BluescreenOfDeath

It should only be concerning if you find you like torturing them, and you start escalating to other animals.

Some early signs of psychopathy are torturing small animals, like cats and squirrels. Something to do with a lack of empathy.

If you can remain content to simply murder slugs and other crawlies that invade your domicile, then you're not a danger to anyone.

The most powerful words in the world are the things we tell ourselves and believe.

I went to some workshop my mom really wanted me to attend after my marriage fell apart. It was years ago, and I don't remember much because it really wasn't my thing, but I clearly remember that phrase.

I took that to mean that it starts with how you treat yourself.

As someone who hit rock bottom, it gets better. My marriage ended with me in handcuffs, accused of something I didn't do, with one of my daughters in an ambulance going to a psych hospital and the other daughter with my mom.

The charges got dropped the next day (long story) but I still spent a night in jail, and all I could think about is how long 20 years would be. How old my kids would be. I was 31 at the time.

I'm 35 now, moving in with a woman I couldn't imagine not sharing the rest of my life with. My kids are with me for the school year, and they go stay with my ex for the summer. Literally everyone (even my ex) is better off, even if it doesn't make me happy to admit it.

It gets better. And I think it starts by being nicer to yourself.

Therapy can really help, too.

The health insurance lobbyists won't hesitate to inject money into a local election for a candidate that agrees to keep things as they are.

But hey, I remember being naive and idealistic once, too.

You have a lot of faith in the US government's willingness to solve problems for people vs for companies.

We have a gun violence epidemic because gun manufacturer profits matter more than children's lives. Forgive me if I'm skeptical that congress would do anything other than protect big business. Health insurance lobbyists will make sure of it.

You don't care about your data because you don't realize how valuable it is, and how bad the deal is that in exchange for not being able to control your data, you get to see some cute cat memes.

We're headed to a world where your health insurance company can pay a data broker to get access to data Kroger collects about what you buy when shopping. Imagine your health insurance going up because you buy real butter vs margarine. Or not enough vegetables.

But hey, at least you get to see your friends vacation pictures for free on Facebook. Totally worth it.

I can guarantee that all these people complaining about "muh privacy" would not like having a paywall restricted internet.

As one of the privacy zealots on the internet, I'd gladly pay for services if it avoids advertisements. But I should get a choice in who gets my information.

As things are now, I'm not in control of any of it unless I fight tooth and nail to retain it, and even then I can only limit what they have access to. Facebook tracks my browsing habits and builds an advertisement profile based on it even though I explicitly deleted my accounts almost 10 years ago.

And this information isn't just kept by Facebook. They have the right to sell it to anyone, including the government. Who needs a warrant when your local PD can just pay a data broker and get access to your GPS logs? After all, you consented to that website's EULA that said they can sell that data to any other entity.

People who don't care about data privacy don't understand how much you can learn about someone just from 'anonymized metadata'.

If it was a person wanting to know that much about you, you'd call the cops for stalking. But because it's a multimillion dollar company with a profit motive, it's suddenly okay?

It's the constant war on end users that chased me away from windows.

You can't say no to their relentless advertising. It's "maybe later". The pushing to require a Microsoft account. Ads in the start menu. Windows Recall.

The list goes on. You get as much agency as Microsoft allows, or you violate your eula and modify the os to remove things you don't want.

We didn't know it at the time, but windows 7 was peak windows.

You're the one who brought him into the conversation.

Fucking same.

I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that's all they'll ever get out of me.

I think the example you're using is closer to emulation.

I'm not an expert by any means, most of my technology experience comes from hardware. But Proton isn't changing the Linux ecosystem, and the programs are still expecting a windows environment when they're run via Proton.

From what I recall, Linux and windows can both do the same stuff, they just have different names or different ways to ask for resources. And Proton receives the request for whatever and converts it to the Linux equivalent.

It's not nearly as bad as it was in the past, now that the graphics APIs are system agnostic.

Most simply put, it's a layer that allows a computer program expecting windows to run on Linux. It isn't emulating anything, just sorta like translating.

Think of it like a language. Windows speaks English, so a program expects to talk in English. But let's pretend like Linux talks Spanish. Proton translates the English commands to Spanish for Linux to understand and execute, and then Proton converts the responses back to English for the program.

Or hax