For me, depression makes it hard to do or at least enjoy things, making most things require a lot of effort. But laying on my bed browsing my phone? Yeah, that's easy and cheap to do mentally and physically. Not to mention the fact that anxiety brain is always looking for threats it needs to be aware of, and social media has a way of highlighting threatening things.
I do my best to avoid algorithmic social media... I can't imagine how much stronger those pulls would be with a system that is specifically optimized to prey upon them...
Disclaimer: This is my own experience, and may not be applicable to everyone. Speak to your doctor to see if social media is right for you.
One thing I will say about it is that it's very much in the mind. If you're stressed or anxious in any way, it makes it harder to get into things. Which of course makes you more anxious.
Since you seem to be overwhelmed and misanthropic (no judgement!) at the moment, you'd probably be worrying and overthinking it too much to enjoy it. So if you want to try sex in some way in the future, I'd recommend working on your health first. Go outside. Exercise. Eat and sleep healthily. That kind of thing.
Okay, so there's two lines I could go down for this.
The first is to joke about the recent controversy, and say that they're only doing this so they can sue other alarm clock manufacturers for patent infringement.
The second is a wordplay by calling it "the s-watch". But that doesn't really translate well to text.
"Deprogramming" makes sense in the sense for the far right because there is a lot of misinformation and fake news and outrage bait and all that kind of stuff. Getting people out of those trappings is good because it allows them to see how things really are, rather than what people want them to think.
That isn't really a problem with the left. I mean, I'm sure you could find some extreme subreddit somewhere where people want to bring out the guillotine to kill all capitalists or cut everyone's genitals off in the name of gender equality... But ultimately they're much rarer than the equivalent alt right spaces.
Extreme conservatives are very common and an existential threat to many groups. Extreme liberals are a mild curiosity that need to go out and touch grass.
That should hopefully explain the votes, saying that you need to deprogram "extreme liberals" brings up questions about what you actually mean by "extreme liberal" given that it really isn't that big an issue in society.
So the question is this: Do you want to be able to reproduce the system exactly, or are you fine taking a few hours to reinstall software. If you're just wanting to keep settings and data for apps rather than the apps themselves, you can cut down on your storage requirements a lot.
If it's the latter, all of your user settings should be in your home directory ("/home/username" or just "~"). If you back that up, you should be able to recover your settings and data on a fresh install of your distro of choice.
The past year or two in the online landscape has been turbulent and has shown me that I fall back to the familiar as a coping mechanism. And if that familiar should be unavailable... Ouch. ;_;
... Uh... This doesn't seem that objectionable. It's a bunch of targeted fixes to websites, I imagine every browser does it in some form. Firefox at least allows you to turn it off if for some reason you wanted to.
BTW, I think Proton (for playing games) does this as well.
Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.
Ehhh... I think a bigger effect on FF market share statistics is probably all those privacy addons and settings everyone is using.
I'm trying to get better at the whole "If you don't have anything to add, don't get involved. If joining in won't be good for you, don't join in." thing. I'm still bad at it, but I at least now know it's a problem.
I think it's petty to not play a game just because of the engine it's written in...
I think I may have to make an exception to that rule for this. :P
(Trans rights are human rights, btw)
Edit: ... Wait, hang on. Isn't the notion of using a game engine at all "woke" in itself? Like, isn't that the entire thing that started this whole thing?
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Give them 5 minutes with fidget spinners or other fidget toys.
Only half joking, stimming be good for you.