southsamurai

Eh, I fucked up, what can I say

He needs commitment lol.

Dude used to go around in character fucking with people. Great guy, just a wee bit bonkers

Holy shit!

Forgive me for going off topic, but I gotta ping my buddy, @Jerusalemspiderman@lemdro.id

He’s a fellow transmetropolitan fan.

My Spider has the tattoo on his head for real. Used to sometimes do a cosplay of the character.

I wish I could say that I didn’t have to learn it. Even with the women in my family being very empowered, and leading us boys to being more aware than most, I did have to unlearn some things, and pick up others.

We all gotta help each other be better when we can.

My dude. That kind of thinking is exactly why women need their own spaces.

You may not realize it, or have ever examined yourself, but you just expressed misogyny in a mild form here, where you have had every chance to pick and choose how you say things to support your opinion that the reason given for the bans was unjustified.

It’s okay for a given group to have their own spaces without intrusion. A gay men’s space should absolutely be able to exclude women and straight men. A straight men’s space should be able to exclude gay men and women.

The only time having dedicated spaces is a problem is when every space is dominated by a single group. And that’s just not the case with a women only space. To the contrary, women struggle to have their voices heard in open spaces where everyone is allowed specifically because men dominate those spaces.

If you, as a man, went and ignored a clearly visible community rule, you absolutely deserve a ban from that community. As well, the fact that you’d blatantly ignore a clearly visible rule in community is a damn good indicator that you think you’re above rules, which means that a mod preemptively banning you from other communities ceases to be an over reaction.

So, I’m going to be harsh as hell in this. You stated that you knew the rule and ignored it. That means you’re either an arrogant asshole, or a petulant child. Neither of which is a good look when trying to claim a mod behaved badly.

I hope to fuck not.

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Ngl, I wouldn’t use the rose scented stuff either, but mainly because my nose would clog up if I tried. Most fake flower smells do it.

I’d just go ham and exfoliate harder. Soap isn’t actually necessary to be clean and not smell. It’s just much easier to achieve those goals with it than without. Hell, depending on where you’re washing on your body, soap can be a bad thing because even the stuff designed to not over strip skin won’t always live up to that promise.

Legit folks, if you run out of soap, you can be just as clean (as in dead skin cells sloughed off, excess oils gone, and any odors from the bacteria on your body gone) with just your hands, short term. You’d need something better at exfoliating than bare hands if it’s going to be over about a week, but it’s still doable. Longer term, soap itself is just faster, not better, than any other product that can reduce skin oils and any clinging dirt.

You’d be amazed how many people have strong sensitivities to most surfactants, or outright allergies to some of the more common ingredients. They can be right beside you in an elevator after years of not using soap, and you won’t know.

Psst, hey. You in there.

Here’s a blanket, a pillow, and a cup of hot chocolate. I’ll leave it outside the door and walk away so you can still pretend nobody knows you’re in there.

If you’re already dual booting, your windows install should still be safe. I’m not saying it will be, just that going to a paid version of Linux shouldn’t change anything about either install.

Afaik, zorin just uses a key to “unlock” things, so you won’t be changing anything at all.

That’s my exact distro/de combo. Never had any issues with trackpad use that weren’t also there with the win10 that came on the thinkpad. Which was just that it’s prone to detecting even the lightest accidental taps and over reacting. Maybe it’s device specific?

Edit: by device specific, I mean that it isn’t every touchpad w/Libreoffice’s issue, rather something that’s wonky with some range of hardware and not others

Really specific here, but font control.

Us folks with dyslexia in its various expressions have trouble with command line. If you can’t read a specific command, good luck ever getting comfortable with it. You can’t error check yourself, so until you build up memory, you’re kinda screwed if you can’t use the fonts that are available.

Wow. Just wow.

Drag comes back and that’s who shows up. Horrible “luck”.

Fwiw, while it’s already been said, the threats are laughable. Who would they sue? A user name? Good luck with that lol. And they didn’t suffer any harm from anything to begin with, so by standards in most of the western world, even if they could manage to file suit, they wouldn’t get anything.

What’s sad is that the person in question doesn’t even understand why they’re like that, but have talked about the indulging underlying issues that make them act like a jerk on a fairly regular basis, depending on one’s threshold for what is and isn’t jerk behavior.

Hope drag have better luck in avoiding the jerks of the world.

Id say it’s the mindset of the experienced linux user that matters.

If you’re willing to tell a person, “if you run into trouble, call me”, and then follow up when they do, half the fight is over.

Most people, they try it and it’s fine, as long as the basics are there. You show them where the browser and email are, set up desktop shortcuts to important stuff, and answer questions, and they’ll eventually not even think about the fact that it isn’t windows.

But the first time they run into trouble, and you can’t give them an answer in a reasonable amount of time, they blame Linux, because they forgot how long it took them to figure out windows originally, and aren’t willing to look things up even if that’s what they did when they ran into a Windows problem.

So, you gotta play tech support for a while if you’re the one introducing them.

You aren’t going to change mindsets inside someone else in any realistic timeframe.

Damn, I can hear the wheezing from here

That’s a lotta fucking Newports

Eh, it worked for me the best back when I was new to Linux, and I’ve never tried anything that was better, just different since then.

I went through the usual Ubuntu experiment, but their baked in DE at the time was just unpleasant. Tried manjaro? I think, it’s hard to recall if that was before or after that initial flurry of trying things out. But there were a half dozen that got suggested back on the Linux for noobs subreddit when win10 came along amd I was noping out.

Mint did the trick. Cinnamon as a DE did what I wanted, how I wanted it. It came with the stuff I needed to get started, and the repo had the stuff I wanted without having to add anything. It worked with all my hardware without jumping through hoops.

I’ve tried other stuff and like I said, nothing better, just different, so why screw around?

Tbh, that’s also how I feel about pretty much everything I tried though. If I had run into one of the others that happened to “fit” the same way back then, I’d likely still be with it because there’s really not a ton of difference in day to day use between any of them. The de matters more in that regard, imo.

Yeah, not the right C/

You want one of the rant or vent communities

Flip a coin between cinnamon and plasma

Look, dick, you asked a question, I explained it.

I’m not the guy that made the post, but that’s the reason it was mildly infuriating. You don’t have to like the reason, you don’t have to think it’s a good reason, but there’s no good reason for you to be a dick to someone answering your question.

So, you know, fuck off

they’re showing the links, but you can’t access them.

It is the fault of the site being dicks, but the search engines make the problem more annoying