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I’m also made deeply uncomfortable over how gun nuts seem to be just waiting for the opportunity to murder.

That being said, I don’t agree with having to retreat and be really nice to the guy who broke into your home. I don’t like anti-self defense laws at all. We’re not talking about stealing Snickers from Walgreens. Home invasions are deeply traumatic events.

Even in communist countries you’d get your ass beat for breaking onto someone’s home. I’m more than willing to shrug my shoulders and ask “what did you expect” if you break into a home and get your shit rocked.

threaten them to leave with a weapon, or fire some kind of warning shot

Playing devils advocate so say this is exactly what you’re not supposed to do if you have a gun. There’s before a gun is introduced to a situation and after. Once a gun is introduced you’re either using it or it’s going to be used against you.

Cops wont come for an hour or more so you’re left hoping the guy in your house is only looking for some stuff to take. Any rational burglar will just wait till you leave to remove “homeowner with gun” from the equation. If they’re breaking it when you’re at home, they’re probably not in a super rational state.

I’m gonna comment and say that’s the point.

You start out with bare minimum and install what you need. As you go you generally have an idea of what is and isn’t on your system. It’s not as annoying as Gentoo with all source compiling, not as anal as nix.

If something breaks, you go to ArchLinux.org and 95% of the time it’s mentioned on the front page so you follow the instructions and move on. It’s a very transparent distro, little drama to follow unlike Ubuntu/canonical or fedora/redhat.

It used to be harder to install and which gave some street cred, but they simplified it a bit which is nice.

The Stans give an unbalanced look at arch. I use arch because I want the latest packages, I don’t want to segment my packages between my repos and tarballs when there’s a game stopping missing feature on a package pinned to a 2yo version. I don’t want to learn a whole scripting language to carefully craft my OS like nix either. I want a current OS that’s easy to fix and easy to install packages so I can go back to what I was doing.

I love contraptions. the more levers and purpose, the better. I love bizzarre old cars and bikes that require 5x more rider intervention. Give me a start up sequence please.

No I think that honestly is extrapolated from people saying NYers are “assholes”, as in direct and speak their mind. The other side of that coin is they’re also willing to speak their mind positively or help someone out.

I had a friend say people in California are “nice” in that they’ll encourage you to find investors for your shitty idea, where people on the east coast will just tell you it’s a shitty idea and save you the embarrassment.

That said, people in NY are some of the kindest i’ve met around the country. There’s nowhere else where conversations in line happen as frequently. Trying that in other places has gotten me weird stares or ignored.

Wait can you elaborate on that last bit

I really didn’t want to go the medicine route years back. Like OP Im a guy who always kept it long. I decided to give the basic regimen a try and went with a keeps like service because dermatologists are by far the worst doctors I’ve had to work with.

And although it thinned, the thinning totally stalled, to a point where it’s a little noticable but on a good day isn’t at all.

I haven’t cut my hair in years and despite it being annoying to take care of sometimes, I get to look in the mirror and see the version of myself that I like to see which makes the little bit of medication worth it imo.

I always hated the “just shave it and own it, bro” attitude because damn my hair is part of my identity, I love having it. I’ll put some effort into keeping it.

MIGAModi on teamblind won’t like that one, one bit.