Glad to have you here with us. Your resilience and resolve helps bolster my own when my morale grows weak.

I figure that if we’re able to see how awful and scary the world is, then it’s in the best interest of the world if we do our best to keep existing. It’s overwhelming because it feels like we can’t do anything to even slow the rate of degradation, but I know that the situation would be worse without you here. And by that same logic, it’d be worse without me too.

Solidarity, my friends.

I find that I don’t have to tinker with settings anymore than I did on Windows — which is to say that it’s pretty occasional

But what I like about Linux is that in the rare instances of struggling to make stuff work (like when I found out how to run mods in Baldur’s Gate 3 — big love to the random person who made an excellent Steam Community guide on how to mod Bg3 on the steam deck), at least at the end of it, I come away from the process with some additional knowledge that’ll be useful beyond the problem I was dealing with.

The OS is just way more transparent and communicative in a way that facilitates learning (once you learn the basics of how to communicate with it, such as not being terrified of the terminal)

Ooh, this is a cool way to come at the problem. I am surprised I didn’t think of this, as I do rather like the title “Mx” (even though I don’t use it myself — I use Ms.)

I think “good bean” is my favourite non-joke option that’s been mentioned in this thread

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Not entirely sure of the link to Aristotle here, but I could see that, based on my limited knowledge of the dude

Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely down to be called a good slut in the right contexts, but sometimes I find myself craving a softer tone than that, for contrast

I like your username, by the way. RuBisCO has gotta be one of my top 10 favourite proteins (and probs top 5 favourite enzymes)

Yeah, that’s sort of what I landed on. Not “master” because that also feels weird for different reasons, but “Sir”. It makes me feel like a Captain in Star Trek (though I’m not sure yet whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing)

That song is one hell of a trip

“Or admin/user” Oh, I love this. One day I’m going to sub for a techy dom(me) and it’s going to be so funny to see how they react when I call them admin

Oh wow. That’s so brain-dead that it’s hard to believe it’s not satire

Edit: thanks for giving context

I agree. This is one of the few areas in which shame can be quite productive

If you’re a weird nerd like me and want to learn about the legal complexities of this case in more depth, GamesFray has done some consistently excellent reporting on it

I’m not opposed to AI, I’m opposed to the arse wipes trying to roll out an immature technology into critical scenarios with minimal oversight. I feel like most people who would describe themselves as anti-AI would agree that the problem is more about the socioeconomic context of this tech rather than the tech itself

I’d take the goth girlfriend who can fix my car, because I am a goth girlfriend who can fix your electronics and your clothes, and we would be a good power couple

I really appreciate the OP of this (nontanne) for making me see the poetry in something I was familiar with, but had never considered in this way before. I think it actually works really well as a poem, and I feel like I’m going to remember this each time it’s extremely windy

Thank you. I love you too

Someone has already said that it’s the muscle you use to stop peeing midstream, but I wanted to add a few other points:

• Once you’ve identified the muscle, you shouldn’t do kegels while peeing, because this can lead to UTIs and an unhappy bladder

• When you do kegels, you should try to only engage your pelvic floor muscles; try to avoid engaging other muscles in your thighs, buttocks or abdomen. Isolating your pelvic floor muscles can be tricky at first, but it gets easier

• As well as improving aspects of sexual function, kegels also help with incontinence. If you practice them now, you’ll be thankful for it as you age

Don’t know if I get a vote here, but I am strongly in favour — especially as you’ve said that it’s not necessarily going to be a bannable offence. I think that rules can serve as a valuable statement of intention — like virtue signalling, except without the negative connotations of that term