I think there’s often a gender difference here, picture the (very) stereo-typical “blabbering wife” scene.
When we’re driving, my girlfriend will often talk about her day, walking me through her thoughts and feelings, while I just want to zone out after work. We used to get annoyed at each other when I didn’t want to listen.
Eventually, we talked about it and realized what was going on. She needs to process her day out loud, and I need silence to decompress. So now I’ll just tell her, “I’m not really going to be listening fully right now,” and she’ll talk anyway. It’s become a routine, one I actually enjoy now, because there’s no pressure to keep up or respond perfectly.
Would it be better for her if I used this technique of active listening constantly? Sure. But it'd take a lot of effort from me that I just simply dont have driving home from work.
As someone that uses Linux distros since 1995, I have had lots of joy getting it to work on various kinds of hardware, during weekends and long nights.
Ah the good old days. Investing an entire weekend to make your pci soundblaster card work. Nowadays you just install an iso from a thumb drive, it takes 30 mins and everything works out of the box. So boring!
Is there a consensus on the best ‘boring’ distro nowadays?
It’s been ~15 years since I last installed linux (Linux Mint on a netbook that couldn’t run the pre-installed Win7), and am now curious about repurposing a gaming PC for software development.
Nevada is making a mockery of its own laws by giving Boring Co special exceptions treatment for tunnels that likely get abandoned due to its impracticality.
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