DavidEGrayson

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@rachcorrine @altyeahright1 It doesn't show initiative or confidence, it just shows he doesn't know how to dress himself and needs women's help for things. How did this land him a fiance?

@altyeahright1 It’s bc most guys just text like be there in 5 and this showed initiative and confidence but not overbearing… and he’s acting like the know each other even though they’ve never met and letting the girl give an opinion on a shirt which we love to do… it’s just smooth all around

PSA FIRST DATE ADVICE: At a birthday party this girl just told me what her (now fiancé) did before their first date. They met on the apps, she had never seen him before IRL, so he FACETIMED her like 2 hours before their date and asked WHICH SHIRT he should wear (white or blue). She was like ummm white. And then said okay great I’ll wear the white see you tonight. And then he hung up. And yeah I think I would fall in love on the spot. SO SMOOTH. So confident. Very evil genius of him.

@VladTheInflator How TF is the blue line going down smoothly instead of gapping down?

This a great lesson for all the men out there

@RealDianeYap I'm sure he'd love to have his woman join in the video gaming fun but she's too busy on her phone or TV or yapping.

Gaming as a hobby says negative things about a man: - dopamine addiction - ok with wasting time on useless things Additionally, any unit of time he chooses to spend gaming instead of doing fun things with his wife or girlfriend is an insult to her. How could he prefer that?

@esrtweet Nix, the package manager from NixOS, can run on any Linux distribution. Its nix-shell utility evaluates Nix code to set up a shell environment for you where all of the dependencies and compilers you specified are available to use.

More thoughts as Eric wanders through the wilderness of possible next Linux distributions... My core criterion has strengthened to "rolling-release, *and* must have a convincing story about rollback tools". This means, at minimum, that package installations need to automatically create restorable system states. I also want broad repository coverage, so I don't have to do a lot of downloading and compiling. This steers me away from several niche distributions that are technically interesting but have communities too small to generate a broad range of installable packages. I have some other criteria as well, which will become apparent as you read this list of updates. CachyOS with Snapper integration into the package manager: still the top contender. To displace it, anything else needs to have at least as convincing a story about easy rollback. EndeavourOS: can also be Snapper enabled. Probably okay, but CachyOS seems to have a larger and more vigorous community, and that does matter. Omarchy: It's clever, it's doing a good thing for new Linux users, it has a strong rollback story, but. It's very opinionated, and I don't need DHH to have good taste for me, I can manage that for myself. By the time I got done customizing it, the value he added would probably be gone. So, no advantage over a friendly but less opinionated Arch reskin like CachyOS. Vanilla Arch: now has an installation TUI, so not the ridiculous pain in the ass to set up that it used to be. Could be configured with the package installer calling snapper, yes. But if I'm going to install Arch, I don't see any reason not to use the work other people have done on making Arch a better out-of-the-box experience. Which redirects me to CachyOS, EndevourOS, and Omarchy. Gentoo is out. It doesn't have a convincing rollback story. Also, I do not welcome long compile times - especially since Rust is becoming more popular and the Rust compiler is painfully slow. Void Linux looks really interesting, technically, and has a good rollback story. The design of its package manager looks very thoughtful. But immature Cosmic Desktop integration is a crash landing, and I'm concerned about its repository breadth. Regretfully, no. Debian, and the Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu and Mint and Pop!_OS, are out because I really do want rolling-release. If I hadn't decided that, I'd just stick with Pop!_OS, which has overall been pretty good to me. NixOS might be back in contention if (as some on X allege) the gay race communists got fired late last year and have fucked off to ruin something else. Possibly the project might recover. I am investigating this. Alas, Guix is still out. Narrow repositories and an extremely purist culture leading to annoyingly limited hardware support. I'm told people will scream at you if you even mention the distribution channels for non-free software. Fedora: only semi-rolling. No integrated rollback tools. Nope. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: possible. I had Grok compare it head to head with Cachy OS and they look very similar with respect to my criteria, except that CachyOS probably has much broader repository coverage. AUR is a huge advantage that way for anything Arch-based. I'm sure I've missed some possibilities, and I'm sure people will tell me about them in the comments.

