Simmer down, Bobby

Yeah, that’s my plan. I usually end up with a couple of flatpaks (or AppImages) for the things that I need up to date, but otherwise just go with most things from the repository.

I was thinking of switching away from Arch and back to something Debian-based. I’ve never been a big fan of flatpaks (I have a background of not having fast internet or much storage space, it’s just stuck with me) and I never used the AUR anyways.

I mainly tried Manjaro to try the bleeding-edge life, and while I do enjoy having more up-to-date packages, I do miss being able to install DEB packages. I think I might try Debian testing and see how that goes.

Good to know! I was considering switching back to Debian or Mint, maybe LMDE. I’ll look further into it. Thanks for the tip!

Manjaro for my laptop, Mint for my HTPC, and Debian for my servers.

Seg fault

As others have mentioned, there are no good BifL options. Based on what I gather from your post, your best option is probably getting 2nd hand devices and following behind by a few years. You can probably keep a 3-year-old device for 7 or 8 years (which is ages in the smartphone world), then “upgrade” to another 3-year-old device at that time.

For this, I’d recommend something popular like a Pixel. They have a number of options for alternative OSes (Graphene and LineageOS are both good options) and they’ve done well for me as long-term use phones.

I’ve bought my last couple phones on Swappa, and I’ve had no issues with any of them. Sold one on there too, and they’re pretty vigilant (they manually review posts before they can go public).

Your talk of big feelings resonates with me–historically I’ve been the same way. In my case, I eventually realized that I was putting so much of myself into relationships (or even potential relationships) because I didn’t have many other strong relationships in my life (similar situation–far from family, I moved around a lot). I found that I was putting a ton of weight on relationships because I was subconsciously expecting them to fill a ton of emotional needs. That ended up putting unreasonable pressure on my partners, and I felt unable to take things at the pace I wanted.

Not sure if you’re in the same boat, but if you don’t feel like you have a solid group of (nonromantic) friends, I’d suggest considering that. As others have said–big feelings are normal enough, but when you have a solid support system in your life, it’s a lot easier to ride those waves.

I have a Bose Mini Soundlink. It’s held up for years and years.

“Hey baby… wanna watch Netflix and dismantle the patriarchy?”

Flying or regular?

I’ve never been mauled by a mayo.

Yeah, we did stuff like that too. Then people started breaking contracts, and things got ugly.

Downvoted because of the nightmare thumbnail.

Settlers can be played pretty competitively–stuff like building a settlement in a “bad” position just to mess up someone working to build next to that spot, stuff like that.

The friction in Monopoly mainly comes down to our table rules, specifically that you can make any deal verbally you want (though there’s no guarantee the other party will follow through).

Monopoly and Settlers. Both very cutthroat at family gatherings.

Monopoly. My oldest two siblings are absolutely cutthroat when playing it.

Ah, that would definitely make a difference. A debit transaction uses some form of “password” like a PIN or the data embedded in a card chip. A credit transaction technically only relies on easily available data and sometimes a signature, much more common for fraud (it’s pretty easy to read and replicate the data from a magnetic strip–one of my classmates did a project to read magnetic strips, and they had to stop letting people swipe their own cards on it because it popped up tons of confidential data).

My CU’s website definitely looks like it’s from the early naughts, but they at least kept things up to date and security practices seemed legit, and I don’t think I ever tripped the fraud detector. I guess everyone’s mileage will vary a bit.

They’re common in Canada as well. In my experience, they’re much better than larger banks for things like fees and interest rates.

Historically the main advantage of a larger bank was having banks and ATMs everywhere, but lots of CUs have formed mutual agreements for ATM access, and internet banking being ubiquitous has rendered any advantage the big banks have had moot (in my opinion, at least).

Ending a game of Munchkin is almost impossible to do without upsetting the rest of the players. If you felt bad, that’s fair, but what you described is very much in the spirit of the game.