SimplyTadpole

joined 2 years ago
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago

21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲

And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, most of the people in places like that are people who already found their way out, and now just want to shoot the shit with other people who understand what they’ve been through.

At least in my experience, that wasn't the case at all. I used to hang out in communities like that back in the late 2010s, and me as well as multiple folks were people who still hadn't managed to shake off their abusive narcissistic parents due to us being young teenagers or unable to get a job, and needed an emotional support group. While yes, there were also multiple people who already had shaken off their N-parents, they certainly weren't the only group and there were still many who either were still stuck living with them, or people who were living on their own but were still dependent on their parents in some way or otherwise forced to see them once in a while. And a nice chunk of the people who did manage to go low- or no-contact with their abusive parents still gave the emotional support for those of us who didn't have the means to do so.

Telling someone to seek professional help instead feels like such a slap in the face for people in such a situation because, for the most part, they literally can't - at best, it's simply because they're completely financially dependent on their parents and can't afford a therapist (and it might be resolvable if they get enough donations to afford checkups and their parents are the neglectful variety and don't really care about that), but at worst (and it's almost always at worst) they're control freaks who believe therapy is a scam and you wanting to do it instead of "praying the depression away" means you're not religious enough, or they would see it as an affront due to the implication of their child being traumatized by them and get furious and punish them, or be insulted/freaked out by them receiving money from strangers online and cut their entire access to the internet altogether. It's simply not an option. So having an online emotional support group they don't need to cough up money for is simply the next best bet for many, and while it won't solve the problem, it'll at least make it manageable. I know it did for me.

Honestly, that's... actually pretty accurate to how I act sometimes...

This is adorable, I love it c:

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the difference between implicit multiplication and explicit multiplication?

You're a lifesaver, thank you so much. I actually didn't know about PEMDAS, I was never taught it before...

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Me struggling with Realtek on Linux 🤝 One of my partners struggling with Nvidia on Linux

At least I managed to get a Linux-compatbile wifi USB later on, but it was pricey to import it and it's still quite slow :/

For everyday tasks, I think a Fedora distrobox works fine, but you would have to upgrade it eventually and I admit I'm not sure how you do that under distrobox. Still, I initially used it and still have a Fedora distrobox I use for doing stuff for my job, as well as one I use for running a game modding program that requires Java, and they both work fine.

I've also had success with a Debian distrobox, which I used to compile Render96ex. Debian is pretty universal, so it's much easier to follow compile instructions using it than a Fedora distrobox ^^'

Pretty sure it is!

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can't help but notice that the overwhelming majority of people claiming they're "neither left nor right" are always just far-right, every time.

Ouch, that is a low blow...

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do I really need to make an account there in order to download it? :/

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