American here. I would totally take you up on that hug there, mein bruder. This feels pretty damn awful. :(

I'm still holding out some kinda vague hope for the "final numbers" but...right now I'm not alone in feeling a little lost and confused at what we're about to go through and what the heck life will look like in the near future.

A lot of previous elections felt like empty hype and doomsaying but this one feels like we're gonna feel it immediately.

God help us all.

Black Mesa? Ha ha. Fat chance.

You know it's not real because there's no machines beeping loudly in his ear because a car was in the drivethru for >16 seconds, or manager screaming "Hurry the hell up where are those large fries!?!" or people throwing crap at him for tiktok cred.

Me, a long time KeyPass enjoyer:

"Y'know people keep talking about BitWarden, maybe it's more accessible and I should give it a tr...(sees this) PFFFFFTTTT! DODGED THAT BULLET."

It's true. I wonder how many ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians, Persians, Romans thought:

"Surely, this empire will last forever! Look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair!" (EDIT: LOL It appears we're all of one mind remembering this poem. We must be doing something right. XD)

Especially in modern times it's insanely difficult to imagine the geopolitics shifting drastically, but it's happened before, it's happening now. The difference being that the rest of the globe is now much more invested in your shenanigans with your neighbors, but it's still happening.

What does one do amidst a regime change?

I'm glad I've never had to seriously consider it until now. ...but it unnerves me that I probably need to start.

Used to work in a public library. Majority of the job was walking people through "forgot password" which was never a simple affair, and getting to see what a Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL inbox looks like with like 90,000 unread because they gave their email to every store and web form they ever encountered.

Near drove me to madness.

"Look guys, their industry makes their boss abusive to them which makes them abusive to their staff, so it's just how it is because money..."

This is like "Well my drunk granddad had anger issues after the war so he beat my dad who beat me something fierce and I turned out fine " of the professional world.

Some people think enough money or status is worth disrespecting other human beings who are just trying to do their already shitty enough job, and that's concerning.

I.T has to hit their "ticket targets" to stay on the "lights come on when they flip the switch at home" track, it's how they make their money and what they're paid to do.

Playing coddling psychologist for grown adults who could pass a bar exam but can't handle basic respect doesn't make things any easier lol.

To any of those types reading this:

Stressed or not, it's amazing how fast things move when you work with IT as teammates instead of underlings, using your level brain instead of your emotionally unstable mouth.

Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.

But by the time you've learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you've plateued.

...I guessssss it could make sense? XD

Meme gave me a laugh. XD

I see people not happy with Docker as a company, and, I get that, tech co. Lol

But I gotta admit, it's definitely been awesome for self hosting. My home server would probably just be OpenMediaVault and a Samba share if I couldn't just spin up compose files and had to worry about every app wanting its own database and stuff!

Are there better alternatives for newbs who just wanna self host stuff?

Correct. Grease down the drain is simply not based.

Everyone from neighbors to sewage workers to the environment will have to put up with it.

Even with our grievances against the ownership of some things, I think we should all be agreeing with "Don't crap (or otherwise ruin) where you eat." Or has the world really reached such a point of madness where that idea is contested too?

"Move fast and break ~~things~~ monkeys before getting FDA cleared to risk humans."

This. I love how much easier it is to manage digital make-believe numbers, than tons of leaflets and pucks that represent make-believe numbers.

I just wish the system that handled it was more... democratic? Instead of corporate feudalism with credit scores...