How did you pay for “college student” and what work history do you have? Then the lies start, so it’s better to have a plan than to plan to lie.

No it’s not that easy. You have to work, balance spending, and save. Then work your way into or get educated for a better paying job. Rinse and repeat.

No shame or insult intended but sex worker is never a permanent job and comes with a stigma no matter where you live. You said focus on university but the sex worker stigma never really comes off, you will need to have a plan to separate yourself and create a barrier to show your next employer that you are not just a sex worker. I’m not sure if sex worker is legal in Romania but I don’t think that it’s something you would want to proudly display on a resume anywhere in the world.

I would take the day off to mourn by going to do something fun with my family

Night.

Bringing your daily dirt to bed is a no go and if you plan on relations with a partner…you better be clean.

He’d probably wonder why I was in his house

Pedophiles

I’ve found that 90% of users probably wouldn’t have a difficult time using Linux as their new OS. The problems usually show up when needing to use terminal or when specific software companies don’t support Linux.

The average user that just browses the internet and uses basic office apps most likely wouldn’t have any issues.

Find an old PC lying around your home swap the drive out or create a separate partition, there are plenty of YouTube videos out there. Worst case you waste an afternoon.

I get that there are different Distros and that having options is great, but it’s a double edged sword. It also means that things get more complicated and some get more support than others.

If I commit to Linux then my whole house will switch to that Distro because I don’t have time to figure and support >4 PCs with similar but different OSs.

Autocad - for work

Photoshop - for work

Getting more software companies to support.

Make the terminal easier to use. I don’t use it often but when I do I waste an average of 15min just trying to find a guide or wiki. A help file or built in guide would be nice

Everyone that uses Linux, expects you to be a Linux expert

Steam is great but a native GOG app would be nice. Instead of Herolauncher

Anti cheat support from games

Hardware support. Just finding drivers for peripherals is sometimes more trouble than it’s worth

Generally make it more inviting to new users

More support for WINE and Proton

I haven’t experienced any bugs that I can recall, but I was disappointed with Death Stranding too.

I was so hyped up because I love the Metal Gear Solid games so when I heard that Kojima was creating a new IP and it was going to have a great cast of actors supporting it and it was based on a post apocalyptic world where ghosts are attacking people, I was vibrating with excitement.

Then I found out that it’s a walking simulator about delivering packages.

Ok, maybe it’s still good?

Well it’s all good and great in some ways and check off almost all of the boxes you would expect from a AAA game, except one. It’s just not fun or relaxing or challenging or interesting. I put it down halfway through and I can’t remember who/what/where/why, so now I have to start over or be lost.

It’s just so damn tedious and there’s no sense of satisfaction. Tedious is work and I get plenty of that at work.

Blue collar (blue coveralls class) is just a derogatory term to describe someone that doesn’t wear a white collar (business suit class) to work. But it sorta turned into a badge of honor by the blue collar class over the years, but it’s meant to be an insult by the white color class.

It has nothing to do with skilled or non-skilled labor or education, it’s supposed to be an insult based on the clothes required to wear to work.

Yeah you’d probably have a bad day in America too. I think the person asking the question just doesn’t know what blue collar or skilled labor means.

But does it require skill to do the job or does skill just make a person better at the job?

A plumber can’t be a plumber without years of training and experience. There is no apprentice dishwasher or master dishwasher, just about anyone with two hands and willing to stand in one place for hours can do the job. I washed dishes at a fast food deli for three months for a summer job in highschool. It’s thankless hard work but it was mindless work and required no skill, I washed dishes zoned out and on autopilot most of the time. I’m sure there are skilled dishwashers that can was them the fastest or cleanest, but washing dishes doesn’t require skill, it requires work ethic, it requires completing the task of washing the dishes. There’s no 100 other tasks required to do or learn before becoming a dishwasher.

If any functioning human can walk in and do the job then it’s not “skilled” labor. Having a good work ethic doesn’t equal skilled labor.

“Skilled” labor is someone that spent years honing their craft and making a complicated “job” look like a simple effortless task because they spent years learning how to do it and perfecting it, hours of prep and planning. That’s is “skilled” labor.

Little addictions.

Addiction is a real problem and incredibly hard to diagnose. I’m not talking about drugs, I’m talking about those little additions that subtly sublimely control nearly every decision in your life. Addiction to caffeine, sugar, social media, TV, driving too fast, being an asshole, being a complainer, etc.

There’s a lot of reasons why we do what we do or why we think we do them but for the most part it’s about chasing those bits of dopamine. But chasing them can lead to some very destructive behaviors.

Better.

I have a good paying job, wife, not addicted to drugs, own my house, own 2 cars, have 2 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 4 ducks, I don’t weigh 300lbs, saving for retirement, living within my means, and everyone is mostly healthy.

I just hope my government doesn’t screw it up for me and my kids.

In an alternate universe - Fox warned by FTC over alleged lack of liberal news

Are those rhetorical questions?

Not that I’m aware of and duh

Are you offering?

Assuming I live for another 30years, around $3mil to semi retire and $5mil to fully retire today. At least until I can fully draw from social security (if it still exists) and from 401k/IRAs.

But I don’t plan to retire. I plan to work until I can’t then give my wife and kids everything left. I have no reason to live except to ensure that I have given my family the best life I can within my means, assuming my spending vices don’t get the better of me.

Damn, I knew there was something different, like I just couldn’t put my finger in it, I never noticed it before, but you’re right! Lemmy users are sexier!

I still visit Reddit occasionally for old niche tech support, but that’s about it. Tried Voat but it was dead on arrival.

Here’s a list -

Lose of RiF was the last straw.

Inconsistent censorship.

Mods targeting users.

Promoted ads disguised content

Hive mind comment bombing and down voting

Lack of understanding or reason

Gatekeeping by mods and users

Spam bots

Achievements and robot challenges

Reposting/resharing the same memes over and over like it was new content.

Reporting posts didn’t seem to do anything

If Linux could run AutoCAD and didn’t have issues with anti cheat programs then I probably would have fully committed to the switch.

Before any says anything, yes I know there are CAD alternatives but all of my custom tools only work in AutoCAD and I have no idea how to recreate half of them if I had to and I wouldn’t know how to do it in another app anyway. Plus AutoCAD is the industry standard so for compatibility reasons, I’m locked in.