They do have warning labels on most of them. Sorry to say but some people bring these problems onto themselves. Like, I know what I’m doing by drinking Monster Java drinks almost every day. I limit 2 a day because that’s the ‘safe limit’. Any more, I’d be asking for it. I can’t imagine what it’d be like drinking 4 of them in one day though.

It’s like they’re to be treated like alcohol - drink responsibly. These aren’t the kind of drinks you’d chug down like you would a bottle of water or something.

As soon as any of my friends end up having children, then I start counting those days until it is over. Because I chose to be childfree and I won’t bother having kids. Nothing wrong with being a responsible parent but you do have to account for what could happen when friends drop like flies when there is that wedge in your friendship with them because of this contrast.

The API charade was more than enough to push me over. At that point, I was banned multiple times because that platform had become a cesspool of its own toxicity. You just couldn’t escape it for long, no matter where you posted. When you got people dogpiling you just for complaining about work in a subreddit where it is completely warranted and acceptable to do it in, then that’s a problem.

I don’t think it’s something the homeless do for fun. It’s a last resort.

Jesus yes, the fanbase, more primarily the die-hards.

The kind that feel they have to be the jehovah’s witness of operating systems. Can’t tell you how many times someone wants a software or even a hardware issue troubleshooted and it never fails, there’s that one guy or two going “GO LINUX!”. “Have you tried Linux?” they butt in, disrespecting the inquiring user just wanting their problem solved so they can continue using their computer throughout the day. They’re not interested in being marketed to or browbeaten, even if that thing is free.

It’s happened to me before. Game won’t run? Linux. Can’t boot? Linux. Your computer is on fire? Linux because I guess it is capable of virtualizing a fire extinguisher to cool your computer down. It is no wonder some users online find Linux users insufferable this way.

The only worst thing a Windows user can do to you is just nag you to upgrade the OS but you can tell them to fuck off. With a Linux user? It could turn into an hours-long debate.

Can we stop recommending Google Docs?

Google doesn’t need your sensitive documents or even more data from you than they already have.

Louis CK has stopped being funny for quite a long while.

I’m starting to get it now, entertainment acts and sports vendors go to Saudi when they’re on their last legs of relevance. It’s where they’ve spent their last remnant of dignity for themselves, so they go blow it trying to appease some fascist dictator of an oppressive country. Like way to go /s

That’s exactly how I feel about it as well and largely contributes to my hesitation.

I read and hear how so many people just gush and gush about how Linux Mint or this distro just ‘works out of the box’. What they don’t tell you, is how they must have had to spend hours getting something to work. Like sure, Linux Mint or a more friendlier distro will work out of the box - if you do nothing but just browse online and maybe install/uninstall programs you may want or need from the software package manager.

But I have had my battles before trying to make things work on linux distros, like getting proprietary functions of a browser to work. Hell, I have even had to fight a little just to get a displaying clock! Like with its formatting from 24hr to 12hr, I’m not saying getting it to display or anything but I don’t get this desire to default to a 24hr format. And I have had to fight at times to switch formats.

The point is, I or others should not have to spend more time than we need to, to get things to work when there is already an OS that readily does that without question. It doesn’t make us dumb, it doesn’t make us incurious or boring or uninterested in computers and technology. It’s about patience and respect of time and if some Linux distro is not going to respect my time or patience, regardless of how welcoming it appears, then it is not worth swapping to.

I’m just sick of the Saudis forcing their way into everything just because they have lots of money and oil reserves to do it with.

They’ve recently acquired EA. They have a WrestleMania being hosted in their capital. They’re having the 2027 Olympics hosted there. And now this.

It’s like we’re all catering to this idea to humanize a country that has a history of religious extremism, extreme misogyny and absolute corruption. It won’t change a thing.

That there can exist people you can bond with.

Society knows exactly what is wrong with the world or their country. The problem is the defeatist mindset and applying couch potato activism that doesn’t solve the problems. For every chance that we do have, we take to society to complain about it without actually doing anything about it. Never fails.

No. Reddit uses shadow-bans to just about clear anyone who actually wanted to talk on that platform. They’re always power tripping over something.

24

All the benefits of being a legal young adult.

And that is why their dreamy revolutions and shit won’t work. This stuff requires planning, but there isn’t enough intelligence around to do that.

Grifting. I mean damn, the politicians are making it look easy. I just need to have a silver tongue to do it and anyone will believe me enough to practically throw money my direction.

An LED light bulb.

I think I’m lactose intolerant. I eat some ice cream and I notice I just balloon up easily and going the bathroom back and forth. I just get so many false flags from my digestive system and I end up passing gas a lot just by having most things dairy.

I have a few physical books left to read and I have a lot of DVDs to watch. I would’ve liked to have had a few video game consoles and the amount of games I’d want to have per console, but the used video games market has been broken for a while now.

Music remains digital, I just outgrew CDs entirely.

Distributing as in being paid as in paycheck as in you getting money into bank account for the hours you’ve worked. Fucking duh.

People from Second Life, lol. Man when you get a bunch of going-no-where people on that platform riled up, they really burn their fingers dialing in the keys as to what they can threaten you with. Double the hilarity when they get on mic to scream at you as the feed is broken up because they shout too loud or their microphone is garbage.

And it doesn’t have to be over a particular reason because it is just over anything, it’s just people trying to sound tough online.

Don’t you ever fucking call me Frank! (not my IRL name but the idea)