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Wouldn’t that be spelled centuar (like how “actually” is often pronounced “ackschually”) and not centaur?

Sen-tar. I used to say sen-tore as a kid (as in taurine) but I think it sounds better the other way. Also easier to say in my opinion.

I don’t think Linux as currently designed is built to be that effectively

I agree, but only in the sense that I think Linux is in its Windows 98 era and still making some things hard that should be easier. That’s ostensibly because of the Linux philosophy of user choice but it also bites people in the ass sometimes.

Depends on how much knowledge you’re interested in acquiring in the first 3 months and how much you like to play around. When I was a kid, I broke Windows a lot because I was learning what you can and can’t do. Adults don’t have that kind of time to explore and fix things that break and a lot of us aren’t intellectually curious about technology.

If you’re a tech person at all and like solving problems (or you have someone in your household who would admin your system), I think it’s ready for you. But if you’re an end user who wants every Windows feature and more on Linux and can’t/won’t fix things by searching, it’s not ready.

A lot of very online gamers are absolutely vehemently against anything they don’t personally find value in. I’ve seen Windows users on Reddit get smug like this because they’re operating on the assumption that the limitations on Linux from 10-15 years ago were never overcome and, thus, “Linux sucks because it can’t run games.”

To me, it’s just another version of the Android vs. iOS cope for users who think their choice to use a specific ecosystem makes them superior. The reason I shill for Linux is because it’s free, I like supporting underdogs, and most Linux desktops are ready for daily use including gaming, not because I think Linux is objectively better than Windows.

Is willingly going on a week-long trip with a stranger human trafficking? No.

You weren’t forced into anything and could freely leave at any time. It could have been dangerous, and for some who do this I’m sure it is, but that doesn’t automatically make it human trafficking.

If you were forcibly kept on the yacht or taken to another place and forced into employment/servitude/captivity by the owner, then that would be human trafficking.

Did these kids grow up not using computers at school? When I was in school (1999-2013) we had both Mac and Windows desktops that we used during library visits, computer lab, and art periods. Did schools just replace that hardware with iPads? Writing/editing an essay, manipulating a photo, drafting shop drawings, or learning to code on a tablet sounds like a fucking nightmare.

Why are you entering commands that you read about online without knowing what they do? There’s a running joke that you need to enter rm -fr / to remove the French language from your system; it actually wipes the entire disk mounted to /.

When you know what the commands do, using the terminal is always going to be faster (i.e., more productive) and use fewer system resources than using a GUI. That’s just a fact, sorry if it annoys you when people point it out. Whenever I need to move a lot of stuff around, I will always use mv instead of Thunar (my file manager) even though I prefer a GUI for most tasks.

Yeah, it’s kind of annoying that women basically have their clothes sizes randomized and you have to look at their size chart online anyway.

At least when I go buy pants (as a man), I can reasonably assume that almost any pair I get off the rack is labelled by hip circumference and instep and roughly the size I’m expecting. Though there’s a decent amount of vanity sizing in a lot of men’s clothes these days too.

I would have to speculate, but I think it’s due to averages.

The average woman is much smaller than the average man. There are a handful of sizes that will fit most women, and a handful for men. Think of a standard distribution: there will be outliers, but most are in a certain range.

Over many decades, even centuries, sizing is more rigidly codified as larger scale production of textiles/shoes becomes common, but of course this sizing doesn’t apply to everyone for various reasons, so things such as vanity sizing and regional/manufacturing differences created an even bigger mess.

Not to mention that people are fatter now because of the caloric density of modern food, so it’s relatively common now that even really short people can be very wide. Plus sizing is also a huge clusterfuck.

I don’t think I can really offer you any useful advice since I have never dealt with this. But I noticed you’re in therapy, that’s great. I couldn’t help but see that you wrote this:

those who love get screwed. so i must not get close to anyone i love

i have no support network therefore i will be badly hurt when this ends, and almost everything ends

I think these 2 statements are contradictory, or at least will prevent you from progressing emotionally while you hold both to be true. I would really recommend that you talk about these 2 things with your therapist.

Please take care, it must be horrible to experience what you’ve described. I imagine that it’s taking a large toll on you physically and emotionally, so try to go easy on yourself.

Mostly, you’ll only scare them if you’re quiet and sneak up on them. If you walk normally and don’t try to be quiet, they’ll run away before you can get close.

Skunks are considered a pest and they’re more than aware we don’t like them, so they generally employ the timeless strategy of scurrying in the opposite direction unless directly threatened.

I’d really love to see more representation from various indigenous groups and nations in the US and Canada, like stories and myths from the Anishinaabe people being made into a TV show or animated movie or something (just an example).

I think an anthology series (either one overarching story per season or one shorter story per episode) would be really interesting and probably also allow a lot more indigenous people to break into acting/production. Using music made by indigenous people would also be cool.

Yeah, my grandma was born in 1931. She’s still alive; she has pretty bad dementia now, but when I was a teenager she didn’t trust the government either.

That’s hilarious. F*** 47 indeed. I’m Canadian, tell Hegseth I got the clear, direct message.

“Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”

Literally anyone who is relying on those funds because they don’t have a pension or savings will be wondering where the fuck it is when it doesn’t get deposited on time.

It’s also laughable to suggest that old people trust the government en masse; a lot of those people were anti-government back in the day and probably didn’t change much. My own parents are nearly 70, they definitely don’t trust the government.

Not quite verbatim, but that’s a quote from Julius Nyerere. Just for attribution’s sake if anyone is interested.

“He’s not racist, it’s just that I taught him that he was superior to every black person that he ever met as a child.” Fucking hell.

If you want your climate control to be automated, you need to automate it.

I used to be a building automation technician for commercial buildings. This is standard for them and easily achievable on your own with consumer hardware, but you need to know what you want your system to do and then do your research on the hardware and software necessary to achieve it.

You may be interested in something like HomeAssistant, where you set it up on your own, or you might want an installation company to come in and set up something like Control4 for you.

You could also go super simple and run a wire from the unit to a thermostat or temperature relay. Then you just set up the temperatures you want it to turn on and off at.

The US has almost 775,000 homeless people according to January 2024 data, which are more than likely underestimating the full scale of the issue. I doubt those people have the privilege of sheds. Doesn’t that make the US worse?

“Outside of homeless people” is such crazy goalpost-moving rhetoric when the conversation is about people in extreme poverty.

The solution really depends on the problem. We don’t know why they told you to seek therapy.