A lot of people find the .ml domain to be a red flag. (See what I did there?)

The .ml stands for Marxist Leninist and many users from the domain are active communists.

Two of them (?) are the people who make Lemmy. I’d like to thank them.

Long and short of it is that you may be blocked by instances and/or users simply because off being on .ml

It’s a bit sad and a bit complicated, to be honest.

I personally love wandering over to other people’s instances and having a look around. As long as your not combative nor offensive most places here are quite welcoming.

Enjoy.

Does being a Linux Mint Debian Edition user make me middle-aged?

Me, personally, a couple of reasons:

Without wanting to sound like a pretentious twat I think art made without a soul is the antithesis of art.

People ask dumb questions that a quick web search would answer.

The blurring between what is real and what isn’t.

Capitalism suggesting that there might only be two or three “non-human entities” controlling the entire internet soon.

The fear of another economic bubble.

It making people stupider.

The fokken poes that is an anagram of my user name being involved. Plus all the other bros too.

Fear of something that has the power to potentially go beyond thought.

The absolute ease of facilitating surveillance.

Terminator franchise

Etc

A guy I worked with was far-right, but drew the line at violence, so not a fascist, per se.

All that fucker needed to cure himself was a passport and to get out of his ends. Soon realised that the vast majority of humans are all after the same basic needs and we have more in common than we don’t.

Fancy a pick-up truck? I saw this abomination / Chad-Wagon a few years ago:

There’s this absolute banger you could give a listen.

My dryer only has a low and a high setting and the length of time is human dictated.

I dry clean any really good clothing I own.

If I dry my clothes on high they are shrunk and sometimes ruined in other ways too.

Almost everything I own can survive the low setting with no noticeable negatives.

Much as a 12oz steak won’t weigh exactly twelve ounces when served to you after cooking them a 2x4 piece of wood was nominally that measurement prior to the kiln drying process.

Shout out to Ren whom I genuinely believe to be a generational talent - someone who has the potential to alter the course and content of popular music going forward.

If everything else is wonky then “level” looks wrong.

That’s, uh, not really left leaning… is it?

I speak a bit of Spain Spanish, but with an Andalusian / Canary Island accent and grammar. The biggest problem you’ll probably find is that exactly the same word can have different meanings in different parts of the world.

I also speak some French, poorly. No idea with what accent.

I personally would not hesitate to recommend the Michel Thomas language courses. I learned more in twelve hours then I did in three years at school.

TIL I’m a liar…

I’ve been online for almost thirty years and have never - knowingly - seen “dae” as an abbreviation.

Never, ever, under any circumstances, think that you’ve finally done everything that needs doing.

Mentally, yes. Financially, no.

It literally depends on your morals… it’s a question only you can answer.

I thought this was gonna be a deep philosophical question… but then read past the first sentence.

I’ve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I don’t agree with you, I’m glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what I’ve learned.

I use my laptop as a tool - no real idea how it works. If Linux nerds are mechanics then I’m just a taxi driver. Use mint. I do. Zero regrets. Caveman compatible.