I think it’s fascinating that Richard Stallman wrote a free software manifesto and Bill Gates wrote a proprietary software manifesto. I knew about the former for a long time before I heard about the latter.

Linux porn sceenshots. I wanted to have a cool cyberpunk desktop and be Hackerman.

So, you’re just gonna live with the symptoms? Okay then.

Adderall works for me, but Vyvanse doesn’t work at all (even though they’re chemically similar). Weird how that works.

Getting good mental health is difficult, at least in the country I live in. It took me about 15 years to get an ADHD diagnosis, because for most of my life I’ve had lousy health insurance and I couldn’t afford to see a good therapist or psychiatrist.

The best response I heard to this is “Everybody pees, too, but if you’re doing it 60 times a day, then you have a problem”.

Neurotypicals have difficulty with mindfulness; for folks with ADHD, it’s extremely difficult. You have to sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, which is a pretty heavy lift for somebody with an attention deficit. But it does help, yes.

One method that I’ve had success with is to work my way up. I do meditation for 1 minute; the next day 2, then 3, until I get to 20, and then I try to stay there. That’s because the most important part is building the habit. Also, doing short sprints frequently is more effective than doing a marathon. 5 minutes a day for 12 days is better than 60 minutes in one day.

What makes somebody’s sexual orientation political?

A male chicken?

So, you don’t know what accessibility standards are. You’re just using a term, “accessibility”, to mean “the way that I want it to work”.

Which accessibility standards does Mastodon break?

Serious question: why not? What’s bad about that?

I can ssh in with Krusader and edit from Krusader’s GUI editor. I would probably still do it from the terminal because it’s faster, but it’s good to have more than one way to do things.

Pop feels like a phone OS.

I love fish, but I can see why POSIX purists would hate it. I haven’t run into any problems, but if I need to use bash, I have it installed, too. The biggest problem is that it doesn’t have wide adoption, so everybody assumes you’re using bash, and a lot of the bash commands don’t work in fish. So you have to be a bit of a power user if you want to do anything fancy.

Fortunately, Linux terminals are gorgeous and easy to use. I never wanted to use Windows’ com because it was so ugly and user-hostile. I know Powershell is a thing now, but it still looks ugly to me.

Was gonna say, never had anyone tell me to use a GUI over CLI

Do you ever use the CLI, though?

It isn’t condescending. It’s the easiest and simplest way to do a thing. Additionally, there’s a wide variety in GUI options on Linux, so if I’m helping somebody out, I’m going to give the terminal commands. Not because I’m a terminal elitist or some nonsense, but because I know it will work regardless of whatever their GUI setup is. I might know where to go in KDE, but I don’t know where it would be in GNOME or any other desktop environment I’m unfamiliar with. The terminal command is going to be the same for everybody, though.

How were you installing from the command line? Like, what commands were you using?

You just need to know the name of the package you need to install.

On Garuda, you can enter the command in a terminal, and if isn’t installed, it will search and give you a list of packages to install from.