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That’s because they really care about the kids in the USA.

Left pocket if I’ve got it in my pockets. These days I usually use a smol little backpack to put all of my things into and hate having crap in my pockets.

As a lowly end user that just wants an online space to park in, I’m putting my trust in a platform run by strangers who I don’t know that could have all sorts of agendas, whether I’m signing up on a decentralised or centralised platform.

I know that this opinion is always going to be controversial around here because people here are very excited about and into the whole concept behind the Fediverse. But as someone that just wants a place to shit post, laugh at funny things and connect with people, it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The experience for me is the same because I’m not trying to run a server or anything.

I could be on Bluesky happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. Or I could be signed up on Feddit.org happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. In both of those cases, my only option as an end user is to abandon ship and years worth of posts and comments and go somewhere else.

I don’t personally know any admins around here. And they can talk about their ideals just like Mark Zuckerberg can talk about his. And all I can do is blindly trust that they’re on the level and aren’t going to take their masks off at a later stage. So as an end user, it really makes no difference.

I honestly don’t think Arch is that bad or complicated. It’s just that you have to go into it knowing that you’re in for some reading, tinkering and following step by step instructions along the way. I’d start with something like Mint or Ubuntu for a first look for sure. But once you’re ready to learn a bit more about how the Linux system works and is put together, Arch would straight up be my first recommendation. Even if it’s something you play with on the side in a virtual machine, for me at least, starting on Arch was when my Linux experience went from clicking at things and copy pasting commands into the terminal to still copying and pasting commands lol, but actually learning why and how and what too.

• Stardew Valley
• Skyrim
• ADOM
• Burnout Paradise
• Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)

Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don’t want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.

Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there’s a LOT of shorter titles that I’d miss.

You pretty much answered this for me.

Absolute favourite:

Kiki’s Delivery Service. Character and story that I relate with most of our of all of the movies. I wish I’d watched it when I was a kid.

Other favourites:

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Pom Poko
• Whisper of the Heart
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya
• When Marnie Was There

Almost favourites:

• Princess Mononoke (I don’t like Ashitaka that much by the end)
• Spirited Away (only because this is the only Ghibli that I ever came across in the wild before watching all of them, I’m over exposed to it)
• Earwig and the Witch (love the concept and general story, not a fan of the animation style and a lot of specifics)

Yeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.