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"Biden propaganda". Lol. Not everyone is from the US. Also, I think we agree about masks so no need to call it bullshit. They didn't work because people wore relatively ineffectieve masks and didn't use them properly. I agree that if everyone used the right masks properly it would've had a big effect. But that measure is no longer realistic given the urgency of the crisis. Everything we do as humans carries risk, we can't live fully sterile and perfectly safe. Every time you travel you can get into an accident, a lot of food or drinks we consume are bad for us, and likewise going anywhere were people are you can get ill. I got mono before COVID started and it fucked me up. Should people no longer share drink glasses or kiss to avoid the risk?

The COVID crisis was a crisis because the disease was bad enough for the average person to cause a significant amount of hospitalizations. That was lifted due to immunity from vaccines and infections and due to mutations. Now it's just another flu: dangerous to the vulnerable people and it can definitely fuck you up, but not in such numbers that it cripples society.

I'm aro/ace and sometimes I feel like this. But I guess what I want is just another person to have a connection with. If more people were aro/ace my problem would also be solved. Still I do sometimes wonder what I'm missing out on. Everyone seems to like it, yet I find it yucky. There's plenty of other things in life to enjoy though, so no biggie

I feel like this is such an overreaction. Violence?! I've got some permanent symptoms after COVID and mono, and I won't judge anyone for wearing a mask. I'd happily comply with masking requirements in places where vulnerable people often visit like hospitals or elderly homes. But violence?

Masks were quite annoying and honestly didn't seem too effective here. Not because a well applied mask doesn't help, I fully believe that it does, but the average person just didn't use them correctly and other measures like vaccination were way more effective. When the hospitals are filling up it absolutely makes sense to enforce these kind of rules, every little bit helps. But it's not 2021 anymore. The virus at this point is more like a spicy flu than the unknown hospital filler that it was in 2020-2022. Expecting people to mask everywhere is unreasonable imo and calling it violence or dangerous is definitely an overreaction.

There seems to be quite some space there compared to what I've seen emergency vehicles use here in the Netherlands. Recently there was one traveling across a pretty narrow bridge and a road that normally allocated 2 cars. The traffic was completely stuck and yet somehow the emergency vehicle got enough space to travel through. It outpaces me while I was racing down the bridge on a bike. That was more crowded and narrow than this. People went everywhere with their car to create a way for the emergency vehicle

Not nearly as bad, if at all. I drink a lot of tea on work days (probably over a liter) and have never had issues with that. I don't regularly drink energy drink or cola etc, but he times that I had them also didn't have the same effect.

While caffeine also doesn't necessarily make my body happy, I do think that there's something else that upsets my body when drinking coffee. Maybe something to do with dehydration or histamine intolerance. Idk.

Edit: hmmm but apparently black tea and green tea are also high in histamine and I drink a lot of that. It remains a mystery

Coffee :(

The "virus wombo combo" of mono and COVID fucked a lot of things up permanently, but most of them have rebounded to an acceptable state. Whenever I drink coffee it fucks me up, even decaf coffee. Makes me feel tired as hell, stressed, overstimulated. It also seems to last for almost a full day. Drink coffee in the morning, and I have a big chance of sleeping badly.

Not that it's guaranteed to hold me back...

Every now and then the sane part of my brain forgets to pay attention and my coffee craving gets the better of me.

We'd probably not get along very well. 19 y/o me though he saw the world "logically" and that everyone else was wrong. He saw emotions as a weakness, and interpreted the world as black and white. To him everything seemed clear cut and simple, and everyone who didn't agree was an idiot.

Seeing nuance and accepting emotions as a valid argument to anything are not things he'd accept. Accepting that people who think differently are not completely stupid might not go well with him. And, without getting into details, I don't think he'd agree with the current situation. He wouldn't be surprised to see me work as a programmer, but his black and white thinking wouldn't gel very well with the reality that most companies aren't exactly "good" causes.

Not sure what the issue with zip files is? They're supported on basically every device and afaik are not a proprietary format or anything. Seems better to me than rar or 7z. Tar.gz is also fine, but * don't really see why one would care

Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn't run windows 11 either probably.

I think she interprets it as "the road ahead is still working" i.e. not broken

I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I'm still having a lot of bugs, and it's costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.

I know that 8GB is too little. NVIDIA is really stingy when it comes to VRAM unfortunately. Beack when I made the decision this 3070Ti was the most expensive I could buy and I needed CUDA for some projects I was working on. Back then AMD's ROCm had bad support on consumer GPUs and also in libraries, so I didn't have a choice. I'm hearing better noises now though, so maybe my next card will be AMD.

Either way, I'd expect at most the game to crash. That would be acceptable, though annoying. Preferably it'd use the RAM as a sort of swap, which would grind everything to a halt but wouldn't outright kill the game or my desktop. I really shouldn't be losing all open windows