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honestly, I have experienced the opposite lately. These days, anything I'm looking to do in Linux has already been done and someone has written instructions for it. If it requires digging in to any nitty-gritty, there's usually decent documentation as well. Windows has so many opaque and propriety processes, and opens so many network connections that I am not entirely sure what the OS is doing most of the time.

I had an identity theft a few years back, still cleaning up from it. At the time I had the typical set of standard passwords that I would use. I thought they were ok since they were pretty random but I had one for Financial, one for Web Services, etc. so of course when the creds leaked, I suddenly had a bunch of credit card bills I never signed up for..

Since then, every password is unique, my default is 31 characters, and 2-factor for everything possible. Unfortunately I initially settled on LastPass, figured that they had hopefully learned their lesson from their breach years ago. Then it happened again recently and I moved to Bitwarden so that I can eventually migrate to a self-hosted solution.

I've been trying to get my family on board for years but it's still too complex. Non-technical folk still will take the path of least resistance, even when the dangers are right in front of their face. We need something better.

in a party where they are all competing to prostrate themselves in front of a silver-spoon-in-mouth, draft-dodging, tax-evading, pussy-grabbing, serial sexual assaulter, six-times bankrupt, vulgar, bragging, sexist, criminally corrupt, morally bankrupt, compulsive lying, un-American; in-your-face racist, Tim Scott seems to be going for the title of king lickspittle.

I would rather go barefoot in shoes than wear socks twice in a row. Heck, I often change them when I get home from work.

I've long said, the first thing I'd do after winning the lottery is never wear the same pair of socks twice because my favorite of life's little unnoticed pleasures is the feeling of a new pair of socks.

does every generation deal with the one that came before it, actively trying to bring about the end times?

Oh, I get it, and you are right. But my fundamentally illogical brain worries that whatever it is that makes me special, why and how I do the things I do, may have come from the coping mechanisms I've developed. I kinda like the atypical way I tend to look at things, and it's taken me far both personally and professionally. I struggle like mad every day but if that struggle is what makes me, me. I'll take it.

Honestly, the only reason I'd get diagnosed at this point is an explanation, I wouldn't likely change much about myself either way; so I don't bother. I also went through all the early 1980's ADD testing (before ADHD was even a thing) as a kid which came back negative (or at least that ritalin was ineffective for me); so I always just lived my life as I am who I am, no explanation needed.

I've known for a long time I should try to get a diagnosis but I'm afraid of changing now that I've spent 40+ years figuring out how to live.

I honestly am not pop culture literate enough to know if there is a genuine snub here or not, but I am socially aware enough that this is just so on the nose that it feels deliberate. Now, I'm not saying that it was, but come on academy, you had to be able to see this coming. In the end, these awards are subjective anyway, so a little self awareness might have been a good idea.

At least they broadcast their hypocrisy up front. 😐

A wee behind you (recently heard someone refer to my ‘generation’ as the Oregon Trail generation) but I’m with you.. if anything age has me not just leaning but charging headlong to the left.

And yet, somehow his supporters will see this as a sign of strength.

Been using it for years but now trapped in a constant state of trying to improve the organization. Every time I think I’ve got it structured logically, I find some way I could have done better.