My computer wasn’t compatible with Windows 11, and it’s not that old, dammit. The thought of throwing it out because of some arbitrary push for Windows 11 from Microsoft made me angry, so I finally installed Mint since it’s the one I kept hearing is easiest for people who don’t know anything about Linux. I’ve been using it almost 3 months now and I don’t find it difficult to deal with at all, and the games I play work on it. The biggest hurdle has been compatibility with some school stuff, but I’ve been able to use LibreOffice and Google Docs when all else fails.

Computers aren’t my hobby, running into errors when I just want to get shit done pisses me off. I’ve been dealing with a minimal amount of that on Mint, I imagine mostly because I’m not tinkering with a ton under the hood (mostly aesthetic changes so that it looks how I like). If you have basic troubleshooting skills for Windows then a lot of that transfers to Linux, even though the actual solutions will be different.

If something better than Mint came along I’d probably switch to it, but I don’t know what that would look like, since Mint is doing exactly what I want: running my programs and not popping up with a ton of useless AI crap or ads.

I definitely thought this was posted to [email protected] at first

It made me laugh when it was in response to someone getting mad at me after arguing, but occasionally I’d make a highly upvoted comment that was related to being trans or gay and then get them, and that pissed me off. It’s not possible to prove that’s what happened without access to server logs of course, but I for sure wasn’t talking about being depressed or suicidal or anything like that on Reddit, and it was suspicious at minimum.

I always knew I had won an argument when they stopped replying and I got the Reddit cares message. If the ‘report abuse’ link that was in those messages ever led to consequences I never saw it.

How many restaurants even have 67 or more menu items that you can select by number? This seems like a very niche ‘problem’ for the news to be concerned over

There also seems to be a distinct lack of meaning for life for the wealthy. Any changes they could effect with their money means they wouldn’t have the money anymore, so they stop caring about any problems their money could fix (which is a lot of them). Ultimately leading to complete callousness over human suffering.

Does looking at this make anyone else start wheezing?

The parents of one of Jesse Butler’s alleged victims

If he was convicted surely this is legally a victim, no alleged about it?? (If the video explains this I didn’t see it, I don’t watch articles)

I’ve seen and picked up describing Rimworld as Dwarf Fortress for babies (positive). Sometimes I want a baby game! Like, 1000+ hours of a baby game. Don’t judge me.

A shit ton of countries got involved in the war (“coalition of the willing”):

Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Tonga, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Those were all more minor players, with these as the major:

Australia: 2,000 invasion, Poland: 200 invasion—2,500 peak, Spain: 1,300 invasion, United Kingdom: 46,000 invasion, United States: 150,000 to 250,000 invasion.

TIL. I thought they were just related in the way cabbage and broccoli are related, not that summer squash is literally just an immature gourd. Dunno how this knowledge escaped me when I ate a stupid amount of summer squash as a kid.

I had a family member make a decorative dough version of this one year in the 90s, when making decorations out of salt dough was all the rage.

It was pumpkins? I have always been taught squash. Or is this a calabaza = squash and pumpkin translation issue maybe?

I refuse! I REFUSE!!

And then it just keeps driving with a corpse in it 😬

I’ve got a lot of anti-Trump thoughts, how much are they paying for them?

Really doubt it 😌

See also: internet men any time someone uses the phrase “toxic masculinity.” I don’t think I’ve seen it come up a single time without dudes getting Big Mad (and ironically listing a bunch of shit that shows how terrible toxic masculinity is for men with zero self awareness)

ICE can watch this: 🫱(‿¤‿)🫲

How tf do you get to the ‘put an autonomous vehicle on the road’ stage without ever considering police directions to a driver, or basic safety around first responders??