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As an American, I’d agree to a certain point. It is sad that foreign language skills are not terribly well emphasized in the US, but finding instruction in languages you might want to learn can be challenging depending on the language, unless it’s something common such as Spanish, French, or German. I work on my language skills using online resources as much as I can, but I’m also an adult with a full time job, so finding time is also a challenge. Also, unless you’re surrounded by people actively speaking the language, it can be exceptionally difficult to build those skills and hang on to them for very long. I know a little Danish, a little Russian, a little Finnish, a little Greek, a little Japanese, a little Mandarin, but lacking the ability to immerse myself in environments where those languages are spoken, I’ll likely never get good enough to speak any of them anywhere close to fluently aside from knowing a few phrases at best.

And to your point about how language learning should be mandatory, it’s a nice idea, but when I went through school, it was mandatory to take at least one language course. I took French in high school. I didn’t enjoy it and don’t remember a damn bit of it. Most of the kids I knew took Spanish. Nearly all of them also didn’t retain any of it. So, it’s more than just making instruction mandatory, schools need to get kids genuinely interested, otherwise none of it will stick.

Your disagreement is entirely in bad faith. You know damn well they meant as it relates to one’s identity.

And on their way out, they would intentionally knock something else into the fiery pit just to spite you.

I think French Toast is a great name for the little guy

You misunderstand, we’re in the mirror universe.

When I have no choice but to interact with people, I do my best to treat them with respect. However, I would say I’m generally ambivalent toward people overall and do my best to avoid them. I’m just not a social person and I never will be. Being forced into social settings is exceptionally stressful to me.

Listen, I built enough lego bridges back in the day to know I ain’t trusting that.

Somebody get that poor pig out of there before the car explodes

Personally, I found Arch to be difficult to get installed. I’m ok with command line stuff once everything is all setup, but having to use it for the installation process is something I found to be too easy to screw up and too time consuming overall. Also, I haven’t seen any drop of vanilla Arch with a GUI installer. For the Arch experience, I generally go with EndeavourOS since it’s easy to install, gives you lots of options for the window manager, and is easy to use once you get it up and running.

If you’d prefer the Debian environment, I think anything from Debian or any of its derivatives (Ubuntu et al) would be a decent choice. My favorite is Linux Mint. I’ve seen a lot of people describe it like “entry-level” Linux, but it’s very capable and user friendly. It’s where I tend to spend most of my time when running Linux and I would say usually requires the least setup since it typically just works out of the box.

There’s also OpenSUSE Tumbleweed if you feel like going a somewhat different direction. I get more “traditional Linux” vibes from OpenSUSE, but packaged up in a user friendly manner. I play around with it from time to time in a VM, mostly when I want to test out some new server package locally. But, that said, it’s still capable of handling anything else I throw at it, so it’s fun to use all the same.

Who let Bear Grylls in here?

I started out with blue switches years ago and they were obnoxiously loud, so I switched to reds and used those for a long time. Though, I kinda got tired of them and decided to give the Keychron banana switches a try several months ago and I’m absolutely loving them. They have a light tactile feeling, but they’re much quieter than Cherry browns. And a huge bonus is that Keychron keys are hotswappable, so if I get any bad keys or feel like switching to a new type, no having to deal with soldering to replace them.

If you really need some nightmare fuel, some of us use c++ every day and even enjoy it.