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  • For me, setting up colored man pages is essential. I was hoping to see that in this article, because my methods aren't ideal.

    I'm either holding most back a couple versions, using a personal version of gentoos man pager that relies on texinfo and breaks on fedora, or using vim which is not my favorite.

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    Never posted pics on lemmy before so I'm not sure how this will play out

    Edit: I'm trying to post another pic from the trail. But I can't figure out how

    Edit 2: I did it!

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    Confused about sleeping bag temperature ratings
  • I would like to share a story here of the first time I went backpacking.

    I rented my equipment from my university's gym. I had checked the weather, and the low temperature for the weekend was supposed to be about 45F. For sleeping bags I had 2 options, one rated for 32F and 15F. After talking with the student employee behind the counter, we agreed that I didn't need the 15F. I also decided not take a sleeping pad, because I slept outside on the bare ground quite a few times and felt it was unnecessary. I didn't think k about insulation at all.

    That weekend there was an "unexpected cold snap" and the night time temps dropped into the low 20s. I set up camp right next to a river, and I didn't stake my rainfly out properly.

    Holy shit I thought I was going to die. I took every bit of fabric I had and stuffed it into my sleeping bag, but it still wasn't enough. All night, condensation collected on the fly and dripped onto my face. It was like Chinese water torture on top of hypothermia. I also failed to build a fire and I couldn't cook dinner (no firestarters, no gas, and it had rained for a week before I got there).

    I was hungry, freezing, and wet. That was the most miserable night of my life. I had to bail. At 5am I left and went to the closest McDonald's and got some shitty coffee and it was amazing in contrast lol

    10 years later and I still overpack clothes because I have a fear that the temp might to drop 20 degrees unexpectedly.

    So to anybody reading this and wondering about what bag to get. Go lower than you think you need (you can always sleep on top of it). Use a sleeping pad with good insulation (you can choose not to use it if its too hot). Don't set up camp right next to a body of water if you're not ready to deal with extra humidity. And learn how to properly use all your equipment before you set out. A properly staked out rainfly can make the difference between a good night's sleep and extreme psychological torture.

    I swear I can still feel the drip drip drip on my face from that night haha

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    My partner of 7 years just broke up with me 2 weeks before moving across the country for her
  • My opinion is that stragners actually give some of the best advice. Especially here on lemmy is a different breed.

    That being said I wasn't clear. Say she had come to me in a mature way, maybe a month ago at the latest. And she articulated her feelings, fears, desires, etc. I could have found a place of understanding for her.

    Now I need to see the corpse. The corpse is dead. It's not coming back, if it did it would be an abomination lol

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    My partner of 7 years just broke up with me 2 weeks before moving across the country for her
  • Thanks for saying that. I've had tons of gay friends, I worked somewhere where I was in the minority being a cis staright male, and even my dearest highschool crush came out to me first. This feels off, and I think you articulated it well.

    It's wild that people do this. I'm sorry it happened to you but it's good to know I'm not alone in the experience

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    My partner of 7 years just broke up with me 2 weeks before moving across the country for her
  • Shit yeah that's what I'm going to do. I've been getting into rock climbing for the last year. Where I live now its 8-10 hours to get to rocks. In the new place it's about 12 minutes. There's so much to do, I just always thought we would be doing it together.

    I acknowledge the hole, I will try to fill it with rocks and positivity. In time.

    It's good to know that I'm not the only one going through a similar situation, so thank you

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    My partner of 7 years just broke up with me 2 weeks before moving across the country for her
  • It's interesting that you say the bit about being selfish and idealization. It's been really hard to imagine this as selfishness. But that is because in my conception of this person is so much selflessness. She never gave me a reason to think otherwise. But clearly this is an idealization.

    Your 3rd perspective would be my preference, had we talked like adults and she didnt just go scorched earth on the relationship. I need to ackowledge that selfishness and the fact that it has nothing to do with me.

