You should take a look at Ansible, it’s the same problem as infra teams in tech companies to manage Linux deployment and it’s a mostly solved problem

This reminds me of when I was a kid. My school computer were running slow as heck windows xps or windows 7s, mostly slow because the bloat of education software that was installed to block visiting certain websites, lock down computers during certain hours or when the teacher is lecturing, etc. Even in my high school.

One day for my computer class during a lecture, I plugged in my liveboot USB running Mint, hushed my classmates next to me and rebooted. I didn’t expect the computer to make a loud as hell beep sound when it got to the bootloader, but I was sitting in a side row so the teacher just said “what was that?” and moved on while others looked at me suspiciously. But then I was able to boot up Linux right there, super easy. And everything works, I was able to browse the web without any restrictions, well I’m not really trying to look at bad stuff but just hate being locked down when I can do something else instead. Or maybe I just wanted to show off Linux. Anyways my classmates next to me silently whispered “what the heck how did you do this??” I look back at this as a fond memory.

That’s fucked up that a prosecutor has lobbyist interests in private prisons.

There is a line between acknowledging the horrible reality, and being completely submerged in that and can’t see the flowers next to the dirt road, and can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have a similar tendency as you described, but with my partner I’m able to notice that a bit of positivity I lack is essential to survive every day. A lot of people have traumatic pasts but move forward by seeing the hope in the hopeless, enjoying the simple things in life when they have the means to do so. I would say becoming positive and hopeful should be a prerequisite to getting into a relationship, otherwise you only have a shaky foundation and both of you will fall over.

“You asked for a plague when you said no to vaccines, now here we are!”

This is more of an indication that the USSR had a functional public education system, and the dictatorship style, top down style education is indeed good at hammering (STEM based) academic skills into young brains. Arguably, most other non third world countries are doing a better job at the public school system than the US

Agreed with DistressedDad@lemmy.ca, you can see the long distance as opportunity to focus on yourself and people around you more, and enjoy the last few years at school, it’s a time you can learn so much from so many people. I had similar challenges, but the socializing efforts I made to make a few friends save my ass at a few critical times.

meet someone who is thoroughly fucked up (as am I), but who is keeping it in check? Because, yes, I am attracted to the existential grit brought about by hardships. I like someone with dirty hands, someone who has good reasons to not be optimistic or generally cheerful, someone who has seen the things beneath the flesh and is now knee-deep in the abyss.

I would say yes, this increases your chances of finding toxic partners by a lot. A lot of people can have hardships and have the “grit” but some of them stay positive and move forward while others keep the pessimism and the trauma unhealed. And as people with past trauma know, it’s gonna take a long time to properly heal, and having a positive life attitude and outlook is essential in that process. I am one of those with past trauma so I am not trying to be against them, but there is a reason that a lot of terrible criminals had terrible childhoods. Of course, others can become overachievers or great people too, but the correlation is there. If you want to find relatable partners, there are things beyond life hardships you can try to relate to.

That’s too bad, thanks for sharing. For now I’m using Boost’s built in Lemmy search but it’s not as smart as querying reddit results from Google or even reddit’s search itself. Hopefully someone will rewrite & revive this project.

It seems like the search engine is not working anymore, redirects to a personal portfolio page. Any updates?

He sacrificed his life for more soup umami

Jessica Aber is dead.