EponymousBosh

Also it doesn’t matter how good your password manager is if the site you’re logging into gets hacked

I only do it on my ancient laptop because for some reason, it makes things a little faster. I don’t know why.

I don’t get the effect either :(

Just throwing a link to Caitlin Doughty’s channel here for anyone interested in green burials and such!

I know exactly what you mean by “wrong kind of mushy.” I hated mashed potatoes as a kid. I like them as an adult but it took a while for me to like them.

Linux Mint is the most “just works” distro I’ve used, fwiw. It is scary to finally take the plunge, but you’ll be glad you did.

A lot of people have given good advice here, so I’ll just add that if you want to leave the country, even just for a bit to throw off the trail, you might have more options than you think. You’re under 25 and there’s a decent number of programs out there that will give young people a chance to “see the world” in exchange for cheap labor. The JET program, the Peace Corps, or even the French Foreign Legion if you’re OK with military service. Something to look into, possibly?

IME the best way to avoid this experience is to just soften your language slightly and be willing to take the extra ten minutes to provide resources to people. “Switch to Linux” is a command, and people generally don’t like being told what to do. “Have you considered switching to Linux? It doesn’t have as many problems with [whatever] as Windows” with a link to a “Linux for noobs” type guide doesn’t get the same response. And be willing to take “no” for an answer!

A miserable little pile of documentation.

Our last apartment had a microwave that insisted that the off/cancel button was ONLY for the microwave part and NOT the timer part, and if you tried to use it to turn off the timer, would display a message saying “push timer button to turn timer off” (or smth to that effect). I found it infuriating. I told my wife, “if they can program it to sass me, they can program it to turn the damn timer off.”

Anyway. I get it.

Ooh, I knew about the Debian switch but didn’t know about thr btrfs. Currently using SpiralLinux as my daily driver but might have to look into Tuxedo at some point.