If she's a Windows refugee, Linux Mint.

If she's a Mac refugee, fuck if I know.

If she's a IBM OS/2 refugee, please let me know how to get the drugs she's gotten. I want in.

If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war?

I'm not. I would love to, but there's not really much I can do as far as I can see.

What impact do you think it will have on you?

Are there critical items to purchase now that will be too expensive to afford next year?

Probably a lot of things. Contrary to what a lot of MAGA morons would like to claim, tariffs very rarely ever benefit the country establishing the tariff. Very few things are actually wholly made in America nowadays. With such a global economy, even things that are marketed as "made in America" are typically not made 100% in America. And even if they are, the parts are often sourced from around the world since, with modern shipping, that's actually cheaper typically than sourcing it in-country. (Not to mention that some parts can't be sourced in-country simply because no one exists to provide that service anymore.)

Are you changing your savings or investments?

Bold of you to assume that I have any extra money to put into either of those. I put in the same amount of money every week as I have the last while: whatever I can, which isn't much. I don't get paid shit for my job, yet prices keep going up. Sadly, it's not like I have much money to adjust. :(

Twitter is the only time I will ever be okay with deadnaming.

Well yeah. I mean, computers back then weren't just spyware in a Scooby Doo mask.

I really hate to be "that person", but..........it's "run of the mill", not "run off the mill", friend.

It's a term from the late 1800s that refers to "manufactured goods not graded or sorted for quality—that is, a mill's products before they've been separated according to what will sell for how much." (Source for quote: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/where-does-run-of-the-mill-come-from)

Seriously, I'm not trying to be a grammar nazi here. Unless of course that was just autocorrect being a dick, in which case I'll go walk off a cliff now... :/

FYI: You don't have to choose OpenAI. You can also choose Claude 2.1. Its corpus is more ethically sourced & it's more private with user data, but in return it is naturally less feature-complete. Still pretty awesome though!

Yeah, it's called "not starving anymore".

Still... I don't care what one's passion is; one should never let it interfere with the need for immediate medical attention.

Sigh... Whelp, time to go download a shit-ton of stuff before yet another friendly port goes down...

As a trans person, this has always been one of my favorite fiction quotes.

It's not Lemmy; it's the instance you're using.

I once read a really great comment about the difference in how Europeans and Americans view freedom as a concept and it's always stuck with me:

Europeans are mainly concerned with "freedom from". Americans are mainly concerned with "freedom to".

In other words, Europeans focus more on freedom from tyranny, oppression, injustice, etc., while Americans focus more on freedom to do things without the government telling then they can't, like own guns and so forth.