I have mast cell issues, so a bit similar. I still get the occasional food flare up, but just giving my guts a break works wonders.

I was born on January 1st, whichever year before 2000 that I first click on.

I intermittent fast the majority of days and have done so for nearly the last decade. I have a chronic illness that affects my GI tract, among other things, and it helps a lot.

Not getting hangry is a huge perk. Once my flight got stuck for hours in a small town airport with no food nearby. I was watching people get so weird about not eating for a few hours, but I was able to just be okay.

I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they’d last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.

I upgraded to 128GB on our server at the point where RAM was the cheapest and oh boy is it tempting to sell half of it.

It took me a minute. Turn the image 90° anticlockwise. Then it’s easier to see it’s an image of portions of two vertically stacked monitors with the Ubuntu Studio logo on the bottom one and part of the install dialog on the top.

How weird! I ran two Windows VMs with USB and GPU passthrough as my work and gaming daily drivers for about six years. Now I run Mint and Bazzite with the same setup. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t have issues, both Windows and VM related, but I never saw one even vaguely like that.

Same, it’s great. Battery life is extended, the fan isn’t screaming, and I have great process continuity between devices since I’m usually connecting to a central point.

Did you eat it? Because they’re delicious.

Same! Mine have a passthrough mode that pumps through what the microphone picks up but lets you select how much. I leave a little on because I feel weird if I can’t hear what’s happening in my surroundings.

It claims to have 18k users. I didn’t see their criteria for “active”, though.

And US society reinforces that behavior by shaming men for being vulnerable or showing weakness and teaching others that a crying or otherwise emotionally vulnerable man is something deserving of shame and contempt.

A great example is online advice articles about handling relationship issues: so much advises that stoicism is the only option, otherwise your girlfriend/wife will lose their respect and attraction for you.

I had an ex-girlfriend mock me for crying during our breakup and know many men who have encountered similar shaming treatment from other men and women. It’s brutal.

My dad’s go to from the 1980s all the way up to his death in the 2020s was “fuckme42069” . He was an OG Neckbeard.

Great response, very well written!

If you want an alternative, lab label tape is a bit pricy but is super durable, comes in fun colors, doesn’t leave residue, and sticks for practically forever.

Yeah, this thing is super inaccessible. Damn you, Gates!

You nailed it: I inspected the grub.cfg on the install media, which gave me the required parameters to get my hacked together install partition working. After that, it was really easy!

Unfortunately no, it’s an SSD (post updated) and it’s soldered in place. Plus this thing is the least accessible non-phone/tablet device I’ve ever seen. I’d need to use a heat gun and a few prying tools to take it apart. That’s why the USB controller remains unfixed, I’m more likely to cause more damage to it.

That’s brilliant! I got it to work, but the lack of functioning USB port means my future recovery options are limited. I’m installing this with a barebones linux install ISO, just in case things get weird. Thank you!

Mr. Rogers was better than we deserved.

And good riddance to them. The TERF rants emboldening bigots to go on further rants were getting pretty old.