Merulox

joined 1 year ago
[–] Merulox 48 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Microsoft's embrace, extend, and extinguish

[–] Merulox 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Profile pictures on user profiles are still stretched, and now the upvote arrows doesn't turn blue until you refresh the page when you press it

Other than that, this is a fantastic design update

[–] Merulox 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right now all the apps are being developed at lightning speed I'm on iOS so the easiest to get running for me has been wefwef since it's a webapp (the other apps aren't on the app store yet). It copies the apollo layout. If you're on android then look around, there are probably better alternatives.

[–] Merulox 3 points 1 year ago

Linux mint is the go-to for people who want something similar to windows. It has a similar layout and feel, and a lot of software that you’d normally expect on a windows computer that others distributions just don’t have

PopOS is the distro that is most optimized for gaming, but you can also game on any other distro

[–] Merulox 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always had unwavering respect for the elderly, thinking they all had such abundant life experiences that their worldviews, understandings of life, and wisdom should be incomparably deeper, more profound, and more insightful than mines.

But then I started working a part-time job at a gas station and realized that, no, people live such repetitive lifestyles that their wisdom becomes stagnant after they hit 40. And then they decline. No, not because of their brains aging, but because most of them only communicate in the echo chamber that is their small hometown and narrow social network, and because they get all of their information from the news channel which is more often than not opinionated.

I don't know why I'm rambling about this, but I won't stop.

Some time ago, I watched a self-improvement video that advised leaving your hometown to pursue growth. I was skeptical because I thought: "a literal whole town should have enough space to grow and enough different people to meet to be able to learn; this guy is arguing so intently on why you should leave your hometown, but I think he is blinded by his own life experiences-- I believe that towns are big enough that they cannot be said to be restraining, he is simply blaming his prior lack of growth on his hometown".

But now I think I underestimated the cultural echo chamber that a town can be (especially a small one).

People are too comfortable in their hometowns.

This isn't to say that leaving your hometown will turn you into a wise meditator, but what it will do is put you in a foreign environment which will stimulate growth, and it will force you to adapt to new ways of thinking if you don't want to be miserable.

All of this may or may not be completely wrong and merely a product of me tying together a bunch of wrong conclusions that I came to because I spent too much time thinking in my own head without looking for other perspectives and inputs. I'm this skeptical of myself even though this is a very obvious and self-explanatory subject because I have seen too many others do it.

(I wrote in absolutes for the sake of readability.)

[–] Merulox 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I will miss the original art style

[–] Merulox 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do these usually get bought up quickly?

[–] Merulox 102 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I’m a teenage FOSS enthusiast and I’m of the opinion that there are a lot more of us here than you seem to all think.

[–] Merulox 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve already read the manga, yet the ending of the anime leaves me with a weekly hole to be filled

[–] Merulox 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used arch for 1.5 years and it did break a lot. Though I did use nvidia, so it was to be expected.

Switched to Nixos yesterday because it was kind of anxiety-inducing knowing my main computer was sitting on a time bomb that only got worse as time went on, as I toyed with the system more and more

Absolutely loved arch though, and I hope I’ll love nix as well

[–] Merulox 3 points 1 year ago

I don't like tone indicators, but they're meant to help, among others, autistic people who have a hard time understanding tones

[–] Merulox 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder, is that over 0.1% of what Reddit got?

my bad, my bad, a 985% surge is absolutely insane and I adore this community!

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