I use vanilla gnome. Dead simple, no nonsense, gets out of my way. Perfect DE for me.
What I dislike about these threads is that it always devolves into shitting on blue collar workers. Of course pickups are useless city cars but have you all ever met somebody from a town of 1,000 people where every single person works in a blue collar trade? These things do work that you can't do in a different type of vehicle.
Threads like this are echo chambers of privilege. Maybe instead of shitting on tradespeople, shit on car and oil companies who enshittify the whole system.
Also pickups in 2023 that look like this are more powerful and more fuel efficient than more modest looking pickups from 90s or 00s. You may not like the aesthetics of it, but who fucking cares, you're not driving it, you're just the one judging someone else for having different taste.
Many things are outside of your control. You were given life outside of your control, and you will die outside your control. Whether you die of cancer at 50 or climate change at 50, you die all the same.
We still have a moral duty to make the best choices that we can with the information that we know. A lot of the existential crisis though, I think, stems from a fear of mortality. Coming to grips with the fact that you must die sets you free to act rightly within the world.
You definitely added more than zero value! I begin to feel more and more that for a high percentage of my generation (born post-2000), learning how to navigate social networks IRL wasn't a skill we learned. There's a generational atrophy when it comes to organizing parties and mixers and social activities larger than your closest friends.
One of the things I'm trying to break down in my friend group is the apathy towards mixing different groups of friends. Like we think different communities won't be able to get along with each other, and there is a paralyzing fear of any kind of social awkwardness. This also likely has to do with the friends I've made over the years, as someone who has struggled greatly with social anxiety I think I've naturally selected for groups of socially anxious people. Ack.
I don't care if it passes SCOTUS or not. I say this as someone with current student loans, what matters most is directing that money towards public institutions to drive down tuition for students right now.
Forgiving student debt doesn't solve the problem, it just pushes it onto the next generation. Let's actually solve the tuition crisis first.
Okay but what I'm getting at is why does OpenSIL make them hardware irrelevant? I'm not a programmer, I don't know why a firmware library matters at all in this case, can you explain that to me?
Everyone is already giving the generic advice of do hobbies or volunteer. This is good advice! That's how you meet people. But the transition from "hobby" friend to "life" friend is difficult and frankly just awkward. It's kind of like romantic relationships, there isn't a right or wrong way. You just got to take leaps of faith and be vulnerable with people with the expectation that rejection is possible.
I'm still kind of navigating this phase. I have some good friends that I do my hobbies with, and then it's like, how do I go from there? Really it's just about being open and hospitable towards others. Opening your home and inviting people in, asking people if they want to come over for dinner or watch a movie with you.
Planning to go out to the local state park and look for good boulders to climb. My goal for this summer is to transition from indoor to outdoor bouldering.
Getting into fediverse platforms has been a godsend. Talking to real people and not dealing with the high percentage of bots is incredible.
This is crux of the issue. The whole websites interface is structured around ads. If you pay to get rid of them, it's still structured around ads from its most basic level, so much so that simply getting rid of them doesn't fundamentally change the experience.
Reddit frequently pops up when I look for answers to tech questions.
Twitter isn't and never was useful as an organizing tool. Arab spring was a failure. Twitter is actually more useful to the ruling class than not because it gives a way for the masses to expend it's restless energy without changing anything.