There would be, if it was any less black and white. Show something worth discussing and people would jump at that conversation.

Given that they’re doesn’t seen to be much coming up in that vein, there’s no room. Room would be made of there was something to make room for.

Not familiar with it personally, but I know it gets used on Linux. I’ve seen a friend of mine play with it once back when it was still called FruityLoops on Windows a decade ago, but I’ve never personally had it.

There will be a little bit of a hassle initially, a dash of typing in the console, (which shouldn’t scare you, but some people freak out if their screen has to look like the 80s, even if just for a minute-even if they are 80s/90s kids) but it seems like it works fine once you get it set up.

I don’t know anyone using it personally but going by mentions of it and several pages showing directions to get it running (via Wine) seems to indicate it works.

Anyone familiar with it can add more info, I’m just going by the fact that directions to install it exist.

Wine will help run a bunch of things that are Windows-only. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work with everything, but FL studio seems to be one it does (based on what I see- again I’d wait to see if someone who uses it chimes in).

I’ve said this for years, but not about technology. Just a complete worldwide ban.

Provide yellow pages type of thing you can look up businesses in, companies can “advertise” on their entry, with a separate resource to look up information and data about them.

Throw in word of mouth, and that’s it. Free market determines everything else. Also, no logos on any product. The products can’t become the advertisement either.

But if take this rule back to like the (19)00s, so we just head off radio and TV commercials before the get go.

Maybe this prevents capitalism from becoming what it is in the first place. The main thing is presenting objective facts alongside the ads, so people don’t just buy something because “it said it was the best”. (Maybe that could extend to preventing people from believing something because “it said it was true” as well >_>)

Looks like you’re the one without understanding.

Even if I grant that there’s a few super helpful uses that are good for humanity (and I don’t grant that at all), it’s still actively harmful to the other 99.3% of us.

Unless you’re saying it can end cancer, keep us young forever, provide literally limitless energy, and instantaneous networking, all while giving us potential to explore the universe, then it’s still not worth what it’s costing us RIGHT NOW.

Until you can make it do any of that without being owned or pushed by CEOs for money, then it will never be worth it.

Sure it could be useful if it didn’t cost anything and did everything, but that’s about as far as I believe it.

It should stay in the research and theory phase until it’s perfect. And it never will be, hence most people attitudes on it. No. 00000001% change of finding a good execution of a use is worth what it is costing us to try out.

Now we need a website that we can add to that doxxes them that we can browse like a Nazi Facebook site, but frozen in time.

I still want more Play It By Ear.

Those billionaires gotta get paid for allowing you to have any money at all!

90s kids see the reference here immediately.

Harsh, but I think everyone at the entire company could and we’d be better off.

That OS is not even pretending to hide how sinister it’s being.

In a non capitalist hellhole, people would’ve quit before copying with writing any of it. They would’ve quit before they put Candy Crush on the Start menu.

I’d eat that triangle. :P

Where’d you think the name Doofenshmirtz came from?

Pizza Slut actually sounds like a friendly nickname.

Really a fan of the word “crap”, I see.

I like the idea of seeing all my siblings at one time (except for that one cross country one) and seeing my nieces.

But I hate all of Christmas. Everything about it, from people having decisions up the day after Thanksgiving, to them staying up until February, the fact that most songs from this time of year talk about Jesus…

The way it (this is a little redundant) takes up the whole month is the 2nd biggest part. No other holiday gets more than 48 hours of observance, including prep time. Even extra Halloween candy is done being talked about after a day or two once the discounted stuff is bought up.

The biggest part is the religious part. My siblings all know how I feel (most of them share the feeling), but my parents didn’t and I aim to keep it that way unless point blank asked about it. That conversation will not end well. I’ve already told them that outside weddings and funerals (and hopefully not even then) that I will not ever step for inside a church again. My family was not exactly cult level, but it bordered on it. When I finally came out of that bubble it was rough. Really rough. I didn’t wanna claim religious PTSD, as I don’t think it’s that severe, but churches bother the hell out of me (pun not intended, but it works).

Growing up Mom had way too many decorations (in general, but especially Christmas ones) and just bringing them all in the house, and being made to help out them up was a PITA. I think part of me figured it (religious faith) out early, but it took until I was almost 31 to figure it out. But even then I was annoyed by how much work it caused.

So (TLDR) I wish it was just a day or few days where you’d hang with family you might not get to see any other time of year.

Literally every other part of it can just be forgotten with no ill effects.

Next year I’ll hit 20. And I wasn’t even first in my friend group. And when I started it wasn’t even my own account. I used someone else’s just to participate in LAN party activities.

I’m cooked.

But it’s true this time!

You mentioned “VA, PA, OR MI” then said “both” in parentheses, too.

Oh damn. Apparently if you have mental problems you get trapped too. I’m sure that helps anxiety issues for sure.

Sometimes being committed isn’t a bad thing. It’s not pleasant to think about, but the process exists for a reason.

Are they just being creative though, or are they purposefully making it very different?

Do they think just a slight name change will be seen as a joke or temporary?

I’ve never had to think about the mental process of choosing my own name, but I like the feminine version enough for now.

But if it was a really important thing for me to distinguish my identity separate from my birth name, that might change my decision.

But I’ve only considered it on the surface, like “what if I woke up at a Halloween party wearing a dress”, or doing a dare/forfeit kind of thing.

I’m thinking that a huge portion of the trans community came out of circumstances where they’re shamed for it, and might choose to distance themselves from that whole part of their life.

So I totally get it, but from a surface-level consideration, I wouldn’t mind the femme version of my name.