Running away saved me a lot of times. It also failed me twice, and those two times left me with a scar and a permanent disability. As a complete self-defense solution it’s a bad idea, but as part of your defense it’s a great suggestion for any able bodied people.

I can no longer outrun potential attackers. This door is closed to me.

Oh there is work to be done but these people either don’t see it or don’t understand how to begin. They look at the presidency and go “huh I can’t do anything”. Meanwhile they don’t even know the names of their city councillors or what they’re voting on. Start small.

I’ve faced many attempts to severely harm me but I usually escaped. I failed to escape twice: got kneecapped with a bat once (leaving me with a permanent injury), and stabbed once miraculously missing anything vital.

My crime: having to work late, growing up in a poor neighbourhood.

I’d feel a lot safer if I could be armed. I don’t want to die.

I just moved my main PC to CachyOS like two weeks ago. It’s been quite nice so far actually. Minor hiccup when trying to play The Guild 2 (had to use Protontricks to download DirectPlay)

If you can get your hands on R.A.D. (Robot Alchemic Drive), do so. It’s a very interesting robot combat game developed by Sandlot, who would later become famous for Earth Defense Force

18 years

I know of child predators and murderers who got less time.

just the thought of having to configure it all again makes my skin crawl

It took me ages to get the nerve to redo my media server. Then some of my hardware failed and I had to redo it again… By the third time redoing it I had become a lot more confident.

Also you learn to take notes on everything you touch and make backups lol

I just feel like bringing these pain points up in the hope that someone might have an answer for me or others, I guess?

Completely valid and I encourage you to keep doing so. Denying there are usability problems does not fix them.

This kind of thing is why backups / snapshots are so important to do. On Linux we actually get that option so much more easily than on Windows, so it’s worth doing. On Windows, updates are painful enough that out of habit I just reinstall Windows every year to head this problem off.

Not trying to minimize your pain, it’s something I had to learn to deal with too and it does take time and energy to properly resolve, which isn’t free. The experience will also vary dramatically between distros and hardware.

Lastly if you’re a long time Windows user try to remember what it was like when you were new, when you had no idea how the pieces connect to each other; it takes time to get into the groove.

You might prefer a more curated experience like Bazzite.

Moved to CachyOS. Most things just worked. “update” is literally an alias that updates your OS and packages. Once had a bad update, snapshot rolled me back into action within 3 minutes.

With Windows that could warrant a reinstall/reimage if it’s bad enough. Fucking wild.

Let’s say someone says “I’d rather choose the bear than a black man”, citing their life experience of violence with black men in particular as the reason for this. Should we have empathy for this position? It is their lived experience after all.

Have you ever interacted with a bear? Have you ever been within a few feet of one?

Women: I want men to talk to me instead of leaving me out all the time

Also women: lol stop being offended

One time ~15 years ago a guy showed up to a party as his gf’s +1. She and my girlfriend got into a fight and he and I just wandered off and played some games.

We’re still friends and they’re long gone. This is how guys meet lol

Balls, guess Canada is stuck using the imperial processors. I’d have loved to use a European government system

Whoever came up with the Mechanicus must have worked in IT/mechanics before because after 14 hours on what should have been a 10 minute fix, you start thinking the machine took one of your curses personally.

I mean we’re seeing the same thing in Canada only it’s every racial/religious enclave doing it. Indians are redrawing the caste lines, Jews are pushing out gentiles, Chinese are holding condo board meetings in Mandarin and then using them to force out other people…

This is what happens when people let themselves be divided; they’re going to carve up the pittance left to us while leaving the rest of the pie to the sickeningly wealthy.

AMD didn’t make a 5090 equivalent so I won’t buy their mid-tier card

Is there a name for this thinking?

I had teachers regularly state how much they loved reading my writing.

First professor in college hated men. Second professor hated men. Third prof… You get the picture. It’s ok, I like IT more anyway.