In all fairness my mental health IS better since I’ve moved to Linux.
Turns out constant ads, AI crap I can’t disable, the feeling of being spied on and other corporate tech-bro soul-sucking shenanigans is not great for one’s mental health.
Funny enough my mental health has been improved by watching Star Trek. Whenever I notice myself doomscrolling at home I’ve started watching it instead. It’s something I’d always meant to watch and I’m enjoying the concept of people trying to live up to higher ideals
More people should figure this out. Star Trek is essential to a healthy media diet.
I also recommend a regular dose of stand-up comedy.
I would do that, but a lot of standup comedians have taken to ranting against people like me for daring to be offended when they insult us. I miss when I could just throw on any random standup comedy and have a good time without having to check if there’s a transphobic rant in it
Yeah.
Annecdotaly, Dropout.tv has a good number of LGBTQ employees, seems conscious not to shit on people, and has a growing library of stand up.
I think you just described why being on social media is bad for our mental health. Or most of the internet now really. I’ve never had ads or AI shit in the tens of thousands of Windows deployments I’ve had to push out at companies. I also don’t have them on my families personal machines.
It’s a bad move by Microsoft to include that shit… But it isn’t them that got my mental health this way. They are just falling into the well if everyone is shanking public mental health and making money off it … I guess we have to as well otherwise our shareholders quite literally will sue us for not attempting to make them more money at every stage all of the time reguardless of the harm it could cause.
Turns out capitalism might not be good for our mental health…
I feel you’re vastly overstating how bad Windows is, to be honest.
Although I am still running 10.
Yeah fr I’ve been on windows 10 for years. It works fine. I don’t have ai or ads everywhere.
There are start menu ads in windows 10.
Not in mine.
mildly annoying at first but can be turned off in the settings easily
Fair enough but I don’t think there should be any ads in an operating system I paid for.
I don’t use the start menu.
I was talking to a friend of mine about this, very techy guy, has run Linux in the past etc. He said he just ran a de crapifier script on his current machine and carried on with his life.
Until Microsoft breaks it and forces the crap back in.
The noose around your computer’s neck isn’t gonna get any looser, until and unless you cut it off.
You guys are going to have an especially fun time when some criminal makes off with your Recall database, by the way.
My recall what now?
I think people here assume everyone’s a computer person. I know how to get windows on a pc for free and it works fine. If anything ever goes wrong I just re put windows on my pc again and bam it’s new. I don’t have 5000 terabytes of anime I’m afraid of losing that’s separated across 20 different solid state drives. I stream shit or just re download it in like 720p so it’s fast. Windows works fine. I promise you my life will not be affected in the slightest when some criminal makes off with my recall database lmfao.
Recall is a database Microsoft (wants to) build that records the screen every moment you use your computer (yes, including the embarrassing stuff).
It does this to better help you with suggestions.
It’s going to end a lot of relationships in a very graphic pornographic ways, I expect.
But a few people will be delightfully (and graphically) surprised that their partner is also into their kink.
But most importantly, all data that gets stored eventually gets breached to someone who shouldn’t have it.
So we expect to hear a lot more about (and experience a lot more) blackmail (alongside ransomware and financial crimes) in the next ten years.
Oh, no! If only I could open the local group policy editor and set the recall policy to disabled! If only I could also enable bitlocker on my drive to prevent and *criminal *from being able to get to data on my drive! Whoever is going to steal my laptop is going to simply take it to a pawn shop to sell it, they’re not looking for the pictures of my cats anyways.
He’s too far gone to be reasoned with, Recall is going to collect all his passwords and a bad evil hacker is going to remote access his computer and steal them.
I can feel the spittle from here.
I’m talking about criminals who exploit some vulnerability and gain the ability to read your file system, not physically steal your computer.
As for Group Policy, if you think that’s going to actually turn off Recall recording, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
And yeah, they’re not looking for cats. They’re looking for passwords, Social Security numbers, and other such secrets. Recall records everything you see.
I’m going to be honest with you, this is pretty tinfoil hat.
The noose around your computer’s neck isn’t gonna get any looser, until and unless you cut it off.
You legitimately need help.
Well yeah. I had all sorts of mental health problems I was struggling to deal with, but now I’m struggling to make the perfect desktop configuration instead.
I like linux a lot but I think NixOS has been a terrible mistake for my ADHD.
It encourages self-reliance and fosters a sense of control. Sure everything in our lives is increasingly forced on us by corporations run by out of touch narcissists, but there’s at least one way we still can have control of our own.
You jest but using Linux did actually alleviate some mental health problems
linux users are like catholics, they never stfu.
A little bit of low-stakes adversity is good for your mental health
Yes! then you can have other mental health problems to distract from your existing ones.
