So, I changed my daily driver to linux several months ago and my gf a few weeks ago.

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So, I changed […] my gf a few weeks ago.

How’s the new girlfriend?

Oh, that’s cool!

Haven’t stayed in touch, but generally seems like unskilled labour. The same kind of job they had in high school, but a decade later.

What are the discovery services?

I get why clickbait exists. As long as I know what the video is actually about from the title/thumbnail, I don’t mind.

Colonel Sanders

Heh, on Reddit, I just avoided the larger subs. r/gaming was the worst gaming sub (aside from subs for free competitive games that are playable by children)

Sometimes it’s nothing except being a different skin colour. Or riding a bicycle.

To stop the edit wars.

Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).

It’s even trickier with autocorrect. Especially if it’s one of the “smart” ones that remembers the words you use. Make the mistake once and you’re doomed!

Expanding on your first point, be aware of the difference between “workout” and “work out”.

“Workout” is a noun. “Work out” is a verb. You can tell because you can conjugate the verb without having to split it apart.

“He works out”, and not “He workouts” or “He worksout”. That’s how you know it needs a space.

You can tell the one without a space is a noun because you can pluralize it. “Arm workouts for women”.

As a bonus: “Every day” means “each and every day”. “Everyday” means “typical”, like for clothing.

You could have “everyday clothes”. But you don’t “work out everyday” – you work out every day.

It’s funny when someone says “i workout everyday” thinking they wrote three words, yet they made three spelling/grammar mistakes. Even monolingual English speakers make these kinds of mistakes.

I believe some cults grew out of communes

No, because I’m already happily married.

If I weren’t, well, the “equipment” is part of what I’m attracted to. So whether I would want to continue something long term depends on what they’re working with.

I can’t argue that one bit.

I’m sorry men are so stupid. (I’m presuming it’s men)

I live in Ontario, Canada, where it’s perfectly legal for women to be topless.

I’ve never actually seen anyone exercise that right (at least in person), but it’s a right.

On Instagram, they just sometimes play in the “reel gallery”, but they never draw my attention. Do they play with sound? I have my sound off by default, only turning it on if I want to hear what I’m looking at.

Or are people just swiping through full-screen reels? Lol

I like to browse the menu before ordering. Not walk through the buffet, item-by-item in order, forcing myself to start eating each item before I know what it is.

And its hard not to engage when someone says ridiculous things like child deaths are acceptable cost to keep 2nd amendment

Well, someone definitely “engaged” with that rhetoric! Lol

I just don’t end up watching that stuff. Like, some random guy spewing nonsense into a microphone…I don’t know why I’d even tap on that video.

Cat video, bird video, dog video, food video, travel destination video, retro game video, yes…

Guy with a microphone in a mock studio? That one won’t even start playing.

This is the first time in my life that I’ve seen video game console prices go up. Might even be the first time in history.

Ah, I guess the idea is usually not to engage.

My YouTube feed is curated pretty well. I don’t really get anything that isn’t related to gaming or computing.

I also didn’t know. I hadn’t even heard Ben Shapiro’s voice until like a year or two ago. I don’t get how people who aren’t interested in that Far Right Wing stuff end up being exposed to that nonsense.