If you search “how to install Linux” or “how to install an OS”

I don’t really disagree with you, but I think this kinda highlights part of the problem: there’s many people that don’t even know what an operating system is. Just as you said, they can learn and they probably will learn when they have to, but a lot of people don’t have to, so they’ll just stick with win11 even if they struggle with it’s stupid shit. We’re going to hear this complaining about win11 for years to come, and telling people to switch to linux will just cause the type of irritation described in the original image there…

I admit that personally I’m in the weird spot where my father worked in IT in the 90s and the tech kinda came home with him, so I don’t exactly know how people usually learn this stuff. I just grew up with it

I feel like average linux-user here really overestimates the skill level of a typical random computer user lmao.

I installed linux mint on my extra laptop to test it out (going to switch because end of win10 support. Didn’t before because I just had no reason blah blah), and oh boy. It’s not difficult, but there’s no way someone pretty average tech-skill-less could learn to install it by just reading instructions - and this isn’t even just because of the OS itself. I had only simple trouble, like how to get to BIOS, which was not a linux issue but old lenovo being a bitch and took me like half a minute to resolve. But just something like that would absolutely stop someone not knowing what they’re doing, because an install guide wouldn’t help with that - you have to have some pre-knowledge of what to even search for to find solutions. Not to mention the possible OS issues themselves, like me having to install, delete and re-install wine because of some weird bug happening and it installing itself only partially despite me using the recommended terminal commands to install it… etc.

And many couldn’t install windows either if they had to first burn it to a stick and go from there, so I’m not trying to bash linux itself (at least mint would indeed be super easy to use for even a skill-less grandma moving from windows). Saying “just learn” is just about as helpful as “use linux” - to move a lot of people to linux from windows, probably most of them will either have to get help or have it already installed. So they’ll just stick with win11 because it’s what’s they’re going to have

After that kind of injury it’s entirely possible you actually couldn’t. Any larger damage near the bladder area and you might lose the control of those muscles, thus either being unable to piss or hold it in

Changing their minds isn’t really the point of it, it’s more about giving the other people possibly seeing the thing a better chance to realize what they’re reading, so they might not believe the disinformation as easily.

Obviously fighting constantly against a crowd consisting mostly of trolls and idiots you can’t even tell apart would take a heavy toll on anyone - I fully agree with it being a sisyphean task. Personally I just tend to block the major communities harboring them, and do only small stuff like these comments pointing this pattern out

Why do you care about tankies so much?

You can just let people be wrong. It costs nothing.

Well… when they’re for example spreading disinformation and propaganda for Russia, that can cost a lot, even if not immediately, or not to you personally. As someone from a small nation that has a long history of being attacked by Russia, I’ll ask: what do you think ultimately happens when more and more people start to believe they have the right to invade their neighbors…? I’d rather not just let paid trolls and simple idiots spread Kreml’s disinformation to weaken “the west”, and justify taking over Ukraine and attacks on other countries as well

The Sims 2 is 100% the best of the series, yeah. At this point you can basically mod the game to look however you want, and mod it to play as you want, there’s insane amounts of mods and content available. There’s custom options for the UI, you can even get a fixed version for the launcher. I’ve been playing it for around 20 years now, and last I played “like you’re supposed to” was like 18 years ago lmao.

Really if you look at any religion and pick only the good parts of their teachings, it doesn’t matter much which one you choose as they’re basically all promoting nice things like love, compassion and self-control. The problem is none exist in a vacuum; they’re all affected by their histories and the societies where they’ve been practiced, and knowing humans… it’s always a huge mess no matter where you are.

I just won’t risk it with anything that heats up

PS if you don’t own a rice cooker what the fuck are you doing

It’s hard to find a good one that doesn’t have PFAS. And having one that has isn’t an option because it can easily kill my birds

For extra non-suspicious levels you can also play pokemon go. Then you can keep your phone on hand and in weird angles for taking pictures and if someone happens to look or ask why even with the dog with you, you can just show it on screen, “oh sorry, I’m just playing pokemon” (they likely don’t know how it works anyway)

The trick is to have a dog. You can walk anywhere, at any time, and people won’t even notice you or will just take one glance and think, ahh, just someone walking their dog, nothing suspicious or weird about that

1: unpleasant form

I thought the very opposite lmao! That 1 shape looks very appealing to me. Like eating with a more symmetrical seashell. Nice

If any form of your shit regularly includes blood, also maybe consult your doctor. Might be just hemorrhoids, especially if it’s bright red blood, but even those can be treated.

Don’t forget the screaming! Even the loudest cat is like a calmly buzzing bee compared to the ear-shattering screeching of the damned souls trying to escape it’s feathered body

I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.

I call this the “children of Africa” -argument. Basically, it’s an argument that you can never complain about anything or do anything to better something, because “some kids are starving in Africa”; someone always has it worse. It’s purpose is to belittle and brush aside either the problem worded out or the person saying it (or both).