Gundam Wing. Looking at it objectively it’s one of the weaker Gundam series but something about it just fires up all my neurons.

It’s not that it’s a bad service. It’s that MS tries to force you into it at every turn and makes it inconvenient to not use it. I have to click several times just to get to the file browser that lets me save files locally on my work PC. It’s insanely frustrating.

So you don’t have an answer then? You could just say that.

Probably in the same dark pattern bullshit they do to get you to turn the rest of their crap on.

What do you propose I do? I already said I’m fucking broke. I have no space of my own to do hobbies. I can’t afford to travel. I go out with my friends a couple times a month and that kills my spending budget because everything is expensive now. I just had to buy a laptop and get my car worked on (again because I don’t have a space of my own to do it myself) and just that wiped out six months of savings. How can I think about anything but money when if I take my eye off the ball I’ll be fucked?

My grandfather was building a deck on his house and had a bunch of lumber piled up for it. I had the genius idea that I could use it to make “roller coaster” tracks down the steep hill behind their house. Then I had my brother climb into our wagon to test it out. He was about 1/3 of the way down the hill when I realized that he was heading for the tree line with no way to stop… so I ended up sprinting after him and flipping the whole thing over.

It’s not wealth I’m after. It’s security. I want to be able to reach a point in my life where I don’t have to give 50+ hours of my time every week to some fucking company that doesn’t give a shit about me just to barely scrape by on rent and groceries. I can’t do that from where I’m so I have to save money wherever possible and build my career. Congrats to the guy I responded to for finding someone willing and capable of providing for him but most of us aren’t going to be so fortunate.

You are.

The main problem being that they’re cheapskates and won’t lift a finger for anything not directly benefitting themselves. They don’t know how to cook, and learning anything unrelated to their jobs is seen as a “waste of time”

Maybe they’re stuck trying to get ahead in their career and don’t have the mental energy to focus on anything else. Most single dudes I know are focused on their careers because where they’re at doesn’t meet their needs or isn’t enough to meet their goals even if the goal is as simple as just owning a home and be able to retire someday.

I’m currently a stay at home husband who does all the cooking, cleaning and dishes.

Easy to throw stones when you’re not the one responsible for keeping the lights on.

I tried it for a while. Going back and reading it later just made me cringe so I stopped.

Permabanned for inciting violence but I was talking about child molesters so fuck them.

Yes

I don’t currently have one but they’re in the running to replace my current phone since most of the android market has been enshitified to be just as bad as them.

I was randomly assaulted for no reason all the time when I was in school just because I was short and quiet. I wasn’t instigating shit. I kept to myself as much as possible. Fuck you and your terrible opinion.

As my dad said. You’re going to get in trouble either way. You might as well fight back.

I certainly don’t. I just act like they don’t exist and mind my own business unless they make some effort to engage with me. I’m built like a goblin though so I don’t think I’m particularly scary to most people.

I appreciate the fact that you went through your reasoning in such detail. Most of the time people are just like “use xxxx” with nothing more and comments like that are pretty worthless for someone with little familiarity with Linux.

I get mine set up how I want then create an HD image that I run in a VM for fucking with.

Never the kernel but just about every time I touch /etc/fstab I fuck something up. I’ve done that a lot…

Pepperoni and jalapenos is my favorite but it is also the kryptonite to my usually indestructible digestive system. I get green peppers instead which is still very good but not the same.