Weather update: 3am. Finished my first install in a VM. Learnt so much. Like I can side boot it on a spare drive/partition on my main rig, without messing up my current install. (Another day though. Sleep important too)

I wonder how my life would have changed if i had access to the internet at age 9

A Few Good Men has my favourite Tom Cruise roll

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Born in South Africa. Grand Father was a Pastor. He put sandwiches on top of the rubbish bins so homeless wouldnt have to search bins for food. (Went back there as an adult. So many things to say there)

Early teens in UAE. Had Muslim neighbours. Nicest family Ive met. Didnt push thier beliefs on anyone.

Australia. Mid teens to adult+. Got diss-illusioned with the church. Pastor made jokes about rhe old building. Had a notebook to take notes on what he said each week. Realised he duplicated some sermons.

I am fully open to believe it was my late teens - ealry adulthood that opened my eyes to the real world, or irs the churches fault for not sheltering me enough to convinee me that christianty is the way forward.

I already said the pastor had neighbours sleeping in the yard, but at the same time, they were trying to convice us teens to go overseas ro recruit new christians there. If you can afford plane tickets over seas, you can afford a blanket and some hot food for people in your home town.

Again, theres over 7 billion people on this planet. Maybe im just unlucky, got the short straw, and saw the worst of christianity, but im probably not going back.

Edit/Update Theres nothing wrong with believing in something. There is something wrong with forcing others to believe in what you believe.

My mom is a devout christian, but was forced to divorce my abusive dad. Am I going to tell her she is wrong? No, jesus is what is keeping her sane. My dad believes that he is the man of the house, but now he thinks the can punch his way to victory. Forcing others to believe what he believes is a no-no.

My aunt in South Africa is living in 1/4 of a house. (Bought for cheep ro renovate with husband. Husband died. Now she is 50+y/o, living in a bedroom, baththoom, and kitchen, while the living room, dining room, and 3 bedrooms are pretty much non-exsistent, with only her faith to keep her going? Im not going to tell her that she made a mistake.

Faith/belief can make ordinary humans do incredible things.

But forcing it onto others is where I get uncomfortable.

Its always fun when the christian pastor will joke about changing the carpets in the church, while i see posts about the muslims in ramadan will give food to the poor during thier religious month or ramadan.

Hell (jumping to the dark side. Sorry muslims) but suicide bombers are willing to give thier life to what they believe in (yes, killing others is bad, but giving your life to a cause is respectible), while my christian pastor will live next to neighbours sleeping on a matress in thier front yard, and do nothing to help thier PHYSICAL neighbour.

Maybe I am the outlier, but for all I see, Christians are the ones pretending to do good, while the muslims had a rough patch almost 20 years ago, and are doing more good that the christians in the last 5 years or so.

Its sad that a star wars game can be forgotten about. Jedi fallen order had a gimmick (soulslike deflecting). Battlefield had its multiplayer. Outlaws had… Far cry? Hitman? I dont know…

Even though I havent seen the movie, I heard about the birthday cake scene.

The other week staff member had a birthday, when she wasnt there. So we all had cake, while the birthday person didnt.

This game made me late for work the first week I played it.

To quote my favourite comment ive read about AI:

Person1) AI is just a fad. It will pass like NFTs. Peraon2) Nah, AI just started making good porn now. It will be here forever.

I use the dicrionary.com one every now and then

We found them

Its been almost 6 years since I first finished dark souls 1, and I still think of its endings and themes.

The age of light and dark. Prolonging the current status quo, or give up and accept the new one. The idea that alone, the chosen undead is weak, but as you get help from others, you can get better/stronger.

I thought the bottom one was all one word. Would have just given up on social media if it was

Spend my Saturdays on my machine. Rest of the week im reading the handbook on my lunchbreaks. Think I know what to do now, but will see how I go this weekend.

Around 2.1

Systemd boot, OpenRC, then systemd-utils

I should probably bring up this will be my first non-systemd distro. (Maybe I should have looked at Artix first. But too late)

The way i see it, the fact that we all are on open-source reddit alternatives means that we are all unique in our own ways.

Reddit was already a nieche social media platform. Then lemmy is the nieche of a nieche. So yes, we all have unique likes and hobbies.

One night I had a power AND mobile data outage. Thankfully I had 1000+ memes to sort through

Apple Cleaning Cloth Pro, coming this October

The noun or the verb?