I’ve got cats that depend on me, and I care more about their well-being than I care about mine. Also weed really helps to mellow me out, especially when the depression is really bad. It’s not perfect, it mellows out the good feelings along with the bad ones, but hey it’s better than nothing.

Not all religious traditions that believe in gods believe in the concept of hell, or the concept of heaven, and depending on the religion different gods favor different things. Frankly, even the idea of a god existing doesn’t mean that the god has some ultimate say over what’s right/wrong.

Honestly, I mostly just play a lot of old games that still support consoles, cheat codes, or mods.

It’s used in the context of a micro-blogging platform where your feed consists of individual posts that don’t show the whole comment thread. If I replied to a post on mastodon, my followers only see my post on their timeline unless they click on my post to see it’s context. A quote post can be used to present someone else’s post to your followers, with whatever you want to say about it.

The bubble would be the actual post itself, you know? Like having the full post within another post. Similar to what you just showed but clicking the bubble brings to to the original post.

It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.

Installing Linux on top of a Windows install is a non-issue, the other way around can be a problem. I’ve been dual booting for years without problems. I keep mine on separate drives, though.

The biggest advantage of federated social media is that there’s multiple servers. I know it can be a rough point for new users, but most people can just join whatever the largest server is and they’ll be perfectly fine. You need to pick a server because lemmy isn’t one website, and it shouldn’t be one website. People should be able to host an instance if they disagree with another one’s moderation/rules, and spreading the load across many servers helps to prevent large scale downtime when servers go down. All of these advantages can coexist with new users just being pointed to lemmy.world.

You as well! I don’t necessarily feel bad on Valentine’s Day, it’s just a normal day as far as I’m concerned. I can definitely see it been rough for others though

I don’t use loops, but I used tiktok for a long time and short form video isn’t bad. You get some pointless/garbage stuff, but it can totally be great for sharing information, or memes. The point is whatever users want it to be.

I think it’s important to think on what “succeed in life” means to you, really. Not some ideas others told you is success, or what a culture tells you is. A career? A relationship? Kids? I’ve found I’m a lot happier focusing on living in the moment, focusing on each day individually. I was raised with the mentality that I needed to get a career, get married, have kids, raise a family. I don’t want any of that. Obviously I can’t say what you want, but self exploration and questioning is important. Finding community with others is hard, romantically or otherwise, and the best I can offer there is that there’s a lot of us that feel similarly to you. Even if you don’t achieve whatever goals you set yourself, you can find a way to be alright.

No. The US was founded through genocide and colonialism, and while it’s improved in ways, the US government has never had the well-being of it’s people as a primary goal. Power, control, and the transfer of wealth and resources to a small minority has always been what this country has sought. I care greatly for a lot of the people here, but in the same way I see that same value in people all over the world, not just here.

My friend’s daughter was very into goat simulator on my computer, it’s a sandbox and you can’t lose. We’d hear her cackling from the other room as she ran into traffic or tried to climb a roller coaster or something. I’d have to start the game and get her into the world, but from there she loved it.

No, but also, inclusion of trans people is more important than removing anyone that could potentially have an advantage. Lots of athletes that are very good at their sports have genetic advantages in one way or another.

That’s very fair. I say this only because I’ve found myself going down a rabbit hole of things not working on my own before, and a reinstall is usually the faster option for me. POP was just one example, a lot of distributions come with Nvidia installed by default. Mint should work pretty much out of the box, but I remember Optimus being tricky sometimes. I do not recommend Manjaro, and not because it’s arch. The last time I used Manjaro, it’s automatic updater updated my Nvidia driver and my kernel to two separate versions that didn’t work with each other, and bricked my system on me. It’s not exceptionally stable even as far as Arch goes. Arch doesn’t have to be scary, I use Garuda and it has made it very user friendly. I run all updates with one command and that command automatically makes snapper backups that I can pick between on boot, which makes fixing anything that can go wrong pretty easy. Garuda Cinnamon edition uses the same desktop that mint uses. Anyway, I do hope you’re able to get mint working for you.

Sometimes, the simplest option is to try a different distribution instead of messing with individual things that aren’t working on one. A lot of distributions come with the Nvidia drivers set up by default, such as POP OS. You could also try a fresh install of mint and install the Nvidia drivers using the driver manager application, and see if you’re getting the same results. As far as NTFS, that does have to change. You will keep running into problems if you don’t format them into something like ext4. When I first installed Linux, I had all my games on an NTFS drive and very few of them would work at all.

My lease ends today and I’ve had two apartments reject my application. So I’m going to be sleeping in my car with my cats tonight. It’s all pretty surreal. It really can happen to anyone.

I don’t think it’s fair to attribute his winning the election on people that didn’t vote for Kamala. Young white men came out in droves voting for him - we cannot underestimate the political results of figures like Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, and Ben Shapiro and the kind of rhetoric they’re able to spread.

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You get tired of eating microwave meals, and anything that leaves dishes I have to clean later is certainly not easier than going to fast food