have a social need, but not a sexual need, so it makes it frustrating knowing that I need people, but that a relationship with 99% of the population doesn’t make sense. (Yes, you can find other asexuals out there, but we are exceedingly rare and there are not going to be many, if at all, in your same city.)

I’m younger than you, but not so young that my life as a whole is still being figured out or anything. I’m in my 30s and now secure in my career, but still struggle with social things and figuring out what I need for my life to be fulfilling. I’ve likely been a lifelong asexual. I’ve also never had a partner.

Anyway, sorry if that is too much to ask lol, but I was just curious!

Sleep deprivation is literally a torture technique. I am thankful that people do choose to try to raise children with this in mind, but it just sounds like literal torture to me. Even with people who tell me how much they supposedly love raising kids, I see the immense pain and suffering that they go through literally all the time.

My guess is that some powerful hormones must be released or something after having a child to make people think that they are enjoying their life even though an outside observer can view their immense suffering.

Oh yes, duh. Sorry I don’t know why my brain was thinking I needed to remove the CPU itself lol. I see where it unscrews on the board. I’ll see if I can replace the thermal paste. Why would it have been like this when it was new, though?

I replaced the battery today anyway as I have been wanting to do so.

I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do NOT have the CPU throttled. I was monitoring the temps and it looks like they stay 5-10C cooler when it is throttled. However, the crash occurred most recently when the temp was supposedly “only” 75C, which I would think wouldn’t cause a crash in a laptop.

I don’t think so, but I guess I can’t be totally sure. I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do not have the CPU manually throttled. If I open up a bunch of tabs of YouTube videos, the system hangs. I was monitoring the temps as I was doing so. It looks like I could push the CPU temps into the 80s and briefly into the 90s while doing this. However, when the system crashed, the temp was reading at 75C. My understanding is that this temp shouldn’t trigger a system hang. However, it could be that there was a large spike in temp and the monitoring program (PSensor) wasn’t able to catch up on time before the freeze.

However, I do notice that throttling the CPU seems to make it run 5-10C cooler, so you are probably onto something.

Ohhh I remember Wubi! No need to boot from an install media and you can install it entirely under Windows. That method of installing a dual boot never seemed to get super popular and I guess based on the OSes listed in that article, it seems pretty dated and not updated. I’m kind of curious to know whether or not it still works tbh.

Memtest passes!

Is it even possible to remove and reset the CPU on a laptop? I’m kind of ignorant in doing that.

Essentially any laptop I have had has had a tendency to overheat (shitty design or just a limitation of laptops I guess), but I need to get some better temp monitoring software.

I exclusively use wall power, but I use the battery for a backup. It runs on the original battery.

Again, these issues have been present since the thing was brand new, so it’s not simply that the battery is old. But you might be on to something with the voltage being wonky. On some occasions maybe only less than a year into its life, the computer would give me a pre-OS error about the battery when I booted the laptop without the AC adapter. It would boot and charge normally so I just ignored it and the errors were infrequent…I never actually connected the two. It hasn’t shown me that error in years at this point now. You think that this is related?

Thank you. This is a handy list to parse through.

I use to be a huge Disney theme park fan, but the increasing nickle and dining throughout the years has really turned me off. I still deeply appreciate and admire the architecture and artistry of the parks, but I am not a fan of the direction of the company as a whole tbh.