If they are in your home and you are at gun point, all you can do is play along and pray. Anyone saying otherwise is beating their chest or stupid.

If you were armed and responded with force, they will kill you. Period. Even if you manage to take down the initial force, you’re not leaving that house alive.

We need to do so many more things before the “they’re in my house with guns” stage.

Start by getting to know your neighbors. For real. If they are all right leaning, move. Surround yourself with like-minded people. Build mutual aid networks. They are far less likely to enter your neighbor’s home if you’re sheltering there, for example.

Have contingency plans on top of contingency plans. For example: you have a best case scenario fleeing plan. Decide where you’re going (ideally another country). Build out your time line, work on making it happen. Then plan less ideal ones all the way down to your “Anne Frank” plan. Who can you hide with long term?

For the Anne Frank scenario; what are your insurgency skills? You don’t have to be a fighter to be useful to your community. Learn, hone, and practice the skills that make you valuable to yourself and others.

Kill and be killed in this situation. Defending yourself is not going to win out in a solo situation.

There isn’t a well armed militia in my house.

Even one well armed person isn’t going to deter the 4-6 armed assholes they tend to send through your door.

I’ll check this out!

Oof, I’ve got a GeForce and lean heavily into modded games. I’ll do some research.

Definitely not a shooter kinda guy. Thanks!

I’ve tried Krita and GIMP, but my brain, man . . .

I’m using PS CS5, which was released in 2010. After a quick look, it looks like it runs in Wine!

Thanks for the breakdown!

I already use Libre, but I do use Adobe CS5 for my side gig (fuck subscriptions). Nothing else I’ve tried has really worked for me.

I’ll have to look into Linux with older Photoshop versions.

I use Photoshop for my side gig, but I stopped at the last version before their criminal subscription bullshit.

I’ll have to look into it.

How approachable is the switch for laymen? I used to be pretty big into PC building, running RedHat, etc. Then I got old and even navigating gmail makes me angry.

Is Linux any better for gamers these days? Not being able to use most of my software and games has always kept me back.