Keep track of your spending. Find simple and cheap things you like. There’s hours of entertainment at the free public library. There’s free meetups all over.

I had a friend that ordered food delivery for every meal. That’s like $25k/year on food, in $35 chunks. Don’t do that. Don’t aspire to that.

Use thrift stores, buy nothing groups, freecycle, yard sales etc. I got most of the furniture for my first apartment for $230 (inflation adjusted) when I first moved out. Couch, table, chairs, dresser. The couch didn’t survive the next move, but everything else is solid.

You can probably salvage an old computer by putting Linux on it rather than shelling out for a new one. I saved my friend a lot of money reviving their ancient laptop like that.

Some people have this idea that spending money frivolously or conspicuously is cool. They’re assholes and fools.

Keep in touch with friends. Most of my jobs I got because I knew someone. The job process is broken, run by idiots and slop machines.

If living with your parents isn’t driving you crazy, don’t worry about it. Save the money.

No. Don’t think I was even invited to any.

I’m not close to anyone from high school. I haven’t talked to anyone from that era in years. I wasn’t my best self back then, and I don’t really want to relive it.

Other answers are good.

I expect there’s a lot of racism, too. A lot of people don’t want those people to have nice things, even if it means personally suffering.

If you build a nice train system, you might have to see those people on your day to day. In a car, you’re isolated and feel safe.

But mostly I expect it’s because of the massive highway system that was built without corresponding passenger rail.

100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn’t even know how to start.

But I’m confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she’d use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.

Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.

I don’t think that’s actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don’t run much more than a web browser, if they don’t play games.

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

It’s not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It’s inertia.

Most people don’t care about things. They just don’t. Their brains just don’t have the juice.

This could be a fantastic idea, and maybe a hammer blow to the “return to office” bullshit.

Sure, I’ll go into the office. Pay me 25% more to account for the travel time.

I’ve had a conversation with several coworkers trying to get them to connect the dots between “you get paid by the hour” - “if you produce more per hour, you don’t get paid more” - “the owners keep the profits” - “they’ll never let you just work less”

|| has a similar “oh that’s how it works in other places” behavior. I didn’t realize that for a while.

No, I was agreeing with you. People don’t want to acknowledge the truth (ie: their car is too big to be safe, they voted for a dangerous felon). It feels bad emotionally. Most people resolve the cognitive dissonance between “I’m a good person” and stuff like “I’m probably going to kill a kid with my car” by lashing out or making up excuses.

acknowledging the truth is immensely disruptive emotionally.

Yeah that’s a common problem for a lot of people. Cowardice and complete refusal to admit their own shortcomings. Most people would rather double down than admit they fucked up

I feel like if I worked someplace that put up that sign I would go study to become a plumber. Infuriating.

A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.

Oh that reminds me of when I was like 4, one of the neighborhood kids convinced a bunch of the other kids to eat some of those cicada exoskeletons they leave on trees. I did not, but I’m pretty sure some of the other kids did.

Also trying to claim “they’re not employees if US. They’re contractors” should mean you forfeit all your wealth and get banned from leadership positions for life.

Email, sms, signal, telephone, in person, just existing quietly without a feed for a while…

Ah. I’m on Pop!_Os, which I think is downstream from Ubuntu. So it’ll make its way to me eventually, I guess. Not sure how to track that, heh.

Naive question: does this just come in with like apt update, or do I have to go out of my way?