Some pictures if you search that look way worse than I have it. But for example it impacts my ability to run for a long time because I will get side-stich faster
This is important when windows inevitably dies (subscription-based Windows 12?!) and linux mint gets flooded. Better have the "new" thing from the start
Matrix is great as a discord alternative, I'd just wish it wouldn't light my Server on fire every time I open element. Like I can live stream 4K to multiple people over that thing, but reading messages takes 30 seconds of fan screaming?
I cannot point you to the rules, because every lemmy client is different. But if you are on the website with a desktop browser, it's in the sidebar. I wrote a quick guide about this topic a short while ago: https://nx2.site/guide-to-the-ask-communities
If your server is not "online" you could vpn into your home network and use it that way. Another option is to have it local, meaning for example with bit/vault-warden you can still view your passwords if you don't have connection. But you can't edit or add new ones
There is no magic pill, no Silver bullet for complicated problems. Otherwise they wouldn't be complicated. "Being a friend" is meaningless.
What you should do is ask what you can do to help (even if they answer with "nothing"). Ask what's wrong, if they start talking ask specific questions so that they don't just stick with the "I'm good thanks" level. Don't go and say "I've had a similar situation". Don't list options or try to solve the problem for them
Tell them it doesn't bother you if they bother you, so that they don't hold back just because they want to be a good friend to you.
Now, that is what you should do if you want to help. But if it gets to much mentally for you I still recommend anyone to watch this: Optimistic Nihilism. This Video has helped me see the world in a different way has has made me basically immune to "going crazy" or grieving uncomfortably. I know that this is probably not for everyone, but it was for me.
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