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Mine is 13 currently. She started pulling away when she was 11. I was waiting to be the biggest moron she's ever met by now. Earlier this summer though, I took a week off from work. She didn't go into her regular summer camp and just wanted to stay home and be broody. So, I went outside and started cleaning out some trees (still cleaning up from Helene)

She came out to help. We started a fire together and kept pulling trees and branches from the yard, burned a big stack of firewood that got termites, She drove the lawnmower around pulling a wagon to gather stuff. She even drove my tractor for about three minutes before panicking and running it into a tree.

That week, something changed. She's now back to being a daddy's girl. We watched the world cup together, she asks to ride with me when I need to go run errands. She and her mom have mended and became closer again for some reason. It's been great to have my big girl back, and I pray it's not just temporary. My nine year old acts more like a teenager now than the teen does.

Three women were sitting down and knitting onesies talking about being pregnant for the first time. The first woman reaches down and takes a pill out of her purse and pops it in her mouth. The other women just stare at her. The first woman says "It's a calcium supplement, I want my baby to have strong bones." then she goes back to knitting.

The second woman reaches into her purse and grabs a pill and then pops that into her mouth. The other two women stop and stare at her. The second woman announces "It's vitamin e, I want my baby to have strong hair and good skin" The second woman then resumes her knitting.

The third woman then reaches into her purse and takes a pill and pops that one into her mouth. The other two women stop and stare at her. She says "it's thalidomide, I don't know how to knit sleeves."

Why it matters is because there are different workarounds for different games. Some can run just fine in a VM. Others have wine tricks or proton tricks that you can use. Still others run dockerized on winboat.

Being evasive just means that people have to give you generalized solutions that may or may not work for your particular scenario. Help could exist for you, but you'll never know.

FreeBSD is a massive pain in the butt, the only thing that really saves it is their handbook. The documentation is incredible , so if you're willing to put in the hours it's a great staple operating system.

I do love the pkg system now, it definitely beats trying to build everything out of the ports tree. It's a fun thing to play with, but I don't suggest it to people for a daily driver unless they really want to learn about it.

I never bought into the ecosystem. My first laptop had os/2 warp, then I moved to slackware for years. After that onto FreeBSD when I became a sysadmin. I was turned onto Ubuntu by one of our developers (12.04) and then ended up on Debian when I started gaming. Played guild wars and bf1942 for years until ea used anticheat that was Linux compatible, but disabled it, then moved away from games with a community so toxic it requires software to stop cheaters. I even had an employer pay for a windows xp cert for me and thought it was the jankiest operating system I'd ever used. It was impossible to update everything, the command line was neutered and it t was so slow compared to everything else I used.

Currently I run proxmox and debian on home servers and cachyos on my laptop and gaming computer. I buy computers with no os, or build from scratch where I can and only choose games based on Linux compatibility. I don't have a need for windows because I've never used it for anything besides software testing. I never understood how windows and a FreeBSD clone became the two biggest players in the market.

Windows is like McDonald's. No one really likes it, but it's ubiquitous, you know you're not going to like it, and you're going to regret it as soon as you bite into it, but you expect that, so you choking it down doesn't seem so bad. It's convenient and a lot of other people eat from there, so you try to convince yourself that it's acceptable for dinner and eat it anyway.

My mom was running slackware for a couple of years in the early 2000s. She kept downloading viruses on her computer and I was tired of her having her ship it across the country so I could fix it. I installed slackware on her computer and shipped it back, and walked her through setting up a port forward on her router for ssh access. She had no idea she was running Linux the entire time until she went to Walmart to buy Peachtree Accounting software. She couldn't get it to install, so she called and asked for help. I got in with SSH and installed KMyMoney for her and she used that for a year.

It lasted up until she bought a laptop, one that came with Windows 7 I think. I stopped helping her after that because I didn't really remember how to use Windows anymore. Windows had a subscription antivirus at that point, before Defender days, and she just paid for that.

The trick is to have someone prepare it who knows what they're doing. Guy who made it for us opened it outside in a bowl of water to catch all the gas coming out. He rinsed it and then put it on potatoes with sour cream and chives. It was good, but we still ate it outside.

I always cringed watching videos of people open a can in a hot car in Texas during the summer to "see how bad it smells"

Stinky tofu. It's hard to describe the flavor. It's like dead anchovies in fish sauce but with the texture of a slice of omelette. It's like eating rotten fish snot. I involuntarily spit it out immediately after putting it in my mouth, almost like it fell out of my mouth. My hosts laughed and said I didn't have to eat it, but I tried again and was able to keep it in my mouth but was not physically able to swallow it, like my ability to swallow was rejecting it. I spit it into a paper napkin and everyone laughed. I just couldn't force myself to consume it.

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I can understand your point. We did some minor changes for my wife's peace of mind, but we bought the home with the idea that it wasn't our forever home. The one we're in now we are keeping though. We've remodeled the previous owners remodeled kitchen... Added things to the house that do nothing for value, but the pressure of knowing we're going to have to resell it is completely gone.

We had a 15 year mortgage on the old house and the whole point was to pay it off and get rid of it while we looked for something better. We never even painted the walls, it was still contractor beige when we left. Our house was livable though and already open concept, so we didn't really have to make any major changes to it. We just turbo cash dumped into the principal at every chance.

That being said, if my wife would have had any major issues, we would have changed things. It was just "acceptable" enough for us to treat it like a long ass lease and leave it almost like we found it.