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@mitchconner @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick in my case the therapists either were weaving God into it since I live in Mormonville or seemed less interested in helping me get better and more interested in getting me out of the office. I was also really closed in and they didn't really do anything that made me trust them enough to open up. It's a bit blurry though too, maybe my parents had something to do with it because I know my siblings had therapy issues because of that.

@xianc78 I had a teacher who was an airforce pilot during Vietnam. Told us a story about how they saw a UFO, called it in over the radio, and it promptly got elevated to someone higher in command who told them to turn back and not speak about it ever again.

@mitchconner @marine @PurpCat @djsumdog @jeff @PNS @Flick I was on lots of different meds for depression and epilepsy throughout high school and they fucked me up hardcore. The therapy I had while on them was ass. Took a couple years after stopping taking them to feel normal again. Those high school years feel like a completely different person lived them, like I watched someone else's memories. It's really weird.

My best friend got his degree in pharmacology last year and has already quit. Says he hates the culture and doesn't want to be complicit in fucking people over because he's seen it happen in real time. I hope one day we look back on all of this and see what a monstrous machine it was.

@PurpCat their mistake was not joining fedi

@Shlomo "bombing children is wrong"
"Cool it with the antisemitism!"

@Terry skill issue

@mona @SuperSnekFriend @theorytoe @skylar also while we're on the topic of software, mpc-hc suprem

@mona @SuperSnekFriend @skylar I was trying to find something that would let me use the windows 10 start menu but it seems like it's either win11 or win7 and I'd rather go with the latter. I just liked having resizable tiles and it had been that way since windows 8 so I was super used to it. Explorerpatcher gives me the win10 Taskbar, right click menus, and a bunch of other nice stuff though so it's pretty good. I'll probs donate a bit to the guy who made it.

@mona @SuperSnekFriend @theorytoe @skylar eeuughh that freaks me out too tbh xD I always try to keep a super clean desktop, if I have more than 1 row of icons on each side I'm gonna clear out some things.

@mona @SuperSnekFriend @theorytoe @skylar I haven't used Mac in a long time but I seem to remember the ability to have nothing locked to the grid and it would always trigger me to see classmates with their folders and files strewn out all over the place xS

@theorytoe @mona @skylar @SuperSnekFriend I've only tried the mint one so idk what others are like. It seemed more or less exactly like windows' though, feels natural using it.

@mona @SuperSnekFriend @skylar startallback is the one I tried first with their free trial but it didn't quite do what I was looking for. Explorerpatcher did a much better job.

@SuperSnekFriend @mona @skylar I would rather pay for quality and convenience in a lot of cases. When it gets exorbitant, like in the case of Adobe, then switching to free alternatives and accepting the downsides is sometimes necessary. However, I'm running an old 2015 version of photoshop and it still blows GIMP out of the water.

The default file manager in win 11 is fine, honestly. Just about as good as whatever mint uses, maybe a bit better. A lot of it will come down to taste and use cases. There are plenty of tools out there to get the job done though no matter what you use. It's just for me, I have an easier time working with windows and I'm able to cut out all/most of the shit I and others would criticize about it anyway.

@skylar @mona @SuperSnekFriend and if you don't know how to do this stuff manually, you have wonderful tools like chris titus' winutil: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

i'd also recommend explorerpatcher for those on windows 11 who want to bring back windows 10 features: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

if you want to go even further, you can use the answer file method when installing windows, customizing it exactly how you want it to start as: https://github.com/memstechtips/UnattendedWinstall

a good windows install using these simple tools is a much better experience than linux is in my personal opinion. that isn't to say that linux is a bad experience if you know what you're doing and really like tinkering around with things, but at the end of the day i just like the way windows works more. it makes it easier for me to do everything that i need to do instead of fiddling with things as much. and as much as it sucks, most software either works better on windows or the commercial software is leagues better than the foss stuff. i still have yet to find a colorblind filter better than windows' for instance, and the one that someone made for me for linux just didn't work and neither of us could figure out why... which seems to be a trend when it comes to me and linux lol.

right now i'm running win11 and i don't even have notifications, the action center, copilot, cortana, bing search, any telemetry garbage, stripped out services, and more and it only took a little bit of work to setup. explorerpatcher was a godsend too, because i'm much more familiar with win10. win11 gets a little toooo modern with things, i think win10 is a really good sweet spot between looking nice and being functional.

that being said, i had to upgrade to windows 11 because my win10 install decided to shit itself. i had that happen with a mint installation though recently too so it's not like linux is free from random issues popping up like that either. don't know what happened to the windows one, but the mint one i think it's because something updated without another thing updating first and it destroyed it to the point i had to just do a fresh install.

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