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Waffelson @lemmy.world

1y ago

I sometimes envy normal people

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Her life is normal. The depiction on the television is fiction. No reason to be envious
- Build the world you want to live in.
- Does that mean you are not happy in your own life?
  
  Maybe yes maybe no.
  I still don't envy a situation in television that is so unreal like a prince (or something similar) dancing with his dream woman (I assume). It's so surreal tgat I can't take it serious and can't envy it.
- I guess happy families are fake TV stuff! 🙄
  Entertainment depicts garbage as well as enviable traits and lessons many of which align with feeling loved and accepted.
  
  Is your family unhappy because you use Linux and Lemmy?

Theyre lamenting the fact that the tv is bootloader locked and cant run aosp and voyager... right??

I pass for normal sometimes

The easy way to have both is:
be trans girl
get a gf who's also a nerd
not straight romance like on TV, but who cares, lesbians are better anyway.
- I have genuinely never heard of a straight woman using Linux. They all seem to be trans
  
  Did you mean that you've never heard of a non-trans woman using Linux?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains
  IRL I only know of one person who uses Linux as a desktop computer.
  
  I've worked with a few before.
  The thing is that unfortunately women receive a lot of harassment online, so they'll often use a gender-neutral or male-sounding username online, and maybe won't post as much so as to not draw attention to themselves.
  I'm not sure why it's more common to see trans women in online communities though. Maybe in general they're more thick-skinned or are less worried about posting online, or maybe just spend more time online in general? Not sure.
  
  There's dozens of us, I swear! I know a few more too! I also load it on to hardware I upcycle for charity and I know a few went to women. :) Everyone can get comfortable with Mint. It's easier than Windows these days.
  
  I knew one once, but she was borderline abused into it by her boyfriend. The same guy made me a linux user. He is quite succesful at that, if only he knew how to take a shower.
  
  Does my grandma count?
- Straight woman using linux is pure fiction, i mean, if nerds will see one in real life, she'll have to fight them off like in world war z

i envy the functionality of normal people, until i see someone engaging in a "normal" relationship. Then i immediately remember that i don't have things so bad, and that i should focus on what makes my life enjoyable.
Anyway, i have i3 to configure, and other problems to ignore, i will go about my day now.

i want nerdy gf smh
- she smells like greasy hair and rants about random statistics she finds interesting when you're trying to fall asleep
  
  I have a hard time telling if you're trying to pain a negative picture or add to it.
  
  So there are pros and cons?
- Have nerdy gf, can only recommend.
  
  You want to make entire lemmy envy you?

Now you're just confusing cause and effect. Your life doesn't need to be Linux because of some external event that sucks, it's because of Linux that your life sucks.
- Linux and FOSS are some of the nicest things on earth. If Linux or other FOSS didn't exist my life would would be worse.
- it depends on how you construct things i suppose. I don't use linux because it ruined my life, i ruined my life, and as a result, i now use linux.
- A work of pure ignorance, this comment 👨‍🍳😘

They don't know they don't have freedom.
- one of these days i am going to start walking up to random people in public and whisper this statement in their ear and then walk away.

Source?

The only one stopping you from having human connections is you. You're your own barrier to happiness.
- Eh, it takes more than that to be royalty dancing at a ball
  
  happiness and royalty are not the same thing.
- Put down the terminal and touch grass with the hippies!

I thought i was the only one

rn am trying to learn to draw because of PewDiePie

same 😞

Don't tell me that getting blazed and watching Adventure Time together isn't romantic.

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