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We already do therapy, both individually and together, and he has plenty of opportunity to talk with us. We encourage him to be constantly frank with us and we are frank with him. The fact we already provide those actually adds to the frustration since even then he doesn't show progress (even his therapist is sorta annoyed already). But I know it's something he has to outgrow on his own, for his own good.

About the other stuff, yeah, what I can do is power on through and talk with friends and family, even if to just vent. Thanks for the sympathy ✨

Both for gameplay and character designs. I don't know much about the plot or pull rates, so I'm not judging on that. BA's community also doesn't have the best image from the outside in regards to "character appeal preferences ", but I try to limit myself to what I can judge based on my own personal experience only.

You're welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨

Currently on vacation, couldn't enjoy any of it.

1. The kid's been lying to the whole family about using the (very expensive) medication for his skin condition. Also keeps lying about homework and just lazy around all day. We're fed up with him.
2. Partner has been jobless for months, no signs of getting any new job yet and money's tight
3. One of our cats got an inflammation on one of her teeth, and it's gonna be expensive
4. One of mom's cat is in intensive care for possible hepatitis and pancreatitis. Also expensive as hell (and it comes from my pocket since mom needs financial help)
5. Mom is in a very bad mental state after fighting with my sister and losing another of our cats earlier this year to diabetes. I worry constantly for her.
6. I'm just a single ADHD person in my 30s having to care alone for a partner with depression, a mom with depression, lots of cats with 2 currently sick, and an ungrateful teen stepson.

"Things are tiresome" is an understatement. And also, the job's been annoying, but that's the least of the current woes. To everyone also struggling, let's stay strong together.

Thank you! Was also needing this~

I'm okay with it, as long as it doesn't turn into the cesspool the same community "on the other site" was.

I guess harsh criticism of particular games are better served on their own communities instead of badmouthing them gratuitously for non-players.

As disclaimer for personal bias, I play Genshin and PGR (and I'm satisfied with both), and I'm not fond of games like Nikke and Blue Archive. Even then, I'd rather never shit on Nikke and BA, and have more nuanced discussions.

I agree, but it's kind of a low bar... I'm mostly glad with clearly leftist instances, regardless of their main orientation, since there's at least some common ground.

Technical differences:

Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it's almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it's still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.

Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:

• unstable (bleeding edge software, breaks may occur) with constant updates
• testing, or Sid (with actively tested software, more akin to Fedora's main model. Stuff rarely goes wrong)
• stable (receives mostly security updates, focus on using battle-tested software versions. Ideal for servers and people who want their system to absolutely not go wrong. It's my current pick)

Project differences:

Fedora is on paper "community driven" but it's actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There's also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).

Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It's about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they'll both be around basically forever.

Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat's leadership decisions. Don't let my current salt take away from the review :')

As far as I'm concerned, why not? Useful bots deserve recognition as well

My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I'd recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the "desktop types".

Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it's own way of doing a few things as well.

Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.

Source: me, I've used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.

Flatseal is a life saver

Lemmy.ml also has Marxist roots, but it's more general-use.

Lemmy.world is absolutely lib, though.