giving me retractable claws is gender affirming care

@fargate I’ve been watching Gopher’s Fallout: London series and really enjoying it. I had no idea Fallout: London was so good! like it genuinely seems so much drastically better than Fallout 4 so far - it’s crazy that it was fan-made. also Gopher is so perfect for this game because of how British he is lol

this was another great recommendation - thank you 💙

I think the reason why I like programming and software tinkering but not OS tinkering is because with the former two I get to decide when I do the tinkering

but if I start tinkering with my OS then it decides when I do the tinkering. it can just suddenly be like “hahaha I broke myself! time to learn about partition resizing!”

which is not great when I leave in a few days and need a functioning laptop and do not have the energy or patience for Linuxing

@buncube also omg I had no idea that Flathub existed, and I wish that Arch had done something to proactively tell me that it did - or maybe even had it preinstalled

@buncube the main problem that I’m having with Arch is pacman. it’s a pain to look up the specific command-line flags that I have to use to do anything. if I wait too long between updates then I get a pretty arcane error message about GPG keys and I have to go to someone for help so they can find the weird pacman command that fixes it. if I get one letter wrong then I can break stuff. also there’s some blog somewhere and I can never remember where it is, but I have to read it every time I update things or stuff might get silently broken (which happened to me in the past). idk it just sucks for me to use - there are so many secret footguns that can bork things if I don’t memorize a bunch of weird rules (and Arch never bothered to tell me about the footguns or the rules - my friends had to let me know)

also installing Arch in the first place is very technical and very error-prone, even with the install script. I don’t know if a beginner could manage it (I was able to on a virtual machine after a fair bit of trial-and-error, but even then it took several hours)

I’ve heard that Linux Mint is a distro that “just works”, though I’ve never tried it. so assuming that’s the case it sounds a lot better than my experience with Arch

@tempest yeah I honestly thought that 32 GB for my / would be plenty of space but it all filled up so fast T_T I’m still going to have to resize it at some point probably but I have time to do that now thanks to you 💙

if you want to try Linux don’t use Arch it’s a trap. I’ve heard Linux Mint is good instead

also make one big partition don’t have a separate /home partition

@codingcoyote thank you! I just installed gparted and I’m trying to figure it out now. I appreciate the suggestion

ugghhh I’m going to have to learn how to resize a partition on Linux. this is definitely going to suck and there’s a nonzero chance I’m going to bork my laptop

the autistic urge to somehow learn Haskell and ANSI C and Scheme simultaneously

(every time I start learning one it makes me want to switch to learning the other two)

holy shit I installed Haskell and my WSL drive went from 5 GB to 22 GB

that’s kind of a problem because I do weekly backups lol so every time my WSL drive changes I have to transfer all 22 GB of it over. maybe I should figure out a better backup system than FreeFileSync

Automatically updating content can be extremely distracting, especially for users with vestibular disorders or attention difficulties. This could force users to scroll through page content to not see the animation, or to just look away. Allow animations to be paused or stopped.

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

@Kaution yes they literally did lol