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@ Witch @beehaw.org

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  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • My mother got put back on her disability benefits and now I'm hunting down apartments for us to live in to get out of a bad housing situation that we were stuck in because it was cheap and we only had one income.

    Got two viewings this week.

  • Money Monday Discussion Thread: Monday July 10th, 2023

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  • My mother's internal review went through and she not only is going back on disability, but because the decision to kick her off was a wrong decision, they're giving her almost a year's worth of backpay.

    Things this means:

    • We can actually move to a place without a landlord and her son living in it, giving us tenant rights and the ability to communicate with a landlord without worrying we're going to get evicted
    • We can even afford movers
    • We might not have to go to a food bank anymore
    • We can now budget things instead of being like "okay that goes to rent, that goes to debt, and anything leftover is groceries"
    • I don't have to hunt for a job while physically and mentally incapable of doing one right now

    I'm honestly so thrilled my head hurts.

  • Money Monday Discussion Thread: Monday July 3rd, 2023

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  • Thinking of signing my mom and I up for a free debt counseling program and trying to reduce the amount we pay each much. I'm not sure how much it'll help, but I figure if I get this done out of the way quickly, any damage to our credit might be recovered by the time we have to move.

    Job searching still hasn't been going well. My first ever job interview got rescheduled for Thursday and I feel like I might be getting too burnt out to do it. It was like all my energy was placed into getting ready for it, and now I'm just tired.

    On the bright side, I'm getting a not-zero sum of money in the form of government refunds. Might be able to get some glasses and get a week of something like Meals on Wheels so that we can relax for the first time in months, and still have enough to start up a savings fund.

  • why is the lgbt+ so fetishized by people?

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  • Fetishes are fun, while reconsidering your morals is not.

    It isn't even exclusive to us. Many times, when someone is "in the mood", they just go for what they're in the mood for without thinking about it in the moment. They can look at all the erotica they want, and then experience self-hating guilt afterwards for a good five minutes, and then repeat the same thing next Tuesday.

  • PSA : There are some known bugs after our upgrade

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  • Wasn't permanent but there was a brief few minutes where I didn't have anything pop up in the subscribed communities, ---refreshing it then gave me that "we're working on the site" bug page. Back to normal now!

    Doesn't seem to be a major issue, but figured I'd mention it in case that pops up for anyone else.

  • What game do you think came closest to being "perfect"?

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  • Fata Morgana.

    Listen, whether you like Visual Novels or not doesn't matter. But Fata Morgana is just somehow...perfect. Everything is resolved and I don't feel any need to complain about any aspect of it. It was an experience to play a game that left me with no questions afterwards. It was just a really good story.

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
    Witch @beehaw.org

    What are some tiny, lightweight apps for Linux that are really neat?

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • Having just a teensy bit of a nervous breakdown reevaluating my life choices the night before a job interview.

    Gonna try to get to sleep, though.

  • Chat @beehaw.org
    Witch @beehaw.org

    I got a job interview! Any tips??

  • What obscure cartoons/media from your childhood do you remember?

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  • Jam the Housnail.

    I thought for the longest time it was a fever dream. That it didn't exist. I could never find it anything related to the godforsaken thing on any Canadian channels list of cartoons they aired. My family thinks I am joking when I mention how horribly this show plagued my thoughts over this years, but I had been searching for a decade.

    Anyway apparently it's from Japan and I probably watched it on Veoh or something, because it's on my anime list now and I finally found out what it was called last year.

    https://myanimelist.net/anime/29367/Jam_the_Housnail

  • Entertainment @beehaw.org
    Witch @beehaw.org

    With the Writer's Strike still going on, what have you been watching in the meanwhile?

  • Announcing Beehaw Docs

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  • Oh dang thank you for letting me know! I definitely missed that.

  • Announcing Beehaw Docs

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  • Oh that's good to hear! I was just worried the endgame goal was a little more serious than I tend to be.

  • Announcing Beehaw Docs

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  • Oh I meant I doubt there's going to be something like an anime community or little sub communities for different things? Unless there might be. I just remember someone asking about that and getting a negative reply once..?

    Unless y'all are cool with us discussing these things in the bigger communities, I'd be fine with staying in that case. Might be a little confused over here, it's been a long day haha.

