happy_camper

"same language as transphobes"

I can't use English now? Of course you're welcome to label my opinion as whatever you'd like, I just don't agree that this is transphobia.

Thanks for your opinion. Please stop polluting my inbox if you have nothing of substance to add. Good day to you.

Me using my 1200 kg econobox to reach destinations that public transport doesn't give a hoot about is doing absolutely nothing to the planet compared to a rich person's private jet, or cobalt mining, or manufacturing and shipping all the cheap plastic stuff people buy that they don't even need from China etc.

I am all for walkable cities, I love my hometown where walking and cycling is not only possible, but infinitely better than driving. Yet I can coexist with cars in the same spaces. But I have so far seen absolutely zero viable arguments against car ownership. It's a part of our personal freedoms that's just more lucrative to take away than to fix the systematic problems of the world.

The main issue here? I'm not willing to give up my freedoms, and the rich fucks running this shitshow have no incentive to lower their profits.

This community's counterpart on reddit started out great, but it quickly transformed into an extremist echo chamber of idealists that are painfully out of touch with the real world.

The score is just soulless "lo-fi beats" type of music played all over the grounds to avoid any one person ever having to sit alone with just their thoughts as background noise.

This is going to sound weird, but hear me out; I've gotten so very unused to the concept of comments that don't really serve a purpose, or form one cohesive whole. There's no cheap jabs, no witty one liner. No great philosophy or instruction, not even any content filled with the poster's passion for the topic they're discussing. It's just so...everyday, common.

Oh how I've missed this slow kind of internet, where content is added perhaps weekly, and the discussions around it are just fleeting thoughts of passersby, the technical possibility to respond being the only real invitation to reply at all. A stark and permanent reminder that none of this really matters, and there's a life to live outside this screen. This whole reddit fiasco has perhaps been one of the greatest things to have happened to my online life.

Re arch,–because at this point I feel almost like trespassing without acknowledging the topic before I derailed my train of thought–I could never wrap my head around the hours needed and pages of wikis read to come to the same destination already offered out of the box by so many other distros. To me, an OS is just a baseline for other tools that I need. If using one specific distro gets me into my tools faster, without having to pour hours into installing them, then it's a no brainer to me to just go out and use that distro. I could change them visually, but really the icons and the colors shown in nautilus (or whichever prepackaged alternative) are of no significance to me.

Maybe I'm getting old. I used to love spending hours just to fix and move minuscule things on my devices. Nowadays, I just pick whatever will take the least time to get stuff done while causing me the fewest headaches, which is what sitting at a computer has become for me anyway.

so just normal reddit then?