ArsonButCute

Bacon! Even before I quit eating meat I hated bacon on my burgers, I'm an odd duck though.

Nowadays I'm a simple girlie: black bean patty, some veggie Texas chili, a dollop of green chili sauce, and a sprinkle of cotija is my perfect burger.

I had to explain that "you get what you pay for" to a disgruntled (and later banned from my store) customer years ago.

At the time I was selling eyewear for Red Eyewear Giant (now owned by Blue Eye-care Giant™) and a guy orders the absolute cheapest product for his quite strong prescription. The RX was roughly a -7 on each eye, not huge but definitely significantly thicker than average. The gentleman wanted LARGE eyewear. The man did not want to spend much.

I offered a quote for the ideal product for his vision, which is a 1.7 index lens with scratch resistant non-glare and a hydrophobic coating (well get to why thats important). The man declines and decides he wants the absolute bare minimum, cool, cr-39 plastic lenses, uncoated. No amount of education on the products would change his mind, I chalked it up to a budget thing, explained the downsides of his choice (to absolve myself of liability for the issues I knew he'd have) and allowed the oirchase to go through with confirmation he understood the issues.

Now, what we've just done here is gone from a very lightweight, low thermal mass product that repels water, to a HEAVY, High mass product with absolutely no water repellant properties. This is in Houston, TX - a literal swamp, and the Air conditioning capital of the US.

Man enters grocery store, man buys groceries, man leaves grocery store, man's glasses immediately are coated in a thick fog which is dense enough that evaporation does not occur quickly (or at all honestly with that humidity) and they need to be wiped up.

That man screamed at me about how I ripped him off for over an hour.

Now, I'm not telling this story to say you're wrong, I think this might be an "exception that proves the rule" situation. But yes, you get what you pay for, and no, it's not always said by scummy salespeople, sometimes we just want you to have the right product the first time.

Those theories, as well as most fraudulent archaeology, are more often than not white supremacist propaganda designed to make you think less of brown peoples' intelligence, strength, and force of will.

Edit: I still spell like a toddler

Old enough to know questions like this are often used for doxxing purposes, young enough to have so little to live for that I just simply don't care.

but it's soooo hard to find friends

Go do stuff! Like, find a hobby YOU like to do, the friends will come with it.

If you like the gym, maybe sign up for a spin class so you get thrown in a room with 30 people who also like the gym.

Took me until 27 to figure out I wasn't making friends because I was going to "social venues"; I'm not a social person. Once i started hanging out at crestive venues to do my art, or browsing at the library (and making one or two unprompted remarks about my fellow patrons choice In books) the circle of friends started to fall into place!

Edit: I spell like a toddler

I wish Fedora worked for me, something about it just doesn't run right on my lappy and I like to have the same distro on all my machines so it's a nogo across the board for me.

I like Fedora, it's nice, it just absolutely won't play nice with my macbook and I'm not gonna get a new laptop just for better Fedora support when this 14 year old hunk'o'junk still works perfectly with mint.

Maybe I'd want to see disney remake a movie with modern ideals and values, but Disney doesn't have ideals or values. That's why this has taken over a decade, bastards keep scrapping it every time they get a little bit of heat. Same reason the sequel trilogy was half baked. Just leave it in the fucking oven til it's done, stop giving the whole world a view so far from the finish line.

Rolling release/bleeding edge means security updates roll out fast.

I've got a blank macbook air at home waiting for a project.

I've never undergone a project like this without cheating by using bedrock linux as an intermediary then "Unbedrocking" my install (officially impossible, unofficially insane) with another PM as my default to convert from debian to arch years ago.

This is gonna be fun, or hellish, idk I'll find out.

My game changer was circa 2014 when I broke something and got dropped to a basic shell and for the first time instead of panicking and immediately reinstalling I thought for a moment about what I had just done to break it, and undid the change manually. Wouldn't you know it booted right up like normal.

The lesson here: if it broke, you probably broke it, and if you know how you broke it, you know how to fix it.

Ayo? 2025 year of the Linux desktop? All it took was orange man getting too big for his britches

Hard agree on futo keyboard. The switch is a bit rough until it learns how you type but after it's had a chance to learn it's GOOD shit