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All the tech executives from silicon valley that are our age all restrict cellphone use by their kids. If the people creating the tech that ruined a generation don't let them use their own devices that say a lot.

Definitely, and modded Minecraft has taken a great game and made it so much better. The "Create" mod alone has made MC so much more than what Mojang intended.

And the launchers available for Linux let you use modpacks from every source including FTB, letting you forgo a launcher full of ads.

Yea and the whole Trump "He's not my kind of guy" thing screams like a lie to get Canadians to think Skippy isn't affiliated with Trump. But Skippy meeting with the family that owns the largest chain of for-profit hospitals is what scares me the most. If he wins, he'll push either an American system, or more likely a 2 tier system. Either way we get fucked.

That brought me back, I was on IRC in 1994 and someone shared the link to a website of the anarchists cookbook. And that is the first site I remember visiting... My brain says it was probably a Geocities site, but so much of the internet was that I can't recall

Picked up the audiobook, narrated by the author herself. I'm about 9 hours into the book, and nothing has really shocked me, more reaffirmed my thoughts on tech companies as a whole.

Every time I see Zuck talk in public, I can easily picture myself in his shoes: a software engineer way out of his depth. The fact that the engineers rule Facebook is exactly how I would run a tech company, obviously there has to be business people but I'd want my friends and the people like me to be the ones I'd deal with most and the ones making decisions.

I'm at the point where zuck is finding out from his senior execs the role Facebook played in Trump's win. And then him getting a taste of real power, not just billionaire CEO power, as the world leaders start sucking up to him knowing how big a role FB will play in their own countries elections.

I like the book so far, and the author really paints a picture of who she is as a person. So you easily understand how she's feeling during every part of this. She went into the business wanting to save the world, and while Facebook had the ability to be that, the senior execs clearly had a different goal in mind, alot of them came from Google and probably left because they didn't click with the "Don't be Evil" thing. I think Google had to drop that too because all these executives are just naturally evil.

It's pretty common for me at least, I went from manjaro which broke during an update, to endeavour which broke many times but by that point I clued in to btrfs and it's snapshots. Now I have my home directory split into different hard drives and I just keep my fstab file backed up online in the event that a snapshot can't save me. Which happened last week, rather than continue on with endeavour I tried CachyOS this time. One day I'll install Arch the way it was meant to be, but until then...

No, I've been running Endeavour forever and know his pain quite well. It's almost always core packages that break it. None of the stuff from the AUR has ever caused issues. That being said he should be using btrfs and taking regular snapshots. Sometimes I feel like installing grub just to make recovering snapshots easier.

Twice this year I've had updates break the system, both were core packages. I just restore a snapshot then delay my next update for a couple days and it's usually fixed.

*High fructose corn syrup water

Remember kids, we're one of the reasons the Geneva Conventions exist. A surrendering soldier is a dead one.

Yea, I like to suspend my machine, but rather than hit suspend and walk away I have to wait to find out what has prevented suspend from suspending. That and it trying to goto sleep when I don't want it to. Drives me nuts

Alberta makes all their money off oil, most pipelines dip down into the US because Native groups have a fit whenever pipelines attempt to cross certain provinces. Michigan has the same fit about those pipelines, but that's mostly because ships dropping anchor over the pipelines and the ecological disaster that would occur makes them uneasy. Everyone wants oil, but until the world turns into Minecraft and we learn to send liquids wirelessly, someone's fucked.

What's the add-on situation like? I've been using Iceraven because of its extensive add-on support, way beyond Mozilla's curated list. But privacy centered it is not.

Used Waterfox for years, made the switch to Zen which has quickly become my browser of choice. Mostly because I never realize it's running. I can have, and currently do have a million tabs open and it barely affects my system. Which is nice.

First 8 months on Ozempic: "Why the hell does my stomach hurt so much? Oh, I haven't eaten for 3 days."

The first couple weeks I had to set an alarm to remind me to eat. 3 years later I wish it still had the appetite suppression. I've thought about Wegovy but I've finally stopped having the Ozempic side effects, and I don't hate myself enough to go through with that again.

Well the main thing it did to me was give me crippling depression. No one over the course of my life could ever figure out why I was depressed. "It runs in the family" was the excuse. My depression disappeared after the first injection. Everyday of my life I felt like there was a force pushing down on me, and then shortly after my shot it went away and it took me awhile to realize it was gone. That was a good day.

I couldn't lose weight no matter what I did, spent thousands on personal training over the years but I could never gain muscle, or lose the weight I gained. I was a 58 waist in Feb, and I'm currently down to 44 in not even a year. Last time I went to the big and tall store they said they've seen me enough this year and we switched to elastic waist pants and a stretch belt so I don't keep having to buy clothes every 3 months.

I never had any body hair. I would have to shave once a week before. I have hair everywhere now and it's weird.

Lots of other things, zero libido. I was dating my wife and she got exasperated about my disinterest in sex, it was a chore for me. I'd be the one coming up with excuses not to have sex.

Exactly, and maybe spend a couple hundred for a Japanese replica and all the functions might work.

Or buy a replica, for a very small fraction of the price and see if anyone ever knows the difference.

I have a $350 Japanese made replica of a Patek Philippe Grand Complication, everything works on it. To me it is indistinguishable from the real thing and didn't cost me $300,000

We wanted kids, tried to have kids, but things never seemed to work out. So I went to see my doctor and they ran some tests. First test we found I had no sperm, so they did more tests, turns out I barely have any testosterone at all, but absolutely tons of estrogen. More tests, this time a genetic one. Turns out I have kleinfelter syndrome, which if caught early enough there are things that can be done. But at my age that boat has long since sailed.

It's been an interesting couple of years. I started TRT injections at the beginning of the year. And my life has taken a complete 180, turns out you really need testosterone for alot of things. And your body reacts kinda funny without it.

Adoption seems our only choice, but she doesn't want a kid if it's not hers. So... Yea

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