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- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 6 hours ago:
My N810 was my single favorite piece of industrial design in a mobile device. Not perfect, and use cases moved on (to say nothing of the internals), but it was so unique and thoughtful and intricate without feeling overly fragile.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 14 hours ago:
I preferred Mepis. 😊
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 1 day ago:
Great, but that graph is not showing any prticular spike, just a nice and gentle upward trend in share. The article also overlooks that there is a certain element of Windows and MacOS computers being replaced by tablets and phones, while Linux is already an enthusiast choice on the desktop, meaning it will be insulated somewhat.
On the plus side, Steam and Proton and maturing DEs/distros and enshittification of Windows certainly make Linux a much more viable “normie” option than it’s ever been. We’re a far cry from the CD-ROM of Red Hat that came with my “Intro to Linux” book in 1999 but couldn’t use my Winmodem or printer and really preferred to run XWindows in grayscale.
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 3 days ago:
In the US, the AMA has always artificially limited the supply of MDs. Over the last century osteopathic medical schools basically adopted all the same philosophies of evidence based medicine as “regular” medical schools, maybe with a vestigial course or two on spinal alignment. Both have the same licensing requirements.
At this point, DOs in the US are basically just regular doctors with lower MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs, and indeed, they basically fill the role of providing doctors to less lucrative specialties and regions.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 5 days ago:
You’re right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, “if the characters and plots don’t need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?”
- Comment on Filter feeder behavior 1 week ago:
In case you wanted to know, he’s a former executive for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans.
- Comment on He's gonna save MURICAS rich folks who will absolutely save us working folks in turn! 1 week ago:
Soos would never…
- Comment on If you don't own one you will never understand it 1 week ago:
We lost our older guy a couple of weeks ago, and he hated them, as did our three other dogs over the last twenty years. The younger one and the new puppy didn’t seem to care that much, only getting a little jittery when we were outside and a particularly loud one went off.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
3, but the pajamas erasure here is unfortunate.
- Comment on I'm all for ingenuity. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’ve just seen this one often enough and seen the comments that I may have assumed too much. I’ll take my downvotes.
- Comment on I'm all for ingenuity. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, yeah, stupid fat maga, whatever. Looks like they’ve both got a pretty big batch of laundry, and looking at the totality of the picture these are not likely to be wealthy people, and it being rural/suburban America, lord knows how far the laundromat is. This strikes me as unironically clever, and they’re both keeping that mower deck out of the landfill and travelling using electric power.
- Comment on The new new testament 2 weeks ago:
Looks like Teenjus to me.
- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 2 weeks ago:
Barelypoops Cacalags
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, Peppa is a total asshat, but she’d generally have to eat shit in a way certain other kids’ animation asshats didn’t (coughcalilloucough). There was enough of old-school cartoon and comic strip tropes from Warner Brothers shorts and Peanuts that it wasn’t the worst show to endure.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
Daddy Pig was pretty badass when the wolf family moved to town.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
I’m a few years out from that age range, but Caillou, Ryan’s Toy Reviews, and motherfuckin’ Blippi made Peppa look like Shakespeare.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 2 weeks ago:
Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.
Clearly you never saw the one where Peppa is a stone-cold bitch when she realizes everybody but her can whistle or learn within seconds.
- Comment on Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off 2 weeks ago:
Lawyer, engineer, or consultant? LOL, are you McKinsey advising Warner/Discovery?!?!?
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 2 weeks ago:
…and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.
- Comment on Palpable Nonsense! 2 weeks ago:
What are we going to do tonight, Brain?!
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Little one can be Tails and play coop.
- Comment on Is there a service to check for reposts? 3 weeks ago:
This comic has always resonated with me. THIS is how we incorrigible know-it-alls of the world can use our powers for good, or at least for not actively evil, LOL.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If it’s within your means, could y’all take a long trip out that way?
This is a very good idea, again, if you have means, though it’s probably not absurd if he’s looking to buy. AirBnB’s in Wyoming aren’t super common, but there are options, and frankly most of them are probably “easy mode” in the sense that they’re close to SOMETHING. Get a feel for what it would be like to be stuck there doing your shopping, finding something to eat, finding something to do. Drive to the nearest hospital, then imagine doing it frequently or while in a lot of pain.
Maybe it will be fine, even for ten or fifteen years, but you’re absolutely right to take this one slow and be wary. I know Massachusetts is pretty built up, but it’s not fully paved. Have you floated the idea of moving another 20-30 minutes farther out and finding a little patch of ground? Or doing something SUPER crazy like moving to New Hampshire? 🤣
As another alternative, if he’s determined to have mountains, something just outside Denver or even, sigh, Salt Lake City would blunt some of the biggest issues. Wyoming has almost literally nothing. Cheyenne metro has around 100k people, smaller than Lowell, MA.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
As everyone else has said, this is a pretty normal hangup, and if it’s really where you plan to live for the foreseeable future, only time will wear down the edges of that anxiety. It sounds like your parents raised you to be very open and you have an honest relationship with them and open invitation to live with them until you find a path that takes you elsewhere. Frankly, that’s great. My own daughter is a pre-teen but honestly I think we’re on a fairly similar path, but that’s more because it’s what feels like the right thing to do and the right way to treat someone, compared to the arbitrarily rigid households my wife and I grew up in. It doesn’t make make it magically not-alien.
It’s only been a month and he likely grew up in a different style of household. Honestly, in the US at least, the communities that most commonly do multi-generational living are very much not the ones okay with unmarried partners staying over. That’s a pretty significant cultural disconnect, and it’s going to be a while before he gets over it and truly believes that your parents are as okay with it as you claim. It’s probably going to require them to be almost comically over the top about it being okay (which has its own social hazards, LOL), or else it’s going to require baby steps. A trip together could help, as someone else mentioned. Or, a movie night that runs long and he stays in a spare bedroom. Eventually, with exposure and with a relationship between the two of you that proves to be solid over time, he may come to feel that it’s less awkward or disrespectful. He might also be a bit (overly?) self-conscious about the slight age difference in front of people whose primary job over the last 20 years has been keeping you safe.
So yeah, he’s sort of bringing his hangups into the relationship in a way you likely find frustrating, but I wouldn’t worry about it, certainly not until it’s been a good bit longer. It’s a common thing, coming from an honest place (and as mentioned, anxiety+expectations could create a lot of issues around the very intimacy you want to promote). In the meantime, it’s fairly easy to work around, especially since you do have the kind of relationship with your parents that makes staying at his place unremarkable. Eventually, yes, he should grow to trust you and your parents enough to believe you all when you say it’s fine, and if that’s still not enough then to have the kind of open conversation with you as his partner to understand why it’s not going to happen. For now, just keep doing things to make him comfortable at your place, but for the most part I’d let this one go.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks ago:
We have a president who issues fascistic edicts on the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.
- Comment on Lamp. 3 weeks ago:
As someone who grew up in the exact window of dysfunction that makes the movie relatable but not triggering, I agree.
- Comment on More orders of magnitude, please. 3 weeks ago:
Reception is a little fuzzy.
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- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 3 weeks ago:
If I bowed out early, would that make me a Dik?
- Comment on Winging it 5 weeks ago:
The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.
