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Jellojiggle, in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

“Just have one or two and then stop” when telling a friend I’m an alcoholic. Well shit, thanks! That never even crossed my mind!

TheHalc,

Which would inevitably be followed by “Just one more can’t hurt!”…

I hope you’re doing better now.

Jellojiggle,

That is absolutely what follows. I am doing MUCH better, I’ve had 2.5 years sober in the last 3 years because I thought I was “cured” and started “moderating” last summer. The stop drinking subreddit was amazing insight and help. It’s on lemmy but the only posts are the daily checkin. I should start being more active on it to boost it.

BeMoreCareful,

It’s more a question of how many times it crosses my mind.

Anticorp,

Thanks, I’m cured!

mihor, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

Lobotomy is the correct answer.

Ignacio, in What movie did you rewatch most often?
@Ignacio@kbin.social avatar

Interstellar. I watched it like 4 times.

leapingleopard, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

Someone linked mlmym.org

which mimics oldreddit… I feel at home now.

I go back to check hometown sub once or twice a day. if I go to the front page, I only make it through about half before I realize what I’m doing and switch. Quite honestly, it feels poisonous. Whatever algorithm they have my brain has decided it can live without.

notasandwich1948, in What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?

for me liftoff is the least buggy and runs smoother than thunder or jerboa

hahattpro,

How to find sublemmy, I mean, community, on liftoff app ?

notasandwich1948,

I just look through all until I find something I like

kromem, in Can lemmy be used as a blog (with comment section)?

Yes. IIRC it’s even discussed in the official docs. Basically just limit post creation on the server and allow comments.

The nice thing about open source is that in the future there might even be add-ons that better format it for blog display vs thread display.

FirstWizardZorander,

I was just thinking that. You could either implement a way to render the linked content as an article, or allow more rich formatting in the text body itself.

kvn, in Have you ever had Detroit-style pizza?

I’ve had Buddy’s pizza when visiting the Detroit area and I thought it was really good.

I have a Jet’s near me and it’s one my favorites to get takeout from.

zdrvr,

Buddy’s was the original but it is far from the best.

IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

Just one thing: Lightroom.

Kwalla,

Honestly Darktable works pretty damn well after you adjust to the work flow differences. I would still prefer Lightroom but after switching jobs and no longer using a company subscription for Adobe, Darktable is perfectly fine for my hobby photography.

IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI,

I tried to switch a couple of times. The version I tried was not estable enough, too much crashes for my taste. Lightroom now has selecting automagically, now that I tried it I can no longer live without it.

solidneutral, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

I got my wife a netbook when they were popular. It came with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Shit was kind of slow, but it worked. I thought about installing Linux cause people say it’s lighter and faster. When I started looking up Linux there were so many versions. I can’t tell the difference between a Mint, Cinnamon, KDE, etc. As a noob (I’m still a noob) I don’t know which one to choose so I settled on Mint cause I liked the theme. After the install it was slower than Win7SE. VLC video playback was trash. At the time I was using Photoshop 6 and Gimp was a not so great alternative. In the end the experiment failed. The netbook ended up being donated to the sis in law (teen). Best thing about Linux is the ability to run it off a CD/thumb drive. I think I’m too use to Windows though… It’s not worth the headache to switch Operating System unless I have to. I won’t switch to Apple/iOS cause I’m use to Android. I currently run Win10 on my desktop/laptop and Win11 on my wife’s Surface laptop. I fucken hate how Windows is always asking me to sign on with their account. I probably switch to Linux if Windows ever goes full online subscription base.

Today, in What movie did you rewatch most often?

Anytime they pop up we watch Casino Royale, Groundhog Day, Family Stone. We were late picking friends up at the airport yesterday because we were sitting in a hotel watching Grease. I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but it’s exhausting to watch so i sometimes skip it.

Crazypartypony, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I really used reddit to lurk and scroll when I was bored. If I can’t use the app I’m used to, there is no reason for me to return. Especially with the way they have been treating the community, I havent been back for about 3 weeks. I downloaded a lemmy app and put that in the same spot as rif was, and I havent looked back.

RavenFellBlade, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

I used Linux Mint for several years on a dual-boot laptop. I rarely found myself booting Windows. While there was a learning curve, Mint was fairly accessible out of the box and was generally a delight to use. Until it wasn’t. At some point, the drivers for my video card updated, and just flat broke everything. And I can’t really use a computer on which I can’t see the desktop. I waited. And waited. A fix for the driver may have eventually come, but after awhile, booting into Windows just became my default, until eventually I just wiped the Linux partition to recover the storage space.

It was fun while it lasted, and I may choose one day to give it another go for the fourth time. This wasn’t the first time I’ve had something like this happen. First time was with Fedora, and the second was Ubuntu. Each time, I had the same “it worked until it didn’t” experience, and each time it stopped working was usually some kind of broken driver making my hardware incompatible.

Boiglenoight, in What's your real-life superpower?

Being unphased by traumatic situations. At least right away. If a loved one dies or there’s a terrorist attack, I feel nothing until usually months go by. It then hits me randomly and I get as upset as you’d expect one to at the beginning.

Letstakealook,

I have a similar reaction to things. Unfortunately, it often causes people to look at me to figure shit out in the moment. Just because I’m not freaking out doesn’t mean I know a damn thing about the correct course of action right now.

Boiglenoight,

I get a different reaction. People see me as disturbed or heartless, I get “What is wrong with you” and “Don’t you feel anything right now?” One time I responded with honesty. Bad call brother. I try to look upset, but it probably resembles the same level of concern one might show when trying to determine the perpetrator of an especially offensive fart.

Letstakealook,

That’s rough, though imagining your description is quite funny.

cityslicker343,
@cityslicker343@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome to the heartless club!

MementoMori,

This is a totally normal response. Check out the book The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno if you want to learn more!

SRo, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

I use both. Linux as a homserver runs a bunch of docker containers and a Nas/personal cloud. Desktop and notebook runs Windows because compatibility and honestly Linux as a desktop still sucks ass. I tried it the first time in the mid 90s and even after all the promises and a quarter of a century later its still shit. Just take the L Linux and be what you are; the best server os.

milicent_bystandr,

See, I always find it funny when people say Linux is rubbish for desktop. I main Linux and boot Windows for some games, and Windows continues to find ways to bug me while my Linux desktop feels great.

I guess YMMV

naeap,
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I’m using Linux for desktop since years - even my non tech savvy girlfriend uses KDE without issues on her laptop.

What was your issue?

I can’t stand to work with Windows. Is gruesome slow and confusingly designed. Configuration is splittered across the system. Some parts in GUI setting tools, some part in registry, some part in specific files.
Error codes are completely useless under Windows. In Linux the error message gives me at least a clue what’s happening.

I can’t understand how anybody can really work with Windows. Gladly I can do 99% of everything in Linux. Only some industry hardware configuration tools are still stuck on Windows.

daruksrevenge, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I’m currently in the process of replacing Reddit with Lemmy. I’m keeping Reddit for the sole purpose of being linked there from Google Results and until I get used to Lemmy, how it works, and find communities that are relevant to me.

I do find Lemmy interesting in how , despite being in an instance, you can still see posts from other instances and such. I am still getting used to it, so will keep Reddit around until I am completely accustomed to it.

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