I changed one of my PCs over to Debian this month, and I was surprised at how smooth it is. I guess I was expecting it to be way more barebones. I don’t know if I need more than this!

With grief, the only way out is through. Unlike other mental ailments such as depression or anxiety, you’re not going to find a cognitive distortion or flawed line of thinking that is responsible for the distress and can be challenged. Grief is logical, and we have to feel it until it becomes less intense.

What we can do is modulate how much we’re processing at any given moment to try to keep it manageable. Think of it like that saying, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” You can’t change the total size of the task, but you can control how big of bites you take.

Finding what helps you reduce the “bites” will be personal, but starting with some general coping skills like “thought-stopping”, meditation, or any activity that keeps your mind active and occupied is a good start.

I almost used this godzilla gif to illustrate my point instead. Maybe you’ll enjoy it more.

I have to admit that I love the “pacman” pun quite a bit, which is nearly enough by itself to convince me to try it. One day. Maybe.

I’m only 4 months into Linux, and apt is my comfort zone. Checking out other distros that use something else has me running away like:

So many features!

Nothing is EXTREME anymore. =(

https://personal-aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/90s_Extreme

Ha, nice. I had just been digitizing my physical media lately, and I found this DVD. I thought “It’s been 20 years, surely someone has made this joke before, but what the hell”

I just got this error for the first time yesterday and was briefly confused. I didn’t realize that you don’t automatically get sudo privileges when you set up an admin account on every distro.

I guess I’m just associating them with their “boy band” phase then. Most of my Beatles listening was probably from the collection of hits on the 1 album back in the late 90s or early 2000s, whenever that came out.

AC/DC for sure. Every song has the same vibe. It’s a good vibe, but once you’ve heard one song, you’ve heard them all.

…is it going to be controversial if I also say The Beatles? Maybe not ALL of their music, but most.

People have given you good resources, so I’ll just speak to the second part: I switched a few months ago, and it has been surprisingly easy. I’m just… doing normal computer things like I used to on windows. Even gaming.

I’ll be there soon.

That’s where I am, although it’s only been a few months. It’s nice.

Reminds me of:

Thanks! I wonder if I will ever reach that level of privacy paranoia. At the rate that I’m going, maybe 5 years.

“His fucking kernel is deblobbed too?”

As a noob, I genuinely can’t tell if this is real jargon or not

This is very true. I don’t know why they’re so captivated by them.