Is it hard to think of multiple things at the same time for some people? Is empathy a zero-sum game? Do we have a central pool of fucks stored up that we need to save and ration out or something?

New bottom surgery just dropped.

That's what I'm trying to say though, I'm at the point to where it's not a waste of time for me because I know immediately what to do if something goes wrong or I need to make some sort of config change or install/remove software. I'm no longer "tinkering" with it, I'm using it. It's just as fast for me as it is for someone on a more "user friendly" OS.

In other words, I have scaled most of the learning curve cliff.

I "do work" just fine on Arch but maybe I've just gotten used to the quirks and the DIY aspect of it. None of it is an obstacle to productivity anymore.

I do realize I'm not the average person and am some kind of freak that likes to take working stuff apart and put it back together for funsies.

If the kid is opening up to a third party for this kind of issue instead of their own parent, somewhere along the line, that parent has failed at being a parent and has broken the trust between them and their child. That's how I see it. This is 100% the safer option for many, many kids. Please do not take away the one safe space they have and just throw them back to their fucked up parents.

The world is dominated by people like this Karen. Making society so fucking dry, boring, and lifeless. The same sort of people who invented corpospeak.

Hopefully before I die I can say there are people living on it permanently. And someone was finally on Mars.

I also use Homeassistant. It's a very rapidly moving target, development-wise, it's understandable that a website listing a procedure to do something from a year ago may not be correct today.

At least they are only one-way. They won't be getting any private info or tracking data out of you.

I am willing to bet there is still a radio in your vehicle, and very likely a local news station with traffic and weather reports.

I mean...just look at him ❤️🤤

Yep, that's me, just Linux isos, I just like to collect 'em, y'know, and store them on a small 100TB NAS I can access from any Plex client computer in the house should I need them. You never know.