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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • I think the us vs them mentality, while totally normal human behavior, is unwarranted here.

    I have tux tattooed on me because I make my living writing software predominantly for Linux, but I work from a unix system rather than Linux.

    My next gig doing the same work I will likely be required to use a windows computer as my workstation. It will be out of my hands.

    We use the tools we have, sometimes we can change our tools but more often than not people have the tools they have and ascribing your displeasure of their tool to that person is tech tribalism and part of the worst parts of human nature, even if it is over something so insignificant as which operating system someone else is using.

    I don’t feel personally attacked by you, and idk why your comment was removed.





  • “Just use this other thing instead” has never been a good faith solution for when people have a problem with something else.

    It doesn’t matter if you are right that tool a works better than tool b, especially when sometimes people are unfortunately not providing their own tools.

    So no, your take is wrong again.

    I say this from the position of someone who literally has tux tattooed on them.









  • Yeah but what I’m getting at is that I owe my son the world, he owes me nothing.

    I brought him into this world, it’s my burden to bear.

    I believe he’s gonna choose to be there for me if I need it but the expectation has never been ingrained in him.

    He is my burden, he is his own burden, if he has kids he can be that for them.

    Love goes both ways, but the responsibility ought only go one way.