Men?
It’s the meme format:
“Men will literally (something) but not go to therapy”
People who use it don’t necessarily endorse the original view, but are making fun of it.
I think their joke was that Thinkpad Arch users (at least online) have a strong correlation with trans women
What?
Sorry you had to find out this way
'tis true
Exactly this (sent from my Arch Thinkpad as a trans woman)
Ha, ok, I definitely got whooshed then.
Oh don’t worry I know - I was implying that there’s a heavy correlation between Thinkpad Arch users and trans girls, at least online. See !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone
And the ones who install Arch on a MacBook need extra special therapy.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
☺️i love my arch on my macbookpro from 2009 😂
Was difficult to understand that I have to boot via legacy bios in order for the nvidia grafic to work… But after installing grub2 via CDrom I had i done ✅ now I can boot any iso from using grub2 and don’t have to relay on CD rom anymore 🥳 Next will be a 2013 MacBookPro (with nvidia as well), as soon as my motor buys her m3 MacBookPro
This reads like a copypasta
just cause they use emojis?
allowing emojis on the internet was a fucking mistake ngl.
What if i have Arch on my Desktop and Linux Mint on my MacBook?
Endeavour on my desktop, and Fedora Silverblue on my MacBook - good combination!
Then they put on the socks and become girls
Legit I brought my first thigh highs and my T430s (now quite modded) within like 2 weeks of each other.
The amount of time and effort needed to go through an Arch installation and succeeding probably is more therapeutic than paying $100 for a session of therapy. It’s enough to make them finally come out after all 🤷
Therapy is expensive, I’d have to make appointments, leave my home during my free time, talk about myself to someone, and probably won’t help because my problems are external. No thanks.
Buying a new laptop and installing an OS is a relatively simple and inexpensive process that is actually rewarding.
Therapy actually often helps with external problems too. If you tried another therapist every time you installed a distro, you might have found one that can solve your problems.
Okay so multiply all the other problems I listed by how many therapists I have to try and no they can’t solve my problems unless they’re gonna buy me a house or pay off my debts or something so I can actually get ahead financially.
No, a therapist will not give you money. What they could do is identify why you don’t have the money you need, then help you plan and execute the steps to accomplish your goal. If your goal is more money, I’d guess they would ask you if you are looking for a higher-paying job, then discuss what steps you can take to improve that process, with a focus on mental hurdles you may not even realize you’re putting in your way.
Unless those steps are overthrowing the rich then I think the person you are talking to is correct. This is a money problem not a psychological problem and most money problems are because of capitalism. Get a higher paying job? FFS what actually makes one job more valuable than another? It sure isn’t how essential it is as plenty of high pay jobs are things like finance bros.
No, the steps would probably be more along the lines of refreshing your resume, maybe setting up an appointment to have it professionally reviewed, getting a habit of applying for jobs going, stuff that materially contributes to having more money. A therapist might tell you that overthrowing the rich is a little too vague a plan to actually act on.
I specifically said higher-paying instead of a “better” job because it’s not necessarily going to be a more fun or world-improving position. But if money is what you need and the job you apply for has a higher pay rate than the one you have now it will likely lead to you having more money, regardless of the greater economic climate.
No, the steps would probably be more along the lines of refreshing your resume, maybe setting up an appointment to have it professionally reviewed, getting a habit of applying for jobs going, stuff that materially contributes to having more money. A therapist might tell you that overthrowing the rich is a little too vague a plan to actually act on.
So the solution the therapist has is to hire a career counselor? That’s not them solving anything, that’s them passing the buck to someone else that will cost me even more money and time. Beside the fact that I already know how to ladder climb and am currently in a position that pays well above what most of my peers are making and is above the credentials I have on paper so I have to rely on networking for any new opportunities (which again i’m doing better than most of my network so they don’t have a lot to offer at this point). There really isn’t anywhere for me to go up from here without moving to a place that is even more expensive to live.
