pay bills

I don’t trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn’t sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn’t matter.

Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.

The year of Linux desktop?

Average website visit in 2024 - 2.15k upvotes

terrible worthless asshole

That’s the neat part, no one.
But hey, you’re not alone being alone. (Sorry, I kinda like that sentence)

Lemmy is a federated platform, not a single website, nor a single community.

saying something like this indicates to me that you don’t understand the complexities of masculinity, femininity or sexuality

Yup. Look at gay “bears” and heterosexual femboys or drag queens.

What is a charity?
I mean, like most people I just think of organizations that help the homeless, poor families, starving children, etc…

For me the scam risk is too high, and anyway, that’s where most people donate money, both because it engages a lot of emotion.

But I do donate elsewhere, mostly FOSS projects like KDE and individual developers like for example Deluan Quintao (developer of Navidrome server).
Though I also donate to some local more standard-like places. Those are ochranma hotline - portal in INHOPE network for reporting illegal online content including CSAM; IPcko - crisis intervention helpline (psychological help) with physical offices as well (unpaid of course) and a mobile crisis team, as far as I know they’re underpaid (a quick search shows they had to fire 17 psychologists in 2024); and lastly Municia pre Ukrajinu - money for purchase of ammunition for Ukraine in collaboration with Czech Republic, as the Slovakian government refused to aid them

Anyway, all of it is just little bits, I can’t afford to donate any meaningful amount.
Full list:
Linux Mint -
TeamSeas -
Manjaro -
OpenCollective tips -
Tor Project -
Internet Archive (archive.org) -
The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) -
Arch Linux -
KDE -
Mozilla -
F-Droid -
Termux -
db0 Lemmy instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com) -
Arne Schwabe (dev of Android OVPN client) -
Deluan Quintao (dev of Navidrome server) -
Arty Bishop (dev of Look4Sat) -
sc07 (Fediverse Canvas creator) -
IPcko -
Markus Fisch (dev of Binary Eye) -
VideoLAN -
ochranma.sk -
Meshtastic -
Kiwix -
Municia pre Ukrajinu -
FFmpeg -
IzzyOnDroid -
Lemmy -
Catbox.moe -

How much would an assassin to kill you cost? 🤔

Anyway, best to refuse this offer.

Fuck!

Better question is what 4 letter words I can even remember. Let’s see…

fuck, lock, cock, yiff, bear, fair, mare, fare, Mars, SARS, cars, arse, bars, tree, pine, mine, dime, fine, lime, blue, moon, soon, tone, moan, loan, lawn, down, fawn, leek, meme, joke, yolk, dick, lick, sick, tick, kick, ball, mall, fall, chip, ship, spin, meat, meet, porn, corn, horn, burn, role, play, star, trek, mono, long, song, dong, monk, duck, luck, suck, rack, deck, card, nano, pico, mini, cake, sake, lake, aqua, cyan, Arch, lore, vore, fart, dart, mart, sour, hour, four,…

There’s probably a website for that, what am I doing. I’ll go with Mars Arch.

Interesting how my brain picks the words.

Edit: Removed duplicate word

Edit 2: Remembered a better candidate

I don’t want to make a separate comment since I am also not from US, but damn, this sounds overblown to me. Especially for someone who’s just related to your friend.
And especially from a student, since students are generally quite poor.

I don’t use it, but Slovak QWERTZ is the standard in my country. But using it feels like a pain in the ass (for me). Some characters need ctrl+alt rather than just shift, others may only be written with alt codes, at least on Windows…

Part of my graduation exam was literally to just type \ % @ & on a computer. Thankfully for me, settings wasn’t blocked, so I just added US layout.

If I need some slovak characters I do either one of the following:

1. Say “fuck it” and write it without diacritics (“like SMS”)
2. If needed in forms, use KCharSelect
3. Smartphone virtual keyboard
4. Like 1 but printed on paper with diacritics added using a pen
5. Write it in English even if I am not supposed to and wait for the outcome
6. Write it in English, pipe it to Google Translate (I find writing in English mostly easier anyway - doesn’t mean I am good at it)
7. Write it in English, (attempt to) translate it myself
8. Good ol’ pen 'n paper all the way (I mean, I’ve got a fountain pen too)

Where did you hear that?
So far I’ve only heard about teaching kids how to use it as a tool rather than trusting everything it says, or even replacing a human. And I’d agree on that. Too many people (by far not just kids) take what ChatGPT, Gemini and chatbots alike say for granted.

I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.

So, what are you in prison for?

There is no deal on the table I think that they will want me on it for at least another 2 years before release is considered

OK, 2 years or 6 years then?
Anyway, your legal team has said there is a chance. Only one way to find out.

Really, what are you going to loose? Excessive sex drive?

Well, I can’t directly answer yes/no. I think that refusal should lead to more restrictions on your freedom. I don’t mean this as a punishment, but more so as a protection measure, of others.
You need to understand that you are currently unsafe as-is, and try to work on fixing that.

Searching about the specific drug (for risk assessment), hard to tell for me. I am not a medical doctor. I don’t even know the dosage and length of treatment (in case it’s not long-term).
It does seem like one of the riskier drugs, but do they outweigh the other risks?
It also seems to be commonly used by MtF trans people (it’s a T blocker, so it makes sense). If the risks are worth it in those cases, I’d wager it’s worth in yours too.

And from Wikipedia:

In addition, it has been found to decrease the rate of reoffending in sex offenders from 85% to 6%, with most of the reoffenses being committed by individuals who did not follow their CPA treatment prescription.

Sounds effective.

I encourage you to go ahead with it. If that attraction/desire is so strong that you cannot control it yourself, this will most likely help you feel better too. At least that sounds logical.
Plus you should obviously get some psychological help too, not just meds. You can’t really loose anything by going to therapies, except for a few minutes of time.

Unfortunately, you can’t fix the past, but you can work on the future. You won’t seem weak by trying to get help, quite the contrary. Don’t bullshit others and yourself with excuses. So please, do go ahead with the treatment. It’s not just for others, it’s not just for you, but for both.

Also, maybe it would help if you read or listened to some stories of survivors, and try to imagine yourself on the victim side instead, to build some empathy. You didn’t steal someone’s wallet, sexual abuse creates lifelong trauma.

Again, I am not MD, psychologist or even some good writer, but it sounds like a good choice from the options you currently have.