I switched probably 2010 or 2011. I think I was on windows 7, but it might have been windows vista and I never got to 7.

At some point I had made a realization that software I downloaded from sourceforge (this website has been terrible for a long while now, but I think it was decent way back) was heavily correlated with not being shitty. After making this observation, I was able to generalize it to open source software tends to be less shitty and I had a year or two of experiences afterwards that reinforced my theory, which led me to try experimenting with linux installs.

I started with dual-booting Fedora, I had no idea what I was doing and didn't like the user experience as much as windows at first. I did a little bit of distro-hopping to see if there was something more appealing to me, but during that time I discovered the free software movement and that resonated with me a lot more than open source had, so I decided I wasn't interested in going back to windows. Moved to Trisquel (originally an Ubuntu derivative, and fully-free to the point of being FSF-approved) and grew to love it.

After a couple years, I decided I was curious enough to learn more about how the system works, so I moved to Parabola (fully free Arch derivative) to force myself to learn. I really learned barely anything, but I got very good at getting things working by trial-and-error while reading documentation I don't fully understand. I haven't progressed very far beyond that point at all in the years since, but I got too comfortable to make a significant change.

In the past five or so years, I've to some degree dropped the free software philosophy in favor of a philosophy that the problem runs much deeper (no hope of a successful free software movement in a capitalist society, and software is not even close to the most beneficial consequence of getting past capitalism), and I've moved to legit Arch rather than Parabola.

I've basically gone ten years without real issues on arch installs, but I still have no idea what I'm doing, I'm just comfortable with it and don't want to put any effort into a change. I feel like if anyone from the arch forums or anyone knowledgeable in general took five minutes to look at my pc they'd be like wtf are you doing. It's whatever, it works well enough for me.

My favorite thing about this post is that question 2 is asked based on the assumption that you've answered question 1 correctly by picking "cat".

Good luck with this project, hope to see it succeed.

I know this is a weird choice but the Lustmord tribute album "The Others" is probably my favorite of the decade so far. The first half is pretty close to the dark ambient Lustmord is known for, but as the album goes on it has some more melodic contributions which are really spectacular.

Ethereal Shroud's "Trisagion" album is really great if you're into metal. Also with regards to metal - the song "Aggressor" by Vredehammer is crazy good, especially the first 2:20 or so, but the full album doesn't quite match it for me.

"Aether" by The Moon and the Nightspirit is wonderful folk music from Hungary, but they've had a few other albums in the past that match it for me.

Yes.

I think I have a mental disorder where if people online are angry at me I actually start introspecting a lot rather than blowing it off. Sometimes I have something I want to say anyway and emotionally prepare to eat it.

Oh wow, that's awesome, thanks for sharing that.

I completely overlooked that, but yeah, I'm having trouble coming up with another reason they would lead with that line.

more executive actions are on the horizon

Not sure why he waited this long, but surely this means it's now enough of a priority that he'll get it done before the election. That's a relief!

Somehow neither of my top two posts of the past year were from 2023.

My wife and I had our wedding planned for August 2020 and we couldn't reschedule it because my health insurance was set to expire in September and my post-covid symptoms put me out of work. We got married in a basement with five guests, my parents couldn't even be there.

I've mostly recovered now, but that was a rough experience.

I'm pretty sure I've never typed it out but I had no idea either.

I think if Trump isn't interested in getting out of their way then the Republicans can't get past him this easily. They would need him to either actually get behind whoever they put forward (unlikely) or be completely silenced in a way that they can pull off pretending that he would be behind their guy.

Gatorade is synonymous with food poisoning for me too, but I find the cherry flavor most tolerable.

I find this hypothetical genuinely terrifying.

Eastward? I actually learned about this game on lemmy a year or two ago.

I thought the pixel graphics were incredible, gave the game such a beautifully creepy atmosphere when it needed it. Even though I was really disappointed that the game just ended without tying any of the story together, I did think the story was great before I finished it. At times the game was unsettling and eerie and at other times it was heartwarming, and the dialogue throughout seemed very well-written.

I've had thoughts before about how it could be miserable, but it's not enough to make me worry enough to use a pseudo-name. I feel like I have a better chance of winning the lottery than becoming recognizable because of something I've made or written.

edit: This reminded me that I should repost the best creative work I've ever made, since it seems like no one saw it last time: my "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" screenplay (lemmy.ml link because I still don't know how to properly cross-post) This is pretty much the peak of my creative abilities.

Spoiler warning, jeez.

...does it end with a real cliffhanger to tease book 2?

My cat's favorite playthings in the world are plastic straws.

I was going to comment that this looks awesome but upon reading the other comments here, is this really not a joke? Like there's no way the people who made this actually take him seriously, right?

99% sure no, not unless I went though some dialogue too fast. Meredith was my partner though, although usually I have Barkley tag along instead because dogs are great.