• @thantik
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    1081 year ago

    One must understand that the operating system that you use does NOT come up in normal everyday conversation. Nobody cares. If you mention this you’re going to be looked at as the biggest dweeb in a 100 mile radius. Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity. You will be forever shunned in social circles, and will likely never live it down.

    So of course you mention Arch first!

    • southsamurai
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      321 year ago

      I would have thought so. But you’d be surprised how often it can crop up. Somebody wears an old hat or shirt with a logo, or someone complains about a change at work or whatever.

      It won’t be often, but I’ve run into OS discussions maybe three times this year, and I’m fairly antisocial.

      9/10 it’s going to be someone bitching about win 11, and someone else saying “hey, south uses Linux something-or-other, go ask him.” And then the conversation happens.

      That other one time is usually tangential, where I’m talking about writing and the conversation moves to the programs used, which leads to questions about why I use libreoffice, and the fact that I use it on mint as part of explaining my setup.

      Now, I don’t use arch, nor do I usually bring it up outside of a few friends that have abandoned windows. But I have run into a few arch users here and there.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        What’s that? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of my wife’s pussy drying up and she was just sitting next to me while I read that!

      • @thantik
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        21 year ago

        It was just a joke :)

      • @Oliper202020
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        21 year ago

        Most people i talk to are also tech savvy but i haven’t convinced them of linux yet so it comes up often

    • ???
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      261 year ago

      Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity.

      Does that include my own pussy too? That would be tragic 😔

      • Thorned_Rose
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        131 year ago

        Would also like to know. I use Arch everyday and have never noticed any dryness 🤷🏻‍♀️ I talk to my spouse about Arch (he also uses Arch BTW) and can’t say as I have experienced any changes at all. Almost as though my pussy has no fucks to give about what distro I use.

        • @thantik
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          lol, hope you weren’t actually mad over that part of the joke. It was just playing on the trope that it’s mostly men who are into this kind of thing :)

          I replied to Snek with a woman’s-version of events (parent comment).

      • @thantik
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        31 year ago

        No, for women, every man in the immediate radius will start sending you unsolicited dick pics. So I’m not sure if anything will actually change there…

        • @demonsword
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          51 year ago

          for women, every man in the immediate radius will start sending you unsolicited limp dick pics

          • megane-kun
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            41 year ago

            Being sent unsolicited limp dick pics sounds fun for the first handful of them. Not that I get sent any, nor do I want to.

    • Alex
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      141 year ago

      Except when you mention you use NixOS to your crush who uses gentoo (true story)

      • @thantik
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        31 year ago

        You know, I’ve always wanted to go through the Linux-From-Scratch tutorial…

    • luky
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      131 year ago

      i don’t even have to mention it. I bought the pullover “i use [arch logo] btw” so people come up to me and insult me

    • darcy
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      421 year ago

      this is the main problem i have with fairphones. i prefer completely unethically sourced products

          • User
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            81 year ago

            Based. I’ve always hated orphans in how they don’t connect to the rest of my diagrams

  • @pianoplant
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    761 year ago

    I don’t volunteer either piece of information, but sooner or later someone is going to overhear me ordering vegan food or see me opening my lunch and the dreaded conversation will have to happen. I wish people would just let me make my own food choices in private without making a big thing about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      501 year ago

      But they feel attacked. They want to continue living in blissful ignorance of how animals are treated or how bad it is for the environment. Same as windows users who don’t want to be reminded what corporate cucks they are. Some even go so far as to become utter bootlickers (see also Elon Musk fanboys)

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        I usually ask when someone eats any exotic cereals or processed (tofu, seitan) to 1 have something to talk about (I very much enjoy tofu and all uncommon cereals) 2 know their dietary restrictions to avoid offering them meat or taking care of that whenever there’s an outing. You know, small talk.

        • @pianoplant
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          21 year ago

          I think that’s great! I would talk to anyone who was genuinely interested 😊.

        • @jennraeross
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          81 year ago

          The only class I ever had bring it up was my optional college level philosophy class, and even then I’m pretty sure it was more from the professor than the school. I freaking love that man for it, he changed my life. If you want to learn how animals are treated here, most of the time you gotta do the research yourself. Regrettably, very few people care enough to do so…

    • @[email protected]
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      What sucks is that you have to keep it for yourself, otherwise people will think negatively of you. Because for some reason caring about animals or the climate is cringe or something idk, like it’s something to almost be embarrassed about. Which is doubly strange when animal abuse is often considered very bad by those very same people.

      But I guess for many caring about other people in general is cringe as well, as long as they are sufficiently emotionally distanced, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I just wish it wasn’t, and that caring for others was the baseline more than anything else.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      Yeah, the stereotype drives me nuts. Like, yes, food is a big part of day-to-day life and sometimes I need to explain when asked why I’m not eating if there’s nothing for me at, say, a company event. I try to avoid it as much as possible and just say I’m not hungry.

    • DreamButt
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      81 year ago

      What kind of powers do they get?

      • @jaybone
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        51 year ago

        They block your bytes on FAT.

        • flicker
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          This absolutely chaps my ass! I said I don’t want dairy! I love gluten goddammit! Why am I being lumped in with celiacs??

          • monotremata
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            Gluten kicks ass. It’s easily the best fake meat base. I remember in college cooking a meal for my roommates and them saying afterwards “wait, aren’t you vegetarian? did you cook this just for us and not eat any?” and having to explain that no, that wasn’t beef, it was wheat gluten and mushrooms and miso. They were dubious, saying, “well, to me this is just really tender beef.”

            So yeah. I’m also disappointed that gluten has gotten such a bad rap. I’m waiting for this knowledge to trickle back into the convenience foods sector so I can buy this stuff and not have to make it by hand every time, and it seems like I’ll be waiting a long time.

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    • t�m
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      121 year ago

      “I use argan. It allows me to user arch in a non-violent way to adhere to my vegan lifestyle” probably

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year ago

    What’s the arch user equivalent of getting asked if a fish is an animal?

    What’s the vegan equivalent of getting asked if you use PC or Mac?

    Vegan Arch user btw

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      Also people who use pc as a synonyme for windows. fuck those guys and guydedts.

      PS. Macs are also PCs as PC describes the hardware and the usecase unrelated to the producer and the installed os.

  • @mvirts
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    231 year ago

    That they should really give CrossFit a try

      • @jaybone
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        51 year ago

        I guess the meme is “by the way, I use arch.”

        So because of that I’d say it should be second.

      • @affiliate
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        21 year ago

        that depends on whether you’re a vegan arch user or an arch vegan user

        • ???
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          41 year ago

          I’m a user arch vegetarian (just kidding, I use Mint)