Times a thousand. I’m older and have beat the shit out of my body with drugs (ended early 20s) and alcohol (still) and don’t get enough exercise and I wake up feeling reasonably good. What has been described here is outside of normal aging. Good luck!

Also, give up on that doctor. Reminds me of one that assumed I had a hemorrhoid without checking it and I actually had an abscess of infection. Emergency room doc told me that had I waited any longer for a second opinion I’d have had to get checked in to deal with it. Your current doctor is dangerously unqualified.

Quick, print them all out now before they’re gone!

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1984. Brave New World. After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News.

Sounds like definitely Intel. Macs have EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) rather than BIOS. Attach the install media and hold Option when powering up. This will take you to the EFI boot loader, where you should see icons for each potential startup disk. Select the Linux installer and hit Return or click the button to advance.

I don’t know which distros have the best support for different generations of Apple hardware. You should be able to get some sense of whether the distro is a good candidate from observing whether the mouse and kbd are functional before you commit to the install.

That’s what I’d always thought. Thanks for correcting the bad info from the image. I’d hate to carry that bad info forward.

Copy a live cd iso using dd.

No one ever looks at /var? Isn’t that where my Apache dir lives? Sorry, I’ve been off Linux for a while. I think I put Git in there as well.

I never understood the title for /usr. Now I do. Thanks!

Get into therapy, if possible. I’ve learned so much from therapy (and quality therapists (I’m old)), including building a healthier sense of self that was underdeveloped due to home life stuff when I was a kid. At 38, I was finally able to love myself, something I had thought impossible. A 21yo version of me wouldn’t have been able to envision the me of today because it would seem impossible.

Maybe you only do therapy to help adjust to this one thing that you’re asking about and then you’re good. It sounds like you may not have the amount of baggage that I had. But I think it’s an incredibly valuable and useful tool. The catch is having the right therapist. Be prepared to say that it isn’t a good fit if you don’t trust the person. I find that for each good therapist (three over ~30 years), I’ve had to meet with at least one, once two, who were a bad fit.

Good luck!

Things are definitely at the point where christofascists, and other hate driven ideologies are getting louder.

Good time to bring up how their numbers are drastically thinning. This is a big win and part of why we need to fight them hard as their fear of marginalization causes them to switch from dirty tactics to outright fascism to cling to power.

Survey: White Christianity is declining while the religiously unaffiliated keep growing

Wait, tell me what I’m missing?

Get off my lawn.

We even have computers (which OP is definitely using) to help with spelling mistakes. I say this as a spelling-troll who hates making errors who still makes errors.

I mean, having been to NY, where there was stuff open all night, I was surprised the SF closed down at night. I just expected big cities to be like NY. Nope. Only gas stations and maybe Denny’s until 2-3am.

I don’t understand and would avoid anyone with this.

Loving myself.

Reeder RSS client.

The Dithering podcast was talking about Intel in today’s ep. They agreed that this shit needed to change both ten years ago and (further back) when modern smartphones became a thing. I worry that Intel can’t right this ship.

It’s had a good run. Let the little guy have a rest. Whatever you replace it with will consume less electricity.