I honestly could not tell. It’s completely believable that something this stupid would exist. Like I didn’t necessarily believe it was but I wasn’t confident in either direction.

Yea I’m not using anything that requires an app. If there’s an app I can host myself I might use it but I won’t rely on anything that can’t be controlled manually. The place I rent now has ceiling fans that are controlled by remote and I fucking hate them. It uses a shitty up/down button that has a horrendous delay or both the light and fan. It’s all the frustration of using a pull chain with no improvement. I can’t even figure out how to get it to switch directions for winter.

IDK them but a charitable POV could just be that they reflexively smile when taking a picture. Taking that picture is very weird to me though.

I appreciate the fact that you went through your reasoning in such detail. Most of the time people are just like “use xxxx” with nothing more and comments like that are pretty worthless for someone with little familiarity with Linux.

I’ve exclusively worked out from home for the last 5 years using only an adjustable dumbbell set and a foldable bench (I recently got a exercise bike too but that is a new addition). I’m not huge or anything but I get compliments on my physique fairly often. For me when I tried getting a gym membership I found myself missing days a lot because I didn’t feel like going anywhere. I can force myself to work out or I can force myself to go out but apparently not both at once. Just doing everything at home I almost never miss a day. The only downside is space. I’d like to get a squat rack but I don’t have room for it.

Your goals sound very achievable at home. I would say I am “lean and fit”. I will also say the lean part comes from your diet so make sure you are mindful of that as well.

I get mine set up how I want then create an HD image that I run in a VM for fucking with.

Never the kernel but just about every time I touch /etc/fstab I fuck something up. I’ve done that a lot…

Our IT sent out a test once that was a fake “someone sent you this document on teams” link and I fell for it assuming it was another stupid microsoft workflow for sharing documents. The only reason I didn’t actually hit the log in part that would have got me reported was because I didn’t care enough about whatever it was that was supposedly sent to me.

They’re not on sale every week. I go through one every 3-4 weeks.

Usually a head of lettuce, a couple bell peppers, an onion, a lb of ground beef, any other meat that is on sale, a gallon of milk, bread, maybe some frozen or canned items, a bag of chips or some other snack, any staple items I might be out of, and a fifth of WT 101 if it’s on sale.

I forgot about that game. It was great.

They are ass for trying to control the temperature of your pan.

You are 100% correct to have an issue with that. My point was more to answer why he is still getting upvotes. The premise of his comment about not cumming in women you don’t want to impregnate is correct. The motivation of the woman is pretty irrelevant to the conversation. He is wrong about that but it’s not the main point.

His point isn’t wrong. He could have explained it better but telling a teenage boy how to not get girls pregnant regardless of what they tell him is not a bad idea. I definitely had experiences with girls I slept with telling me not to worry about it and at least one of them went on to have a teen pregnancy by another dude. They weren’t trying to trap me. They were just dumb. So was I and I got really lucky that there were no consequences. Teenagers say and do dumb shit and the more cognizant your son is of that the better. If he’s anything like me he’s not going to be thinking about consequences in the moment.

Yeah, all the news is just exhausting. Every day is some new bullshit from Musk/Trump flagrantly doing things to harm people and no one with any power is trying to do anything about it. People I care about have already lost their jobs and others are very concerned about their future. Trump’s supporters are hateful morons but them getting hurt too doesn’t make up for the rest of us suffering. There is a very real possibility that a lot of us never get out of the hole Musk and Trump are digging. Even if we do we’ll have lost years of our lives to them. Ridiculing people who’ve made the terrible decision to support them isn’t helping anything.

Trump only sees the people who voted for him and the people he needs to make an example of

Let’s not pretend like Trump gives a shit about the people who voted for him.

They are conflating trans healthcare for children with pedophilia.

Did he also put your old car back together?

I’m pissed off. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about it. If there’s a protest near me I’ll join it. If I see somebody getting fucked with by a Nazi I’ll step in but I have responsibilities and a job and can’t really afford to travel. So until shit really kicks off I’m kind of stuck in this state where I can’t do anything.