I'm thinking about a Linux laptop with FOSS software for my business actually, Lemmy's relentless horde of pro-Linux propaganda has won me over

(OK I've always liked FOSS I've just never taken the jump)

Lmfao the dog said the sausage was... carrying forged letters? Wtf lol

I'm looking forward to it!

Side note: anyone got recommendations for business software? I've started browsing the FOSS community here for ideas but I'm not sure what QuickBooks alternatives exist

I mean yeah, but specifically I'd like something built for Linux that's good for just basic spreadsheet stuff. I'm an electrician so I mostly just need to track jobs and accounts.

I love phrases that are repetitions in different languages

The Los Angeles Angels - The The Angels Angels

And so on

Thanks! Idk why but I can never remember the word "tautological"

It is, if you don't have to do it all the damn time. If you just iron your clothes when you want/need to, it's an enjoyable chore.

It is kinda funny ngl

As a foot- and ass-man, I gotta say, I'm OK with this

Was a serious alcoholic for 12+ years.

I do things the hard way. I lost apartments, jobs, girlfriends, etc over and over again for years, scraping by at rock bottom. One DUI wasn't enough, I had to go get another several years later. That's the one that pushed me truly past the edge to be ready to quit. By that point, I knew very well how awful my addiction was for me. There was nothing romantic about drinking anymore. Just pain and shame. I harnessed my guilt, depression, and self-loathing and turned it into absolute, seething hatred for alcohol. Otherwise I'd fail, again, and swing through a gas station for a 40. I couldn't be around people drinking anymore. I started buying cigarettes from places that didn't sell booze. I started painting miniatures for DnD and Warhammer 40k to keep me busy at home, which worked really well for me. I didn't go to AA, but I had in the past (and I had the nerve to pound a beer beforehand and then insist - to other alcoholics who clearly knew better - that I was sober, to my unending shame).

Addiction is insidious. It talks to you in your own voice, all the time. I had to drown that out with hatred. I started replacing "alcohol" with "poison" in my thoughts. I watched drunk people downtown with absolute disgust, mostly at myself for having acted like them. And I set goals for myself, because a large part of why I drank was out of despair. I went back to (trade) school. Met a great partner. Anything and everything I could do to keep myself moving. I used to just lay in bed, drinking and watching Netflix on my phone, so I forced myself to at the very least get up and dressed and spend my days off in the living room instead. Breaking patterns, you know?

It's a lot. Sometimes, 6.5 years later, I still find myself thinking a beer would be nice. I have to shut that shit down hard. A year after I dried out, my mom passed from alcohol-caused organ failure. It was a sad, painful end for her. That memory helps keep me on track.

Find something to do. Find lots of things to do. Rewrite the way you think about your addiction and turn it into a conflict you're dedicated to winning. That voice in your head isn't your friend, it's The Enemy and it Wants You Dead.

It's gonna be a fun night followed by a hard, sleepy day

When I was in 6th grade all the cool kids had band names in White-Out on their backpacks. I'd only ever listened to my parents' music so I was clueless. One day I went home and put all the bands on my backpack I could remember. First thing the next day, I'm pressed to name a single Korn song and I failed.

6th grade was hell.

You couldn't have planned this better

Laughed like an idiot at this, thanks

I'm an electrician, I'd happily live there.

Gotta wonder how many circuits are in each room if they all look like that though... panel must be loooooooong

An entire opossum head

...it's gotta be heavy, don't you think?

There was a pokemon

Gaddafi always reminded me of Prince John from the Disney Robin Hood, am I crazy?

Looks like it

God that show was bizarre, thanks for reminding me of that fever dream

Anarchism. The circle-A drawn like that (without the lines extending beyond the circle) is how it's traditionally drawn.

Stupid God-Emperor keeps ordering all these gholas

It really annoys the hell out of me that we don't use a better calendar. I think about this once a week at least. I feel like being stuck with the Gregorian calendar is a good example of why so many inefficient structures exist in society - some assholes centuries ago decided on a thing, and out of habit and laziness we've stuck with it since.

I had an ex, her brothers used to trip on Benedryl. They'd eat a whole sheet. Absolutely insane.

You'll have that when your voltage overcomes the resistance of the air

Not going to happen, necessarily, but it's brazen corruption and it shows you that he'll do what he can to impede EVs.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Trump has told us repeatedly he wants to be a right-wing dictator.

I definitely read "is it a bad fire, my good man?" In the voice of the Succulent Chinese Meal guy

A good square bit for my impact is a lifesaver as an electrician. Pretty much every conduit fitting set screw can take flat, Philips, or square. When you're reaching out one-handed from the top of a ladder, you really don't want to cam out all the time.

FINALLY some good fucking news

1312 = ACAB = All Cops Are Bastards

Imagine getting this judgmental over a shitpost

Philippines makes sense, being a former US colony

Planetside 2, but in Warhammer 40k. I want to be an ork running around krumpin gits with a hundred other boyz, smashin up some humie tinboyz or them big bug wotsits

Bonus points if you can be a psyker and blow up your whole squad

Because that was a famous quote?

That bit about "every designer or artist has a bunch of shit ideas and just picks their best 5%" is SO TRUE. Remember this when you're doing something creative and don't feel great about it. Just keep doing it.

Worst thing overall was probably the fall of the Eldar. They created the 4th Chaos God and tore a hole in reality straight to Hell across half the galaxy. Screwed things up bad for everyone.

Most tragic, my vote gets the fall of the Thousand Sons. They would've been the most potent anti-Chaos tool the Imperium had by far, and seemed to genuinely care about the humans around them and their cultures. Magnus was extremely prideful but well-meaning, which led to him making deals with Tzeentch that doomed everyone.

Most disturbing, I go with the child who's favorite toy was a servitor dressed like a clown. He was a psychotic murderer who was turned into a lobotomized cyborg toy-slave, and the kid thinks of it like a teddy bear. Servitors in general are messed up.

24 weeks? I've spent 24 years being an asshole on the internet. Where's my honorary degree UC Davis??

And the new season (which is gonna last till freaking JUNE) has people running a five-year-old activity.

Yay.

...but why is the goose in that position

I never thought about how toy-like XP looked but you're absolutely right.