Ace here: I have plenty of sex drive, but am not attracted to anyone. I didn’t come up with it, but a good analogy is feeling like eating, but you open the fridge and nothing in particular is calling to you.

If you are (or can imagine being) straight or gay, or even just have “a type”… There are people you don’t feel inclined to fuck. For me, that set of people is everyone I’ve met so far. I’ve been in relationships, albeit rarely, but it’s always been when the other person showed a lot of interest to get things started.

There are also people who feel like sex is gross, and not all of them have trauma in their history.

I haven’t, but a colleague (small all remote web dev outfit) plays rocket league and had said that pop!os has felt great for games without having to tweak anything. Meanwhile, I tried to play through cult of the lamb while some friends were all playing through it and it wasn’t playable

Yep. I got a thinkpad a couple years ago that was enough of a deal that I forgave its nvidia GPU. I followed the documentation on how to connect a repo controlled by nvidia, and since then: a) the actual GPU appears to be used, but b) maximum brightness on the screen is significantly dimmer, and games run worse than they did when the GPU wasn’t actually used.

And also I use KDE. I’m still on X11, though, so I didn’t complete the set.

That’s good to know, thanks. I don’t get asked for Linux advice that often, but I’ll just recommend mint unless there are extreme hardware restrictions (which I’m sure mint can work with, but I’ve looked for whatever modern lightweight-focused distro is when it’s a concern)

I’ll try that soon. Tbf, it’s absurdly easy to roll back with snapper if I make a change and it’s not better, I just haven’t gotten around to it.

Yeah. “I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I’ve been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you’re looking to run games”

I don’t actually even say the first sentence unless the question was “what do you use?”

Sometimes, if it’s clear they’re trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.

I’m mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it’s causing issues. One of these days I’ll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.

Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.

Not sure if I’m misunderstanding you here… But the number from this post is for the stupid military parade in DC with the tanks, not the no kings protests. I’ve seen claims that there were over 6 million attendees for those.

I’ve been realizing this myself lately.

Interesting. I’m in small town VA, and moved house today, and am pretty keenly feeling frustration that I couldn’t show up today. Searching for local actions, I landed on the base nokings.org page at some point, where there was a bright red banner saying that MN events that weren’t already started were canceled at Tim Walz’ recommendation, because the assassin was still at large. I can’t say what time I saw that, I looked for news several times today

It kinda sounds like it’s a security risk for them not to

This reads as sarcastic to me, but I and many others legitimately do, through the use of a password manager. I have an encrypted database that syncs between my phone, laptop, and a vps, and I occasionally manually back up to a free email account. I only need to remember the one password to unlock the db.

What weird morals do optometrists run into?

I hate that I do this, but when I do finally respond to an email or letter and it’s been too long, I sign off with “Yours eventually”

I think it’s closer to #2, but by choice/convention. An episode I watched lately had a mention of a ship “matching our orientation”

I put place and a word or two of the context I met them. In my case it’s usually the instrument they play like:

Jane (NOLA music clarinet)

It’s a common choice for adding noise to snitch lines (e.g. a webpage or email address for reporting that you think your neighbor is an immigrant or that your boss hasn’t fired your black colleague yet).

Lots of folks spam those channels, and the bee movie script is a meme text to spam it with.

This is great. I think that September 11th fits even better.

Yeah, clearly the emacs concept of windows is older (or they’d be called panes or something)

Now I’m curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window… And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I’m usually in a GUI environment.

Right? I haven’t listened to knowledge fight in a minute, but I’m sure looking for their upcoming episodes.