Only if you didn’t bring extra knife ammo

I have been using Arch for a half a decade at this point and its worked out well for me. I like how its very stable despite being bleeding edge (relatively speaking). It’s made gaming a lot easier, and I was pleasantly surprised when Valve announced SteamOS was switching to it as a base.

A lot of people have varying levels of purism when it comes to linux, and it sounds like your friend dipped his toes in with Arch and realized “not pure enough” and then jumped in on the deep end with Gentoo. At the end of the day, Linux is Linux no matter which distro you pick, but each distro highlights different strengths and weaknesses of it. Its all about the package managers, the repository contents, and the maintainers. Occasionally, technical support might matter.

So, pick whichever distro you like, move around a bit to see what has the least papercuts for you, and then stick with that until you can’t anymore.

The first hit is always free…

Japan is permanently in the '90s (and I love it).

Unfairly? I don’t think you understand the basic fundamental concept of “fair” if you think this is unfair.

This whole post gives “manbaby slams hamfist on table demanding more nuggies and sauce.”

This is 100% untrue and you are making shit up.

I like how everyone is trying to force the adoption idea. You can literally get pregnant from non-penetrative sex if semen comes into contact with the vulva. Which is more likely than adoption for teenagers who think they’re being clever, and/or people with strong religious backgrounds who feel shame for what they’re doing and trying to get their needs met while skirting around “the rules.”

Imagine having babies twice from external contact. Like non-penetrative fun times and then forgetting that you can still get pringuante if the semen gets on the outside. Or maybe it leaked out her “as🍑” and down in (/s)?

The feeling of power that being in the technology sector brings changes a man.

Agreed. Until we get full, 100% complete UIs like in Pantheon, this is just Photoshop and a voice synthesizer on crack (not literally, this is an analogy).

Are those NVMe GPUs? Where can one obtain such things?

“Yeah, a 110 years after.” reads as “Yeah, a one hundred and ten years after.”

When you write a number like 100, you always say or expand out the full name of it, like “one hundred,” never the place denotation by itself, like “hundred.”

I wasn’t trolling, but okay. I probably should stop arguing with a bot designed to astro turf for big corporate data ownership.

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Getting a little touchy are we? Try deep breaths, it helps with the anger issues 😉

Ahh there it is, I knew you’d do that.

I abide by my own lectures, I am actively putting effort into it and am 99% of the way there, which is 100% more than you.

Been slowly chipping away at those for the last decade (could have gone way faster but I’m lazy), and I’m almost completely google-free. I dont use any microsoft products at home (work forces me to), and Apple can eat my ass. My phone is a completely de-googled GrapheneOS device (I don’t have an issue relying on companies for hardware, just software), and hopefully in the future a Liberux or Pinephone linux phone.

I self-host my own movies, music, and cloud storage. I also host my own chat service for friends and family, built on top of XMPP. The services i do use are generally very privacy respecting like Signal for people outside of my social sphere, or freedom respecting like Lemmy (mostly weaned off of reddit).

Any time you rely on another company to handle your data, you are beholden to their whims, end of story. Don’t like what they’re doing? Too bad. Give up the convenience and host it yourself, or continue to be a slave to their corporate interests.

You can stream remotely via jellyfin if you expose your server to the internet. VPN is safer but not the only option.

Ultimatems aren’t boundaries.