I only have 3 hard drive slots and they are for gaming.

Surely not for 1 TB though. I want to stay on Linux for the most part and save my stuff there.

Only town in Texas I ever enjoyed was Austin.

Dallas is a soulless corpse where you can’t walk anywhere due to highways, but it you use the highways then it’s like trying to dodge clicking on sketchy ads trying to trick you to click them on PC, except the ads are toll roads. Also every car is trying to kill you.

I tried to go to a music show once. It was in a really run down part of town with sketchy people standing around staring at us. There was no signage. We weren’t even sure we were in the right place and no one looked friendly so we just left, and got hit by more surprise tolls on the way back. You can’t leave your house there without having to pay money. It is the most miserable place I’ve ever been.

Second runner up is Port Arthur, Texas. Going to take the scenic route down the coast, are you? Well it’s nothing but pipes and smoke stacks. You can see only a little bit of the marsh that used to be there. The city itself is run down, rotting houses leaning sideways with the pipes and industry always being in the backdrop. Clearly the town is receiving no tax money from the oil corporations infesting their coast in what would otherwise be a nice place. It was a mostly black population I saw outside. Inside stores the people I saw wearing plant uniforms were white or Hispanic and clearly didn’t live in the immediate area. The story writes itself.

I Google the town and it turns out it used to be a nice place with a little permanent carnival on the coast with a ferris wheel and rides with a flourishing tourist industry, but all those people who could afford it moved out when the oil industry moved in and drained the town. Now the only people there are the ones who can’t get out.

It was the most depressing town I’ve ever been through.

God I fucking hate Texas.

Dallas is Night City without the cool tech or culture, just the crushing capitalism and roads…

Edit: I wrote this on a base level comment but I’m going to put it here too:

Dallas is a soulless corpse where you can’t walk anywhere due to highways, but it you use the highways then it’s like trying to dodge clicking on sketchy ads trying to trick you to click them on PC, except the ads are toll roads. Also every car is trying to kill you. I tried to go to a music show once. It was in a really run down part of town with sketchy people standing around staring at us. There was no signage. We weren’t even sure we were in the right place and no one looked friendly so we just left, and got hit by more surprise tolls on the way back. You can’t leave your house there without having to pay money. It is the most miserable place I’ve ever been.

Humans are boring. I have to live as one everyday.

I’m more into monsters and beastkin, but there’s a big overlap with that and furry design so while my models are more on the realistic side I do count myself as a furry.

If I missed a payment does my email get deleted? Or is it just held until I pay up again? My fear is losing my stuff because I forgot to pay after a card change or something.

I eventually want a NAS to self host cloud storage and all that too but costs are a big problem so I’m stuck with Google for the meantime anyway with 14 gigs of stuff.

SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.

I would love to host my own email but PC parts are outrageous right now and I can’t even afford to update my main rig.

Everyone degoogles for their own reasons. For me it’s not even about privacy, I just really can’t stand ads, enshittification, or paying subscription fees.

VERY big difference between necessary utility bills for life and random subscription shit like Netflix, don’t you think? Stop being pedantic.

Proton has a smaller storage limit and I refuse to pay for any monthly subscriptions.

It’s the same situation in the US. My own mother votes for the most vile Republicans against our interests because she’s been so stuffed with hate and tribalism from Fox news all she cares about is that dopamine hit from “my team is winning”. No amount of reasoning will overcome that addictive hit of dopamine.

It’s a carefully manufactured propaganda machine funded by people with power we could only dream about reaching out from here to the EU.

Even the youth here in the south vote against their interests because abortion and immigrants bad jesus good. Education has been dismantled and even if they knew what was going on our districts are so gerrymandered it probably wouldn’t matter.

People need to be inoculated against billionaire propoganda, but how do you do that when they control the media and schools?

We’re not going to get anything done done within the system because they control the system. Strikes and violence or extremely disruptive protesting are going to have to happen.

We vote, but it’s not enough.

I understand, but you guys are setting yourselves on fire to keep society warm.

In Japan when bus drivers go on strike they don’t stop the buses, but they stop taking bus fare from riders so the company doesn’t get paid. Maybe something involving medical notes so they can’t get billing codes.

I’m not okay with it but it’s the type of problem that can only be solved by them. They have to go on strike and protest.

Finding love: You get a hobby that you participate in with other people. You have to be friends first before entering a relationship because why would you want to be with anyone who isn’t your friend or doesn’t share the same interests you do?

Everything else: Yeah we’re fucked

And remember, we’re going to be forced to go back to paying student loans in three months too!

Millennial here. My best friend got multiple myeloma at 38 and I have had endometriosis and incurable interstitial cystitis for nearly 20 years, which if you go to a doctor they just tell you you’re insane have these torture methods with no anesthetics for “diagnosis” but there’s no cure so good luck anyway.

I’ll probably die by suicide before 60 rather than become homeless due to being unable to work from pain. I’m not sure my best friend will make it that far either. I don’t really see a point to putting money into a 401k instead of bonds since I might have to live off that money sooner than expected…

AI is only active when it’s answering a prompt then goes inactive again. It has no concept of time.

It’s training data is from 1 set time with the date in there, so that’s all it ever sees.

It can Google the current date and time, but it’s just guessing and only does that when requested, otherwise it assumes it’s the date of its training data.

I’m running 10 with no security features as my main gaming system. I turned off as much of Windows defender as I could because it was slowing down texture downloads in Second Life + was trying to say my fan control software was malware.

I hope I get a virus because it’ll be the final tug I need to fully cover to linux. I just converted a 10 year old laptop to linux mint to run as a server since everything is getting enshittified and requiring monthly fees, like Mint the budgeting app, so I’m dipping my toe into self-hosting.

I have nothing to lose.

I’m also still running Android 9 on my phone because I refuse to buy a new one due to planned obsolescence.