  • Announcing Beehaw Docs

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  • Reading through the docs rather slowly, but one important thing that I seem to be understanding is that you want to be something like...your own little community that takes a more mindful approach to curated content into consideration, eventually leading to potentially doing good in the world, so forth. Kinda activist-y?

    I think that's all perfectly valid. It's not Reddit, and that's okay. Sadly I do think I'll have to go looking for some place else since I feel like this implies I won't have a place to talk about silly little anime shenanigans anytime soon, but I want to say this: It's super duper cool what you're all doing. You've been stormed by Reddit and you're sticking to your core beliefs, despite that.

    I hope you all cultivate a good community for yourself!

  • NSFW

    What mobile games are keeping your attention these days? (Preferably iOS compatible)

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  • Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rails.

    Genshin Impact successfully had my attention for over five hundred days. It's a regularly updated game that can be played entirely F2P, and I love that concept. Anyone who claims that you have to whale to get good at the game is wrong. You just have to play the game and ignore that some Youtubers and Twitch Streamers seem to believe that fake big numbers are the only way to improve in that game. In reality, I've watched streamers ignore that, and instead opt to play with their favorite romantic pairing or favorite character because they just enjoy the game more that way.

    Honkai Star Rails seems to be a similar concept, however it faces a dilemma where it is a turn-based game and as a result the battle mechanics, so far, have to be more carefully considered. For example, I run a defense-healer-single attack-AOE attack team. So far, I tend to die if I don't do that. The gameplay is more simplistic than Genshin Impact, but the battles are stronger and tend to take longer. Bright side: because it was recently launched you get a bunch of free pulls! Yeah!

  • do you consider yourself to be religious or otherwise spiritual, Beehaw?

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  • Not really.

    I like witchy stuff but only if its considerable to placebos. A rose quartz bracelet, for example, might not be scientifically going to attract love and good fortune---but its cute and makes me happy, so who knows, THAT might help.

    If I had to choose a religion though, I'd probably go with one of those polytheist religions because ever since I was a kid and first went to a church camp, I decided that a singular "God" scares the shit out of me. I basically considered "God" too overpowered and decided that wasn't for me.

  • how’s your week going, Beehaw

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  • Not going well but I am not without hope either.

    My mom didn't get approved for social assistance so I'm crunching numbers on our budget for the next month or so.

    Brought out the instant pot and made some nice black beans, which I turned into black bean burgers. 😋

    Switched from Pop OS to Linux Mint, liking the experience so far. Not as cute as Pop OS was, but I like the interface and the battery alerts and sound effects. So it's not bad.

  • how was everyone's week?

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  • Thank you, I am super incredibly nervous but I hope it ends up going well. Kinda sucks trying to support another person when I myself am on poverty-level social assistance, but if both of us are on it, it will relieve a lot of stress.

  • Visual Novels

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  • I love visual novels but I'm so bad at playing them. I keep buying them because I love to support the industry, but they tend to be hours and hours long so I don't finish them, aha.

    The last one I played through a route on was "Life After Magic" which is a pretty relatable queer VN about a Sailor Moon expy who dropped out of high school and ended up in a dead-end job, having to reunite with her friends / potential love interests. I'd like to finish this one because I know you can date the villain in one route.

  • how was everyone's week?

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  • After roughly five hours of phone calls, on Friday I somehow managed to get a lead on getting my mother back on social assistance. We have an appointment tomorrow for her to apply. I'm hoping that the application actually goes through and we don't once again get told to screw off.

    I'm gonna be exhausted this week!! I have so many appointments.

  • Whats your must-have FOSS app?

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  • KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that's usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask "can you call my phone I lost it :c"

  • Resource Collection Thread (Share Links, Discords, Hotlines, etc.)

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  • I recommend "211.ca" (seems to have a states equivalent but I'm not sure of the website url) for Canadian people as a general resource. I was previously facing homelessness and while I ended up solving my issues with a message on a roommate app, I ended up coming up with an entire plan through the 211 website in the scenario I ended up on the streets. Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, places I can get first/last months rent loans, so forth.

    There's even a section dedicated to LGBTQ resources.

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
    Witch @beehaw.org

    What are some of your favorite Linux FOSS replacements for WIndows software?

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
    Witch @beehaw.org

    Any recommendations for low-end, Linux-friendly games to play?