The real issue is that inflation is out of control and housing is too expensive. My best bet of ever owning a home is waiting for my parents to die and inherit theirs and that thing is shitty new construction that was slapped together as quickly and cheaply as possible and will probably be falling apart by then.
Yes, in the hypothetical scenario where you are applying for positions but not hearing back and it has become frustrating, my theoretical therapist might suggest you get in touch with someone specialized in helping with that, and then if you continue to not do so while stressing over the state of your resume their job would be to help you take that step.
Evidently that’s not your problem, which I could not be aware of, being a stranger on the internet before your explanation of your situation. Sorry my example did not perfectly address your situation.
I don’t know how a therapist would react to your circumstances of being able to make more money but still not making enough because that is rather foreign to me, but I can tell you one thing. If you are holding down a job above your credentials, you are no longer holding down a job above your credentials, you are now holding down a job at your current level of credentials and I would recommend updating your papers to reflect that.
Therapist-hoping, eh?
I’m just gonna promote the benefits of therapy. I learned to love myself. I think this meme is about hating yourself, so I think it fits. Only semi-serious, no hate intended.
I think it is more about rage control than about loving or hating oneself. Like stopping yourself from chucking the laptop halfway across the room when it doesn’t boot because you misspelled a variable in a config file.
Eh… I get the joke, but using Arch is about loving computing. All the other OSes have removed the human element of computing. Arch still lets you control and administer your computer, which is good fun for weirdos like me.
Wait. Am I not allowed to mess with stuff, use the terminal, compile, and all those things in Mint!?
Call the manager. I want my money back!
Of course you can. But in Arch you must do a lot of things that are optional in other distros, and you install your packages explicitly, only including what you want.
Must isn’t better that can - to have choice taken away from your, there’s always Windows or, even better, MacOS.
Meh, Arch users like it. Plus not having stuff you don’t want or don’t use on your OS makes it snappier and easier to update and maintain.
And as a bonus, if you don’t install support for something and have no idea it exists, you can be continually amazed that nobody has invented it yet.
Holy shit I almost spit my coffee all over my arch ThinkPad that’s funny
While you were out chasing booty, I studied the bootloader. While you were partying, I mastered the fstab
I got it
Yeah because all we really need is something to focus our rage at.
Focus the rage at something that is fixable. Good idea actually.
i ironically think than i can better handle stress than my other friends because of grub breaking my sister’s laptop(dual boot) at the worses moments possible, i learned to force me to stay calm to search and read correctly how fix grub before she realized
Who needs therapy when you have pacman?
And yay
And paru
ILoveCandy
until their egg cracks and they put on the thigh highs :P
I don’t think you need to be trans to have a desire for the wonderful vascular benefits of stockings.
oh for sure, but judging by unixsocks they seem to be correlated. At this point I’m considering “interested in Linux” to be One Of The Signs™️ lol
I don’t think egg jokes are healthy for the trans community homie
prime directive’s a psyop. Egg as a concept helped me and a lot of my friends find out who we are
Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn’t necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying “doing this makes you an egg” is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.
I’m an enby too, and the point remains! I think what gets lost in translation here is that “hey, this is kinda eggy” =/= “hey, you’re an egg”. At this point, I’m really starting to see this is as a willful misinterpretation by reading the former AS the latter (not saying you’re doing this, but a lot of the self-hating folks who see transness as some sort of curse seem to be overrepresented in the population who react negatively to seeing anything as “eggy”)
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Arch users
LinuxFromScratch usersthe aliens watching me for entertainment: oh no, he has installed gentoo and qubes, he is too far gone
Can confirm
(throw all those neofetches at me)when you stop hating yourself
(yes sir)
Does this still count?
No, because you did not enable trim and firewalld by yourself. Also how dare you like Dracut? /s
I enjoy this activity too as a non binary person
Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?
Except even Gentoo does binaries now (more than they used to).
LFS?
I am unsure, I feel like Google is watching me and selling my data to OP because I was only yesterday ogling a Thinkpad Yoga X1 precisely for this purpose.
I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM buys 3 more Thinkpads on eBay
