• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
    97·
    1 year ago

    Listen, if your SO doesn’t want to hear you infodump about shit that means absolutely nothing to them, just because it is intensely sexy to watch someone being passionate about something, dump their ass.

    I love it when my wife goes off on weird ass fucking tangents about what some member of the Hapsburgs got up to, or the particulars of Czechoslovakian military uniforms in the 1980s or whatever, because it’s just so cool watching her be so invested in this stuff.

    Find someone who appreciates passion, and appreciate theirs in kind.

    • flicker@kbin.social
      73·
      1 year ago

      I gotta disagree with you homeslice.

      Listening to my husband talk about Warhammer; cool as fuck, love that you love your hobby. Here are the top memes from grimdank that I don’t understand but I know you will! I love that you laugh, then tell me why you laughed.

      Listening to my husband talk about Magic: The Gathering? I do not give a fuck why are so many people all the way up the ass of Wizards and why do you assholes need to tell me every single time they partner to do limited runs of art from other IPs that are explicitly designed to make you shell out every goddamn dime every chance they get because FOMO!!

      You’re allowed to have limits is my point. Having limits on which things you just can’t stand hearing about anymore doesn’t make you a bad partner. It makes you human.

  • Franzia
    44·
    1 year ago

    What a loser. I love to hear about the personal preferences of others. Choice is fascinating.

    To add - I have a friend who uses Mac OS, despite gaming. And we’ve talked about why and I think it’s cool, she’s made a lot od great decisions with her PC. But if I bring up Linux, she gets defensive as if I am proselytozing her, and asking her to use Linux, or she insults Linux. I can tell her why I enjoy what I enjoy, and she will just go off on a rant about why it’s bad.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      13·
      1 year ago

      People talking about that thing they’re passionate about is one of the most attractive things ever. It’s enamouring like nothing else, and it brings me so much joy to see someone doing it

      • Franzia
        27·
        1 year ago

        I think the unfairness of her talking about her computer but me not being able to talk about mine is bullshit.

    • LeylaaLovee
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s because a lot of the conversation around operating systems can be quite elitist and people who aren’t super into it are tired of feeling like they don’t know something. For all the things I can criticize Apple for, I actually like their operating systems quite a bit. I hate the closed off ecosystem, but they do enough engineering to make the closed off ecosystem feel worth it. They respect their pro users with offline setups more as well. Windows, on the other hand, doesn’t offer anything except being the most developed for operating system.

      I think your best bet talking about Linux is talking about the cool stuff going on with the steam deck. Showing people’s a handheld PC has very little to do with OS. Tell her about cool Linux stuff that she’ll probably get to benefit from as a Mac OS user.

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 year ago

      Noooooo you cannot run a depenable distro, you must use an unstable flavor of the month Arch spinoff! If the distro doesn’t break every other update, are you even using Linux?

    • eldain@feddit.nl
      8·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, listening to a monologue about a topic you have zero comprehension for is no great conversation. Conversation partners who are unable to read your boredom and keep rambling until you set boundaries and beyond are the worst.

  • void*
    4·
    1 year ago

    She must already know: the only real awnser is Arch.(I use arch btw)