Pika

Thanks!

Sad to see all this effort has to be put into making sanctions and then into evading them.

Oh, many men are jealous when women they like hang out a lot with other women and enjoy their time. Modern culture made it look like women may form a special form of deep connection men can never reach, while simultaneously making men feel isolated overall, and some are driven quite crazy over it.

As such, when they get the attention they crave, they don't feel they can secure it. Thereby, mentioning other women and what they mean to you feels like a threat. This takes a while to unlearn, and is one kind of trauma many men get to experience.

I do not have many personal insights about how men want their friends/partners to be manly, but I may suggest it may come from the same point. Male friendships nowadays are fairly rare, and some folks really just want a bro to hang out with.

A bit of insights:

They get all weird because they see getting your attention as a sort of investment. They take time, effort, dedicate themselves to figuring out how to best build contact with you, and when it doesn't work out, it naturally leads to frustration. From there, they either close down (minimize losses), or get weird (frantically trying to make it work).

As per hugs and cuddles, masculine culture heavily disincentivizes tender emotions, and they can be seen as a reason for ridicule. Being burnt heavily on that, many men prefer to be very careful about communicating such needs.

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

Yes, as in "women deserve equal rights across the board"

No, as in "feminism is the synonym to and only valid kind of antisexism and every gendered issue should be seen exclusively through women's struggle"

I'm here for the equality of men and women, and believe that only in cooperation, through consideration of issues on each side, we can efficiently combat sexism.

Feminism should not be "us vs them". It should be one part of the larger circle that is looking at how we can improve things for everyone - women, men, and nonbinary people.

We should bridge the gap on all sides, so that whatever gender you are, you have equal possibilities in life, career, and everything else, you are safe and can build your life the way you want.

That means no one should be targeted by sexual harassment and exploitation. No one should be denied jobs or have lower salary based on arbitrary characteristics. No one should be forced to choose a binary gender if they're neither. Kids should not be indoctrinated with traditional gender roles. Etc. etc.

And, honestly, I don't think many will disagree here. Many of those who "do not support feminism" don't mean they go against equality - they are rather concerned about a specific form of particularly loud online feminism pretending men are all evil and that there's no related struggle on men's end.

Tea is absolutely an art no less than beer, and if you're there for the ritual or exploration, it offers both.

I would actually recommend against Cachy, as it is not very friendly out of the box.

Decent choice, but not for a novice user. Still, can be turned into same thing as everything else.

Nah, it's a mature take. Desktop environment means more for everyday user experience than the distro choice.

I have OpenSUSE Slowroll on one machine and EndeavourOS on the other. Both have KDE installed with exactly the same configuration. Aside from package management and other technicalities, the experience is 100% identical.

Fundamentally, they're all the same and they all are Linux. As long as you use the same desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, you name it) across different distros, you may not notice a single difference in your experience.

That's not to say there are no differences, but for someone just dipping their toes into the Linux world, the main piece of advice is not to stress that too much.

Ubuntu is a fine distro choice - there are controversies, and it is arguably not the best at X, Y or Z, but it's well-rounded, stable, and user-friendly, which is all that novice user needs.

Of course, if you want, you can always explore other options and see what's absolute best for you - this kind of thing is called distro-hopping. Start with something Ubuntu-based for familiar experience (Linux Mint is a common recommendation, if you don't mind Cinnamon desktop), check out Debian as this is what Ubuntu is based on, and then try Fedora, OpenSUSE and stuff. After gaining experience with these, you can explore Arch and derivatives, such as CachyOS, EndeavourOS etc.

But again, if what you have works for you - you're not missing out on anything special. What you have is true, real, actual Linux experience, and there's no best way to approach it.

I still wonder who ever thought cobbled roads are a great idea.

Terrible to ride. Terrible to walk. Bad at just about everything.

Ikarus is an absolute legend, imported by plenty of places including the Soviet Union, the home for UAZ vehicles from the original post

At this point, it's not a race to get people to Linux, but rather a race to get people off Windows and MacOS, which is almost the same thing practically.

We really don't want them to have it their way, as it's detrimental to digital freedom.