@cmuratori @rfleury Bro can't do more than five things in a second. His brain cannot perceive Riverdance or any fast music.

How did we get here?

You literally can't even save the toddlers by pressing blue because you are just one person with one button press. You are not a super-being controlling billions. If you want to help a child, press red and then adopt one of the orphans who had idiot parents. x.com/i/status/20495…

@s8mb Wrong. You need to vote red so you can survive and raise any of your kids that voted red. Don't be dumb.

Obviously red would be the right button to push, except for the fact that children get to vote privately too. I’m not voting red if there’s a chance my toddler has randomly voted blue. I think that gets you a pretty large and solid vote for blue.

@currydtx How would your vote save anyone since you're just one person and there are millions voting in the election? Read the rules again, you only get one vote.

Blue is 100% the right choice. There is no reality where all 8 billion people pick red so you have to pick blue to prevent millions from dying.

@lowgradef Wait, are you one person or a super being that controls everyone? You shifted from one premise to the other in the middle of your first sentence.

i picked blue too. seems like a logical answer since, if we all pick blue we all live. the only reason to pick red is out of fear of others picking red which is stupid because you are adding to the problem trying to dodge it.

@flackospalace No, your vote didn't make a difference because million of people voted and all you control is your own vote, not anyone else's, and what we choice wins will almost certainly win by thousands.

Ultimately I’d rather die as a blue button voter than be alive as a red button voter and know that my vote helped billions of people die

Even if you're campaigning publicly for blue, remember the vote is private. When you are in the private voting room, you have zero control over what the majority will choose because you are just one person with one vote. So cut the altruist crap: your vote literally cannot save anyone. All you can do is risk your own life if you press blue, so you should press red. x.com/i/status/20492…

@Loritwt @DefKonWun Huh? The question you asked is "why would you press blue" and now you're moving the goalposts by talking about *everyone* pressing blue. In reality you only control your own press so that's all you can affect. You don't control what the majority will do.

@DefKonWun Theres no risk when we all press blue though rifht? I feel like the “what if” is only created by red existing as a “i dont trust people” option

Why would you press anything but blue

@shaulamoder Read it again. The deaths are decided by the majority. Not by you. x.com/i/status/20492…

@shaulamoder Huh? Your press isn't going to save anyone because you're just one person pressing out of millions. You literally can't save anyone with your vote, all you can do is decide if you want to risk your life.

all the worst people in the universe deliberately miswording the question and choosing red in the replies/quote tweets unless you value your own life more than that of billions of people as well as many of those you love, blue is the obvious answer

@MrBeast All you can control is your own action, and it won't be enough to swing the result since millions of people are pressing buttons. Therefore pressing blue is purely a risk to yourself, with no benefit to anyone else.

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

@LasVegasLocally No. Tips are to reward the value of the service provided, and have nothing to do with the wealth or luck of the person giving the tip. Also, he will have to pay millions of dollars to the government while your tips are tax-free to some extent.

If you hit a $10 million slot jackpot in Vegas you should tip the people who provided good service and made the trip fun — cocktail servers, hotel staff, slot attendants, floor staff, dealers if you played tables. Anything between $30,000 and $300K, spread around, is fine.

@Keyboards_bot About half the retro computer setups I see posted on this site look extremely un-ergonomic. Like try using this keyboard and computer for an hour and see what it does to your neck.

@WallisDev Back in the day it sure was nice to know which UI elements were clickable and the bounds of each element. One thing the screenshot is missing is an old-school scroll bar on the right side though.

This era of UI was peak and nobody will ever convince me otherwise

@bigjoshlevine Programming software made by silicon companies is usually slow and lacking in features, so I've had to make my own solutions too!

If you know what an MSP430 is, then I have some very good news... wp.josh.com/2026/04/19/an-…

@datingbyblaine That's cool that you can provide feedback like that to your clients. Do they ever send you a full transcript of their date from an audio recording or are they just recounting parts of it from memory?

Men are 10x more receptive to feedback about their appearance (“your glasses don’t fit your face…”) than their behavior (“she felt like you were conducting an investigation…”) and that feels backwards to me. How you act around women matters more than you look. It’s no less in your control.