/b/ - Random

Yes. Its kinda depressing. I was never the kinda person to be addicted to social media but once I started wageslaving I started winding down every day watching YT. Then I hated myself for letting myself fall into it. So I disabled youtube. Im afraid for the children though. I grew up on screens, but I feel like it wasnt as bad because there was no tiktok when I was a kid. Idk. It makes me sad to think about.

For me, it's music. I've had to consciously prevent myself from getting bluetooth headphones so I don't always have music blasting in my ears all the time, which means I can go outside and listen to silence and birds occasionally. Otherwise I'd lapse into the old habits of not talking to anyone for weeks on end and just listening to music all the time. It does mean that I don't dance as often as I would with headphones, since I live with other people so I don't want to crank my speakers too loud.

As far as internet goes, I've essentially decided to identify as a netizen. I'm much more "from the internet" than I am from either the country I was born in or the country I live in. I'm happy to be addicted to technology, because as a millennial I remember when it was kind of a cyberpunk futuristic thing to be online all the time. But since I don't use normie social media most of the time, I get to learn a lot. It's nice to still be on the frontiers.

>>302045
Music rarely noticed but its effect is huge. Sounds constantly eliciting mind states and emotions. This is self-brainwashing, I feel.
I've dropped reddit and music (three weeks). The result is more reading, actual writing, lucidity, and I've been able to follow some train of thoughts further away. I also spend some time on smaller websites (nothing compared to the hours lost on the big R).
Time will tell, but it feels like things are getting worse in terms of content manipulation. Now looks like a good time to quit, yesterday was better, tomorrow will be harder I suspect.

>>302186
What about music in public spaces?

>>299587
#2's not that crazy in a world where people ghost multi year relationships and friendships - it can happen at any time, to anyone, for any reason

They are both fat so sympathy is limited, but he is significantly fatter, uglier, bald and retarded so like what was he expecting. It's like "retaliatory" violence after getting knicked while playing a carnival knife game where the carnival makes you sign a waiver stating that you understand you might get knife related injuries in their knife games.

>>302175
what do you think of the all-female jury who gave him just 10 yrs ? Keep in mind this is in Texas, where there's death penalty for 1st degree murder.

>>302176
As states go Texas is the drunken neighbor who accidentally killed his own dog when he backed up his pickup truck five years ago and is desperately trying to spend just one night too drunk to remember burying his barkie buddy.

>>302178
idk if i should love or hate texas after this. i love guns though

From things I have read secondhand, I was more saddened to hear she apparently took money that was supposed to go to her kid for college.

What's a good Linux distro for someone that's never used it before?
I'm moderately computer literate and mostly use my PC for web browsing, vidya, and occasionally programming

>>289448
I tried Ubuntu for a while a few years ago. I hope you can manage cuz mine couldn't play videos and the guides they write for Linux users assume you're a computer nerd when I despise computers.

Does anyone here likes birdwatching?

>>289448
OpenSUSE.
+ Well supported, well maintained, large corporate base - you don't want to start out on a distro that isn't used by professionals in the workplace, and SUSE is the oldest Linux corporation in the world.
+ YAST is the closest you're going to get to an equivalent to Mac OS Preferences or the Windows Control Center in a graphical Linux environment, and it runs and can be used to manage your software in text mode through a terminal/TTY login in the event that something goes catastrophically wrong with the graphics environment without requiring you to learn every name for every controls command or kernel module. So if you can only start in textonly safemode and need to connect to the internet you can just enter yast, follow a few simple menus to get to networking controls, and enable networking in order to download whatever is necessary to fix the system.
+ easy install
+ Lizard mascot
+ RPMs
+ huge library of games in repo - people use the suse build services even if they don't use sue itself.
+ an officially supported distro for NVIDIA and other large manufacturers who make Linux drivers.
+ an actually useful wiki that describes problems that real people have in real life with real examples and solutions.
+ officially supports an ARM/embedded variant, will not die if/when x86 desktop loses ground to newer or different technology.

Negatives:
- German. (This used to make the distro nearly unusable due to their Erlangen.DE repo servers lacking a North American mirror–they have mirrors now and had them for years but the reputation is still impacted).
- Poor audio support on ARM devices, if you're running a raspberry pi just use raspian.
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>>301194
cute hobby

I've drawn terf Kuromi, hope it's okay to post here.
Should I draw more?

>>302192
i’m in the same boat, it’s so hard to unwind and enjoy my womanchild activities when it always feels like i’m being watched by HR thanks to the TIFs.

>>302210
she’s so cute, !! i’d like to see more, are you sticking to sanrio or will you be doing cute characters in general?

>>302224
>>302202
I wanted to stick to Sanrio characters for now since they're simple to draw, but maybe I'll be willing to accept more cute suggestions in the future!

Here's another one ^^

why can't there be an online discussion without a troon being like, "ermmm ackshually I'm trans" when it has no relevance to the discussion at hand.

>>302073
Filet o fish is the closest thing to fish tacos.

>MLP pic
>blogposting

tell me you're a troon without etc.

yes, you should be dipping them in peanut butter

>>302041
I don't like peanut butter

Yes, I've never heard of dipping fruit in ranch dressing.

I like apple slices with cheddar cheese.

It may be weird but eat whatever you like. What do you like about the apple and ranch together? It's such a different combination.

>>302059
Apples and cheese are fucking amazing together


>>302059

>>302085
I like the ranch flavor mixed with the tart flavor of green apple slices

I was absolutely obsessed with it i childhood. I recently got into paleontology, so obsession is coming back! Have you heard about recent discovery of homotherium cub?

>>302066
kewl

I found an adult friend group, but have the advantage of being part of a minority and being in university.
Otherwise, joining interest groups (eg. Art, particular crafts, music, book clubs, cosplay, etc.) may help you.

>>224919
I tried a few meet up / hobby
groups, unfortunately I stuck out like a sore thumb because all of the other women who attended were in their 40s and I'm 23.
>>224922
I might try some crafting / art groups. I've looked at facebook photos of some group meetups I want to go to to see whether the people are actually in my age range but it does make me feel like a bit of a creep ngl

bump

My mom made friends joining an adult women's soccer league.

>>302039
This is retarded, only a terminally online discord tranny would laugh at this, or maybe a young person trying to fit in with terminally online discord trannies

Moved to >>>/media/36423.

>>297861
i adore dancing to old j-pop and k-pop songs looking up the title + dance mirror on youtube. they're very fun and make me feel like i'm in a girl group. plus, it's good physical exercise

Took classes in a lot of different genres up until puberty but didn't enjoy it due to being unathletic and shy. Honestly I think I'd be more willing to start again now with a new mindset about it, I used to like flamenco.

ive always wanted to learn to dance but i always feel so shy and awkward dancing, especially in front of people. it looks so fun tho

I've danced pretty much my whole life. I've done tap, ballet, hiphop, jazz, locking, kpop, and ballroom, but nothing has stolen my heart like pole dancing. I started about half a year ago and I fell in love. Feels completely different to any other dance I've done and it's the most fun I have nowadays. I'm not comfortable being sexy but I'm light and strong and I love climbing and pulling off dynamic maneuvers. It's my least skilled genre of dance (duh, I just started), but by far the only one I've felt so strongly for. Every one should try dancing once in their life :P

I dance to electronic music in my room (trance, psytrance, arena, house, drum and bass) and it's honestly one of the most cathartic things in my life, alongside going to the gym. Anything that gets your body moving is good for your soul in a sedentary age. Also there's this way some women dance to psytrance and goa where they really use their booty to get low and shake around. It's something I want to get into, but I'm self-conscious about my butt.