For best results, try Gentoo.
Use and maintain lfs/blfs setup for peak misery
If I could give awards I’d be doing so on this comment. Absolute gold. 🥇
I use Arch btw. Got the sexy socks to prove it.
Arch users are the vegans of the Linux world
I use arch in my boxers. Usually haven’t made it to socks, but if I had arch sock you better believe they’d be sexy. I use arch btw.
Sock pics or it didn’t happen
proof?
The proof that he uses Arch is that he told you about it. Arch user confirmed.
Was more interested in the sexy sock pic tho
Not on this profile daddy.
Where do I get these socks? Wait! Did I just fall for a drop-ship scam?
Shadowsocks is sexy.
I heard very desperate people also use Linux From Scratch. Might help. Might induce neurosis.
I did that once, then went to install a package manager, and realized I was just basically building Arch, so I deleted the VM.
I use debian but I got enough mental health problems already… like somehow I cannot backport packages, gimp doesn’t work on wayland, it puts me back to tty occasionally, et cetra.
I love it though
gimp doesn’t work on wayland
Ouch. It works for me on Debian 12 and Wayland 47.
I like Krita way better, anyway, now, though.
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Gentoo is for everypony!
Yes brother, may they be blessed with the stage 0 tarball.
Blessings for hours and days.
Frustration is not a mental problem, it’s a perfectly normal response
Uh huh, uh huh, and what about obsessiveness?
I use Gentoo, that distro is rock solid and easy to use.
And I build my own kernel. It’s really not that hard.
I use Arch, BTW.
Can’t focus on mental problems if you’re too busy reinstalling arch.
Damn you’re right…I should install arch
My brother used to endlessly recompile Gentoo. I like just watching the terminal scrolling. Hmm, maybe I need a gentoo-compiling-simulator…
Its a bit like having an ant farm or taking the hood off a complex machine and watching it work. I miss compiling in Gentoo.
Hey guys, what distro do you use?
I’ve never had to reinstall Arch! Never! It’s probably the most stable system I’ve used. Additionally, I didn’t update one for 3 years, and when I ran a system update it worked perfectly.
just set up shell scripts to help yourself reinstall arch
Me dealing with serious computer problems
Lemmy users: mAYbe YOu ShOuLD trY thERaPy
I’m about to need some therapy with the computer problems I’m dealing with, I tell you what.
Or you could just lean into your mental health issues and try TempleOS.
Holy C is best C
I used to be all fucked up on drugs, now I am all fucked up on Linux.
Hooked on Linux worked for me!
Haven’t got time to do drugs now that I’m using Arch.
But have you heard of NixOS? In case you still have time left…
Psst… Have you heard of Rust yet?
I have nightmares where the borrow checker is shouting at me incomprehensibly about the literal bugs and I shoot them with the clone laser and the borrow checker stops shouting for ten seconds, but now there are two bugs for each original bug and Tim Berners Lee floats by saying it’s not very idiomatic and I shouldn’t expect to get to work on time if I just keep stopping along the journey to spend all my time cloning the bugs.
Haha. On a more serious note, it gets better over time. I recommend keeping a really functional programming style in Rust and only opt out to imperative programming, when it just makes sense (e.g. to optimize, avoid allocs etc.). I’d say Rust is currently my most productive programming language, because I mostly avoid the time-consuming debugging part due to the strictness.
Thanks for the encouragement, kind fellow former redditor.
This is 100% true
Please leave reddit comments on reddit where they belong.
No-no—he’s out of line, but he’s right…
Even Reddit has rules against low effort comments in lieu of upvotes. They don’t enforce them, but they have it as a rule.
I don’t care that they were right about their “this”-style comment. I care that they thought I should read that instead of someone else’s comment.
It’s all about the signal:noise ratio.
shocking: users of open-source reddit alternative like open-source things
There’s a fine line between liking something, and obsessing over it to the point you’re evangelizing strangers against their wishes.
Can I interest you in the word of our lord and savior Dick Stallman?
evangelizing? Evangelizing!? EVANGELIZING!?!?!?!
Yeah that’s fair, carry on.:-)
Every church needs their evangelists and missionaries. And the Church of Tux is no different or better than the churches that have gone before.
It’s a people thing.
You mean the people commenting on the Linux communities?
Not much “against their wishes” if they keep looking there.
Yeah but what if your option is objectively better even if not anyone has your exact usage?
refrains real hard from proselytizing
Tell that to chromium
Git outta here
You know what, this is the first time I realized this even though it should be obvious. It makes so much more sense now.
Okay but have you considered
Was this an official thing?
What do you mean Was? Ms. Cirus still uses it.
There’s hardware and everything.
