Good to hear!
I jumped into EndeavourOS (arch, btw), and had a similar experience to you. I’ve had my eye on OpenSUSE, but I’m still enjoying EndeavourOS

Proper decorum demands also removing your pants

That’s why I hate X.99 prices.
Just make it 4.50, 4.80, 4.90 or 5.00

Can you calculate the weight of a sphere of 9 m of displaced water ?
No ? Well, it is 382 tons.

Metric strikes again.
I bet you didn’t even have to convert through football fields, elephants, or olympic sized swimming pools!

Dudes obsessed. 35? 3? 0?
I can’t keep track

Anyone not toeing the line will be declared unamerican.

Such a small step.

“Well yeh, of course these illegals that want to stay in our country will demand a court ruling. Our jails are better than their shitty country, so any delay for them is worthwhile, and we can’t possibly process all of them” sorta rhetoric.

And suddenly shit like speeding (or speaking poorly of the government) can be declared unamerican, and the person - essentially - disappeared.

Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers…

Does the right use independent media?
Or do their billionaire pals that have exploited humanity for decades just own the mainstream media… so they don’t have to bother with independent media: cause they have dozens of not hundreds of full time staff figuring out how to increase viewership.

It’s not really a question.
It’s just how it is

Is that an insult?
Nature normally smells lovely

Seems like her initial reaction is from the gut with love and support.
And then maybe she searches and “researches” the topic and starts spouting bullshit, and doesn’t have the appropriate social filters.

All I really wanted from her was understanding, but she just gave me a lot of self-doubt and sadness instead.

Feel free to call her out on these things. Highlight the instances where she has initially been supportive, and then u-turned into harmful communication.
Ultimately, this is about communicating these scenarios with her. Hopefully she can modify her behaviours.
I know I have changed my behaviour significantly when people have done that with me, and I have noticed the same with my parents when I call them out on things.
It’s just human.

It’s possible that she has undiagnosed conditions.
Might be that you notice some markers of this when talking to her about your concerns.

Or it’s possible that she is researching in the wrong way and in the wrong places (maybe a “mom group” which is actually a toxic environment).
Which will also become apparent when discussing the topic (“you said you thought I might have autism last night, but this morning you said I was lazy. I’m trying to figure this thing out and you have a perspective on my life I don’t. Saying one thing that validates my concerns, then saying a hurtful opposite thing less than 12 hours later both makes me seriously doubt myself and my experiences and makes me feel really unloved and unsupported. Why did you change your tune?” sort of thing).
At which point you have to decide if you:
want to try and correct their news/research sources;
accept that they will prioritise their shitty “research” over their actual experience - basically not rely on them for support and disregard their opinion, but still love them;
or cut them out of your life.

There is also the possibility that she is toxic, but her initial support comes from biological “love and support”.
You don’t owe her anything, and - if through communication about the issue - you figure out she is toxic, then it’s fine to reduce/eliminate your reliance/relationship/contact with her.

Ultimately, her opinion doesn’t matter. She isn’t a psychologist or a medical doctor. If you think something is wrong, you need to talk to people that have studied the subject.
Talk to a professional, and keep going until you feel heard. Don’t give up until you feel heard and understood.

It’s pretty much just does it.
Default settings are good.
I think you can dial in stricter block lists, but might have issues with some websites.
But you can pause PiHole for 5 minutes, allowing you to do what you need to. I think there is even browser plugins to give you an easy toggle button

If there is ever a way to continue any process without agreeing to terms, services, data processing etc: that’s my default action.
I’m not going to check a checkbox unless the form forbids me from continuing without checking it - at which point, I figure out what the checkbox wants

I empathise by I don’t sympathise.

Have you considered a doctorate?

Yup. parseInt is for strings.
Math.floor, Math.ceil, Math.round or Math.trunc are for numeric type “conversions” (cause its still a float)

You are probably underestimating your abilities.
People that worry about overestimating their skills mostly underestimate their skills.

If someone says they are “good” at something, I take it to mean competency and some enthusiasm.
They might make a mistake, but they won’t (or at least will rarely) make it twice.
They know how to find the solution to something within that domain of knowledge. It might not be the best solution, but it will be a solution that works.
They are also aware of what they don’t know in within the domain. So, they can do C++ but know they can’t do embedded programming. Or they can do C#, but know they can’t do game dev.

And I would take them at their word for that, until they prove otherwise.
If they are below where they claim their skill is, I would try to help them learn (unless they show no interest in improving).
If they are above where they claim, I would tell them this.

It’s always hard to judge our own skills.

Well that explains trump wanting to defend NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs

I think the medical definition of a vaccine is that it is a deactivated/dead suspension of the organism it’s designed to protect against.
Although mRNA vaccines don’t work like that. Instead they tell the body how to make harmless pieces of the cells we want to vaccinate against. But are still considered vaccines.

This cancer vaccine protects t-cells from being deactivated by these types of cancer, allowing the body to identify and deal with the cancer.
So not a vaccine in the “medical definition” sense, but it would still protect you from these cancers if you didn’t already have these cancers.
Although, I don’t know if it’s a “lesser of 2 evils” kind of treatment/vaccine where healthy people shouldn’t take it

Sometimes it feels like postgres is cheating (in a good way)

Cutting out swaths of code and features - without breaking other code and features - is not a small task.
It’s probably more time consuming and complex than just continuing to update at a slower pace.