    It does feel like she died. And I actually just heard about this phenomenon where people who are unable to attend the funerals of loved ones have a hard time believing that they're gone. Looking at the corpse gives you closure. So I think I may talk with her just to get that closure, but I need to aknowledge that I'm looking at the corpse of what we had. Thanks

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    My partner of 7 years just broke up with me 2 weeks before moving across the country for her
  • I appreciate your response. It's nice to hear about a similar experience that resulted in normalcy. I do have an aquaintance that is a professional counselor, and they have been kind enough to let me vent and give me some really great advice and encouragement. I will be seeking professional help once I get settled too.

    The couples therapy is an interesting prospect. Even though we aren't a couple anymore I do think it would bring closure. Even if she wasn't willing to do it, that would bring some closure in itself because it means she simply didn't value our relationship as much as she claims.

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  • So my partner and I had always had really good communication. Anytime there were fears, doubts, hard life stuff, etc. We always managed to talk through it in a really healthy way. She was my rock.

    About 6-8 months ago she says she's unhappy with her job and her grandfather is really sick so she wants to be close to him before he dies. I say ok I fully support you, let's move out there. I dont want to give too much info but the area is 24 hours of driving from where I have spent my life. I have never been anywhere near there.

    So she got a 3 month temp job in the new location that she wanted to use as a networking oportunity. But I couldnt go because we could not affort to break our lease. We texted every day, called on the weekends when she had cell phone service.

    I got a promotion with a sweet little relocation package to the new area. So know I knew how much we could spend on housing even if she wasnt working. This is in hindsight where the first red flag was raised. She was completely non commital on any places I showed her.

    The plan was for her to come back on the 19th of August and then we'd move together. She hadnt bought a plane ticket. I already have a start date and I have to be in person for my job. She suggested that I just go, then her dad will come and they'll drive out together. Ok whatever. If that's how she wants to do it, then we'll do it. Surely nothing can go wrong here because our relationship was so solid.

    I forgot to mention that we talked about staying in a relative's basement as a back up plan. So I ask, "have you talked to them about me staying there? Things are getting down to the wire".

    She suggests I reach out to my new manager and ask if there's anybody at work I can stay with... This was the "wtf, is my life about to collapse" moment, or is she just in lala land?

    Anyway skipping a head a bit she ends that convo with something along the lines of "we need to talk"

    So she calls me and says "Sooo, and maybe you've know this for some time, but I like girls." (I did not know this at all btw. I've never seen her even look at another girl that way). I say "ok, and are we moving together?" She says no, she wants to stay here to "figure things out"

    I told her "had you told me this a year ago or even a month ago I would have been your biggest supporter. But you waited until the point where its extremely desctructive to what we have together and to my life in general"

    She just said she was sorry over and over. I dont really remember much more.

    I'm not even sure if I'm asking for advice here. But moreso wondering if anybody has heard of such a thing before.

    I didn't think a relationship with such good communication could ever just be gone so fast with no warning. And we're in our 30s, we're not kids. I can't beleive that she would put me in this situation and now have to move to a place I dont know, with any support I have thousands of miles away. I'm just dumbfounded

    Edit: Thank you all so much for your responses. I appreciate all of your perspectives and the effort put into your reponses. It's incredibly helpful to know that I am not alone in this experience. I love you all.

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    Edit:

    I turned off my wifi card, and now it launches immediately. Of course, what is a browser with no internet. But I guess there's something about the network I moved to thats causing the delay. I'll try a different network tomorrow and update for science

    OG post: This applies to librewolf and firefox flatpaks. Just to preface, I've been using these flatpaks for years and never experienced anything like this.

    This morning I did my business as normal with no issues. I usually open and close firefox alot and it takes maybe 10-30 seconds to start.

    Then I shutdown for awhile. Came back and fired up firefox... nothing happened. The process is not using any cpu, it just sits. I kill the process and try again nothing changes. After 3-5 minutes, the window finally pops up.

    My system installation of firefox works fine. So does the flatpaks for qutebrowser and tor browser. I ran flatpak repair and reinstalled them. Nothing has changed.

    I didn't make any changes to my system. There were no significant updates. I have no idea why this started.

    If anybody has any tips on troubleshooting this, I would appreciate it.

    Btw I'm on fedora39, and I've tested this on sway, gnome, hyprland, and gnome on xorg.

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