Years ago, I thought Linux was for nerds(which it is) and performed badly and was hard to use. Now I haven’t used Windows as a daily driver in 5+ years and every time I have to use someone else’s non Linux machine, it feels like an ancient machine with absolutely no character to it.
it really has come a long way in a short amount of time. took me only 2 months to learn it to the level that made me comfortable on it as a daily driver and even then i think 2 months is too generous if not for the fact that i built a very specific spec box for a very specific tech purpose using lots of core.if not for that it would have likely been less than a day to be setup on a linux workstation out of the box doing average computer stuff.
And wine and window emulators are plenty on linux so you can run windows programs anyways so there really is no missing out. i run windows office software and 7zip out of heroic only cuz i like having buttons and icons and a ui.
My mom boiled brussels sprouts and I hated them. As an adult who knows to roast them, they’ve become one of my favorite vegetables.
People also did a lot of work to reduce the bitter glucosinolates https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
the only problem is the amount of oil to produce the crispy brussel sprouts kind of undoes the health they bring to a diet.
at least the amount of oil restaurants will drown them in.
I haven’t had a brussel sprout in idk how long, and have no idea how they were cooked, but could you avoid this with air frying?
absolutely but restaurants always do it their own way with too much oil and salt.
Ritalin.
I’d heard all the stories about zombie kids and such. Then at 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD and it explained so much. My first ritalin was a life changer. Not a zombie - I could focus on what I wanted to, get things started, music stuck in my head gone, so many other things. Not perfect, but so much better.
I’m still pissed that for most of my life since I haven’t been able to have it or anything else to help.
Ay, I’m so glad you found what works for you! ☺️
lol, sounds like you didn’t catch my last sentence, but no worries, I found it amusing <3
I’m reading correctly you have it now, right? I’m glad you have it now :)
lol, this is completely unimportant
but
No, I had it initially, and then - as I said - I haven’t had it since then, alas.
Ah, okay. I misunderstood what was meant by your first comment
Soups!
I think my first experiences as a child were tomato soups that just tasted bad to me.
Now I love minestrone, chicken and corn, beef and vegetable, pea and ham, and more! Often a slice of toast or crackers or croutons with.
Veganism.
Their entire basis of preaching guilt over the consiousness angle was egotistic, overzealous and unproven.(either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not. Therefore everyone, no matter what matter they consume to survive, remains guilty of ending a consiousness or not and therefore neither diet maintains the higher ethical ground to guilt from. I will not be convinced otherwise. And especially not while every white paper starts with defining consiousness is always in their own pure hubris)
It was not until it was called ‘Plant based’ that i got on board as that research is proven. yes: it is healthier, yes: less emmissions. yes: uses less matter to consume. yes: more sustainable. (Although not sustainable for those who remain unable to digest beans as a form of protien. but that is another story)
Ethical? in the form of ‘less matter’ one might try to argue but i would not use any guilt angle on ethical stance so long as any matter that may be argued to contain consiousness is consumed. No ethical stance starts with measuring anything in value as ‘less than’ another so long as it is used just to justify to find their own comfort to judge others from.
I hated Coheed and Cambria because a coworker that I didn’t get along with liked them. Then I was at a festival and saw them perform live and ended up liking them.
Very similar. A coworker of mine in maybe 2005 or so was a huge fan. I didn’t dislike him, but I did think his music taste sucked. So I thought Coheed and Cambria sucked. Then I saw them live several years later at a festival, and was blown away. I admit I was dead wrong. Listened to every album since and they are incredible composers and performers.
Green beans. My mom always made nasty-ass soggy canned green beans when I was a kid, and so I thought I hated beans for like two decades.
Then one day I decided to try sauteing some with garlic one day as an adult, and oh. My. God. Do I love green beans.
My mom’s canned beans still taste like shit.
It would be easier to tell what I initially liked due to wrong representation but dislike now.
I was just thinking about how I enjoy watching album reaction / review videos, but for years I strongly disliked that genre of videos because the first two videos I watched from different channels covering the same song were both really misogynistic and minimizing the talent of the original artist.
Vocaloid. I used to think it was about worship anime-like figures. And the voices in music were just too squeaky for me. But now I realize that the figure worshiping was just practiced by some westerns that I’ve come across, and that it’s actually just a tool to make music vocals. I found out that japanese (and other) individuals make really cool music with it. The squeaky voices just took some time to get used to.
Christianity. All about it.
Funny, I went the other way. heh
