I got hired!

Granted, my bike was stolen pretty much immediately, but still! I'm exited to potentially not be broke anymore, once that first paycheck comes in.

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I visit both hourly, and spend the vast majority of my time reading books on those two sites.

Hmm, needs mustard. Aside from the pizza pepperoni, I'd say it might even taste good.

I'm using Bluefin right now, but I was using bazzite before that. I'd say the biggest benefit is that it's hard to break permanently. Sure, you can still mess up your home directory pretty bad, but system level stuff is nice and stable. The biggest problem is compatability and software instalation. Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox are nowhere near as good as the documentation makes them out to be. I'd suggest making sure you select a distribution with Nix pre-installed so it's still possible to install stuff.

(Edit: There is apparently a workaround for the following issue, though I have not tried if yet.) Just be aware that some things are just plain impossible with atomic distos, and you can't change it. Like the login screen. You can't change that at all, whether it's the background or the default zoom level. It's part of the system packages and can't be fixed.

It's great for user apps, gui apps, and sandboxing. It's terrible for cli apps, libraries, development, and integration.

There are plenty of stories like that, though? Thousands, probably. It's a really popular genre. Granted, it's usually people being reincarnated into fantasy worlds and such, so that might not be your cup of tea. Still, there's always exceptions in any genre.

Some of my favorite fanfic ones are:

• Sublight Drive (Star Wars)
• Mass Effect: Jenkins Edition
• Borne of Caution
• The Many Lives Of Cadence Lee
• A Nerubuans Journey
• Orochitama
• Star Wars: A Penumbral Path

And some original works, too:

• Blue Core
• Burning Stars, Falling Skies
• God of Eyes
• His Magestys Immortal Academy
• In Loki's Honor
• Molting the Mortal Coil
• Queen in the Mud
• The Snake Report
• The Simulacrum

These are just the ones that I found scrolling through my favorites list. There's a lot more of these out there if you go looking.

Been using proton vpn for a few years now, works great. They made a better Linux client recently too, so it's just been smooth sailing from the get go for me.

Stores buy specifically tailored perfume to encourage people to buy in demand products, it's not even a secret or anything it's s common practice. Some smaller stores do the same but with music playlists.

Another common one I've seen is adverts, which are exactly that and so common that lots of people don't even notice them anymore.

Then of course there's the simpler things, like the design of a website. Well designed websites make the difference between a customer and a passer-by.

Discord. It takes like 12 seconds to start each time I launch it. Of course it's plenty fast after that, so I guess it's just the startup time that's slow.

Sentience in humans begins at 4 years old (mental age). I don't consider humans younger than that to be people. I also firmly believe that you have to have some form of consciousness, self identity, and clear cognition to count as a person.

A human corpse is not a person, a brain-dead patient is not a person, and a human with severe mental disorder should not be held to the same standards as other people.

Similarly, anything that does have sentience is clearly also a person, and should be treated as such. Animals such as crows, parrots, octopi, dolphins, whales, and some monkeys and apes are demonstrably as or more intelligent than some human children. They should not be treated the way they are.

As a side note, I agree with that other guy. Polycules should be allowed to marry.

Also, names in this day and age are useless, at least official ones. We have computers, we already use government issued ID for everything, having a name just makes things confusing. Just use nicknames, either created by the person or by agreement from peers and allowed by the person. The concept of a parent forcing a name on their child is archaic and cruel.

And finally, real life security is horrifying. I expected things to be like in the movies, where you need a special skill or training to do those spy shit. But no. In comparison to real life, Google actually has good security and privacy. WTF people? Everytime I receive mail with my name and a description of what's inside just written on the box I cringe and go back to lurking online again.

A few more that I've been thinking about:

If you do implement a NSFW toggle, make the NSFW and NSFL toggles separate. One of my big issues with reddit is you can't enable porn without also enabling the kind of stuff that makes you want to quit reddit.

A way to exit from a post, the same as the back button, by swiping right. Like how infinity does it.

A button to suggest features or bugs to either the instance or devs.

More documentation for various things. In particular I'm curious if it's possible to run an instance without opening any ports on your router? Maybe using swag or tailscale-funnel?