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  • I have a different theory.

    When you buy a desktop or laptop 99.9% of them will come with Windows preinstalled. Unless you get an Apple product, but than its 100% macOS.

    So everyone running Linux has chosen to not go for the easy option, but spend some time and effort to install something they prefer.

    So that immediately is a filter, where people that just go for the default easy option are filtered out.

    So it makes total sense the Linux community has more people that are not afraid to choose a path they perfer instead of just doing what everyone else does, because doing something else is harder and for many people scary.

    My experience (and this is purely anecdotal) is that the hacker/cybersecuruty community is also like this and has a lot of trans people compared to the total population.




  • I don’t know how this works in the US, but where I live after a year subscription (let’s say for your internet provider or something). They can only renew per month. So if the year subscription is over you can cancel any service every month and they can’t hit you with any fees.

    Back in the day if you’d forgot to cancel your plan you’d be stuck with them for another year. It sucked!







  • Also it’s not manly to share your life with a friend apparently.

    I’m 40+ and a couple of months ago started therapy. I didn’t even knew I needed therapy, went with my wife for couple therapy and it quickly turned into personal therapy.

    What I learned after some tests is that I fall into the top 4% of men who are emotional closed off. This is pretty extreme, but maybe the worst part is, I never even knew. This is the stereotype we teach boys, men don’t have emotions, they don’t talk about emotions, etc.





  • Even with millennials (1981 to 1996) there is a big difference when you where born.

    If you are an early millennial you grew up with MS-DOS, so you had to learn the terminal to get anything done. You probably had your first smartphone after you where 25.

    If you are a late millennial you grew up with Windows XP and probably had a smartphone as a teen.


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